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Throw yourself into life as someone who makes a difference, accepting that you may not understand how or why.

Benjamin Zander

This is the moment — this is the most important moment right now. Which is: We are about contribution. That’s what our job is. It’s not about impressing people. It’s not about getting the next job. It’s about contributing something.
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Important Jobs People
I have a definition of success.
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Definition Definitions Success
It is the tuning of the universe… It’s as if at the beginning of the symphony God turns up the volume just a tiny bit.
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God Symphony Tiny Tuning Universe
If you make a mistake, celebrate.
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Celebrate Make Mistakes
Live the rest of your life in possibility
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Life Possibility Rest
Throw yourself into life as someone who makes a difference, accepting that you may not understand how or why.
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Difference Differences Making May
How often do we stand convinced of the truth of our early memories, forgetting that they are assessments made by a child?
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Block Children Memories
Look at their eyes. If their eyes are shining, you know you’re doing it.
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Eye Looks Shining
Everybody loves classical music they just don’t know about it yet.
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Classical Music Knows
The major difference between the ‘best’ and the ‘average’ is that the ‘best’ get as much pleasure from practice as performance.
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Learning Practice Teaching
Imagine Martin Luther King saying, ‘I have a dream … But I don’t know if the others will buy it.’
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Dream Imagine King
The job of the leader is to speak to the possibility.
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Jobs Leadership Vision
I make myself a relentless architect of the possibilities of human beings.
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Architect Possibility Relentless
It’s one of the characteristics of a leader that he not doubt for one moment the capacity of the people he’s leading to realize whatever he’s dreaming. Imagine if Martin Luther King had said, ‘I have a dream. Of course, I’m not sure they’ll be up to it.
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Course Dream Kings People
The conductor of an orchestra doesn’t make a sound. He depends, for his power, on his ability to make other people powerful.
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Inspirational Motivation Music
how absurd human beings are and how magnificent.
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Absurd Humans Magnificent

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