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It’s not a question of how much power you can hoard for yourself, but how much you can give away.

Benjamin Zander

My job [is] to awaken possibility in other people. If their eyes are shining, you know you’re doing it. If they’re not shining you get to ask this question: “Who am I being that my children’s eyes are not shining?”
BENJAMIN ZANDER

Children Eye Jobs
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
It’s not a question of how much power you can hoard for yourself, but how much you can give away.
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Away Giving Power Yourself
The job of the leader is to speak to the possibility.
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Jobs Leadership Vision
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
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
how absurd human beings are and how magnificent.
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Absurd Humans Magnificent
Look at their eyes. If their eyes are shining, you know you’re doing it.
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Eye Looks Shining
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
If you make a mistake, celebrate.
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Celebrate Make Mistakes
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
We can replace the narratives that hold us back by inventing wiser stories, free from childish fears, and, in doing so, disperse long-held psychological stumbling blocks.
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Block Childish Disperse Fear Inventing
Who am I being that my players’ eyes are not shining?
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Eye Player Shining
I make myself a relentless architect of the possibilities of human beings.
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Architect Possibility Relentless
Live the rest of your life in possibility
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Life Possibility Rest
I’m so sorry for you; your lives have been so easy. You can’t play great music unless your heart’s been broken.
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Heart Play Sorry

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