Top 32 Benjamin Zander Quotes
#1. 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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#4. 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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#5. In the measurement world, you set a goal and strive for it. In the universe of possibility, you set the context and let life unfold.
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#6. As leaders, we're giving out grades in every encounter we have with people. We can choose to give out grades as an expectation to live up to, and then we can reassess them according to performance. Or we can offer grades as a possibility to live into. The second approach is much more powerful.
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#7. He had realized that the labels he had been taking so seriously are human inventions
it's all a game. The Number 68 is invented and the A is invented, so we might as well choose to invent something that brightens our life and the lives of the people around us.
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#8. Imagine Martin Luther King saying, 'I have a dream ... But I don't know if the others will buy it.'
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#10. How often do we stand convinced of the truth of our early memories, forgetting that they are assessments made by a child? 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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#11. South Africa is a country built on possibility. Possibility lies in making a difference and creating value from a situation - without denying that certain issues exist.
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#12. I have a definition of success. For me, it's very simple. It's not about wealth and fame and power. It's about how many shining eyes I have around me.
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#13. I settled on a game called I am a contribution. Unlike success and failure, contribution has no other side. It is not arrived at by comparison.
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#14. 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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#15. The practice of giving an A transports your relationships from the world of measurement into the universe of possibility ... This A is not an expectation to live up to, but a possibility to live into.
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#16. When you make a mistake, throw your hands in the air and say "How fascinating!"
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#17. Look at their eyes. If their eyes are shining, you know youre doing it.
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#19. Throw yourself into life as someone who makes a difference, accepting that you may not understand how or why.
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#20. 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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#22. Life is revealed as a place to contribute and we as contributors. Not because we have done a measurable amount of good, but because that is the story we tell.
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#23. 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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#24. I make myself a relentless architect of the possibilities of human beings.
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#25. 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?"
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#26. 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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#27. Everybody loves classical music they just don't know about it yet.
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#28. Mistakes can be like ice. If we resist them, we may keep on slipping into a posture of defeat. If we include mistakes in our definition of performance, we are likely to glide through them and appreciate the beauty of the longer run.
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#30. In the measurement world, we set a goal and strive to achieve it. In the universe of possibility, we set the context and let life unfold.
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#31. 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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#32. The player who looks least engaged may be the most committed member of the group. A cynic, after all, is a passionate person who does not want to be disappointed again.
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