Benjamin Zander Quotes

• The conductor of an orchestra doesn’t make a sound. He depends, for his power, on his ability to make other people powerful.

  Benjamin Zander

  Inspirational, Music, Motivation

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• 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

  Jobs, Children, Eye

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• 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.

  Benjamin Zander

  Eye, Simple, Shining

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• 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.

  Benjamin Zander

  Goal, World, Measurement

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• When you make a mistake, throw your hands in the air and say "How fascinating!"

  Benjamin Zander

  Mistake, Air, Hands

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• 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.

  Benjamin Zander

  Jobs, People, Important

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• 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.

  Benjamin Zander

  Dream, Kings, People

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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

  Differences, Making A Difference, May

  Rosamund Stone Zander, Benjamin Zander (2002). “The Art of Possibility: Transforming Professional and Personal Life”, p.54, Penguin

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• The job of the leader is to speak to the possibility.

  Benjamin Zander

  Leadership, Jobs, Vision

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• The major difference between the 'best' and the 'average' is that the 'best' get as much pleasure from practice as performance.

  Benjamin Zander

  Teaching, Learning, Practice

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• Everybody loves classical music they just don't know about it yet.

  Benjamin Zander

  Classical Music, Knows

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• My job is to awaken possibility in other people.

  Benjamin Zander

  Jobs, People, Possibility

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• Look at their eyes. If their eyes are shining, you know you're doing it.

  Benjamin Zander

  Eye, Shining, Looks

  "The transformative power of classical music". TED Talk, www.ted.com. February 2008.

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• 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.

  Benjamin Zander

  Powerful, People, Giving

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• Lo siento mucho por vosotros; vuestras vidas han sido muy fáciles. No se puede tocar buena música si no te han roto el corazón.

  Benjamin Zander

  Sorry, Heart, Play

  Rosamund Stone Zander, Benjamin Zander (2002). “The Art of Possibility: Transforming Professional and Personal Life”, p.33, Penguin

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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

  Dar

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• 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.

  Benjamin Zander

  Children, Memories, Block

  Rosamund Stone Zander, Benjamin Zander (2002). “The Art of Possibility: Transforming Professional and Personal Life”, p.45, Penguin

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• Sudáfrica es un país construido sobre la posibilidad. La posibilidad reside en marcar la diferencia y crear valor a partir de una situación, sin negar que existen ciertos problemas.

  Benjamin Zander

  Country, Lying, Creating Value

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• I make myself a relentless architect of the possibilities of human beings.

  Benjamin Zander

  Architect, Possibility, Relentless

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• Live the rest of your life in possibility

  Benjamin Zander

  Rest Of Your Life, Possibility

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• 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.

  Benjamin Zander

  Stories, Done, Life Is

  Rosamund Stone Zander, Benjamin Zander (2002). “The Art of Possibility: Transforming Professional and Personal Life”, p.51, Penguin

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• If you make a mistake, celebrate.

  Benjamin Zander

  Mistake, Celebrate, Ifs

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• Who am I being that my players' eyes are not shining?

  Benjamin Zander

  Eye, Player, Shining

  "The transformative power of classical music". TED conference, www.ted.com. February 2008.

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• I have a definition of success.

  Benjamin Zander

  Definitions, Definition Of Success

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• Imagine Martin Luther King saying, 'I have a dream ... But I don't know if the others will buy it.'

  Benjamin Zander

  Dream, Kings, Imagine

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