Benjamin Zander Quotes

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

Right. So if the eyes are shining, you know you're doing it. If the eyes are not shining, you get to ask a question. And this is the question: who am I being that my players' eyes are not shining? We can do that with our children, too. Who am I being, that my children's eyes are not shining? That's a totally different world. ~ Benjamin Zander

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. ~ 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. ~ Benjamin Zander

The conductor of the orchestra doesn't make a sound. His power comes from awakening possibility in others. - Benjamin Zander, conductor and coauthor of The Art of Possibility ~ Malcolm Harkins

Look at their eyes. If their eyes are shining, you know youre doing it. ~ Benjamin Zander

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. ~ Benjamin Zander

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

It's not a question of how much power you can hoard for yourself, but how much you can give away. ~ Benjamin Zander

The job of the leader is to speak to the possibility. ~ Benjamin Zander

I make myself a relentless architect of the possibilities of human beings. ~ Benjamin Zander

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

Live the rest of your life in possibility ~ Benjamin Zander

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

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. ~ Benjamin Zander

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. ~ Benjamin Zander

Would you think of somebody who you adore, who's no longer there? A beloved grandmother, a lover - somebody in your life who you love with all your heart, but that person is no longer with you. Bring that person into your mind, and at the same time follow the line all the way from B to E, and you'll hear everything that Chopin had to say. ~ Benjamin Zander

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. ~ Benjamin Zander

Everybody loves classical music they just don't know about it yet. ~ Benjamin Zander

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

If you make a mistake, celebrate. ~ Benjamin Zander

Wisdom, Happiness, and Courage are not waiting somewhere out beyond sight at the end of a straight line; they're part of a continuous cycle that begins right here. They're not only the ending, but the beginning as well. ~ Benjamin Hoff

This present system by which industry is motivated exclusively by the quest for maximal profits - though it may have helped a great deal to develop, to industrialize our country so rapidly and so successfully - now it's clearly passed its usefulness. It is keeping us from achieving the ideal society that we should have. We say industry must produce to improve the quality of life for all our people. ~ Benjamin Spock

Truth is brighter than light. ~ Benjamin Franklin

I want to gather up all the words in the world and write them down on little pieces of paper - then throw them in the air. They would look like tiny sparrows flying toward the sun. Without all those words, the sky would be clear and perfect and blue. The deafening world would be beautiful in all that silence. ~ Benjamin Alire Saenz

Where there's no law, there's no bread. ~ Benjamin Franklin

Before I nodded off, I thought about what my dad had said - ​that life wasn't all nice and neat like a book, and life didn't have a plot filled with characters who said intelligent and beautiful things. But he wasn't right about that. See, my dad said intelligent and beautiful things. And he was real. He was the most real thing in the entire world. So why couldn't I be like him? ~ Benjamin Alire Saenz

The more extensive a man's knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do. ~ Benjamin Disraeli

Wall Street people learn nothing and forget everything. ~ Benjamin Graham

You may take it as an axiom that you cannot profit in Wall Street by continuously doing the obvious or the popular thing ~ Benjamin Graham

Melancholy betrays the world for the sake of knowledge. But in its tenacious self-absorption it embraces dead objects in its contemplation, in order to redeem them ~ Walter Benjamin

Tis easier to prevent bad habits than to break them. ~ Benjamin Franklin

We are in receipt of numerous communications concerning the Harper's Ferry affair, and the various topics connected with it ...
We must decline to publish them all,-simply because we see no possible good which they could accomplish. ~ Melanie Benjamin

If this lady is pleased to spend her days with Franklin, he would be just as pleased to spend his nights with her. ~ Benjamin Franklin

And then I knew that I would have to relearn the meaning of every word I had ever learned. I would have to learn how to translate all those words. Thousands of them. Millions of them. And then I smiled and felt the tears running down my face. Finally I understood. It wasn't the words that mattered. It was me. I mattered. So now I would have to fight to translate myself back into the world of the living. ~ Benjamin Alire Saenz

It's nonsensical to derive a price/earnings ratio by dividing the known current price by unknown future earnings. ~ Benjamin Graham

Are you angry that others disappoint you? Remember you cannot depend upon yourself. ~ Benjamin Franklin

I watched her from the doorway. I wondered how it was that she came to be the owner of that rage. I wanted it for myself but there was nothing in me. ~ Benjamin Alire Saenz

My family is like a sanctuary to me. I always turn to them for support and strength. I take comfort in knowing no matter which path I choose, my family stands behind me. ~ Benjamin Bratt

As an American people, what is greatest about our history are the many times we have led this world away from hate, towards hope. ~ Benjamin Todd Jealous

I had, by then, done my share of reading on Philadelphia, so I knew that, in another time, when the Task was here in Philadelphia, the city had fallen victim to a fever. And among the men who combatted this fever was Benjamin Rush, a famous doctor, which is hard to countenance given the theory he put forth in defense of the city. Colored people were immune to the fever, he told Philadelphia, and more than immune, their very presence could alter the air itself, sucking up the scourge and holding it captive in our fetid black bodies. And so tasking men were brought in by the hundreds on the alleged black magic of our bodies. They all died. And when the city began to fill with their corpses, its masters searched for a space far from the whites who were felled by the disease. And they chose a patch of land where no one lived, and tossed us into pits. Years later, after the fever had been forgotten, after the war had birthed this new country, they built rows and rows of well-appointed houses right on top of those people, and and named a square for their liberating general. It struck me that even here, in the free North, the luxuries of this world were built right on top of us. ~ Ta-Nehisi Coates

But what really bugged the living crap out of me was that my mother had more friends than I did. How saw was that? ~ Benjamin Alire Saenz

Everything one has a right to do is not best to be done. Benjamin Franklin ~ Barbara W. Tuchman

not everything green is gold. Not every finished puzzle is complete. And for every misplaced jigsaw, there is a puzzle out there still holding your space. Finally, after one search ends, a new one always begins. Always. ~ Paulette Benjamin

Christ himself deliberately staked his whole claim to the credit of men upon his resurrection. When asked for a sign, he pointed to this sign as his single and sufficient credential. ~ Benjamin Breckinridge Warfield

Men who get on well with women are usually those who know how to get on without them. ~ Benjamin Mancroft, 3rd Baron Mancroft

She ought to call him Benjamin, but it was too intimate, too soft.
"My lord?" she ventured, only half serious.
"Good, God, no."
She bit back a smile. "Husband?" she took a sip of wine.
He grunted. "Are we to become Quakers? ~ Kristen Callihan

All the creatures on this earth might be made from stardust.
But we are the only ones who get to know that. That's the thing about jellyfish: They'll never understand that. All they can do is drift along, unaware. ~ Ali Benjamin

I'm calm and focused and I can't wait for the biggest sport event in the World to begin. ~ Benjamin Boukpeti

After an earthquake in Los Angeles - The earth in LA moved more in one hour than Benoit Benjamin did all last season with the Clippers. ~ Peter Vecsey

To be fair, I don't get mad when people laugh at me when I fall down. ~ Owen Benjamin

Marry above thy match and you will get a master. ~ Benjamin Franklin

You can't expect to go both ways when you're driving on a one-way street. ~ Benjamin Alire Saenz

These two are not two Love has made them one Amo Ergo Sum! And by its mystery Each is no less but more. ~ Benjamin Britten

Beauty and health are the chief sources of happiness. ~ Benjamin Disraeli