Benjamin Zander Quotes
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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When I was 11, I realised that I did not have to live the life my mother had: school, marriage, children, apartment, summer house.
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Overcome your barriers, intend the best, and be patient. You will enjoy more balance, more growth, more income, and more fun!
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One of the greatest necessities in America is to discover creative solitude.
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My mind is vacant on names, but I know him as well as anything. When I need names they drop out of my head; when I don't need them they drop back.
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Those who know me would tell you, 'Moily can't be cowed down.' I have plans to enhance domestic oil and gas production.
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One must change one's tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one's superiority.
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Moderate people are able to be moderate and have free speech only because there are some people on the fringe.
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I do interval training, high intensity dance, and yoga. I do run a lot, but more for speed.
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I led the life of an intellectual up until a certain age. I remember Freud's 'Interpretation of Dreams' was a big favorite when I was 11. It sounded so interesting. And it really was!
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When I go running, I see Mexicans working hard.
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There's no person I aspire to be. I'm just doing my own thing and seeing what happens - not looking to something and trying to be that.
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I've been careful in love. I've been careless in love. And I've had adventures I wouldn't trade for anything.
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If you're an independent voter, I'm willing to bet that you were not too happy at the prospect of hitting the polls on November 8, 2016. But let me guess – you did it anyway because after all, it's your civic duty, right?
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Separate is not equal. Civil unions are civil unions. Marriage is marriage. They're different institutions.
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Facts are to the mind what food is to the body.
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I stay away from heavy-handed stuff, the good guy and the bad guy. It just doesn't interest me; all it does is create more fences between people, I think.
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Ever since I was born, Daddy has been the best father you could ever imagine. And I just want to say that I love him so much.
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I usually just dress myself. I typically make something or buy something and fix it up. I really like to spend my money on accessories like bags, shoes, belts. I don't really spend on things I can make.
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Sometimes when I see a performance that really takes me, I struggle. How can I express this to this person, I want this person to know how I felt. I want to get this across, and it's not very easy.
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I am very emotional. It took me many years to recover from the death of my father. Even when I was playing cricket, I wasn't happy. I would just sit and cry. I was very young. He was too young; he shouldn't have gone. Cricket is all right. We all play sport. Good and bad days come.
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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.
