Benjamin Zander Quotes
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A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.
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I don't do grey. I like my colour, my style.
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Software-industry battles are fought by highly paid and out-of-shape nerds furiously pounding computer keyboards while they guzzle diet Coke. The stakes aren't very dramatic. Life? Liberty? The pursuit of happiness? Nope, it's about stock options.
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People return my phone calls now, which is really interesting. I'll tell you what I've learned that's kind of bittersweet. So many doors have opened up. I've met everybody in the business. I'm fortunate people want to work with me.
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I approve of anyone wearing what the establishment says you must not wear.
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Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.
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A lot of people have asked me whether I am a cynic or take a cynical view of politics and are often surprised when I say that I consider myself an optimist, but an optimist dressed in the robes of a realist.
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Call me crazy - I love elk meat!
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Playing in Wembley Stadium in front of 83-some-thousand fans to win a gold medal was unreal.
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When I was in the ring at the Olympics, it was my father's words that I was hearing, not the coaches'. 'I never listened to what the coaches said. I would call my father and he would give me advice from prison.
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It's probably fair to say that the ratio of time our Connector developers spend in the debugger versus the Emacs buffer is higher than with most software.
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No one person or material thing could ever come close to the feeling I get when the music is right.
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Go put your creed into your deed, Nor speak with double tongue.
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Why am I seeking logic or sanity here? I'd asked myself at the moment. There hasn’t been any so far.
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A good traveler is one who does not know where he is going to, and a perfect traveler does not know where he came from.
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I don't think I'm all that interesting. I mean, I'm a guy who does a morning show and goes to bed at 9:00 every night. I mean, I don't have a lot in my life that's really fascinated or fodder for tabloids.
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Writing a book is not as tough as it is to haul thirty-five people around the country and sweat like a horse five nights a week.
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The best part about winning the PGA is getting great pairings at tour events. It's fun to play with Phil Mickelson and other past major champions.
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When I started Sosa & Associates, there were only 3 million Latinos in the U.S. and only four Hispanic-specialized marketing agencies.I had one little goal for our small San Antonio-based agency: to be the largest Hispanic-specialized agency in the United States. We planned for our success and achieved our goal.
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Unless we consent to lack the common things which men call success, we shall hardly become heroes or saints, philosophers or poets.
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I think commercial success is really important. It means there are more people listening, and you're affecting the zeitgeist more. If only a hundred people know you exist, it's harder to get your message across.
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They never noticed that he was in fact what they only pretended to be.
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To repay evils with kindness is the religion I was taught to practise, and this will forever be my rule.
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I have a definition of success.
