Benjamin Zander Quotes
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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No, I'm not a horse better. Every once in a while somebody will give me a sure thing and of course it's not.
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To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own - this is happiness.
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The spectacle of a great, solvent government paying a fictitious price for gold it did not want and did not need and doing it on purpose to debase the value of its own paper currency was one to astonish the world.
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I've always been a fan of Fran Drescher!
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I mean the terrorists are - are like a pimple, like a boil. They'll go away.
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I have a grim outlook on the world, and in particular on humanity. Spent years denying it, but I am very misanthropic. And I live alone on a mountain for a reason.
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As is the case for many people with multiple sclerosis, the effects of weakened limbs, spasticity and fatigue had cut my working life in half. Yet not a single GP, neurologist or nurse, and none of the MS websites, had mentioned the use of neuroenhancers for the treatment of neurological fatigue.
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Islamism is not Islam. Islamism is the politicisation of Islam, the desire to impose a version of this ancient faith over society.
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We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.
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I was born in Bournemouth, England, in 1943.
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What made me want to go into doing comics was I was working as a laborer with my father, a gardener.
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India may be the only country in the world that has been free of anti-Semitic prejudice throughout its history.
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For myself, I think that those who cultivate wisdom and believe themselves able to instruct their fellow-citizens as to their interests are least likely to become partisans of violence. They are too well aware that to violence attach enmities and dangers, whereas results as good may be obtained by persuasion safely and amicably.
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Football is my sanctuary. It's where I go to escape. It's where I'm most happy.
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I'm very happy for the Contreras family. They're out. Now they've got a chance to experience life the way I did as a kid. You know, his kids are going to have a real chance in life now, and the same way that I had it.
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I had a chance to play for the Cuban national team during the 2009 World Baseball Classic, but at the time I never thought about leaving Cuba.
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When I was a little boy, I rode, but I didn't own horses.
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Form follows beauty.
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We're always grasping to feel safe. Ultimately, some people feel safe through love or family or community. Some people through exerting control.
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I didn't want to go to college or work in an office or have a nine-to-five job. I knew that quite clearly before I left school.
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Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.
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'Your success and happiness depend on your willingness to help others solve their problems.'
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I know of no American who starts from a higher level of aspiration than the journalist. . . . He plans to be both an artist and a moralist -- a master of lovely words and merchant of sound ideas. He ends, commonly, as the most depressing jackass of his community -- that is, if his career goes on to what is called a success.
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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.
