Benjamin Zander Quotes

My job is to awaken possibility in other people.

Benjamin Zander

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• Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Man
  • Government
  • Decent

• He that strives to touch the starts, oft stumbles at a straw.

  

  Edmund Spenser
  • Touch
  • Starts
  • Straw

• With few exceptions, one ought always do what one is afraid of.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Always
  • Afraid
  • Exceptions

• A man's kiss is his signature.

  

  Mae West
  • Man
  • Romantic
  • Kiss

• The integrity of the federal procurement system needs to be protected so that the public has confidence in government contracts, and small businesses have every opportunity to compete.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Opportunity
  • Small
  • Confidence

• I'm now convinced that I'm a doctor. I mean, if someone says they have a pain, I'm like, 'Well, that's your spleen.'

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Pain
  • Now
  • Doctor

• I think media people know we're good at making content and how we can be smart about how to consume it. It's always a balance.

  

  Patrick Whitesell
  • People
  • Good
  • Balance

• I actually interviewed other people about myself, and that alerted me to the fact that I had to really investigate my memories.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • People
  • Myself
  • Memories

• A lot of people heard 'Murda Business' and thought it was about killing people, trying to be tough and hardcore. If you actually listen to the lyrics, it's kind of silly and playful.

  

  Iggy Azalea
  • People
  • Trying
  • Business

• The mainstream media has chosen their candidates and their issues, and they're not the same as the GOP's. They are going to be painted as the bad guys.

  

  Barbara Olson
  • Bad
  • Same
  • Media

• Applause is the most powerful thing... people talk about the sound of it, but what I hear is glee.

  

  C. C. H. Pounder
  • People
  • Powerful
  • Sound

• I'm proud of my sexuality.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Proud
  • Sexuality

• Helen Mirren is like the sexiest woman on the planet to me. She is. Just the way she goes about everything.

  

  Barry Watson
  • Woman
  • Planet
  • Sexiest

• One of the Life Saving men snapped the camera for us, taking a picture just as the machine had reached the end of the track and had risen to a height of about two feet.

  

  Orville Wright
  • Life
  • Men
  • Picture

• I would rather wait and keep working on myself harder and wait for the right opportunity. It is not quantity but quality I should be remembered for.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Opportunity
  • Myself
  • Quality

• Now obey thy cherished secret wish,Embrace thy friends-leave all in order;To port and hawser's tie no more returning,Depart upon thy endless cruise, old Sailor!

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Friends
  • Wish

• Man, the two-fold creature, apprehends The two-fold manner, in and outwardly, And nothing in the world comes single to him. A mere itself, - cup, column, or candlestick, All patterns of what shall be in the Mount; The whole temporal show related royally, And build up to eterne significance Through the open arms of God.

  

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning
  • Up
  • World
  • God

• If the federal government should overpass the just bounds of its authority and make a tyrannical use of its powers, the people, whose creature it is, must appeal to the standard they have formed, and take such measures to redress the injury done to the Constitution as the exigency may suggest and prudence justify.

  

  Alexander Hamilton
  • People
  • Done
  • May

• I am a woman, and as such, I experience the ever-increasing restrictions on our liberty in our country through the development of Islamic fundamentalism.

  

  Marine Le Pen
  • Country
  • Experience
  • Islamic

• I learned that as a director, you're around all these talented people, so you have this window that all these really good ideas can come in to help your movie, so you're crazy to close them. You need to be inspiring people, engaging people. There are lots of people who are really good at their jobs but might not know or feel like they want to come up to people and get them to participate and want to do their best.

  

  Ben Affleck
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• I liked the people at Brown, while I really disliked most of the fellow students I had met at Northwestern.

  

  Ira Glass
  • People
  • Students
  • Brown

• I know that my birth is fortuitous, a laughable accident, and yet, as soon as I forget myself, I behave as if it were a capital event, indispensable to the progress and equilibrium of the world.

  

  Emil Cioran
  • World
  • Progress

• All of us in our administration worked hard to support families in raising their children and succeeding at work.

  

  Bill Clinton
  • Work
  • Children
  • Families

• My job is to awaken possibility in other people.

  

  Benjamin Zander
  • People
  • Job
  • Possibility