"Who am I being that my players' eyes are not shining?"

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Source : "The transformative power of classical music". TED conference, www.ted.com. February 2008.

Benjamin Zander

#Eye Quotes #Player Quotes #Shining Quotes

“Some people think memoirs should be held to a perfect journalistic standard. Some people don't. Obviously I don't. My goal was never to create or to write a perfect journalistic standard of my life. It was always to be as literature.”
“We must all learn to live together as brothers. Or we will all perish together as foolsFor some strange reason I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. And you can never be what you ought to be until I am what I ought to be.”
“About no subject are poets tempted to lie so much as about their own lives.”
“Everybody has something to prove each year. Everybody has a responsibility in this game. Even the batboy.”
“Everybody is now so busy teaching that nobody has any time to learn.”
“Be careful how you do one man a pleasure which must needs occasion equal displeasure in another. For he who is thus slighted will not forget, but will think the offence to himself the greater in that another profits by it; while he who receives the pleasure will either not remember it, or will consider the favour done him less than it really was.”

Source : Francesco Guicciardini (1890). “Counsels and Reflections of Francesco Guicciardini”
“This age thing is all up to you. It's like happiness is up to you. You just have to understand what it is before you get it.”
“He is accelerating all the time. That last lap was run in 64 seconds and the one before in 62.”

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