Book Titles

The Art of Possibility
Transforming Professional and Personal Life

By Benjamin Zander, Rosamund Zander

Year Published: 2000
ISBN-13: 978-0875847702
Categories: Life, Possibilities, Professionals

51 Quotes Found

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The Art of Possibility:

Every problem, every dilemma, every dead end we find ourselves facing in life, only appears unsolvable inside a particular frame or point of view. Enlarge the box, or create another frame around the data, and problems vanish, while new opportunities appear.

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The Art of Possibility:

On our path to achieving a goal we inevitably encounter obstacles. Some of the more familiar ones, aside from other people, are sacrifices of time, money, power, love, resources, and inner strength.

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The Art of Possibility:

There are moments in everyone’s life when an experience of integration with the world transcends the business of survival…

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The Art of Possibility:

…you are more likely to extend your business and have a fulfilled life if you have the attitude that there are always new customers out there…

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The Art of Possibility:

On the whole, resources are likely to come to you in greater abundance when you are generous and inclusive and engage people in your passion for life.

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The Art of Possibility:

When you are oriented toward abundance, you care less about being in control, and you take more risks.

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The Art of Possibility:

…we might as well choose to invent something that brightens our life and the lives of the people around us.

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The Art of Possibility:

In the absence of a vision, we are each driven by our own agenda, finding people whose interests match ours, and inattentive to those with whom we appear to have little in common.

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The Art of Possibility:

In the game of contribution you wake up each day and bask in the notion that you are a gift to others.

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The Art of Possibility:

Transformation overrides the divisions of identity and possession… recasting the tight pattern of scarcity into a widespread array of abundance.

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