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:

A leader does not need a podium; she can be sitting quietly on the edge of any chair, listening passionately and with commitment, fully prepared to take up the baton.

076

The Art of Possibility:

Humor can bring us together around our inescapable foibles, confusions, and miscommunications…

080

The Art of Possibility:

A child’s ability to control his position and the attention of others is critical, much more important than control is for the average adult on an average day.

082

The Art of Possibility:

A child is an exquisite attention-getting device, designed to sound an alarm at the first indication that he will be forgotten or relegated to a position where he does not count.

082

The Art of Possibility:

When one person peels away layers of opinion, entitlement, pride, and inflated self-description, others instantly feel the connection.

089

The Art of Possibility:

…the capacity to be present to everything that is happening, without resistance, creates possibility.

101

The Art of Possibility:

If we make mistakes in our definition of performance, we are likely to glide through them and appreciate the beauty of the longer run.

102

The Art of Possibility:

The risk the music invites us to take becomes a joyous adventure only when we stretch beyond our known capacities, while gladly affirming that we may fail.

103

The Art of Possibility:

The practice of being with the way things are calls upon us to distinguish between our assumptions, our feelings, and the facts – that is, what has happened or what is happening.

103

The Art of Possibility:

When our attention is primarily directed to how wrong things are, we lose our power to act effectively.

104