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:

…feelings can be likened to muscles – the more intensively you stay with the exercise, closing the door on escape, the more emotional heavy lifting you can do.

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The Art of Possibility:

The nature of abstractions is that they have a lasting existence exempt from the contingencies of time and place.

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The Art of Possibility:

Abstractions that we unwittingly treat as physical reality tend to block us from seeing the way things are, and therefore reduce our power to accomplish what we say we want.

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The Art of Possibility:

Focusing on the abstraction of scarcity, downward spiral talk creates an unassailable story about the limits to what is possible, and tells us compellingly how things are going from bad to worse.

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The Art of Possibility:

The more attention you shine on a particular subject, the more evidence of it will grow.

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The Art of Possibility:

Radiating possibility begins with things as they are and highlights open spaces, the pathways leading out from there.

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The Art of Possibility:

Speaking in possibility springs from the appreciation that what we say creates a reality; how we define things sets a framework for life to unfold.

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The Art of Possibility:

Release those barriers of self that keep you separate and in control, and let the vital energy of passion surge through you, connecting you to all beyond.

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The Art of Possibility:

Allow yourself a channel to shape the stream of passion into a new expression for the world.

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The Art of Possibility:

Life flows when we put our attention on the larger patterns of which we are a part…

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