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 vision becomes a framework for possibility when it meets certain criteria that distinguish it from the objectives…

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The Art of Possibility:

A vision is an open invitation and an inspiration for people to create ideas and events that correlate with its definitional framework.

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The Art of Possibility:

When a vision is leading an organization, it is instantly and steadily accessible to all members of the group.

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The Art of Possibility:

Often the experience of a personal crisis or a failure will constitute a basis for the creation of a personal vision, which in turn becomes the framework for a life of possibility.

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The Art of Possibility:

The person who rigorously maintains the clarity to stand confidently in the abundant universe of possibility creates an environment around him generative of certain kinds of conversations.

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The Art of Possibility:

The practice of framing possibility calls upon us to use our minds in a manner that is counterintuitive: to think in terms of the contexts that govern us rather than the evidence we see before our eyes.

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The Art of Possibility:

More often than not history is a record of conflict between an Us and a Them.

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The Art of Possibility:

It is an ongoing choice for all of us… we can choose to tell the story of the WE or the story of the Other.

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The Art of Possibility:

Traditional methods of resolving conflict, all of the I/You approaches, tend to increase the level of discord because they attempt to satisfy the dichotomous positions people take, rather than providing the means for people to broaden their desires.

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The Art of Possibility:

…the issues themselves are rarely what they seem, no matter what pains are taken to verify the scoreboard.

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