Benjamin Zander quote: "How often do we stand convinced of the truth of our early memories, forgetting that they are assessments made by a child? We can replace the narratives that hold us back by inventing wiser stories, free from childish fears, and, in doing so, disperse long-held psychological stumbling blocks."

[Despite the wayfarer's despondent themes, the symphony ultimately is a journey of triumph. It start...
BENJAMIN ZANDER

If we didnt know that Mahler faced imminent death, we would still know that the music could not have...
BENJAMIN ZANDER

It's very unlikely Eric will forget that.
BENJAMIN ZANDER

If we didnÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â„Â¢t know that Mahler faced imminent death, we would still ...
BENJAMIN ZANDER

One of the characteristics of a leader is that he won't doubt for one moment about the capacity of t...
BENJAMIN ZANDER

If we didnt know that Mahler faced imminent death, we would still know that the music could not ha...
BENJAMIN ZANDER

...how absurd human beings are and how magnificent.
BENJAMIN ZANDER

Would you think of somebody who you adore, who’s no longer there? A beloved grandmother, a lover �...
BENJAMIN ZANDER

Early on, I was into David Bowie. Then someone in the band suggested I try a Bryan Ferry type of thi...
ROBIN ZANDER

I could do James Taylor, Neil Young, and sound just like them.
ROBIN ZANDER

Each record is sort of like a brand new baby, where it's your favorite thing at that moment in t...
ROBIN ZANDER

The moons were aligned and the stars were aligned, ... It was probably one of our best quarters in m...
ED ZANDER

We had records in low-end, mid-range and high-end servers. In fact all of these server categories gr...
ED ZANDER

I think, actually, we are going to work our backlog down in this quarter and next quarter and the an...
ED ZANDER

Strong demand continues, and we are on plan for a good fiscal year.
ED ZANDER

What I saw in some of consumer companies was not good, ... All were nervous about business, trying t...
ED ZANDER

These results provide further evidence that top-line growth has returned and that further improvemen...
ED ZANDER

This is effectively a complete reversal in market share position from two or three years ago, ... We...
ED ZANDER

There is no panic, (but) we have a little bigger hill to climb in India -- it is the only major geog...
EDWARD ZANDER

We are planning some more wild products in 2006.
EDWARD ZANDER

I am proud of all that we have achieved at Sun. This is a decision I have considered carefully over ...
EDWARD ZANDER

Mobile phones today are more like television when I was a kid,
EDWARD ZANDER

We are considering it. We need to grow our market share here,
EDWARD ZANDER

We will be evaluating that (a manufacturing base) as we move forward and our business grows.
EDWARD ZANDER

We've always been kind of an underground band in a way that had the respect of our peers on the ...
ROBIN ZANDER

I think maybe we were just a little bit overdone. It was saturated. People may have gotten tired of ...
ROBIN ZANDER

I can't say enough about how much he helped me during the transition. He wanted to stick around and ...
EDWARD ZANDER

The frustrating thing was having to do everything over again,
EDWARD ZANDER

We are working with some people here in India to see how low we can go,
EDWARD ZANDER

We like our position in the market and we expect to continue to grow the company faster than our com...
EDWARD ZANDER

I think we have better products. We have to get them out there to our customers when we say we will ...
ED ZANDER

Both sales and earnings exceeded the guidance given by the company at the start of the quarter. Just...
ED ZANDER

We are disappointed in one, and only one, thing. That's the U.S. economy.
ED ZANDER

I don't take any competitor lightly. This is what makes Sun really good, is that every day we wake u...
ED ZANDER

It was a really strong quarter in every aspect. We just gave guidance 90 days ago of around 25 perce...
ED ZANDER

It was a very, very good day in Springfield for the horse racing industry.
BRIAN ZANDER

The Tuesday afternoons have really become so popular for us that we thought if this is the week we'r...
BRIAN ZANDER

Opening for certain acts after so many years of headlining obviously made us resentful. It was kind ...
ROBIN ZANDER

I'd say it's harder to play with an acoustic guitar strapped over your shoulder for a few hu...
ROBIN ZANDER

I think the greatest CEOs in the United States, business, anyway, are the ones you don't hear to...
EDWARD ZANDER

It's never as good as it feels, and it's never as bad as it seems.
EDWARD ZANDER

Tech is a funny industry; I don't think there is any other industry on the planet that reinvents...
EDWARD ZANDER

Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock.
WALTER BENJAMIN

Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

When and under what conditions is the black man to have a free ballot? When is he in fact to have th...
BENJAMIN HARRISON

Never retreat. Never explain. Get it done and let them howl.
BENJAMIN JOWETT

If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, th...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

Every passion borders on the chaotic, but the collector's passion borders on the chaos of memori...
WALTER BENJAMIN

All human knowledge takes the form of interpretation.
WALTER BENJAMIN

All disgust is originally disgust at touching.
WALTER BENJAMIN

Power has only one duty - to secure the social welfare of the People.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI

My objection to Liberalism is this that it is the introduction into the practical business of life o...
BENJAMIN DISRAELI

There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI

Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI

Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no m...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

When the well is dry, they know the worth of water.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

In reality, there is, perhaps, no one of our natural passions so hard to subdue as pride.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

So convenient a thing it is to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reas...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

Never take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

You can bear your own faults, and why not a fault in your wife?
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

A child thinks 20 shillings and 20 years can scarce ever be spent.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

He that composes himself is wiser than he that composes a book.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

He that has not got a wife is not yet a complete man.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the laz...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

When you're finished changing, you're finished.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

To succeed, jump as quickly at opportunities as you do at conclusions.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain - and most fools do.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

If we do not hang together, we shall surely hang separately.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

An egg today is better than a hen to-morrow.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

When in doubt, don't.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade?
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

Lost time is never found again.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

I pity the man who wants a coat so cheap that the man or woman who produces the cloth will starve in...
BENJAMIN HARRISON

A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't have brains enough to be honest.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

Distrust and caution are the parents of security.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

I have a ton of videos on MySpace and YouTube.
OWEN BENJAMIN

I was 6, and I was in the opera 'Carmen.' My dad sang opera and got me into the children'...
OWEN BENJAMIN

To be fair, I don't get mad when people laugh at me when I fall down.
OWEN BENJAMIN

Mediocrity can talk, but it is for genius to observe.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI

Hunger is the best pickle.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

The bud of victory is always in the truth.
BENJAMIN HARRISON

A Swedish minister having assembled the chiefs of the Susquehanna Indians, made a sermon to them, ac...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

Composing is like driving down a foggy road toward a house. Slowly you see more details of the house...
BENJAMIN BRITTEN

When you go to work, you are a Christian at your workplace. You're not a broadcaster who happens...
BENJAMIN WATSON

I travel often, so my routine is always getting scrambled. But on a standard sort of day, I get up a...
BENJAMIN PERCY

Nowhere probably is there more true feeling, and nowhere worse taste, than in a churchyard.
BENJAMIN JOWETT

My dear child, you must believe in God despite what the clergy tells you.
BENJAMIN JOWETT

Research! A mere excuse for idleness; it has never achieved, and will never achieve any results of t...
BENJAMIN JOWETT

There is a serious defect in the thinking of someone who wants - more than anything else - to become...
BENJAMIN JOWETT

The achievements which society rewards are won at the cost of diminution of personality.
BENJAMIN JOWETT

We cannot seek or attain health, wealth, learning, justice or kindness in general. Action is always ...
BENJAMIN JOWETT

Young men make great mistakes in life; for one thing, they idealize love too much.
BENJAMIN JOWETT

You've got to be success minded. You've got to feel that things are coming your way when you...
BENJAMIN JOWETT

One man is as good as another until he has written a book.
BENJAMIN JOWETT

Mr. Kremlin himself was distinguished for ignorance, for he had only one idea, and that was wrong.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI

A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

Membership in the bar is a privilege burdened with conditions.
BENJAMIN CARDOZO

The difference between a misfortune and a calamity is this: If Gladstone fell into the Thames, it wo...
BENJAMIN DISRAELI

I've found that in business opportunities will constantly emerge or situations develop that make...
BENJAMIN COHEN

Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the commonsensical reply t...
BENJAMIN TILLETT

I think, over the time that you're in the league, you learn what your body needs: you learn the ...
BENJAMIN WATSON

Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. There is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. ...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

Remember, that money is of the prolific, generating nature. Money can beget money, and its offspring...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

One good husband is worth two good wives, for the scarcer things are, the more they are valued.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

He that displays too often his wife and his wallet is in danger of having both of them borrowed.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

Like Aristotle, conservatives generally accept the world as it is; they distrust the politics of abs...
BENJAMIN WIKER

Worry -- a God, invisible but omnipotent. It steals the bloom from the cheek and lightness from th...
BENJAMIN DISRAELI

Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

Without Freedom of Thought, there can be no such Thing as Wisdom; and no such Thing as publick Liber...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

We assemble parliaments and councils, to have the benefit of their collected wisdom; but we necessar...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

God grant, that not only the Love of Liberty, but a thorough Knowledge of the Rights of Man, may per...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

Whilst the last members were signing the Constitution, Doctor Franklin, looking towards the Presiden...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

In these sentiments, sir, I agree to this Constitution, with all its faults, if they are such; becau...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

Has not the famous political Fable of the Snake, with two Heads and one Body, some useful Instructio...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

When I was a child of seven years old, my friends, on a holiday, filled my pocket with coppers. I we...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

Rich widows are the only secondhand goods that sell at first-class prices.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

Well, Doctor, what have we gota Republic or a Monarchy?A Republic, if you can keep it.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

We must not in the course of public life expect immediate approbation and immediate grateful acknowl...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

My rule, in which I have always found satisfaction, is, never to turn aside in public affairs throug...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

I am about courting a girl I have had but little acquaintance with. How shall I come to a knowledge ...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

For want of a Nail the Shoe was lost; for want of a Shoe the Horse was lost; and for want of a Horse...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

Who is wise? He that learns from every One. Who is powerful? He that governs his Passions. Who is ri...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

A plural Legislature is as necessary to good Government as a single Executive. It is not enough that...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

Dr. FRANKLIN mentioned the case of the Prince of Orange William V, during the late war. An arrangeme...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

Dr. Franklin was for retaining the clause on impeachment, as favorable to the executive. History fur...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

That it is better 100 guilty Persons should escape than that one innocent Person should suffer, is a...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

The small progress we have made after four or five weeks close attendance and continual reasonings w...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

I have lived, Sir, a long time, and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this trut...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

Poetry itself is music. I'm just lucky that I can convert it into music. William Blake is my fav...
BENJAMIN CLEMENTINE

I didn't blend well with my classmates or my teachers.
BENJAMIN CLEMENTINE

The sleeping fox catches no poultry.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

Never confuse motion with action.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

I was told, continued Egremont, that an impassable gulf divided the Rich from the Poor; I was told t...
BENJAMIN DISRAELI

You cannot choose between party government and Parliamentary government. I say you can have no Parli...
BENJAMIN DISRAELI

You have despoiled churches. You have threatened every corporation and endowment in the country. You...
BENJAMIN DISRAELI

Then there was a maiden speech, so inaudible, that it was doubted whether, after all, the young orat...
BENJAMIN DISRAELI

I have always thought that every woman should marry, and no man.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI

Never complain and never explain.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI

Sir, I say that justice is truth in action.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI

Mr Kremlin himself was distinguished for ignorance, for he had only one idea,and that was wrong.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI

For nearly five years the present Ministers have harassed every trade, worried every profession, and...
BENJAMIN DISRAELI

That we may live to see England once more possess a free Monarchy and a privileged and prosperous Pe...
BENJAMIN DISRAELI

I have climbed to the top of the greasy pole!
BENJAMIN DISRAELI

There are only two things a child will share willingly; communicable diseases and its mother's age.
BENJAMIN SPOCK

I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the mo...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

I condole with you, we have lost a most dear and valuable relation, but it is the will of God and Na...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

Sir, I say that justice is truth in action
BENJAMIN DISRAELI

Most middle-class whites have no idea what it feels like to be subjected to police who are routinely...
BENJAMIN SPOCK

Every child senses, with all the horse sense that's in him, that any parent is angry inside when chi...
BENJAMIN SPOCK

Perhaps a child who is fussed over gets a feeling of destiny; he thinks he is the world for somethin...
BENJAMIN SPOCK

The more people have studied different methods of bringing up children the more they have come to th...
BENJAMIN SPOCK

To win in Vietnam, we will have to exterminate a nation
BENJAMIN SPOCK

When women are encouraged to be competitive, too many of them become disagreeable
BENJAMIN SPOCK

What good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is usually best after a...
BENJAMIN SPOCK

You know more than you think you do.
BENJAMIN SPOCK

You've got to be success minded. You've got to feel that things are coming your way when you're out ...
BENJAMIN JOWETT

We Barbie dolls are not supposed to behave the way I do.
BENJAMIN JOWETT

When a man listens to the voice of the tempter within him, he is inclined to do as others do, not to...
BENJAMIN JOWETT

One use of prayer is to maintain in us a higher standard and prevent our principles insensibly sinki...
BENJAMIN JOWETT

An author who speaks about his own books is almost as bad as a mother who talks about her own childr...
BENJAMIN DISRAELI

The Duke of Wellington brought to the post of first minister immortal fame; a quality of success wh...
BENJAMIN DISRAELI

Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tenden...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
BENJAMIN SPOCK

There is no document of civilization that is not also a document of barbarism.
WALTER BENJAMIN

There are three types of lies -- lies, damn lies, and statistics.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI

He who waits upon fortune is never sure of dinner.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

Pride that dines on vanity, sups on contempt.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and governments.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

One today is worth two tomorrows.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

Work as if you were to live a hundred years. Pray as if you were to die tomorrow.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

Power has only one duty --to secure the social welfare of the People.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI

The most important four words for a successful marriage: 'I'll do the dishes.'
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

Sometimes when I close my eyes, I can't see.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

In God we trust; all others must pay cash.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

Marriage is a wonderful institution... but who wants to live in an institution?
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

What great energy, intelligence, and magnificent beautiful eyes... But enough about me, how are you ...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

They who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Lib...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

A Penny Saved is a Penny Earned
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

He was distinguished for ignorance; for he had only one idea, and that was wrong.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI

A member of Parliament to Disraeli: 'Sir, you will either die on the gallows or of some unspeakable ...
BENJAMIN DISRAELI

I didn't fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

Hide not your talents, they for use were made,
What's a sundial in the shade?
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

When men and woman die, as poets sung, his heart's the last part moves, her last, the tongue.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

A single man has not nearly the value he would have in a state of union. He is an incomplete animal....
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

How often do we stand convinced of the truth of our early memories, forgetting that they are assessments made by a child? We can replace the narratives that hold us back by inventing wiser stories, free from childish fears, and, in doing so, disperse long-held psychological stumbling blocks.

Benjamin Zander

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