Top 30 Waitzkin Joshua Quotes
#1. We lead our lives so poorly because we arrive in the present always unprepared, incapable, and too distracted for everything.
Rainer Maria Rilke
#2. I believe an appreciation for simplicity, the everyday - the ability to dive deeply into the banal and discover life's hidden richness - is where success, let alone happiness, emerges.
Joshua Waitzkin
#3. My coach and my parents both had this relationship to what I was doing, which was allowing me to express myself with chess. And so I could love it. I had a passion for it. I was expressing myself through chess, and I was learning about myself through chess.
Joshua Waitzkin
#4. Maybe it's better not to be the best. Then you can lose and it's OK.
Joshua Waitzkin
#5. Big don't mean ugly, and thin sho don't mean pretty. If a person wants to be pretty, they gotta walk pretty, talk pretty and act pretty. Can't nobody take pretty from you.
Daniel Black
#6. You can give joyfully only when you have found something so valuable within yourself that everything else does not mean so much to you anymore.
Jaggi Vasudev
#7. Just about every error has a technical and psychological component: get good at discovering those connections
Joshua Waitzkin
#8. I'm guilty of going to a fitting, then going out to buy the same outfit. It's been a problem for my bank account!
Blake Lively
#9. By mid-November I always like to have an extra 15 pounds on me.
Andrew Schneider
#10. Not only do we have to be good at waiting, we have to love it. Because waiting is not waiting, it is life.
Joshua Waitzkin
#11. One of the main focuses of my training sessions is to help individuals find their unique voices in the learning process. We all have our strengths, our weaknesses, our styles of learning, our personalities. Developing introspective sensitivity to these issues is critical to long-term success.
Joshua Waitzkin
#12. One thing about the business and investing world that I connect to very intimately is that there is little room to deny the harsh realities of your mistakes. A bad call can lose you many millions.
Joshua Waitzkin
#13. Any fool can take a bad line out of a poem; it takes a real pro to throw out a good line.
Theodore Roethke
#14. Knowledge gives shows us a direction; education gives us power to walk.
Debasish Mridha
#15. If I'm going to end up in hell then I'm going to end up in hell, but God is the judge and not human beings.
Scott Siraj Al-Haqq Kugle
#16. In America, people focus on the end result; they focus on the star.
Joshua Waitzkin
#17. Rules didn't do that thing with its tongue he liked, and they definitely didn't keep him warm at night.
Nulli Para Ora
#18. Very gifted people, they win and they win, and they are told that they win because they are a winner. That seems like a positive thing to tell children, but ultimately, what that means is when they lose, it must make them a loser.
Joshua Waitzkin
#19. The moment we believe that success is determined by an ingrained level of ability as opposed to resilience and hard work, we will be brittle in the face of adversity.
Joshua Waitzkin
#20. At the very core of my relationship to learning is the idea that we should be as organic as possible. We need to cultivate a deeply refined introspective sense, and build our relationship to learning around our nuance of character.
Joshua Waitzkin
#21. Our minds are all different and I believe cultivating a keen introspective sensitivity is absolutely essential in discovering our potential.
Joshua Waitzkin
#22. It is rarely a mysterious technique that drives us to the top, but rather a profound mastery of what may well be a basic skill set.
Joshua Waitzkin
#23. The bad is more easily perceived than the good. A fresh lobster does not give such pleasure to the consumer as a stale one will give him pain.
Rebecca West
#24. I didn't like people rewriting my dialogue. I didn't like the fact that we'd start a comic with the Joker, and by the time we inked it, he would have turned into the Scarecrow.
Neil Gaiman
#25. I tend not to dwell on the parallels between chess and business, chess and the martial arts, or any two things for that matter, because the truth is that all pursuits are connected if we gain an eye for the thematic links.
Joshua Waitzkin
#27. To focus means to bring your attention to the center, to concentrate on one thing intently in order to gain clarity.
Cheryl Richardson
#28. I have never considered myself a prodigy. Others have used that term, but I never bought in to it.
Joshua Waitzkin
#29. I despise rushing headlong into a mystery. Much more satisfying to dip in a toe, test the waters, ease in slowly before we start to swim.
Shannon Hale
#30. Of course the sad truth is that if we are not present to the moment, our true love could come and go and we wouldn't even notice.
Joshua Waitzkin
