Joshua Waitzkin Quotes

Our minds are all different and I believe cultivating a keen introspective sensitivity is absolutely essential in discovering our potential.

Joshua Waitzkin

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• I wouldn't want to cover a Hank Williams song in a country-western way. It doesn't occur to me instinctually to re-create productions. I'm interested in re-creating songs. Putting different clothes on them.

  

  M. Ward
  • Different
  • Country
  • Song

• I live my life by these little church signs you see as you drive around, and there's one near me that says, 'If we really knew each other, we would neither idolise nor condemn.' And that's it: if we all knew each other, then we wouldn't treat anybody any different. And there wouldn't be any big stars, I guess.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Life
  • Different
  • Live

• Yes, we are all different. Different customs, different foods, different mannerisms, different languages, but not so different that we cannot get along with one another. If we will disagree without being disagreeable.

  

  J. Martin Kohe
  • Different
  • Will
  • Without

• Very few minds are strictly normal, and all religious fanatics are marked with abnormalities of various sorts.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Religious
  • Minds
  • Normal

• It's just funny that Americans have to contend with 2000 channels, and 60 different specific news sources, and the confusion that it creates, and the junk that we get to see is hilarious.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Different
  • Funny
  • News

• I have a lot of passion for a lot of different things.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Different
  • Passion
  • Things

• Of course, I should have done what doctors said and walked for miles every day and not eaten great amounts of butter. But then, life is life, and if we all did what they said we should do, it would be a different world.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Life
  • World
  • Great

• Walking down the red carpet, suddenly I felt very special and different. All the flashlights from cameras and requesting voices from the media, the scene, it was just like what I remembered seeing on TV or a movie when I was a little girl - the scene only when movie stars appeared.

  

  Yani Tseng
  • Different
  • Movie
  • Girl

• I was taunted because I was different.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • Different
  • Because

• People always are desperate to have others acknowledge that they are different.

  

  Adam Driver
  • People
  • Different
  • Always

• Sometimes I'll go into a shop and speak in a different accent to see if I can pull it off. But then somebody will be like, 'Where did you say you were from again...?' And then I panic, and my accent dissolves, and I pretend like I wasn't doing it in the first place.

  

  Tatiana Maslany
  • Different
  • Speak
  • Doing

• In the absence of a Congress ready to act to reduce gun violence, we will keep working to create a different Congress.

  

  Gabrielle Giffords
  • Different
  • Violence
  • Gun

• There are some different things I'm writing and developing, but I don't know where they'll go. They're fun stuff that I would be in and are written in my voice, for me.

  

  Abby Elliott
  • Different
  • Writing
  • Fun

• 'Star Wars' came out when I was seven. It was so different from anything else, like peeking into the land of Oz. All you wanted to do was see it again and go back and see more of it. That feeling is not easy to reproduce.

  

  Damian Loeb
  • Different
  • Feeling
  • Star

• When I look down the range at the target all I can do is try to distinguish between the different colors.

  

  Im Dong-Hyun
  • Different
  • Look
  • Down

• Everybody's at war with different things… I'm at war with my own heart sometimes.

  

  Tupac Shakur
  • Different
  • Heart
  • War

• There has to be this pioneer, the individual who has the courage, the ambition to overcome the obstacles that always develop when one tries to do something worthwhile, especially when it is new and different.

  

  Alfred P. Sloan
  • Different
  • Courage
  • Ambition

• I like my friends to be the hitters. The pitchers, they all have the same brain as I do. The hitters see the game from a different perspective.

  

  Joe Mays
  • Different
  • Friends
  • Game

• Climbing is actually a great sport for blind people and that carried me on to climbing bigger and bigger mountains, snowy mountains, ice faces, and developing different techniques to be able to do that.

  

  Erik Weihenmayer
  • People
  • Different
  • Mountains

• Just as a son, to be a son of man, must be of the same nature and spirit of his father; so with the sons of God, and so it will be with all who are born of the spirit of God.

  

  Elias Hicks
  • God
  • Nature
  • Father

• There are a lot of people who can do it on the guitar and sing at the same time, but I think what is harder is bass players that can play the bass and sing.

  

  Graham Coxon Blur
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Player

• My dad was a football player - a soccer player - for Manchester United, and I loved playing football, but I also happened to be the guy in class who was pretty good at sight reading. My teacher gave me scripts, and I was very comfortable.

  

  Ian McShane
  • Good
  • Guy
  • Pretty

• Money is power and power gives you choice.

  

  Sam Rockwell
  • Money
  • Power
  • Choice

• Our minds are all different and I believe cultivating a keen introspective sensitivity is absolutely essential in discovering our potential.

  

  Joshua Waitzkin
  • Different
  • Minds
  • Potential