Joshua Waitzkin Quotes
Not only do we have to be good at waiting, we have to love it. Because waiting is not waiting, it is life.
Quotes to Explore
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I think you have to keep a childlike quality to play music or make a record.
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Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
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Escapism makes a lot of intuitive sense - whisk people away from their cares with stories of a better life.
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Sometimes you have to be okay with what you are to the world, where you are in the world, and make the most of it.
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I look for someone whose upbringing was somewhat similar to mine because they can understand me - love for the family and everything else. You see someone's relationship with their parents, and you realize what that person's going to be like as a parent.
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Bring it on. Dissent is central to any democracy.
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I once saw an elaborate landscape in a gallery, drawn in pencil, that took my breath away. Then I realized the artist probably didn't have enough confidence to use a pen.
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Many people find themselves with illness as they become successful: higher blood pressure and diabetes.
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I'm not gonna be bad at anything, and I want to actually be the best at anything I'm doing. So if I'm playing basketball, if I'm taking the SATs, like, there's a competitive spirit behind it. With production, it's the same thing.
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What I have experienced over time is that environmental problems are easier to deal with in ways that don't go into their interconnections to the rest of what we are.
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Detachment and involvement: the artist must have both. The link between them is compassion. It has taken me over fifty years to get a glimmer of what this means.
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The deeps are cold:In that darkness camaraderie does not hold:Nothing touches but, clutching, devours.
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'The world? The world is not interested in us. Today, everything is possible, even the crematoria...'
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I'm not an extremely prolific writer. I don't write songs all the time.
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I'm not a particularly shiny, happy person. I'm fairly cynical, and that's what draws me to comedy.
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It is one of the issues that will have to be worked through however let me make the point and I think anyone would accept that if you set it up properly, not only will you get better environmental outcomes, you have a chance to create more wealth with the available resource.
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I partnered with Working Wardrobes because I wanted to be part of an organization that lifts people's spirits.
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I stayed focused, and I never surrendered, and now I've been blessed. now I take care of my mother, my father, and my entire whole family.
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We are chosen for joy. However hard the Christian way, it is both in the traveling and in the goal, the way of joy.
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The five patients in 'Rethinking Cancer' share with us the path of their recovery: the courage to take their own lives in their hands with a natural approach to healing their bodies.
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Having wires strewn across your couch and across the floor is a big deal to a lot of people.
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I really don't think that Detroit was any different than New York of Boston or Philadelphia. Kids always wanted to listen to music outside because that's where they hung out with their friends.
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I've always written songs for the sake of my own sanity and expression.
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Not only do we have to be good at waiting, we have to love it. Because waiting is not waiting, it is life.
