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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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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Conventional wisdom tells us we'll only be happier after a divorce if the marriage itself was a war zone.
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I like to write and draw everything with sharpies. I even got one with my own name on it!
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With athletes, it's never fully understood the level to which we push ourselves. Especially in an endurance sport.
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..that the overturning of the old world of arts will be etched across your 'palms' (recto)
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My best friend Jerry started a boat-washing business, and it was one of the most critical experiences of my life. I got to meet a lot of people who were entrepreneurs. My parents were schoolteachers, and I was now meeting people who owned companies. I realized that if this guy can do it, why can't I?
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If you're like most people, you've always wanted something better for your life - it's really how we are designed - we're supposed to want improvement, and we're designed to climb upward. But most people stop at that - the WANT. They rarely take any action that actually begins moving their dreams into true reality!
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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.
