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.

Joshua Waitzkin

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• I think you have to keep a childlike quality to play music or make a record.

  

  Beck
  • Music
  • Think
  • Quality

• Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.

  

  Ralph Marston
  • Attitude
  • Excellence
  • Skill

• Escapism makes a lot of intuitive sense - whisk people away from their cares with stories of a better life.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • People
  • Life
  • Better

• 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.

  

  Jack McBrayer
  • World
  • You
  • Sometimes

• 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.

  

  Maksim Chmerkovskiy
  • Family
  • Love
  • Parents

• Bring it on. Dissent is central to any democracy.

  

  Harry Belafonte
  • Democracy
  • Bring
  • Central

• 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.

  

  Garry Shandling
  • Artist
  • Confidence
  • Pen

• 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.

  

  J. Cole
  • Bad
  • Best
  • Same

• 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.

  

  Barry Commoner
  • Time
  • Rest
  • Environmental

• 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.

  

  Madeleine L'Engle
  • Taken
  • Compassion

• The deeps are cold:In that darkness camaraderie does not hold:Nothing touches but, clutching, devours.

  

  Ted Hughes
  • Cold

• 'The world? The world is not interested in us. Today, everything is possible, even the crematoria...'

  

  Elie Wiesel
  • World
  • Today

• I'm not an extremely prolific writer. I don't write songs all the time.

  

  Billy Burke
  • Time

• I'm not a particularly shiny, happy person. I'm fairly cynical, and that's what draws me to comedy.

  

  Elizabeth Banks
  • Happy
  • Comedy

• 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.

  

  John Anderson
  • Up

• I partnered with Working Wardrobes because I wanted to be part of an organization that lifts people's spirits.

  

  Ashley Nell Tipton
  • People
  • Organization

• 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.

  

  DJ Khaled
  • Family
  • Mother
  • Father

• Conventional wisdom tells us we'll only be happier after a divorce if the marriage itself was a war zone.

  

  Ariel Gore
  • War
  • Wisdom
  • Marriage

• [Walter White] was also one of the best lobbyist of the period.

  

  Ella Baker
  • Period
  • White
  • Periods

• I wrote seven Myron Bolitar novels in a row, and I never want to write a Myron book where he just solves a crime. Every one of them I want to be personal, and I want him to grow and change. The problem with that is, it makes the series limited, you can't write a series where a guy is always going through some kind of crisis.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Book
  • Guy
  • Change

• I say that what one loves is best: The midnight fastness of the heart.

  

  Allen Tate
  • Heart
  • Best
  • Loves

• Someone once asked me "If your life could be extended to 150 and you could start another career, would you?" And I said "No, thanks, I think I'll stick at this."

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Career

• Now I'm just known as McDreamy, I've lost all identity as Patrick Dempsey, I'm now McDreamy.

  

  Patrick Dempsey
  • Lost
  • Identity
  • Now

• 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
  • Life
  • Waiting
  • Love It