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

• Many people find themselves with illness as they become successful: higher blood pressure and diabetes.

  

  Zong Qinghou
  • People
  • Successful
  • Blood

• 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

• People are going to have a good time, you know. One can go have a good time at these big openings in museums. And people go to have a good time. But the thing has another purpose.In the case of museums, it's always got to do with money, people who donate and things like that. And I believe a certain kind of interest has to be demonstrated.

  

  Garry Winogrand
  • People
  • Time
  • Good

• I had a kind of romantic notion about being a Hollywood Errol Flynn type. Honestly, I did not get into a lot of bar brawls - but I was always willing to. About the only thing missing from my story is that I haven't had a full knock-down fight in the middle of the Polo Lounge.

  

  Kelsey Grammer
  • Romantic
  • Missing

• If you invent something, you're doing a creative act. It's like writing a novel or composing music. You put your heart and soul into it, and money. It's years of your life, it's your house remortgaged, huge emotional investment and financial investment.

  

  James Dyson
  • Life
  • Music
  • Writing

• Most people don't know how underpaid and often ill-equipped urban fire departments are across North America.

  

  Denis Leary
  • People
  • America
  • Fire

• 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