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
-
I think you have to keep a childlike quality to play music or make a record.
-
Escapism makes a lot of intuitive sense - whisk people away from their cares with stories of a better life.
-
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.
-
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.
-
Bring it on. Dissent is central to any democracy.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
'The world? The world is not interested in us. Today, everything is possible, even the crematoria...'
-
I'm not an extremely prolific writer. I don't write songs all the time.
-
I'm not a particularly shiny, happy person. I'm fairly cynical, and that's what draws me to comedy.
-
I partnered with Working Wardrobes because I wanted to be part of an organization that lifts people's spirits.
-
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.
-
Conventional wisdom tells us we'll only be happier after a divorce if the marriage itself was a war zone.
-
I like to write and draw everything with sharpies. I even got one with my own name on it!
-
I don't know anybody who said, 'I love that teacher, he or she gave a really good homework set,' or 'Boy, that was the best class I ever took because those exams were awesome.' That's not what people want to talk about. It's not what influences people in one profession or another.
-
For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.
-
I get up early, go to bed late, and sometimes it works, and sometimes it doesn't. And I pray a lot.
-
Doing 'CSI: N.Y.' is not 'CSI.' Doing 'CSI: Miami' is not 'CSI: N.Y.,' it's 'CSI: Miami.' It has a very, very specific tone. It has a very specific look. It has a specific way in which they tell their stories that's different from 'CSI: N.Y.' and 'CSI.'
-
There is nothing you can control about love.
-
I need to be allowed to make my own decisions and mistakes, take leaps - and fall - without receiving too much help, because it's what I'll be doing for the rest of my life.
-
I'm always learning new things about myself.
-
Not only do we have to be good at waiting, we have to love it. Because waiting is not waiting, it is life.
