Joshua Waitzkin Quotes
Growth only really comes at the point of resistance, but that is the moment that we tend to stop. Because it hurts... pushing our limits, is a muscle that can be cultivated like any other - incrementally.
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I think every once in a while country has lost its way, but found its way back. It's always going to drift away from the traditional side, but then find a way to return. There's room for all kinds of influences be it pop, blues, gospel or whatever. But I will always say that I think we need more traditional country music coming down the pike.
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I've always loved both writing and songwriting. The journey is fascinating to me.
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Know your priorities and identify the five powerful action steps that you intend to take to move your initiatives forward each day. If you go to a tree with an ax and take five whacks at the tree every day, it doesn't matter if it's an oak or a redwood; eventually, the tree has to fall down.
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I will negotiate with my worst enemy.
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Talent survives and remains while beauty is diluted.
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I want to be the first person to laugh at myself. It makes other people feel at ease - we're all on an even playing field.
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In an unconstitutional partnership with the state, the church can impose the most irresistible, if covert, controls conceivable.
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You can see neurosis from below - as a sickness - as most psychiatrists see it. Or you can understand it as a compassionate man might: respecting the neurosis as a fumbling and inefficient effort toward good ends.
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Education should be totally secular. I am not telling people not to believe in God, but it should be a personal matter which should be done at home.
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I did five seasons of 'Baywatch,' and I did four seasons of 'VIP.' I've been around awhile.
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The tensions between authority and the people need to be heard, especially when they are suffering and they can't eat.
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I've always had a longstanding dream, ever since I was a kid, where I was running on a big lake of ice and I kept running and kept running, just about to where I was trying to get to, and I fell through the ice, and then I couldn't find the hole where I fell through to get back out again.
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I trip over my legs all the time. I'll wave to somebody, look up, and end up eating pavement.
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It only worked for a little while; the morning after I agreed to go with Universal, an article came out in the Hollywood trade papers, and the secret was out.
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I don't believe in changing the unchangeable.
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It's funny, everything is so much easier when you do it yourself.
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'There is no situation so bad that the cops can't make it worse.'
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As if there could be true stories: things happen in one way, and we retell them in the opposite way.
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I always wanted to play against the best.
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Generally, I think my work has so much influence because of its reasonableness.
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I have been much afflicted again lately by visitors . . . and they gave me to understand that if they had had the arranging of the garden it would have been finished long ago - whereas I don't believe a garden is ever finished. They have all gone now, thank heaven.
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I can't ignore what I grew up listening to. My parents used to listen to Michael Jackson non-stop. They used to listen to Luther Vandross, Lionel Richie, Stevie Wonder.
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Everyone now has a sacred cow in the tax code. For my money, the most sacred thing of all is our country and its growth, but the sacred cows have turned into a pack of wolves.
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Growth only really comes at the point of resistance, but that is the moment that we tend to stop. Because it hurts... pushing our limits, is a muscle that can be cultivated like any other - incrementally.
