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Josh Waitzkin

(1976) Chess Player

25 quotes in 48 categories

Josh Waitzkin is a chess player.

Quick Facts About Josh Waitzkin

Born: December 4, 1976
Profession: Chess Player

About Josh Waitzkin

[Wikidata] American chess player... | [Wikipedia] Joshua Waitzkin is an American former chess player, martial arts world champion, and author. As a child, he was recognized as a prodigy, and won the U.S. Junior Chess championship in 1993 and 1994. The film Searching for Bobby Fischer is based on his early life.

Quotes by Josh Waitzkin

“The secret is that everything is always on the line. The more present we are at practice, the more present we will…

Hope

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“I knew how to block out my issues in a sprint, but in marathons I ran out of gas. Consistency became a…

Peak performance

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“While a fixation on results is certainly unhealthy, short-term goals can be useful developmental tools if they are balanced within a nurturing…

Goals

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“successful people shoot for the stars, put their hearts on the line in every battle, and ultimately discover that the lessons learned…

Excellence

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“Just as the yin-yang symbol possesses a kernel of light in the dark, and of dark in the light, creative leaps are…

Creativity

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“some of the brightest kids prove to be the most vulnerable to becoming helpless, because they feel the need to live up…

Children

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“A key component of high-level learning is cultivating a resilient awareness that is the older, conscious embodiment of a child’s playful obliviousness.”

Children

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“If I want to be the best, I have to take risks others would avoid, always optimizing the learning potential of the…

Learning process

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“there are clear distinctions between what it takes to be decent, what it takes to be good, what it takes to be…

New job

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“One of the most critical strengths of a superior competitor in any discipline—whether we are speaking about sports, business negotiations, or even…

Business

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One idea I taught was the importance of regaining presence and clarity of mind after making a serious error

Clarity of mind

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“In performance training, first we learn to flow with whatever comes. Then we learn to use whatever comes to our advantage. Finally,…

Fitness

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“So if you think that when you are better, it means that you can smash ahead and mate the guy, you are…

Better

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“Of course there were plateaus, periods when my results leveled off while I internalized the information necessary for my next growth spurt,…

Growth

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“My instinct is always to seek out challenges as opposed to avoiding them.”

Self improvement

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“He landed on cheap shot, but I knocked him out of the tournament.”

Cheap

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“The clear thinker is suddenly at war with himself and flow is lost.”

War

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“In my experience, successful people shoot for the stars, put their hearts on the line in every battle, and ultimately discover that…

Excellence

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“It is a little like developing the habit of stealing the test from your teacher’s desk instead of learning how to do…

Habits

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“we cannot calculate our important contests, adventures, and great loves to the end. The only thing we can really count on is…

Adventure

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“In short, I was a mess. I had learned as a boy how to deal with distraction in a given moment, but…

Life

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“The path to artistic insight in one direction often involves deep study of another—the intuition makes uncanny connections that lead to a…

Art

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“The human mind defines things in relation to one another—without light the notion of darkness would be unintelligible”

Darkness

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“Finally, we learn to be completely self-sufficient and create our own earthquakes, so our mental process feeds itself explosive inspirations without the…

Inspiration

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“Growth comes at the point of resistance. We learn by pushing ourselves and finding what really lies at the outer reaches of…

Growth

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