All Joshua Waitzkin Quotes
- Our minds are all different and I believe cultivating a keen introspective sensitivity is absolutely essential in discovering our potential. Absolutely
- It is rarely a mysterious technique that drives us to the top, but rather a profound mastery of what may well be a basic skill… Basic
- 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… Any
- One thing about the business and investing world that I connect to very intimately is that there is little room to deny the harsh realities… Bad
- The moment we believe that success is determined by an ingrained level of ability as opposed to resilience and hard work, we will be brittle… Ability
- The truth is that throughout my careers in both chess and the martial arts, I often knew that my rivals were more naturally gifted than… Ability
- Just about every error has a technical and psychological component: get good at discovering those connections Component
- A man wants to walk across the land, but the earth is covered with thorns. He has two options - one is to pave his… Across
- Initially I was very drawn to the Tao Te Ching, the Taoist philosophy. It was helping me deal with the balance of these external and… Art
- Very gifted people, they win and they win, and they are told that they win because they are a winner. That seems like a positive… Children
- I have never considered myself a prodigy. Others have used that term, but I never bought in to it. Bought
- In America, people focus on the end result; they focus on the star. America
- At the very core of my relationship to learning is the idea that we should be as organic as possible. We need to cultivate a… Build
- I tend not to dwell on the parallels between chess and business, chess and the martial arts, or any two things for that matter, because… All
- My coach and my parents both had this relationship to what I was doing, which was allowing me to express myself with chess. And so… Allowing
- One of the main focuses of my training sessions is to help individuals find their unique voices in the learning process. We all have our… All
- We learn by pushing ourselves and finding what really lies at the outer reaches of our abilities. Abilities