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Joshua Waitzkin has 17 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Our minds are all different and I believe cultivating a keen introspective sensitivity is absolutely essential in discovering our potential.
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It is rarely a mysterious technique that drives us to the top, but rather a profound mastery of what may well be…
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Growth only really comes at the point of resisÂtance, but that is the moment that we tend to stop. Because it hurts…pushing…
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One thing about the business and investing world that I connect to very intimately is that there is little room to deny…
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The moment we believe that success is determined by an ingrained level of ability as opposed to resilience and hard work, we…
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The truth is that throughout my careers in both chess and the martial arts, I often knew that my rivals were more…
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Just about every error has a technical and psychological component: get good at discovering those connections
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A man wants to walk across the land, but the earth is covered with thorns. He has two options - one is…
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Initially I was very drawn to the Tao Te Ching, the Taoist philosophy. It was helping me deal with the balance of…
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Very gifted people, they win and they win, and they are told that they win because they are a winner. That seems…
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I have never considered myself a prodigy. Others have used that term, but I never bought in to it.
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In America, people focus on the end result; they focus on the star.
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Ah, a German and a genius ! A prodigy, admit him !
— Jonathan Swift
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Unless you're a true prodigy, you're going to have to practice for a while being bad before you get any good. And…
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There is no prodigy in our profession. If you see all the great singer of the past, none of them are.
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For every child prodigy that you know about, at least 50 potential ones have burned out before you even heard about them.
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You cannot imagine how it spoils one to have been a child prodigy.
— Franz Liszt
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Destiny, quite often, is a determined parent. Mozart was hardly some naive prodigy who sat down at the keyboard and, with God…
— Twyla Tharp
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If Beethoven is a prodigy of man, Bach is a miracle of God.
— Gioachino Rossini
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Any man who criticizes my suicide and passes judgment on me with an expression of superiority, declaring (without offering the least help)…
— Osamu Dazai
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I only discovered electronic music as a teenager and I still love the Prodigy and Massive Attack.
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What a chimera then is man. What a novelty! What a monster... what a contradiction, what a prodigy
— Blaise Pascal
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Child prodigy is a curse because you've got all those terrible possibilities.
— Itzhak Perlman
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I feel like it has gone very fast for me, but I feel like it wasn't instantaneous, at all. I was getting…
— Anthony Doerr
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