War Quote by Josh Waitzkin Download Open image ““The clear thinker is suddenly at war with himself and flow is lost.”” — Josh Waitzkin ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare War
“In flow, we are so focused on the task at hand that everything else falls away. Action and awareness merge. Time flies. Self vanishes.… — Steven Kotler Copy Share Image
“My mind didn't clear. It had been clear before. Instead it muddled, suddenly ablaze with rioting factions of insecurities and dreams, a cacophonous battleground… — David Wong Copy Share Image
“My mind is filled with one thought and it runs through over and over and over.” — James Frey Copy Share Image
“He was convinced that men lost their nerve in combat when they allowed themselves to think too much. The part movies never got right… — Mark Bowden Copy Share Image
“No one must know that my heart and mind are constantly at war with each other.” — Anne Frank Copy Share Image
“Constantly our thoughts are at war with what we do, many at times our actions have won this battle.” — Kumbirai Dhliwayo Copy Share Image
“I can see the war that’s coming and I can see the after-war, the food-queues and the secret police and the loudspeakers telling you… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“There is but one mind and one thinker every other being thinks from him.” — Anthony Ugochukwu O. Aliche Copy Share Image
“The secret is that everything is always on the line. The more present we are at practice, the more present we will be in… — Josh Waitzkin Copy Share Image
“I knew how to block out my issues in a sprint, but in marathons I ran out of gas. Consistency became a critical problem.… — Josh Waitzkin Copy Share Image
“While a fixation on results is certainly unhealthy, short-term goals can be useful developmental tools if they are balanced within a nurturing long-term philosophy.” — Josh Waitzkin Copy Share Image
“successful people shoot for the stars, put their hearts on the line in every battle, and ultimately discover that the lessons learned from the… — Josh Waitzkin Copy Share Image
“Just as the yin-yang symbol possesses a kernel of light in the dark, and of dark in the light, creative leaps are grounded in… — Josh Waitzkin Copy Share Image
“some of the brightest kids prove to be the most vulnerable to becoming helpless, because they feel the need to live up to and… — Josh Waitzkin Copy Share Image
“A key component of high-level learning is cultivating a resilient awareness that is the older, conscious embodiment of a child’s playful obliviousness.” — Josh Waitzkin Copy Share Image
“If I want to be the best, I have to take risks others would avoid, always optimizing the learning potential of the moment and… — Josh Waitzkin Copy Share Image
“there are clear distinctions between what it takes to be decent, what it takes to be good, what it takes to be great, and… — Josh Waitzkin Copy Share Image
“One of the most critical strengths of a superior competitor in any discipline—whether we are speaking about sports, business negotiations, or even presidential debates—is… — Josh Waitzkin Copy Share Image
One idea I taught was the importance of regaining presence and clarity of mind after making a serious error — Josh Waitzkin Copy Share Image
“In performance training, first we learn to flow with whatever comes. Then we learn to use whatever comes to our advantage. Finally, we learn… — Josh Waitzkin Copy Share Image
The costs of the Bush-Obama wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are now estimated to run as high as $4.4 trillion - a major victory… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
For us who are now in power, we need to be challenged to serve the people and ignore our own egos and personal interests… — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image
“People came to our house from far and wide. Party and military bigwigs, some guy known as the “combat commander,” the village headman, and… — Masaji Ishikawa Copy Share Image
Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a batter. Love is a war. Love is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“The world," said Pavone, "will swing to the left. The whole world except America. The world will swing, not because people read Karl Marx,… — Irwin Shaw Copy Share Image
If my campaign is not in the debate, we will not be talking about how we really fix this problem of endless and expanding… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
Five days or five months, but it certainly isn't going to last longer. — Donald Rumsfeld Copy Share Image
So here's what I want you to know, and here's what I want all our men and women in uniform to know: Because of… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I don't want to go into space because of war. I think we would if it was triggered. If China said they want to… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
If I had to guess and put a name on it, I'd say that at some point, the drug war was as much a… — David Simon Copy Share Image
“Fear and desire for pleasure. Aggressiveness comes out of fear, predominantly, and sexuality predominantly out of the other. But they mix in the middle.… — Marilyn French Copy Share Image