Believe Quote by Joshua Waitzkin

My coach and my parents both had this relationship to what I was doing, which was allowing me to express myself with chess. And…

— Joshua Waitzkin

At the very core of my relationship to learning is the idea that we should be as organic as possible. We need to cultivate…

— Joshua Waitzkin

I believe an appreciation for simplicity, the everyday - the ability to dive deeply into the banal and discover life's hidden richness - is…

— Joshua Waitzkin

I have never considered myself a prodigy. Others have used that term, but I never bought in to it.

— Joshua Waitzkin

Very gifted people, they win and they win, and they are told that they win because they are a winner. That seems like a…

— Joshua Waitzkin

One of the main focuses of my training sessions is to help individuals find their unique voices in the learning process. We all have…

— Joshua Waitzkin

One thing about the business and investing world that I connect to very intimately is that there is little room to deny the harsh…

— Joshua Waitzkin

Not only do we have to be good at waiting, we have to love it. Because waiting is not waiting, it is life.

— Joshua Waitzkin

Of course the sad truth is that if we are not present to the moment, our true love could come and go and we…

— Joshua Waitzkin

I tend not to dwell on the parallels between chess and business, chess and the martial arts, or any two things for that matter,…

— Joshua Waitzkin

A man wants to walk across the land, but the earth is covered with thorns. He has two options - one is to pave…

— Joshua Waitzkin

We learn by pushing ourselves and finding what really lies at the outer reaches of our abilities.

— Joshua Waitzkin