27 Quotes by Joshua Waitzkin

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

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 of your mistakes. A bad call can lose you many millions.

Maybe it's better not to be the best. Then you can lose and it's OK.

The key to pursuing excellence is to embrace an organic, long-term learning process, and not to live in a shell of static, safe mediocrity. Usually, growth comes at the expense of previous comfort or safety.

Of course the sad truth is that if we are not present to the moment, our true love could come and go and we wouldn't even notice.

In chess you might find a good move. Then you might find a better move. But take your time. Find the best move.

I believe an appreciation for simplicity, the everyday - the ability to dive deeply into the banal and discover life's hidden richness - is where success, let alone happiness, emerges.

Just about every error has a technical and psychological component: get good at discovering those connections

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 set.