27 Quotes by Joshua Waitzkin

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

A man wants to walk across the land, but the earth is covered with thorns. He has two options - one is to pave his road, to tame all of nature into compliance. The other is to make sandals. Making sandals is the internal solution...it does not base success on a submissive world or overpowering force, but on intelligent preparation and cultivated resilience.

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 a mus­cle that can be cul­ti­vated like any other–incrementally

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

Our minds are all different and I believe cultivating a keen introspective sensitivity is absolutely essential in discovering our potential.

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.

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

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.