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

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Source : Sonshi.com Interview, www.sonshi.com.

Joshua Waitzkin

#Believe Quotes #Mind Quotes #Essentials Quotes

“A lot of these kids have no fathers, and they want to be gangsters. They don't believe in God and have no faith in anything but their own instincts. Boxing provides a way for them to express themselves in a positive way, and I'm happy to be able to help them.”
“Ours is the age of substitutes: Instead of language we have jargon; instead of principles, slogans; and instead of genuine ideas, bright suggestions.”

Source : New Republic 29 Dec. 1952
“Marijuana? It's harmless really, unless you fashion it into a club and beat somebody over the head with it”
“One rational voice is dumb: over a grave The household of Impulse mourns one dearly loved. Sad is Eros, builder of cities, And weeping anarchic Aphrodite.”
“The beginning of a plot is the prompting of desire.”
“Somehow, the fact that more poor people are on welfare, receiving more generous payments, does not seem to have made this country a nice place to live - not even for the poor on welfare, whose condition seems not noticeably better than when they were poor and off welfare. Something appears to have gone wrong; a liberal and compassionate social policy has bred all sorts of unanticipated and perverse consequences.”
“You always have to measure your desires and goals against your ego and your humility.”
“Art is by nature promotional, pushing beliefs, broadcasting status, aggrandizing personalities.”

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