"My coach and my parents both had this relationship to what I was doing, which was allowing me to express myself with chess. And so I could love it. I had a passion for it. I was expressing myself through chess, and I was learning about myself through chess."

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Source : "'Art of Learning' isn't just black and white". Interview with Tracey Wong Briggs, usatoday30.usatoday.com. July 17, 2007.

Joshua Waitzkin

#Passion Quotes #Parent Quotes #Chess Quotes

“The practice of peace and reconciliation is one of the most vital and artistic of human actions.”
“I need to work on everything.”
“My gift was in comedy. I found out I could make jokes. I could tell jokes. I could write them. So over the years, that's what I've done.”
“Part of my reason for being vegetarian was because it practices respect and love for life all through the day, so three times a day, you make a decision to eat things that have not been killed.”
“Things have changed a great deal since the days of Mr. Mayer. The studios no longer control, as they did in those days, artists or directors or producers, as the case may be.”
“When people are facing a severe illness or a major surgery, that may be one of the most significant opportunities for spiritual transformation that they will encounter.”
“I did The Frank Skinner Show, and they gave me a little jukebox-shaped CD player, which looks nice in the kitchen.”
“A root is a flower that disdains fame.”

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