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


Joshua Waitzkin

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JOSHUA BELL I come from a very illustrious line of divorces. We love to get divorced in my family. My mother and...
JOSHUA FERRIS Music is a continual learning process. One finds new insights all the time. For me, it began at a ve...
JOSHUA BELL People want stardom or fame or whatever - instant gratification as opposed to learning one's cra...
JOSHUA SASSE One way can be learned by starting to see the magic in everything. Sometimes it seems to be hiding b...
JOSHUA KADISON Like [Egyptian President Hosni] Mubarak, Assad will be smirking at U.S. discomfiture as Washington s...
JOSHUA LANDIS I think you can appreciate different interpretations. Art is not a contest. I can even appreciate he...
JOSHUA BELL Laughing is a necessity of life.
JOSHUA CLARKE The thing I hate the most, is hate itself.
JOSHUA CLARKE There is one problem with the entire concept of time. There is so little of it.
JOSHUA CLARKE Without this, I'd be either in jail or dead. It is real motivating.
JOSHUA YOUNG I don't have a preferred religion - I'd have to do research. I was born a Christian, but as ...
ANTHONY JOSHUA But we can hold our spirits and our bodies so pure and high, we may cherish such thoughts and such i...
JOSHUA CHAMBERLAIN Every time I get an autograph, I feel like I'm taking home a little piece of that star. What dri...
JOSHUA MORROW ‎True love isn't expressed in passionately whispered words an intimate kiss or a embrace; before t...
JOSHUA HARRIS It is forgivable to say nothing out of ignorance; it's inexcusable to remain silent once awareness d...
JOSHUA FERRIS Music is such an incredible tool for kids in general. They learn discipline; they learn how to expre...
JOSHUA BELL God will make right all that is wrong, He will take away the lingering effect of sin and what's ...
JOSHUA HARRIS So much of performing is a mind game. You're memorizing thousands of notes, and if you start thi...
JOSHUA BELL Once I'd reached the point where I could squirrel away more than 30 digits a minute in memory pa...
JOSHUA FOER The best memorizers in the world - who almost all hail from Europe - can memorize a pack of cards in...
JOSHUA FOER During courtship, guarding each other's purity and refraining from intimacy are the acts of lovemaki...
JOSHUA HARRIS Terms don't define our lives; our lives define our terms.
JOSHUA HARRIS Living to glorify God means doing everything...
for Him,
His way,
to point to His gre...
JOSHUA HARRIS Wherever you get to is better than where you started. To stay on the road is a massive achievement.
ANTHONY JOSHUA What makes a champion great is how he dethrones the guy before him. Look at Mike Tyson against Trevo...
ANTHONY JOSHUA What drew me to the violin was mastering the instrument technically, which I'm continuing to do....
JOSHUA BELL The first thing I do when I read a part is see if I can identify emotionally with a character. If I ...
JOSHUA LEONARD And He was the one who invented marriage so that the blazing fire of romantic love could become some...
JOSHUA HARRIS If you were a medieval scholar reading a book, you knew that there was a reasonable likelihood you&#...
JOSHUA FOER Every time you hear someone read your book and liked your book, you're never sure whether that&#...
JOSHUA FERRIS Were I as base as is the lowly plain, And you, my Love, as high as heaven above, Yet should the thou...
JOSHUA SYLVESTER The way I meditate is by being organised. I can get real Zen if I go home and tidy the front room.
ANTHONY JOSHUA True love isn’t just expressed in passionately whispered words or an intimate kiss or an embrace; ...
JOSHUA HARRIS Instead of rushing foolishly into a marriage because of impatience or one day looking back at our se...
JOSHUA HARRIS