Joshua Waitzkin Quotes

People talk about this 'bucket list': 'I need to go to this country, I need to skydive.' Whereas I need to think as much as I can, to feel as much as I can, to be conscious and observe and understand me and the people around me as much as I can.

I don't think we spend enough time in reflection and introspection. We don't know who we are as individuals in this culture anymore.

Most of us don't spend any time knowing ourselves. We just keep reacting.

I want people to find their inner depth.

It's really about connecting to your own humanity and your own behaviors, and getting to a level of self-awareness so that you can have perspective and step outside of yourself and transform and become another person.

The only way to do something truly important every day is to seek to understand yourself every day.

Learning to cultivate an awareness of the known and unknown within one's being often leads to a healthier and more realistic sense of self.

Keeping a personal journal a daily in-depth analysis and evaluation of your experiences is a high-leverage activity that increases self-awareness and enhances all the endowments and the synergy among them.

Self-awareness is a key to self-mastery

Learn to know yourself... to search realistically and regularly the processes of your own mind and feelings.

One of the keys to harnessing this potentially unlimited power of the mind is to expand your level of self-awareness.

I cannot count the good people I know who to my mind would be even better if they bent their spirits to the study of their own hungers.

Writing in a journal reminds you of your goals and of your learning in life. It offers a place where you can hold a deliberate, thoughtful conversation with yourself.

I've been living with myself all of my life, so I know all of me. So when I watch me, all I see is me. It's boring.

The sacred duty of being an individual is to gradually learn how to live so as to awaken the eternal within you.

Self-knowledge is essential not only to writing, but to doing almost anything really well. It allows you to work through from a deep place - from the deep, dark corners of your subconscious mind.

Each character represented a trait that resides in me.

I think and that is all that I am.

My personality doesn't interest me.

To travel is to take a journey into yourself.

I believe that I have such a vanilla life. But maybe I come with a different perspective. I'm always trying to improve myself.

Anybody can get lost in themselves.

Your glass will not do you half so much service as a serious reflection on your own minds.

I don't know what other people are doing - I just know about me.

I just want to live each moment, but it's kind of hard to do that when you are asked to analyze yourself constantly. But it's also good in that you are forced to think about things that you don't ordinarily think about. I think it's strange.