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

He landed on cheap shot, but I knocked him out of the tournament.

The fact of the matter is that there will be nothing learned from any challenge in which we don’t try our hardest. Growth comes at the point of resistance. We learn by pushing ourselves and finding what really lies at the outer reaches of our abilities.

The learning principle is to plunge into the detailed mystery of the micro in order to understand what makes the macro tick. Our obstacle is that we live in an attention-deficit culture.