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

One of the main focuses of my training sessions is to help individuals find their unique voices in the learning process. We all have our strengths, our weaknesses, our styles of learning, our personalities. Developing introspective sensitivity to these issues is critical to long-term success.

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

In chess you might find a good move. Then you might find a better move. But take your time. Find the best move.

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

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.

I believe an appreciation for simplicity, the everyday - the ability to dive deeply into the banal and discover life's hidden richness - is where success, let alone happiness, emerges.