James Richardson quotes

Only half of writing is saying what you mean. The other half is preventing people from reading what they expected you to mean. (James Richardson)
The best way to know your faults is to notice which ones you accuse others of. View quote
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Bitterness is a greater failure than failure. View quote
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Say too soon what you think and you will say what everyone else thinks. View quote
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Reason is the lesser faith that steers us when we have already lost a greater one. View quote
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Anger has been ready to be angry. View quote
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Any virtue systematically applied becomes a vice. Morality is attention, not system. View quote
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They say productivity is the key to confidence, and confidence ... to productivity. And they're happy walking back and forth between these two rooms, each the excuse for the other. View quote
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I don't know what's meant by Know thyself, which seems to ask a window to look at a window. View quote
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The best way to get people to do what you want is not to be too particular about what you want. View quote
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I've spent so long trying to fly that it's too late to set out on foot. (James Richardson)
What's the difference between provincialism, which unthinkingly takes its situation for everyone's, and cosmopolitanism, which is confident it has the right to? View quote
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The cynic suffers the form of faith without love. Incredulity is his piety. View quote
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God help my neighbors if I loved them as I love myself. View quote
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The viruses that co-opt the machinery of our cells; the stories we allow to enter and explain us. View quote
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Embarrassment is the greatest teacher, but since its lessons are exactly those we have tried hardest to conceal from ourselves, it may teach us, also, to perfect our self-deception. View quote
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The road reaches every place, the short cut only one. View quote
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Yet sadly we feel that many of the noisiest are more interested in their indignation than in the injustice. View quote
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On what is valuable thieves and the law agree. View quote
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I am not unambitious. I am just too ambitious for what you call ambitions. View quote
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The mind is like a well-endowed museum, only a small fraction of its holdings on view at any one time. (James Richardson)
I'll buy that means also I believe it. View quote
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If I do not waste time, I am wasting my time. View quote
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Only the dead have discovered what they cannot live without. View quote
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The first abuse of power is not realizing that you have it. View quote
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