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The man who sticks to his plan will become what he used to want to be.
James Richardson
Happiness is the readiness to be happy.
James Richardson
To me the great divide is between the talkative and the quiet. Do they just say everything that's on their minds, even before it's on their minds? Sometimes I think I could just turn up my head like a walkman so what's going on there could be heard by others. But there would still be a difference. For inside the head they are talking to people like them, and I am talking to someone like me: he is quiet and doesn't much like being talked at; he can't conceal how easily he gets bored.
James Richardson
Often you only have to ask What would I do if I were not afraid?
James Richardson
Books serve us simply by opening a window on all we wanted to say and feel and think about. We may not even notice that they have not said it themselves till we go back to them years later and do not find what we loved in them. You cannot keep the view by taking the window with you.
James Richardson
It is less important to escape pain than to avoid exceptionless rules.
James Richardson
Water deepens where it has to wait.
James Richardson
First he gathered what he needed. Then he needed to keep gathering what he used to need.
James Richardson
A belief is a question we have put aside so we can get on with what we believe we have to do.
James Richardson
Think of all the smart people made stupid by flaws of character. The finest watch isn't fine long when used as a hammer.
James Richardson
The procrastinator dreads beginning, the workaholic, ending.
James Richardson
Those who are too slow to be intelligent deserve our patience, those who are too quick, our pity.
James Richardson
The great consolation of righteousness is never having to worry whether you're a bore.
James Richardson
How often feelings are circular. How embarrassing to be embarrassed. How annoying to be annoyed.
James Richardson
That others know: science. That others choose: politics.
James Richardson
The drives were nature's first provision: thinking was added later, to get us around the world's obstacles to them.
James Richardson
Your choices: spend, and believe in things; save, and believe in money.
James Richardson
It's amazing that I sit at my job all day and no one sees me clearly enough to say What is that boy doing behind a desk?
James Richardson
There are crimes I don't commit mainly because I don't want to find out I could.
James Richardson
A day is only a day. But a life is only a life.
James Richardson
Impatience is not wanting to understand that you don't understand.
James Richardson
Suppose you had to remember to beat your heart, contract in exact sequence the muscles you use for every step. ... Conservatism comes out of the body, the sense of many things being done for us that any attempt to re-think, or even make conscious, would fatally disrupt.
James Richardson
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