Know Ones Quotes by James Richardson

If you do more than your share you'd better want to: otherwise, you're paying yourself in a currency recognized nowhere else.

— James Richardson

All work is the avoidance of harder work.

— James Richardson

Anger has been ready to be angry.

— James Richardson

Metaphor isn't just a fancy turn of speech. It shapes our thoughts and feelings, reaches out to grasp new experience, and even binds our…

— James Richardson

Who breaks the thread, the one who pulls, the one who holds on?

— James Richardson

Bitterness is a greater failure than failure.

— James Richardson

“I sell my time to get enough money to buy it back.”

— James Richardson

Too much apology doubles the offense.

— James Richardson

It is by now proverbial that every proverb has its opposite. For every Time is money there is a Stop and smell the roses.…

— James Richardson

There are silences harder to take back than words.

— James Richardson

Reason is the lesser faith that steers us when we have already lost a greater one.

— James Richardson

If it can be used again, it is not wisdom but theory.

— James Richardson

“On Writing: Aphorisms and Ten-Second Essays 1. A beginning ends what an end begins. 2. The despair of the blank page: it is so…

— James Richardson

Any virtue systematically applied becomes a vice. Morality is attention, not system.

— James Richardson

Nothing important comes with instructions.

— James Richardson