James Richardson Quotes
- The happy and the suffering probably understand life equally well, but the sufferers may see a little more clearly how little it is that they…
- Sophistication is upscale conformity.
- You have two kinds of secrets. The ones only you know. The ones only you don't.
- Who breaks the thread, the one who pulls, the one who holds on?
- What is more yours than what always holds you back?
- Only half of writing is saying what you mean. The other half is preventing people from reading what they expected you to mean.
- All work is the avoidance of harder work.
- There are silences harder to take back than words.
- It is the empty seats that listen most raptly.
- It is by now proverbial that every proverb has its opposite. For every Time is money there is a Stop and smell the roses. When…
- If it can be used again, it is not wisdom but theory.
- If you do more than your share you'd better want to: otherwise, you're paying yourself in a currency recognized nowhere else.
- Any virtue systematically applied becomes a vice. Morality is attention, not system.
- Anger has been ready to be angry.
- Bitterness is a greater failure than failure.
- 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 five…
- How sure we are that everyone's watching. How sure we are that no one sees.
- Nothing important comes with instructions.
- When I am trying to write I turn on music so I can hear what is keeping me from hearing.
- I would never accuse Willie Brown of slowing down, because he never does.