James Richardson
James Richardson
Admiral in charge of Pearl Harbor prior to the Japanese attack.
ProfessionWar Hero
Date of Birth18 September 1878
CityParis, TX
ready has-beens angry
Anger has been ready to be angry.
bitterness greater
Bitterness is a greater failure than failure.
teacher book new-experiences
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 disparate senses. James Geary's fascinating and utterly readable I is an Other brings the news on metaphor from literature and economics, from neuroscience and politics, illuminating topics from consumer behavior to autism spectrum disorders to the evolution of language. As a writer, as a teacher, and as someone just plain fascinated by how our minds work, I've been waiting years for exactly this book.
kids love-life cells
I'm a kid checking mail, a kid on his cell with his questions: are we in love, Life, are we exclusive, are we forever?
conformity sophistication
Sophistication is upscale conformity.
want currency share
If you do more than your share you'd better want to: otherwise, you're paying yourself in a currency recognized nowhere else.
attention vices morality
Any virtue systematically applied becomes a vice. Morality is attention, not system.
empty empty-seats seats
It is the empty seats that listen most raptly.
used theory ifs
If it can be used again, it is not wisdom but theory.
two secret kind
You have two kinds of secrets. The ones only you know. The ones only you don't.
break thread
Who breaks the thread, the one who pulls, the one who holds on?
opposites rivers smell
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 someone says You never stand in the same river twice someone else has already replied There is nothing new under the sun. In the mind's arithmetic, 1 plus -1 equals 2. Truths are not quantities but scripts: Become for a moment the mind in which this is true.
harder avoidance
All work is the avoidance of harder work.
silence harder
There are silences harder to take back than words.