It is the empty seats that listen most raptly. James Richardson More Quotes by James Richardson More Quotes From James Richardson 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 reading writing mean Nothing important comes with instructions. James Richardson important instruction What is more yours than what always holds you back? James Richardson When I am trying to write I turn on music so I can hear what is keeping me from hearing. James Richardson hearing writing trying Say too soon what you think and you will say what everyone else thinks. James Richardson thinking The best way to know your faults is to notice which ones you accuse others of. James Richardson best-way faults way How sure we are that everyone's watching. How sure we are that no one sees. James Richardson perception If it can be used again, it is not wisdom but theory. James Richardson used theory ifs 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 understand. James Richardson philosophical suffering may 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. James Richardson smell opposites rivers Writing is like washing windows in the sun. With every attempt to perfect clarity, you make a new smear. James Richardson perfect sun writing Who breaks the thread, the one who pulls, the one who holds on? James Richardson thread break You have two kinds of secrets. The ones only you know. The ones only you don't. James Richardson kind secret two 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. James Richardson keys two rooms Reason is the lesser faith that steers us when we have already lost a greater one. James Richardson greater reason lost I would never accuse Willie Brown of slowing down, because he never does. James Richardson slow-down brown doe I don't know what's meant by Know thyself, which seems to ask a window to look at a window. James Richardson know-thyself looks window I'm a kid checking mail, a kid on his cell with his questions: James Richardson love-life cells kids All work is the avoidance of harder work. James Richardson avoidance harder There are silences harder to take back than words. James Richardson harder silence
