James Richardson
James Richardson
Admiral in charge of Pearl Harbor prior to the Japanese attack.
ProfessionWar Hero
Date of Birth18 September 1878
CityParis, TX
workaholic dread procrastinator
The procrastinator dreads beginning, the workaholic, ending.
waste wasting-time wasting-my-time
If I do not waste time, I am wasting my time.
water pieces tiny
Seizing on a piece of business, I become tiny, eager, efficient: roiled water I cannot see into.
temptation method greater
Greater than the temptations of beauty are those of method.
impatience
Impatience is not wanting to understand that you don't understand.
first-love love-is lasts
The first quest or the first love is also the last. The second isn't.
water waiting
Water deepens where it has to wait.
envy and-love way
Envy is ashamed of itself. If it weren't hanging back, it would go all the way to emulation and love.
pain mistake judging
Judging itself brings the pain of being judged. The wicked judge mistakes this for another crime of the accused and lengthens his sentence.
children pain temptation
Hasn't there ... been a little too much zeal in our reproof of children and friends for yielding to the temptations we ourselves find it most difficult to resist? We punish where we can least afford to sympathize. Of all the horrors of the daily news, it seems hardest to imagine the kind of cruelty that is intensified by the pain of its victims, but whenever we feel sympathy would weaken us, we are a little closer to the torturer.
annoyed feelings annoying
How often feelings are circular. How embarrassing to be embarrassed. How annoying to be annoyed.
readiness
Happiness is the readiness to be happy.
suffering form cynic
The cynic suffers the form of faith without love. Incredulity is his piety.
two keys rooms
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.