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.
sitting needs walks
I aspire to know when best to walk or eat, which music I need, and how to keep myself sitting as I am now, stubbornly enraptured with doing practically nothing.
knowing forgiving may
Beware of knowing your virtues; you may lose them. Beware of knowing your vices; you may forgive them.
believe practice sincerity
To practice Sincerity is to burden everyone else with believing you.
believe knows
To know, you just have to know. To believe, you have to make others believe.
impatience
Impatience is not wanting to understand that you don't understand.
want crime commit
There are crimes I don't commit mainly because I don't want to find out I could.
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.
indecision
Patience is decisive indecision.
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.
first-love love-is lasts
The first quest or the first love is also the last. The second isn't.