James Richardson
James Richardson
Admiral in charge of Pearl Harbor prior to the Japanese attack.
ProfessionWar Hero
Date of Birth18 September 1878
CityParis, TX
writing perfect sun
Writing is like washing windows in the sun. With every attempt to perfect clarity, you make a new smear.
way faults best-way
The best way to know your faults is to notice which ones you accuse others of.
apology too-much offense
Too much apology doubles the offense.
writing lines fantasy
Tyranny and fantasy both like to write everyone else's lines.
teacher self perfect
Embarrassment is the greatest teacher, but since its lessons are exactly those we have tried hardest to conceal from ourselves, it may teach us, also, to perfect our self-deception.
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.
true-god
The god of many cannot remain the true god.
humiliation
Success is whatever humiliation everyone has agreed to compete for.
believe mean i-believe
I'll buy that means also I believe it.
enough sells my-time
I sell my time to get enough money to buy it back.
thinking around-the-world firsts
The drives were nature's first provision: thinking was added later, to get us around the world's obstacles to them.
water waiting
Water deepens where it has to wait.
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.