What I'm not changes more than what I am.
James Richardson
The drives were nature's first provision: thinking was added later, to get us around the world's obstacles to them.
nature
Seizing on a piece of business, I become tiny, eager, efficient: roiled water I cannot see into.
business
change
If I do not waste time, I am wasting my time.
thetimes time
The mind is like a well-endowed museum, only a small fraction of its holdings on view at any one time.
mind thetimes time
What's thinking? You live in a grandly appointed house, but spend all your time rummaging around in the attic for any little trinket you hadn't known was there.
Solitude takes time. One becomes alone, like a towel drying.
solitude thetimes time
So many times I've made myself stupid with the fear of being outsmarted.
God help my neighbors if I loved them as I love myself.
help
The man who sticks to his plan will become what he used to want to be.
plans man
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.
self
Success is whatever humiliation everyone has agreed to compete for.
success
That others know: science. That others choose: politics.
politics science
The cynic suffers the form of faith without love. Incredulity is his piety.
faith
Envy is ashamed of itself. If it weren't hanging back, it would go all the way to emulation and love.
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