John Ruskin Quotes

The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.

John Ruskin

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• To show resentment at a reproach is to acknowledge that one may have deserved it.

  

  Tacitus
  • May
  • Show
  • Resentment

• Children, old crones, peasants, and dogs ramble; cats and philosophers stick to their point.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Children
  • Old
  • Cats

• No matter what as an artist that's always what you want to do, you want to connect to the audience, you want to be able to send whatever message it is that you're singing about, you want to be able to convey that - and not make them feel - you want them to feel it, you want them to feel what you feel.

  

  Naima Adedapo
  • Want
  • Singing
  • Artist

• People don't usually compliment your character.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Character
  • Your

• Improving oversight of hedge funds and other private funds is vital to their sustainability and to our economy's stability.

  

  Jack Reed
  • Economy
  • Sustainability

• I hate jealousy, I hate possessiveness. I'm nobody's possession.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • Hate
  • Nobody
  • Jealousy

• Well, she managed to - Barbara was capable of doing practically anything if she set her mind to it. In retrospect, I'm not surprised that Barbara managed to get collect calls through.

  

  Ted Olson
  • Mind
  • She
  • Doing

• The American 'unum' has been lost since the Sixties. If this continues, there will soon be no unifying American identity and vision to balance the 'pluribus,' and the days of the Republic will be numbered.

  

  Os Guinness
  • American
  • Lost
  • Vision

• Earnestness is stupidity sent to college.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • College
  • Stupidity
  • Sent

• Imagine the peace symbol. The peace symbol has three pieces in it. One piece is emotion, that's your body. Another piece has spirit in it, that's your fuel. Another piece has intellect in it and that's your steering wheel. You can never overdo the fuel that goes into the body, which is the emotions and the steering wheel to drive it.

  

  Gary Busey
  • Peace
  • Body
  • Emotions

• Without numerous schools offering hands-on opportunities, no commander will be cultivated.

  

  Zhang Zhidong
  • Will
  • Opportunities
  • Without

• Who was confessor To the gracious Son of Mary? What was the most beneficial measure Which Adam accomplished?

  

  Taliesin
  • Son

• Why do human beings need to confess? Maybe if you don’t have that secret confession, you don’t have a poem - don’t even have a story. Don’t have a writer. If most poetry doesn’t seem to be in any sense confessional, it’s because the strategy of concealment, of obliquity, can be so compulsive that it’s almost entirely successful.

  

  Ted Hughes
  • Why
  • Poetry

• In my opinion, a life governed by reason is likely to be more dignified than one shaped by dogma and unbridled emotions.

  

  Nayef Al-Rodhan
  • Life
  • Opinion

• Life is writing. The sole purpose of mankind is to engrave the thoughts of divinity onto the tablets of nature.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Nature

• The factors that laid low so whooping and puissant an empire as the old Hollywood are many. I can think of a score, including the barbarian hordes of Television. But there is one that stands out for me in the post-mortem.... The factor had to do with the basis of movie-making: ‘Who shall be in charge of telling the story.’

  

  Ben Hecht
  • Movie

• The historic ascent of humanity, taken as a whole, may be summarized as a succession of victories of consciousness over blind forces - in nature, in society, in man himself.

  

  Leon Trotsky
  • May
  • Nature
  • Society

• Part of what makes Minneapolis such a vibrant place to live and work is that we have active residents of all ages.

  

  Betsy Hodges
  • Work
  • Live

• It is important that politicians defend their ability to act without fear or favour, and it is in the public interest that they hold ministers and public servants to account.

  

  Jeremy Corbyn
  • Important
  • Fear

• My relationships are based on personal reciprocity. Being a Dodger was a matter of heart, but in the end I felt they didn't want me.

  

  Steve Garvey
  • Relationships
  • Based
  • Reciprocity

• I dream that someday the step between my mind and my finger will no longer be needed. And that simply by blinking my eyes, I shall make pictures. Then, I think, I shall really have become a photographer.

  

  Alfred Eisenstaedt
  • Mind
  • Dream
  • Eyes

• I tended to find lines of poetry beautiful only when I encountered them quoted in prose, in the essays my professors had assigned in college, where the line breaks were replaced with slashes, so that what was communicated was less a particular poem than the echo of poetic possibility. Insofar as I was interested in the arts, I was interested in the disconnect between my experience of actual artworks and the claims made on their behalf; the closest I'd come to having a profound experience of art was probably the experience of this distance, a profound experience of the absence of profundity.

  

  Ben Lerner
  • Experience
  • Poetry
  • Professors

• The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.

  

  John Ruskin