John Ruskin Quotes
I would rather teach drawing that my pupils may learn to love nature, than teach the looking at nature that they may learn to draw.
Quotes to Explore
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My life is proof that I don't need you to do what I do. If there's no one to see it, I'll watch it.
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I know how to make the difference. When I make the difference, I often do it at the end of the match, and that shows that I am fresh.
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You learn from things that you experience in life. I'd never want to say that I regret anything or that anything was a mistake. Honestly, that isn't how I have chosen to live my life.
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There's no such thing as a non-final cut director.
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Computers are wasteful of paper and time. Once, we'd get documents with a few errors. Now, people make hundreds of copies until each sheet is flawless and memos are duplicated endlessly. Managers get swamped with emails.
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We would like to preserve Europe for Europeans.
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I go home, and I'm a blob. I just lay there and don't do anything - lay by the pool with the other husbands while the wives work. It's fantastic. It's really good. That's kind of our life at home.
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With a disaster like global warming, it's too late to worry about when it's looming except to figure out how to adapt to it.
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When you get successful, you can do pretty much whatever you want.
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The Internet offers an interesting combination of advertising and community by participating in the community you can become an advertisement for yourself.
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While technology empowers us to remain connected all the time, it's up to us as people to decide when is it not appropriate to be connected... to opt out when you need to.
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Conservatives need to know how important it is to fill out the census. It is one of the only things our Constitution specifically asks of U.S. citizens and boycotting will just help liberals expand government even further.
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Misanthropy is born, I think, out of an almost oppressive sense of loneliness, a conviction that there's no one on earth who understands you. I don't think misanthropes hate people: They hate that people hate them.
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I'd say I am more of a comfort person. I have Adidas sneakers that are my favorite thing on the planet. Adidas high tops with black jeans and a fur hat that I love wearing. I love vintage shopping.
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Tell a man that he is putting on a stage performance in order to get what he wants, and he will irritably reject your observation. Why? Because most people go through life as cunning actors with a permanent horror of getting found out.
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It is always good to be on the scoresheet.
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When I came up to New York to do a play, I passed by Julliard, and I was like, 'Oh I heard of this place.' I applied, and ended up getting in.
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I really hated fighting people and hurting them, but felt unable to stop.
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Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus.
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Biographies are, in their nature, far more difficult to make into films than novels, because novels come with plots constructed and dialogue written, whereas I don't invent dialogue for my subjects or plot their lives for them.
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I'm an advocate of human nature.
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When you have practiced drawing for a while... take pains and pleasure in constantly copying the best works that you can find done by the hand of great masters.
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The perfect man of pagans was the perfection of the man there is; the perfect man of christians, the perfection of the man there isn't; the buddhists' perfect man, the perfection of not existing a man.
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I would rather teach drawing that my pupils may learn to love nature, than teach the looking at nature that they may learn to draw.
