John Ruskin Quotes

Candlesticks and incense not being portable into the maintop, the sailor perceives these decorations to be, on the whole, inessential to a maintop mass. Sails must be set and cables bent, be it never so strict a saint's day; and it is found that no harm comes of it. Absolution on a lee-shore must be had of the breakers, it appears, if at all; and they give plenary and brief without listening to confession.

John Ruskin

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  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Man

• The new Disney cartoon 'Bambi' is interesting because it's the first one that's been entirely unpleasant.

  

  Manny Farber
  • Interesting
  • First
  • Disney

• A man may be born, but in order to be born he must first die, and in order to die he must first awake.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • May
  • Man
  • Die

• A good title should be like a good metaphor. It should intrigue without being too baffling or too obvious.

  

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  • Good
  • Obvious
  • Metaphor

• In Re-framing, you interpret the event in a positive way. You change your language . Instead if defining it as a problem you re-frame it as a situation . A problem is something that is upsetting and stressful. A situation is something that you simply deal with .

  

  Brian Tracy
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• I've never tried to work chronologically. I don't think I have the discipline to do that.

  

  Cliff Martinez
  • Work
  • Discipline

• It is Christlike work to soothe and sympathize, and only those who have drunk the cup of sorrow are fully equipped to do it.

  

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  • Work
  • Sorrow
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• Sometimes the British press is maybe a little bit racist.

  

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  • Sometimes
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• The first requisite for success is to develop the ability to focus.

  

  Thomas A. Edison
  • Success
  • Focus
  • Ability

• The Most beautiful human deed, is to be useful to others.

  

  Sophocles
  • Human
  • Beauty
  • Deed

• The power of imagination is the ultimate creative power.. no doubt about that. While knowledge defines all we currently know and understand.. imagination points to all we might yet discover and create. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Your imagination is your preview of life's coming attractions.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Important
  • Knowledge
  • Imagination

• If any be unhappy, let him remember that he is unhappy by reason of himself alone. For God hath made all men to enjoy felicity and constancy of good.

  

  Epictetus
  • God
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• What is the strongest cure?--Victory.

  

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  Laura Ingraham
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  • Being
  • Warrior

• I learned nothing at school, so I just lived in my own world.

  

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• The pleasure of despair. But then, it is in despair that we find the most acute pleasure, especially when we are aware of the hopelessness of the situation... ...everything is a mess in which it is impossible to tell what's what, but that despite this impossibility and deception it still hurts you, and the less you can understand, the more it hurts.

  

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  • Despair
  • Hurts
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• Non-co-operation and civil disobedience in terms of Swaraj are not to be thought of without substantial constructive effort.

  

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• I have a confession to make. Almost every time I tune in to religious radio or TV, I want to change my religion.

  

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  • TV
  • Confession
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• Candlesticks and incense not being portable into the maintop, the sailor perceives these decorations to be, on the whole, inessential to a maintop mass. Sails must be set and cables bent, be it never so strict a saint's day; and it is found that no harm comes of it. Absolution on a lee-shore must be had of the breakers, it appears, if at all; and they give plenary and brief without listening to confession.

  

  John Ruskin
  • Confession
  • Sailor
  • Brief