John Ruskin Quotes

Production does not consist in things laboriously made, but in things serviceably consumable; and the question for the nation is not how much labour it employs, but how much life it produces.

John Ruskin

Quotes to Explore

Figure out what you're good at and start helping other people with it; give it away. Pay it forward. Karma sort of works because people are very consistent. On a long enough timescale, you will attract what you project.

Naval Ravikant
- People
- Good
- Long
While I recognize the necessity for a basis of observed reality... true art lies in a reality that is felt.

Odilon Redon
- Art
- True
- Reality
One of the things I had to learn as a writer was to trust the act of writing. To put myself in the position of writing to find out what I was writing.

E. L. Doctorow
- Writing
- Myself
- Trust
Armenian folklore has it that three apples fell from Heaven: one for the teller of a story, one for the listener, and the third for the one who 'took it to heart.' What a pity Heaven awarded no apple to the one who wrote the story down.

Nancy Willard
- Heart
- Heaven
- Three
If we want to impact hundreds - or millions - of people, we have to do things differently. If we look at the problem as an infrastructural problem, we cannot make an impact because it requires a lot of effort. But when we convert this problem into a knowledge problem, suddenly the problem is manageable.

Naveen Jain
- People
- Knowledge
- Problem
I don't go on lunch dates with friends. I hear about people having dinner parties, but I never do that. I'm not really human.

Fiona Apple
- People
- Friends
- Lunch