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

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• 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

• I sort of understood that when I first started: that you shouldn't repeat a success. Very often you're going to, and maybe the first time you do, it works. And you love it. But then you're trapped.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • Time
  • Love
  • Success

• If I see a now-28-year-old woman coming up to me, she's probably thinking of 'Juno' because she watched it with her parents when she was 18 years old.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • She

• I will not promote other people's songs big time. I will just mention that I produced the song to get the credit I think I deserve.

  

  Anton Zaslavski
  • People
  • Time
  • Song

• Falling in love with landscapes is what L.A. women do. It doesn't necessarily imply betrothal or marriage.

  

  Kate Braverman
  • Women
  • Marriage
  • Necessarily

• He suddenly found himself on the precipice of utility.

  

  J. F. Powers
  • Himself
  • Utility
  • Precipice

• I try personally not to be nostalgic.

  

  Daniel Clowes
  • Try
  • Personally
  • Nostalgic

• If you want to see what stage comedians did to get laffs a century ago, watch the 1910 'Wizard of Oz.' I hope you have a high tolerance for pratfalls.

  

  Kage Baker
  • High
  • Hope
  • Want

• I know every line to 'The Little Rascals.'

  

  Banks
  • Know
  • Line
  • Rascals

• I think Alison Krauss is one of the most amazing singers ever. As a songwriter - this is gonna sound cheesy - I love Randy Newman. And my mom passed on a love of Bob Dylan and Joni Mitchell. At one point I was so into the Indigo Girls, just like I was so into the Dixie Chicks, those female harmonies.

  

  Cam
  • Love
  • Amazing
  • Mom

• The ordinary surroundings of life which are esteemed by men (as their actions testify) to be the highest good, may be classed under the three heads - Riches, Fame, and the Pleasures of Sense: with these three the mind is so absorbed that it has little power to reflect on any different good.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Life
  • Good
  • Men

• Look, it's moving. It's alive, it's alive, it's alive. It's moving. It's alive, it's alive, it's alive, it's alive, it's alive!

  

  Garrett Fort
  • Moving

• To ordinary folks, conversion is not always automatic. It's something that may or may not require explicit assistance. See Billy Graham.

  

  Larry Wall
  • May

• What good is it? All this, what good is it? -Mariam

  

  Khaled Hosseini
  • Good

• Growing up in Mississippi - a state that historically was a place of racial injustice, inequality and oppression - gave me the unique opportunity to experience first-hand the evolution of the civil rights movement through the eyes of my parents, grandparents, and the black elders of our community.

  

  Angela McGlowan
  • Up
  • Experience
  • Parents

• I'm a grown woman and sometimes, I might be a little fat, you know? Am I alone there? Not really.

  

  Leighton Meester
  • Alone

• 'I can't wait for the next fad though, and I predict it's going to be Pennsylvania dutch culture, very Amish. It's going to be bonnets and butter churns.'

  

  Janeane Garofalo
  • Culture

• When people feel criticized, they almost always defend the behavior you want them to change.

  

  Bill Crawford
  • People
  • Change
  • Behavior

• 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
  • Question
  • Nation
  • Production