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
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  • Long

• While I recognize the necessity for a basis of observed reality... true art lies in a reality that is felt.

  

  Odilon Redon
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  • 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
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  • Heaven
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• 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
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  • Knowledge
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• 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
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• 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
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  • 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
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• 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
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• 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
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• I know every line to 'The Little Rascals.'

  

  Banks
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• 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
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• You grew up, we grew up B.C. Before crack. That's just saying it all. You understand? You don't have parents... You have young kids, fourteen, coming home and their mama is smoking out, going to their best friend to get the product.

  

  Tupac Shakur
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• I'm not saying I'm gonna change the world, but I guarantee that I will spark the brain that will change the world.

  

  Tupac Shakur
  • World
  • Change
  • Brain

• O God and Lord, now the council condemns even Your own act and Your own law as heresy, since You Yourself did lay Your cause before Your Father as the just judge, as an example for us, whenever we are sorely oppressed.

  

  Jan Hus
  • God
  • Father
  • Law

• Why do tax havens exist? Because rich countries allow them to. If the U.S. came down on tax havens in the same way they come down on countries that trade with Iran and Cuba, we'd have no tax havens in the world.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • World
  • Why
  • Rich

• My beef with the alt-fuel people is not the renewable or alt-fuel ideas themselves. Sooner or later, there's no question we're going to have to rely on them. For me, it's an issue of scale.

  

  James Howard Kunstler
  • People
  • Question

• I had carefully read the Balfour Declaration. I had familiarized myself with the history of the question of a Jewish homeland and the position of the British and the Arabs. I was skeptical, as I read over the whole record up to date, about some of the views and attitudes assumed by the 'striped-pants boys' in the State Department.

  

  Harry S Truman
  • History
  • Question
  • Balfour Declaration

• 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