John Ruskin Quotes on work

The first condition of education is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work... view

By: John Ruskin

Some slaves are scoured to their work by whips, others by their restlessness and ambition... view

By: John Ruskin

Whether for life or death, do your own work well... view

By: John Ruskin

When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece... view

By: John Ruskin

The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions... view

By: John Ruskin

He is the greatest artist who has embodied, in the sum of his works, the greatest number of the greatest ideas... view

By: John Ruskin

All great art is the work of the whole living creature, body and soul, and chiefly of the soul... view

By: John Ruskin

All great and beautiful work has come of first gazing without shrinking into the darkness... view

By: John Ruskin

Nearly all the powerful people of this age are unbelievers, the best of them in doubt and misery, the most in plodding hesitation, doing as well as they can, what practical work lies at hand... view

By: John Ruskin

Better the rudest work that tells a story or records a fact, than the richest without meaning... view

By: John Ruskin

Men were not intended to work with the accuracy of tools, to be precise and perfect in all their actions... view

By: John Ruskin

Men don't and can't live by exchanging articles, but by producing them. They don't live by trade, but by work. Give up that foolish and vain title of Trades Unions.. view

By: John Ruskin

Men cannot not live by exchanging articles, but producing them. They live by work not trade... view

By: John Ruskin

It is impossible, as impossible as to raise the dead, to restore anything that has ever been great or beautiful in architecture. That which I have insisted upon as the life of the whole, that spirit which is given only by the hand and eye of the workman, can never be recalled... view

By: John Ruskin

In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it... view

By: John Ruskin