"Better the rudest work that tells a story or records a fact, than the richest without meaning."
-John Ruskin
WorkView Quote
Other Quotes by John Ruskin
Discover more inspiring quotes by John Ruskin
"Men were not intended to work with the accuracy of tools, to be precise and perfect in all their actions."
-John Ruskin
WorkView Quote
"Whether for life or death, do your own work well."
-John Ruskin
WorkView Quote
"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."
-John Ruskin
WorkView Quote
"The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions."
-John Ruskin
WorkView Quote
"Men cannot not live by exchanging articles, but producing them. They live by work not trade."
-John Ruskin
WorkView Quote
Same Category
More quotes in this category
"I've done an awful lot of stuff that's a monument to public patience."
-Tyrone Power
PatienceView Quote
"So it's been a slow process and it's taken some patience. That's why patients are called patients I think - patience is required."
-Bowie Kuhn
PatienceView Quote
"If you have confidence you have patience. Confidence, that is everything."
-Ilie Nastase
PatienceView Quote
"Difficult years lie ahead, patience is required."
-Yiannis Stournaras
PatienceView Quote
"As a young boy, I read 'Cheaper by the Dozen' and immediately became neurotic about my use of time. It taxed me severely, but only for the next 50 years. But I think it also allowed me to discipline myself to sit in the chair and be a writer, where one of the most needed qualities is patience."
-Ridley Pearson
PatienceView Quote
"Soon I knew the craft of experimental physics was beyond me - it was the sublime quality of patience - patience in accumulating data, patience with recalcitrant equipment - which I sadly lacked."
-Abdus Salam
PatienceView Quote