John Ruskin Quotes

It is not confused. We are.

The road leading to a goal does not separate you from the destination; it is essentially a part of it.

Focus your vision by giving it a goal.

I asked for more information because I am unable to unscrew the inscrutable.

If you have a vision for something, things are navigable. If it gets fuzzy, then obstacles become much more formidable.

You can have the best product in the world, you can have the best motivation in the world, you can have best education in the world, you can have all the money in the world - but if you don't have direction, you'll never go anywhere.

Never understood a lot about the world... music is one of the only things that makes any sense.

Success without fulfillment is failure.

When reading a book, be very certain that you never go past a word you do not fully understand. The only reason a person gives up a study or becomes confused or unable to learn is because he or she has gone past a word that was not understood.

I'm not the guy who will sit in a room with somebody who's using a bunch of big words and just act like I know what they're talking about, or sit on set with somebody and they'll be trying to explain something and not using layman's terms and I'll just say, "Hey, excuse me, what do you mean by that? Explain to me so I just understand."

Failing to plan means planning to fail. What are your goals?

Busy is good, isn't it? Busy means we're hard at it, achieving our ends or "goals." Haven't had time to stop, or look around or think. That's considered the sign of a life well lived ... Suppose, though, you're not sure that what you're doing is at all worthwhile. Suppose you blundered into it over a spoonful of lime pickle. It's easy, it pays quite well. But really it's a distraction. It stops you thinking about what you ought to be doing.

Nothing is confused except the mind.

Few things are impossible in themselves: application to make them succeed fails us more often than the means.

It's hard to get lost if you don't know where you're going.

I mean to suggest that without a transcendent and honorable purpose, schooling must reach its finish, and the sooner we are done with it, the better.

We fear only what we haven’t understood.

Any effort... to make the obscure obvious is likely to be unappealing, for the penalty of failure is confusion while the reward of success is banality.

I'm confused, and brilliant books help me to be less so.

An undefined goal is unreachable.

There is a goal but no way; what we call the way is mere wavering.

I have not the pleasure of understanding you.

Nothing. I was confused for two years. I didn't understand anything and I'm still confused.

It's okay to be confused. Confusion is the route to all the clarity in the world.

Achievement happens when we pursue and attain what we want. Success comes when we are in clear pursuit of Why we want it.