Jacob Riis
American photographer, journalist and activist (1849–1914)
Jacob August Riis (May 3, 1849 – May 26, 1914) was a Danish-American social reformer, "muckraking" journalist, and social documentary photographer.
Quotes
edit- When nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that blow that did it—but all that had gone before.
- James Clear's Atomic Habits as attributed to Riis in the San Antonio Spurs locker room
- Originally from The Making of an American (1901), p. 253
