Rocco Landesman quotes

Walking around with less than ten thousand dollars is completely unacceptable. It's a necessity of life. It gives you freedom. The most important thing in life is a sense of possibility, and you simply can't have it with less than ten thousand dollars in your pocket.
-- Rocco Landesman

#Things In Life #Giving #Important

There is a trend in the whole [U.S.] culture toward making things shorter. People have been watching too much television, and they have a television mentality. I think people really are wary of sitting in a theatre too long. They're not used to it.
-- Rocco Landesman

#Thinking #Long #People

I would like to start by calling bullshit.
-- Rocco Landesman

#Bullshit #Calling

Have you ever been bitten by an elephant? How about a mosquito? It's the little things in life that will bite you. For most of us, it's the frequent, small and seemingly inconsequential choices that are of grave concern.

I was born knowing that I had to be a painter, because my father, an art historian, always presented painting as the only acceptable thing in life.

The biggest message, we hope, is that money is not the most important thing in life. You have to have it to survive and live but it's not the most important thing in life. It's the legacy you leave and the people that you wrap around you and the love that you have wrapped around you (that) should be the most important thing.

Will power is human electricity. You have enough of this electricity generated in you to achieve the greatest things in life if you will keep the current on.

Interest is the most important thing in life; happiness is temporary, but interest is continuous.

Loving fathers give their children guidance on how to deal with all the hard things in life.

God never can use any man very much till he has grace enough to forget himself entirely while doing God's work; for He will not give His glory to another nor share with the most valued instrument the praise that belongs to Jesus Christ alone.

Begin to rejoice in the Lord, and your bones will flourish like an herb, and your cheeks will glow with the bloom of health and freshness. Worry, fear, distrust, care-all are poisonous! Joy is balm and healing, and if you will but rejoice, God will give power.

Give crowns and pounds and guineas But not your heart away; Give pearls away and rubies, But keep your fancy free.

What is the most important thing you could be working on in the world right now? ... And if you're not working on that, why aren't you?