Jon Landau Quotes

It is by now beyond question that Elton John is a competent and classy entertainer. Few people who have achieved his popularity have succeeded in maintaining his standards for performance and professionalism.

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• Nothing in Art is achieved by will alone. It is achieved by docilely submitting to the subconscious.

  

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• Nothing constructive and worthy of man's efforts ever has or ever will be achieved except by that which comes from a positive mental attitude, based on a definiteness of purpose and activated by a burning desire, and acted upon until the burning desire is elevated to the level of applied faith.

  

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• I've always been into guitars. We want to put keyboards on, but keyboard players don't look cool onstage, they just keep their heads down. There has never been a cool keyboard player, apart from Elton John.

  

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• Much is being said about peace; and no man desires peace more ardently than I. Still I am yet unprepared to give up the Union fora peace which, so achieved, could not be of much duration.

  

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• Education is not received. It is achieved.

  

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• Neither the victories of the Olympic Games nor those achieved in battles make the man happy. The only victories that make him happy are those achieved against himself. Temptations and tests are combats. You have beaten one, two, many times; still fight. If you defeat at last you will be happy your entire life, as if you have always defeated.

  

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• Mastery has been achieved when one neither makes a mistake nor hesitates in the performance.

  

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• The sage never strives for the great, and thereby the great is achieved.

  

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• Greed for enlightenment and immortality is no different than greed for material wealth. It is self-centered and dualistic, and thus an obstacle to true attainment. Therefore these states are never achieved by those who covet them; rather, they are the reward of the virtuous.

  

  Lao Tzu
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• That which is achieved the most, still has the whole of its future yet to be achieved.

  

  Lao Tzu
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• I believe that with enough practice and good faith, you can learn to recognize when the work is achieved.

  

  Gail Godwin
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• I began to study again, and now for the first time really achieved an understanding of the content of the Jew Karl Marx's life effort. Only now did his Capital become really intelligible to me, and also the struggle of the Social Democracy against the national economy, which aims only to prepare the ground for the domination of truly international finance and stock exchange capital.

  

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• No truth is proved, no truth achieved, by argument, and the ready-made truths men offer you are mere conveniences or drugs to make you sleep.

  

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• Elton John is an absolute lad. He's a hero.

  

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• You've achieved cheerfulness the day you realize that no matter what's happening around you, being anything other than cheerful will not make it better.

  

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• Look at Paul McCartney, look at Elton John. They're jealous of Justin Timberlake. I'm sure they were jealous of me when I was in my imperial phase.

  

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• It depends who they are. If it's Mick Jagger or the Old Guard as I call them, yeah, they're the Old Guard. Elton John, David Bowie are the newies. I don't feel like an old uncle, dear, 'cause I'm not that much older than half of 'em, hehe.

  

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• Faith is a real power, not just an expression of belief.

  

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• I know one thing for certain; it is much harder to tell whether you are lost than whether you were lost, for, on many occasions, where you are going is exactly where you are. On the other hand, if you often find that where you've been is not at all where you should have gone, and, since it's much more difficult to find your way back from someplace you've never left, I suggest you go there immediately and then decide.

  

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• I have seen periods of progress followed by reaction. I have seen the hopes and aspirations of Negroes rise during World War II, only to be smashed during the Eisenhower years. I am seeing the victories of the Kennedy and Johnson Administrations destroyed by Richard Nixon.

  

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• The first exhibition [Publo Picasso] was organized by the communist party - because of his position during the war and all that.

  

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• I love Inuit art, and most anything you would find in a folk art museum, as well as children's art or children's book illustrators or illustrators in general - all the kinds of work that my paintings would draw comparisons to.

  

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• It is by now beyond question that Elton John is a competent and classy entertainer. Few people who have achieved his popularity have succeeded in maintaining his standards for performance and professionalism.

  

  Jon Landau
  • Achieved
  • Professionalism
  • Elton John