Top 100 Jacobson Quotes

#1. It is a mistake to imagine that you can awaken in any kind of permanent way. There is only NOW and so you can only be awake now. Even the idea of permanence is an illusion. The question to ask is 'Am I awake and fully present NOW?' That question arises and is answered in perfect silence.

Leonard Jacobson

Jacobson Quotes #12575
#2. It disguises it's thoughts as your thoughts, it's feelings with your feelings, you think it's you.

Leonard Jacobson

Jacobson Quotes #13035
#3. I had one really memorable line. It was all the words you're not allowed to say on the airwaves, so it's one long list of swear words. I knew it anyway, because I was a huge George Carlin fan.

Peter Jacobson

Jacobson Quotes #17110
#4. A large-scale wind, water and solar energy system can reliably supply the world's needs, significantly benefiting climate, air quality, water quality, ecology and energy security ... [T]he obstacles are primarily political, not technical.

Mark Z. Jacobson

Jacobson Quotes #22246
#5. A king without a queen is not a king. The main point of creation is the union of male and female.

Yosef Yitzchak Jacobson

Jacobson Quotes #23365
#6. When you're younger and you see something that really speaks to you, it's indelible in a way that's not the same as when you're an adult. So I'll always love reading books and making movies that resonate with young people.

Nina Jacobson

Jacobson Quotes #32472
#7. I think I've been able to be in some really good projects with some really good people.

Peter Jacobson

Jacobson Quotes #81512
#8. What it is to see, what liberties are taken when one looks, where looking leaves one vis-a-vis one's subject, or how far looking ultimately becomes one's subject - these are important questions.

Howard Jacobson

Jacobson Quotes #90269
#9. In the evolution of the [The Hunger Games] movie, Gary [Ross] and I talked a lot about tonal bandwidth and making sure that the look and feel and style and choices of the movie stayed within a certain consistent bandwidth.

Nina Jacobson

Jacobson Quotes #90711
#10. Surrender the dream and the truth will be revealed.

Leonard Jacobson

Jacobson Quotes #98689
#11. If you accept full responsibility for yourself, you will be released forever from expectation, resentment, blame and guilt.

Leonard Jacobson

Jacobson Quotes #101759
#12. Because art, for all its adventuresomeness, is also capable of being the most recidivist of human activities, forever falling back in reaction to what was itself a reaction to something else.

Howard Jacobson

Jacobson Quotes #102768
#13. The most powerful decision-making part of the audience is women. Boys have a lot of impact on the industry, but it's often women who impact what stories get made.

Nina Jacobson

Jacobson Quotes #102865
#14. I think that one of the greatest perspectives that I have, from being a buyer for my whole career until I became a producer, is that I have a pretty good understanding of the buyer's mentality.

Nina Jacobson

Jacobson Quotes #103135
#15. In Presence, there is no outcome. It is our involvement in the outcome that keeps us imprisoned in an imagined future. In Presence, there is only now.

Leonard Jacobson

Jacobson Quotes #108316
#16. When you read a book [The Hunger Games], you create that tonal bandwidth. You set a tone for yourself, as you're reading it, in which everything exists within the world of your imagination. In the book, it's great when she can push a button and food comes up, as per your order.

Nina Jacobson

Jacobson Quotes #109990
#17. In the matrimonial life of the Jewish male every day is Yom Kippur.

Howard Jacobson

Jacobson Quotes #114636
#18. The hiring of Phil Messina, the production designer, was a big decision. He's so gifted, and his ideas were always so smart and rooted in American history and architecture. Nothing feels like it's not us, or couldn't be us, and I think that's very important.

Nina Jacobson

Jacobson Quotes #119739
#19. I love working with Liev [Schreiber]. I've known him for a long time. I just think he is a master. Few actors are so self-possessed and so focused and so confident.

Peter Jacobson

Jacobson Quotes #119767
#20. He let himself be storm-tossed, riding her billowing sea. When she held him like this he could see nothing, but the colour of his blindness was the colour of waves breaking

Howard Jacobson

Jacobson Quotes #122421
#21. I wound up auditioning, wound up getting in, and I was off to the races: I was putting in four more years after school to train to be an actor. I was 26 years old, and I still had a locker, for Christ's sake!

Peter Jacobson

Jacobson Quotes #129734
#22. I can't imagine any reasonably responsible person arguing against the abortion of mongols ... If we could tell what foetuses are going to be affected with cancer in their 40s and 50s, I would be for aborting them now.

Cecil Jacobson

Jacobson Quotes #132676
#23. When you're on a show for five years, everyone becomes friends. It's great.

Peter Jacobson

Jacobson Quotes #136641
#24. When doing family entertainment, you don't actually worry about kids. You know what you can't do. But in terms of sensibility and sophistication and wit and ambition, aim for your own taste level, and kids will - if they're interested in the subject matter - be glad that you did.

Nina Jacobson

Jacobson Quotes #136751
#25. Woody Allen, that was a dream come true, although I never really talked to him. Auditioning was fun, because you don't really hear much about the script. They just said, "They want a Woody Allen type," so of course I got the call.

Peter Jacobson

Jacobson Quotes #139515
#26. Hugh Laurie was intimidating, but he's the greatest guy. He's so wonderful and smart and funny and serious, and he sets the bar high. So if I was scared, it's because I wasn't measuring up.

Peter Jacobson

Jacobson Quotes #144089
#27. The girls pick snouts from the pack as though they're chocolates and it matters which they select.

Howard Jacobson

Jacobson Quotes #151646
#28. Was it better then - measuring the loss - not to know happiness at all? Better to go through life waiting for what never came, because that way you had less to mourn?

Howard Jacobson

Jacobson Quotes #167643
#29. Be the kind of person that sees an obstacle as a Mountain, and throws on their hiking gear

Casar Jacobson

Jacobson Quotes #167895
#30. Elephants love reunions. They recognize one another after years and years of separation and greet each other with wild, boisterous joy. There's bellowing and trumpeting, ear flapping and rubbing. Trunks entwine.

Jennifer Richard Jacobson

Jacobson Quotes #168507
#31. Awakening is not something you achieve. It is something you relax into.

Leonard Jacobson

Jacobson Quotes #188711
#32. Every moment you are present, there is a little less darkness in our world.

Leonard Jacobson

Jacobson Quotes #200697
#33. Steve Zaillian is just the sweetest. A very, very wonderful and interesting director.

Peter Jacobson

Jacobson Quotes #201427
#34. When you awaken, you will see that this is Heaven on Earth, and everything in physical form is the body of God.

Leonard Jacobson

Jacobson Quotes #203604
#35. I Want to get lost in a world where I feel found

Casar Jacobson

Jacobson Quotes #215068
#36. Projecting into the future with hopes, dreams and desires can never fulfill you. Only the present moment can fulfill you.

Leonard Jacobson

Jacobson Quotes #215237
#37. Elephants can sense danger. They're able to detect an approaching tsunami or earthquake before it hits. Unfortunately, Jack did not have this talent. The day his life was turned completely upside down, he was caught unaware.

Jennifer Richard Jacobson

Jacobson Quotes #220012
#38. We walked out of this library building downtown, just on our way to lunch, and I was walking a few steps behind Travolta, and when he opened the door, it was as if Jesus had just walked out into the commons.

Peter Jacobson

Jacobson Quotes #221564
#39. You know all those young people watching Comedy Central love 'Frasier.'

Abbi Jacobson

Jacobson Quotes #223549
#40. Path To War was the last thing that John Frankenheimer directed, I think, before he died. I'm a huge U.S. history buff, and I studied the Vietnam era in college, so when I read the script, I was, like, "I really want to be in this thing so badly ... "

Peter Jacobson

Jacobson Quotes #234032
#41. I am very filmmaker oriented, as a producer. I think the most important thing is that you have to really choose the players carefully.

Nina Jacobson

Jacobson Quotes #235612
#42. When we make the show, we are always talking about how the show is really in between what we make and what the viewer thinks of it.

Abbi Jacobson

Jacobson Quotes #246354
#43. Awakening is about liberating yourself from the prison that is the world of the mind and daring to be here as all that you are.

Leonard Jacobson

Jacobson Quotes #252403
#44. I always loved doing productions in school. In college, I started getting a little more serious.

Peter Jacobson

Jacobson Quotes #255781
#45. I remembered that you can find joy in work and life, and if you do it right, they fuel each other-like dueling drummers, better and better, one after the other.

Abbi Jacobson

Jacobson Quotes #256245
#46. When you are present, your mind is silent. Free of opinions, concepts and beliefs and free of projections from the past and anxiety about the future, it is a perfectly clear instrument of expression. And the expression comes from the center of your Being.

Leonard Jacobson

Jacobson Quotes #257268
#47. Every act of kindness is a seed of success.

Walter E. Jacobson

Jacobson Quotes #260949
#48. For a few moments I want to be 5 years old again. I want someone to plunk me down in front of a Disney movie and ask me if I want apple juice or grape.

Jennifer Richard Jacobson

Jacobson Quotes #262807
#49. Waking up is not serious. It is a gentle remembering and an honoring of the present moment as the truth of life.

Leonard Jacobson

Jacobson Quotes #268712
#50. happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers." ~ Ruth Bell Graham.

Lisa Jacobson

Jacobson Quotes #297615
#51. I guess actors don't like to direct each other.

Peter Jacobson

Jacobson Quotes #299172
#52. There is no greater power than the power of love, which arises from Presence. It overcomes all resistance.

Leonard Jacobson

Jacobson Quotes #309159
#53. We couldn't pitch the show without having created one, at least one 20 to 25 minute version of 'Broad City.' We wouldn't know how to describe it.

Abbi Jacobson

Jacobson Quotes #324102
#54. It is far wiser to ask for a question than an answer. When you think you have all the answers, it simply means you have run out of questions.

Leonard Jacobson

Jacobson Quotes #334154
#55. I couldn't stop to be upset or depressed about anything when I was at Tiger Stadium with Billy Crystal shooting for three weeks. I was going to enjoy every second - even though apparently I didn't.

Peter Jacobson

Jacobson Quotes #337454
#56. But you don't always have to ask to know.

Howard Jacobson

Jacobson Quotes #338279
#57. Don't I look after you when you're ill?' 'You do. You're marvellous to me when I'm ill. It's when I'm well that you're no use.

Howard Jacobson

Jacobson Quotes #338806
#58. Bradley Cooper was an asshole, but he was - like Sidney Lumet, like George Clooney - the nicest guy in the world. I sound like the biggest ass-kisser ever. But I'm telling the truth, I swear to God!

Peter Jacobson

Jacobson Quotes #342290
#59. I feel like comedy had a boys'-club label when we were starting.

Abbi Jacobson

Jacobson Quotes #345678
#60. I felt that with each movie, Gary [Ross] adopts a different style. He doesn't have one look that's the Gary Ross look, and I thought that was important.

Nina Jacobson

Jacobson Quotes #353848
#61. Finding peace within, to find peace all throughout

Casar Jacobson

Jacobson Quotes #363884
#62. Whoever spoke of a wise lover? The wiser the lover, the longer ago he stopped loving.

Howard Jacobson

Jacobson Quotes #368396
#63. If you fully awaken, you will not know yourself. Understand this, and you will understand all.

Leonard Jacobson

Jacobson Quotes #377392
#64. Fans can sometimes develop a false sense of relationship with celebrities simply because they know so much about them. But real friends are more than just fans. And real disciples have an actual relationship with the Lord. They know his voice.

Richard Jacobson

Jacobson Quotes #378928
#65. Organizations know that they cannot wait until the right person with the right traits shows up. Increasingly there is doubt that even charisma and individual competences are enough

Marilyn Jacobson

Jacobson Quotes #381538
#66. Every show that comes out that's female driven is compared to the last female-driven show, as if it's taking over.

Abbi Jacobson

Jacobson Quotes #381756
#67. That was what living a serious life meant, wasn't it, honoring the gravity of things by not pretending they were light?

Howard Jacobson

Jacobson Quotes #390742
#68. You get lost because you think there is somewhere to go. If you give up believing in a goal or a destination, then you cannot get lost. In the present moment, there is no destination.

Leonard Jacobson

Jacobson Quotes #396576
#69. The truth is uncompromising.

Leonard Jacobson

Jacobson Quotes #408358
#70. I'm from outside Philadelphia, a town called Wayne, which is, like, 25 minutes northwest.

Abbi Jacobson

Jacobson Quotes #419291
#71. Before he met Finkler, Treslove had never met a Jew. Not knowingly at least. He supposed a Jew would be like the word Jew - small and dark and beetling. A secret person. But Finkler was almost orange in colour and spilled out of his clothes.

Howard Jacobson

Jacobson Quotes #420094
#72. Vibrate on a frequency that embraces the gifts, growth, and change of others.
Accept challenges & failures as part of your journey. Find your light and let it shine. Know your purpose.

Casar Jacobson

Jacobson Quotes #424441
#73. As a producer, you can't break up w/your own project. It's like sleeping with someone that you don't like ... Forever.

Nina Jacobson

Jacobson Quotes #449532
#74. When you read a book, you create that tonal bandwidth. You set a tone for yourself, as you're reading it, in which everything exists within the world of your imagination.

Nina Jacobson

Jacobson Quotes #467434
#75. If our nation wants to reduce global warming, air pollution and energy instability, we should invest only in the best energy options. Nuclear energy isn't one of them.

Mark Z. Jacobson

Jacobson Quotes #470278
#76. Could that be why Treslove so often found himself alone? Was he protecting himself against the companioned happiness he longed for because he dreaded how he would feel when it was taken from him?

Howard Jacobson

Jacobson Quotes #474228
#77. Your gift to God is honesty. God's gift to you is truth.

Leonard Jacobson

Jacobson Quotes #483251
#78. As you awaken, the present moment becomes your home. You still play in the world of time, but you're not identified with the story unfolding there.

Leonard Jacobson

Jacobson Quotes #501358
#79. Women right now, we can't make mediocre [stuff]. Men can and do make tons of mediocre stuff, but I feel like women ...

Abbi Jacobson

Jacobson Quotes #509655
#80. The truth is known in silence. Be still and know.

Leonard Jacobson

Jacobson Quotes #511187
#81. Everything that happens is designed to awaken us. Everything.

Leonard Jacobson

Jacobson Quotes #514609
#82. I was focused on The Hunger Games movie with my director, with the studio, and with the cast and crew. We all just focused on making the best possible movie we could, and earning the right to do more.

Nina Jacobson

Jacobson Quotes #522821
#83. The opportunity to perform. It's just the feeling of anticipation and then once you're in the middle of it - you get in the zone. That's what you hope for.

Lenny Jacobson

Jacobson Quotes #533679
#84. Gratitude, generosity and humility are inherent characteristics of one who is present. When you awaken, you will realize that everyone and everything has the same right to be here as you do. This includes every human Being, every tree Being, every flower Being, and every other kind of Being.

Leonard Jacobson

Jacobson Quotes #536456
#85. One of the great dangers on the spiritual path is that the ego becomes spiritualized. The ego loves to think of itself as spiritually evolved. It is just another way that it manages to feel important and in control. It is very difficult to free yourself from an enlightened ego.

Leonard Jacobson

Jacobson Quotes #537782
#86. Why is dissatisfaction taken to be a mark of failing powers and patience, when it might just as easily be understood as a proper judgment on a foolish world?

Howard Jacobson

Jacobson Quotes #541602
#87. When I love a book, I really love a book. You don't get that very often.

Nina Jacobson

Jacobson Quotes #547221
#88. I was spending three days literally just kibitzing with Jack Nicholson at a table! It was heaven! And talk about a normal guy. My God, he was just so real and cool and relaxed and fun. And he was a great performer. He's such an actor. He really was so focused on every moment. It was great.

Peter Jacobson

Jacobson Quotes #558622
#89. I've been watching 'The Cosby Show' and 'Roseanne' a lot right now, and those work so well because they're not, like, jokey comedies; they are coming from real characters. We want our show to be like that. A family show.

Abbi Jacobson

Jacobson Quotes #562753
#90. Have faith in the truth. Faith can move mountains.

Walter E. Jacobson

Jacobson Quotes #563446
#91. You cannot be present in an abstract way. Presence is not about disappearing into nothingness. You can only be present with something that is actually here.

Leonard Jacobson

Jacobson Quotes #567836
#92. Everything that occurs in your life is part of God's plan to wake you up.

Leonard Jacobson

Jacobson Quotes #572651
#93. Carlton signaled and merged into a faster-moving lane. "Jacobson gave us his file with everything on the

Brad Thor

Jacobson Quotes #589794
#94. Aren't all dreads half desires?

Howard Jacobson

Jacobson Quotes #599957
#95. And when I was born, I drew in common air, and fell upon the earth, which is of like nature; and the first voice which I uttered was crying, as all others do."

by Solomon Ibn Gabirol

Steven J. Jacobson

Jacobson Quotes #601201
#96. Every actor wants to know in different ways. Some like to know everything. Some don't want to know anything. I think I land somewhere in the middle.

Peter Jacobson

Jacobson Quotes #606057
#97. I've always tried to really focus on The Hunger Games movie, knowing that, yes, these are amazing books and I would feel like a failure, if I didn't get all three of them made.

Nina Jacobson

Jacobson Quotes #610374
#98. It's an exciting time, when you can make your movie on a cellphone. If it's good, it WILL get noticed.

Nina Jacobson

Jacobson Quotes #623600
#99. Used to Sears, JC Penney, and Woolworth's, Birmingham's stores sounded foreign: Gucci, Jacobson's, and Dittrich Furs. Underground parking kept the shoppers flawlessly coifed and dry - a scene from a Hollywood movie.

Claudia Whitsitt

Jacobson Quotes #626626
#100. It was very important to me to choose a director like Gary [Ross], whose instincts come from character, who's a storyteller, and who puts characters first.

Nina Jacobson

Jacobson Quotes #632535

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