Jacobson Quotes & Sayings

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

Aren't all dreads half desires? — Howard Jacobson

If your commitment is to being present, then there will come a time when being present becomes your natural state. The present moment becomes your home. You will have short excursions into the world of the mind, but you never go so far into the mind that you get lost there. — Leonard Jacobson

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

If you accept full responsibility for yourself, you will be released forever from expectation, resentment, blame and guilt. — Leonard Jacobson

If you're truly present in this moment, then you are a Buddha. At least for this moment! — Leonard Jacobson

Steve Zaillian is just the sweetest. A very, very wonderful and interesting director. — Peter Jacobson

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

Only audiences decide what's a franchise. Only audiences decide what's a hit. I have always been mindful of not wanting to be the Miami Heat of movies. — Nina Jacobson

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

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

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

You can power the entire U.S. vehicle fleet with 73,000 to 145,000 five-megawatt wind turbines. That would take between one and three square kilometers of footprint on the ground. — Mark Z. Jacobson

[On the racial backlash about Hunger Games casting]: People should have ignored the five racist idiots. — Nina Jacobson

Cereal when high is always a great option. I don't even have cereal for that reason. — Abbi Jacobson

I know many filmmakers, and shooting in IMAX is challenging. Filmmakers love the vividness and power of those big images. — Nina Jacobson

If you have a powerful enlightenment experience, do not try to hold on to it, for to do so will take you out of the present moment. You will be caught in the past. You will close the door that gave rise to the experience in the first place. — Leonard Jacobson

The most important part of filmmaking is the collaboration and the ensemble element of it. If you just all focus on the task and the work and try and make the best film that you can then people will come. — Nina Jacobson

Ultimately, I am very filmmaker oriented, as a producer. — Nina Jacobson

When you're not gaping at Megan Fox enough to listen to what the director's saying, you can get some work done. — Peter Jacobson

I cannot tell you anything that you don't already know, but it is known in silence. — Leonard Jacobson

Why things get canceled or not is so unbelievably out of actors' hands that it's one of those things where you've just got to ride with it. — Peter Jacobson

When I was in high school, my mom worked at Bed, Bath and Beyond, so I was always there. — Abbi Jacobson

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

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

You spend very little time in the present moment. Reality exists only in the present moment. Therefore you spend very little time in reality. — Leonard Jacobson

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

Why does 'writer' have no gender, but 'actor' has a gender? What is that? — Abbi Jacobson

A phrase such as 'the idea derived from evolution that ontogenesis recapitulates phylogenesis' for example, not impossibly intricate in itself but somehow resistant to effort, as though it triggered something obdurate and even delinquent in his mind. Or the promise to look at an argument from three points of view, each of which had five salient features, the first of which had four distinguishable aspects. It was like discovering that a supposedly sane person with whom one had been enjoying a perfect normal conversation was in fact quite mad. Or, if not mad, sadistic. — Howard Jacobson

How do you explain to somebody who doesn't understand that you don't build a library to read. A library is a resource. Something you go to, for reference, as and when. But also something you simply look at, because it gives you succour, answers to some idea of who you are or, more to the point, who you would like to be, who you will be once you own every book you need to own. — Howard Jacobson

Not sure there is a truth that's "for sure." — Lenny Jacobson

I don't usually get to play somebody who is, at least, nominally in charge. I'm usually playing somebody's lawyer or a doctor. — Peter Jacobson

When you become present, your mind is silent. There is no agenda. You are not holding onto anything. You are not seeking anything. You are just here with what is, and it is enough. — Leonard Jacobson

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

When I love a book, I really love a book. You don't get that very often. — Nina Jacobson

She's shed her skins
and plasma jeans, gets around in 2K
retro gear like the frock she wears today;
a loose, white elegy to what's been lost.
Already she's flowing back into herself
the way a river flows to fill a creek bed.
But some hard layer has washed away
and left her softer, more interested. — Lisa Jacobson

I take that folded moment and I put it in my pocket — Megan Jacobson

Fat slips through the intestinal wall and into the bloodstream where it distributes the nutrients throughout the body. Olestra can't get through the wall, and it continues down the intestines and out the body. — Michael F. Jacobson

When you are caught in the mind, your past defines you. When you are present, you are beyond definition. — Leonard Jacobson

The price of freedom is to allow freedom. Very few people are willing to pay the price. — Leonard Jacobson

Only when you can accept that you are alone, will you discover that you are not alone. — Leonard Jacobson

I was making photographs of the world long before I was a photographer. — Marcey Jacobson

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

In presence, there is no right or wrong, because there is no duality. There is no judgment. — Leonard Jacobson

You never get tired of making money, and you never get tired of a great acting gig, a same role that you can play for years, with wonderful writing and wonderful actors. — Peter Jacobson

In the present moment, you are beyond all definition. This means that you are no longer defined by the pain and limitations of the past. You are no longer defined by your judgments, opinions or beliefs nor are you defined by the judgment, opinions or beliefs of others. — Leonard Jacobson

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

Have faith in the truth. Faith can move mountains. — Walter E. Jacobson

I'm still shy," I admit, pulling the sleeves over my hands, "and I might always be, I don't know, but I think you can be shy and still feel okay about yourself at the same time. — Megan Jacobson

Hephzibah normally left the dishes until the next day. Piled up in the sink so that it was near impossible to fill a kettle. And what the sink wouldn't take would stay on the kitchen table. Treslove liked that about her. She didn't believe they had to clean up after every excess. There wasn't a price to pay for pleasure. — Howard Jacobson

That was what was cruel about superficial change: it exposed what could never change. — Howard Jacobson

A life was owned by the person who lived it, he believed. What happened didn't always happen because you wanted it to, but what you made of it was your responsibility. — Howard Jacobson

You can live in a house, but your real home is inside you. — Leonard Jacobson

You're free to make your own choices, and you're free to pay the consequences. — Melanie Jacobson

To bar communication between intellectuals, who are always our best hope of peace, is particularly self-defeating and inane. It declares, inter alia, that we have a) made up our minds about what we think, b) closed our minds to what others think, and c) chosen to go on hearing nothing with which we happen to disagree. — Howard Jacobson

When fans get very passionate about a movie, they just want you to do it well. They don't want you to screw it up. Their idea of doing it well might be different than yours, but ultimately, they really just don't want you to mess up the thing that they love. — Nina Jacobson

Coke and Pepsi, with the acquiescence of the FDA, are needlessly exposing millions of Americans to a chemical that causes cancer, — Michael F. Jacobson

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

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

The "If you build it, they will come" approach to filmmaking has always been helpful to me. — Nina Jacobson

It's not just jealousy because the Jacobson's are imprinting. There's a prophecy."
"A prophecy," I scoffed. "What is this, Harry Potter? — Shelly Crane

Beyond all experience is the one who is experiencing. Beyond all change is the One who never changes. — Leonard Jacobson

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

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

I took the route favoured by all worldly failures and became a spiritual success. — Howard Jacobson

To be born with few brains, well, that's unfortunate. To be born with brains to spare and to waste them? That's a sin. — Megan Jacobson

The very essence of your Being is infinite, eternal silence. It is your true nature. It is the essence of all existence. — Leonard Jacobson

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

Sports and politics are basically all I really care about or talk about. — Peter Jacobson

If you fully awaken, you will not know yourself. Understand this, and you will understand all. — Leonard Jacobson

Deb Zane, our casting director on the Hunger Games was very sanguine, from the beginning, about just blocking out what everybody else says that they want. — Nina Jacobson

Sometimes chaos is a little easier to handle than the regular moments because your body just takes over. No time to think. Just do. — Lenny Jacobson

I'm very superstitious. I come from a family that's big on not painting the nursery until the baby is home. — Nina Jacobson

I always loved doing productions in school. In college, I started getting a little more serious. — Peter Jacobson

A novelist should make you realize nothing is stable. If you don't believe anything with robustness, you're doing something more radical than anything else. — Howard Jacobson

Me, me, me! Mine, mine, mine! I'm right, I'm right, I'm right. What's in it for me? How do I use this? How do I take advantage of it? This is the way of the ego. Own this within yourself and you will begin to release yourself from it. — Leonard Jacobson

But the shouts and smell of smoke had a powerful effect on me. I don't say they excited me, but they gave a sort of universality to what I was feeling. I am who I am because I am not them - well, I was not alone in feeling that. We were all who we were because we were not them. So why did that translate into hate? I don't know, but when everyone's feeling the same thing it can appear to be reasonableness. — Howard Jacobson

Wanting others to love you, you give away your heart. Wanting others to see you, you give away your eyes. — Leonard Jacobson

But you don't always have to ask to know. — Howard Jacobson

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

Everybody else, they're wonderful, but [Robert] Duvall sets the tone for all of cinema acting. So just to be in his space was amazing. — Peter Jacobson

I lived in New York, and I was the guy who was flying home almost every week, so there was a physical exhaustion and an emotional exhaustion for me, and a need to be home more. — Peter Jacobson

Everything that happens is designed to awaken us. Everything. — Leonard Jacobson

I sat next to Robert Duvall at the lawyers' table for six weeks, and it's still probably the best six weeks of my life. — Peter Jacobson

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

I've been fortunate enough to match up the material I'm producing with the right buyer, the company that will make it and that wants it, and that isn't saying yes to be nice, but is saying yes because they want and need that movie and it's going to be important on their slate. — Nina Jacobson

It is not until you awaken and become fully present that you will realize that you have not been present. It is not until you awaken that you will realize you have been asleep, dreaming that you are awake. — Leonard Jacobson

You know all those young people watching Comedy Central love 'Frasier.' — Abbi Jacobson

The soul's journey is from Oneness into separation, ultimately to return to Oneness."
~ Leonard Jacobson — Leonard Jacobson

An artist owed a duty to nothing except his own irresponsibility. It was OK for an artist to frolic in the water, no matter how bloody the waves or how high the tide rose. An ethicist had an obligation to drown. — Howard Jacobson

The growing social consciousness of the Industrial Revolution (1750-1850) can be found throughout the Austen Universe. While the Lady wrote about the gentry, she, none-the-less, was speaking to the human condition. Class is an imaginary distinction conferring no better manners on the "haves" and no lesser nobility on the "have-nots" and that the deepest human emotions are universal. — Don Jacobson

The fact that we are aware of ourselves is both our greatest curse and also our greatest blessing. — Leonard Jacobson

All those words of praise they use for novels - spare, economical. Why should I shell out £17 for economical? — Howard Jacobson

I'm always an agent or a lawyer or a doctor or a banker. I'm always wearing a tie. — Peter Jacobson

It's helpful to know that Eden drew his inspiration from a classic study led by the Harvard psychologist Robert Rosenthal, who teamed up with Lenore Jacobson, the principal of an elementary school in San Francisco. In eighteen different classrooms, students from kindergarten through fifth grade took a Harvard cognitive ability test. The test objectively measured students' verbal and reasoning skills, which are known to be critical to learning and problem solving. Rosenthal and Jacobson shared the test results with the teachers: approximately 20 percent of the students had shown the potential for intellectual blooming, or spurting. Although they might not look different today, their test results suggested that these bloomers would show "unusual intellectual gains" over the course of the school year. — Adam M. Grant

Humility is not self deprecating, rather it is the quiet internal confidence allowing you to accept things as they are, especially yourself; that epiphany opens the way to personal greatness. — Casar Jacobson

If you really want to help, then help others to be more present. Help others to free themselves from the past. Help others to take responsibility for themselves. Help them to see how they are creating their own suffering. Every now and then, you will encounter innocent ones who are suffering through no fault of their own, particularly animals and children. Do not hesitate! Help them. — Leonard Jacobson

I feel like comedy had a boys'-club label when we were starting. — Abbi Jacobson

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

We just sort of thought a Web series would be a cool thing to be able to send to our parents to show them that we were, in fact, actually doing comedy. — Abbi Jacobson