Geoffrey Shugen Arnold Quotes

Being attached is what prevents us from seeing, it is what clouds this miraculous awareness.

Geoffrey Shugen Arnold

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• For a North Korean watcher, seeing 'The Interview' is like seeing an earnest endeavor reflected back through a freak-show mirror.

  

  Barbara Demick
  • Mirror
  • Back
  • Seeing

• The difference between being a victim and a survivor is often a low level of situational awareness. You can't be a super-spy, watchful and paranoid every day. But I am more watchful than the average American.

  

  Barry Eisler
  • Awareness
  • Victim
  • Survivor

• I love seeing when actors go from one genre to the next because I feel like most of them can pull it off.

  

  Malin Akerman
  • Love
  • Feel
  • Seeing

• I have to say, working with Dan Stevens in 'The Guest' and seeing his transformation was incredible. Also Kate Winslet. Off set, she's loud and sweary, but when she walks on set, she has this calmness and is so centred.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • Transformation
  • Calmness
  • Kate Winslet

• The folks celebrating Jim Bunning are seeing him as an anti-government, anti-spending activist. But to embrace Jim Bunning is to embrace a strange record, if you really are a libertarian, if you really are a deficit hawk, if you really care about spending and responsibility.

  

  Rachel Maddow
  • Responsibility
  • Care
  • Seeing

• I couldn't tell if any frames were removed. Seen as a whole it shows that I have seen. Seeing you have 18 frames a second you can take out one or two and I couldn't tell.

  

  Abraham Zapruder
  • You
  • Seeing
  • Seen

• Every radish I ever pulled up seemed to have a mortgage attached to it.

  

  Ed Wynn
  • Up
  • Ever
  • Attached

• I don't like seeing myself on television. I don't like it.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • Myself
  • Television
  • Seeing

• It's easy for me to be motivated and inspired by seeing somebody who just goes all out to do something.

  

  Kalpana Chawla
  • Me
  • Inspired
  • Easy

• I lived for nearly seven years with the awareness that death was my everyday companion.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • Death
  • Years
  • Everyday

• I'm all for typewriters, with instant carbon copies, and seeing films in cinemas.

  

  Olivia De Havilland
  • Films
  • Seeing
  • Carbon

• With increased awareness should come greater caution about how confessions are used at trial - and a greater willingness to overturn convictions when it becomes clear that a confession was untrue.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Awareness
  • Caution

• There is no question that what we are seeing - the horrible advance of ISIS - goes back, if you will, to the original sin of the invasion of Iraq.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Question
  • Sin
  • Seeing

• I never get used to going out and seeing 20, 30,000 people that are there to see us play. It's kind of surreal.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • People
  • Kind
  • Seeing

• People in general have a preconceived idea of what prison is, from seeing documentaries or whatever.

  

  Laura Prepon
  • People
  • Prison
  • Seeing

• I vowed that I'd never allow any man to control me or to be an alcoholic or anything like that around me, because I don't want my children seeing that.

  

  Nicki Minaj
  • Men
  • Children
  • Want

• I think that has to do with my awareness that in a sense we all have a certain measure of responsibility to those who have made it possible for us to take advantage of the opportunities. The door is opened only so far. If some of us can squeeze through the crack of that door, then we owe it to those who have made those demands that the door be opened to use the knowledge or the skills that we acquire not only for ourselves but in the service of the community as well. This is something that I guess I decided a long time ago.

  

  Angela Davis
  • Time
  • Long
  • Knowledge

• True concentration is an unbroken thread of awareness.

  

  Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
  • True
  • Inspiring
  • Awareness

• A long way of saying I've seen a lot of kind of more systemic and processed changes. Although we still are providing the kind of material you're still seeing out there now.

  

  Susan Downey
  • Changes
  • Seeing
  • Providing

• In their pure form, the martial arts demand the intense awareness of the meditative mind, and have nothing to do with anger or wanton aggression. A practitioner is taught from the outset that the skills must never be used for personal gain, but only in self-defence or in the protection of others -- and even then only enough force as is absolutely necessary should be used.

  

  David Fontana
  • Mind
  • Personal
  • Protection

• I think, certainly, Barack Obama has created an opportunity for America to understand that diversity is a blessing, diversity is a strength. It isn't necessarily something to be concerned about. And I think, at the end of the day, we're going to learn that this country operates best when it celebrates and surrounds itself and appreciates diversity, and doesn't shun it.

  

  Tom Vilsack
  • Thinking
  • Country
  • Opportunity

• I love to clean my ears. I've heard that you're not supposed to do it every day, but I throw caution to the wind for some quality time with a strong Q-Tip.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Time
  • Love
  • Strong

• Be excellent and party on dudes.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Party
  • Excellent
  • Dudes

• Being attached is what prevents us from seeing, it is what clouds this miraculous awareness.

  

  Geoffrey Shugen Arnold
  • Awareness
  • Seeing
  • Attached