Quotes About Engagement

Whatever you do, whatever you're working with, whether it's manual work or talking to people or buying or selling, every little thing encompasses the power and simplicity of presence.

Work to recognize the primary importance of the present moment. A good little pointer toward that is to ask yourself, "What is my relationship with the present moment? How am I relating to it?"

I wish I could create an IMAX film that would make my work accessible to a broader audience.

Ever since I've been here [in Russia], my life has been consumed with work that's actually fulfilling and satisfying.

Once you're involved in the work, it's really just you and the characters and the words.

It's always nice when you get a chance to actually work with the other actor. It just brings the scene to life, in a way that's not as easy to replicate on your own.

When people write to me with stories, they are never ones that work for me. There's something mysterious about which ones catch you.

Best results are often achieved well before you need a job, by consistently networking so that when you find yourself job-hunting you have a large network to work with.

I have pictures from work that I'm sending to my family. I send them scripts that I'm working on so they can be excited and know what's up with me.

I would rather not work than play in a movie that nobody watches.

I think violence in movies, for it to work, you have to use it smartly. People get numb very fast. If you have too much violence in the beginning, it gets to a point where you don't feel it.

While the work or play is on, it is a lot of fun if while you are doing one you don't constantly feel that you ought to be doing the other.

I was at work but my soul wasn't there, my body was there but I wasn't connecting to what I was doing. Eventually I decided to get out of there and do something I believe in.

I select people to work more closely when they are prepared to and I see that. They don't have to tell me. I know. I will give them a task of some type, and that task becomes the koan between us.

Don't just sit there. Go do something and don't expect that it's going to be fun unless you make it fun. You have got to work on things. That is when you are happy.

Sitting around idly contemplating doesn't produce much. In work you can discipline your attention, forget about your misery.

If you are mindful in your work, if you put your best effort into it, then something comes back to you.

I want to do work, but I also want to have a good time.

The smartest people in the world are not in charge, they work for the action takers.

Of course, if people do not want to do any work then it is better to start the game from a random position.

The work I enjoy is when the camera rolls, and I like the work in the moment.

Our sense of duty must often wait for some work which shall take the place of dilettanteism [sic] and make us feel that the quality of our action is not a matter of indifference.

A talent is a combination of something you love a great deal and something you can lose yourself in - something that you can start at 9 o'clock, look up from your work and it's 10 o'clock at night.

I work all over the world. I have a very, very full life.