Quotes About Reflection

I never really thought about being a role model. I started really young, so at 10 years old, I was still very much the person who needed role models. I wasn't really prepared to be one, but it's always something that I've taken very seriously.

That is definitely something that I feel more comfortable with now. When I did 'Lord of the Rings,' it was something I wasn't quite prepared for, I didn't know how to deal with that sort of attention, and I kind of shied away from that, but I'm better at dealing with that now - a lot better.

I think of dying every day... At a certain age, you should be prepared to go at any time.

It's easy to think that college classes are mainly about preparing you for a job. But remember: this may be the one time in your life when you have a chance to think about the whole of your life, not just your job.

I'm constantly preparing. Material hits me; I'm always writing. I go back and listen to my shows and just prepare and put my set together. But the day of, I like to have some downtime. A nice lunch is important for me.

Once you've made your first feature, you know what you can do wrong and how hard it is to shoot a feature. Before you do it, you just don't know how hard it is. Once you've done it, when you're writing a second one, it's almost like you're preparing, and it's almost holding you back.

The 2012 Olympics was such a high, but once it was over, I felt really down in the dumps. You don't really look beyond the event which you've spent four years preparing for, and so there's a bit of a comedown.

It's not a prerequisite for an actor to be obsessed about his looks. I know there are people who don't look in the mirror at all, and I'm getting there.

It is everyone's prerogative to retire. But it's like giving up on life as far as I'm concerned.

I searched for answers to life's meaning and, though I was raised a Presbyterian, I converted to Judaism around 1983.

The best effort of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence.

'Presence of God' is really that understanding that sometimes when you step out of your own shoes and just open your ears and listen to what's going on around you, you get answers to the questions you were asking.

Even in the presence of others he was completely alone.

So, whenever I'm writing, I'm writing in the presence of all the other books I've read and I think we all are.

In the presence of your own loving attention, you create the inner conditions that are necessary to step into the next greatest evolution of yourself.

You don't have to go to church to be spiritual, but there are certain times in your life that you know there is a presence of something very spiritual.

It's so easy just to see the one-to-one narrative between presence and non-presence.

What makes us really human is it's in the presence of death that we start valuing life.

Learn from the past, look to the future, but live in the present.

There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it.

We have to keep an eye on the future with a sense of the past in every passing moment of the present.

I'm living in the present, thinking about the past, hoping for the future.

The present and the past coexist, but the past shouldn't be in flashback.

I always feel like the past informs my present musically.