Quotes About Presence

If you're going to be a model, what's going to get you the job on a go-see and makes you stand out, it might not be your lipstick or your portfolio or what you're wearing, it might come from your core being.

When you're walking down the street, or you're at a restaurant, someone catches your eye because they have their own look. It goes way beyond what they're wearing - into their mannerisms, the way they smile, or just the way they hold themselves.

Personality is so important - when you dress somebody for a big party, it is good to feel that the person has an ease and naturalness with what she is wearing.

We live in this thought web; we identify things and put them away and distance ourselves from them. But to be completely present? That is source, that is art, that is spirituality. And meditation is a way to defy fear and experience that source.

I'm transitioning to television and film, but ultimately, I want to have a stronger presence on the web and be able to curate the content that I want to see. To bring attention to other filmmakers and writers.

I figured I should have a website, because that's what everybody was doing.

Having made all the decisions, I think a wedding day is a day when you want to forget what you are wearing and be in the moment.

'Devdas' isn't a real film. It isn't in the same genre as Mira Nair's 'Monsoon Wedding,' where the camera's presence is so understated it almost disappears.

I've been saying for a couple of years now that people need to let God out of the Sunday morning box, that He doesn't want to just be with you for an hour or two on Sunday morning and then put back in His box to sit there until you have an emergency, but He wants to invade your Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.

The way to be with God in every season is to strive to be near Him every week and each day.

I kind of came about at the same time as Instagram, and it becomes, like, your portfolio. When people search who you are, they search Instagram, and I feel like people aren't even using Google anymore.

I think the great thing about the Jack Ryan films is that the plot and the story always take center stage. If you've done your job as the actor portraying Jack Ryan, you are present enough to make an impact, but you let the story shine.

In the most intimate, hidden and innermost ground of the soul, God is always essentially, actively, and substantially present. Here the soul possesses everything by grace which God possesses by nature.

Everything I post online is curated.

Selfies are one of those things I generally take but never post. It's more to remember the moment or what I'm doing.

I post wherever I have an audience.

Every other piece of industrial design is a pot or a dish or something insignificant. But when you have a chair, it's like a sculpture of a person: it's alive. It's big. You can't miss it. It's a 'look at me!' item.

I think there are times when you walk onto a set you can potentially be either intimidated or distracted by what's going on around you.

I try to spend as little time thinking about myself as possible. I find that's not a constructive way to live.

What do people want? Contact. People want to be able to see you and touch you. Are you real?

My contact with my dad's side of my family got less after we stopped living together, but they were in my life.

I think there is a certain gravitas about me. My energy can be very big and yet contained.

I like to get where the cabbage is cooking and catch the scents.

In America uniformed cops eat in coffee shops, diners and restaurants and I always feel safer having them around.