Quotes About Presence

Presence is in the eye and ear and gut of the beholder. When you are totally present in a conversation or in a meeting, others around you perceive you as totally focused on the matter at hand and on being of value to them.

Humanity has at least a dim, and growing, cognisance of the effects of its presence on this planet. The possibility that we might integrate that awareness into how we interface with the Earth system is one that should give us hope.

I think my presence around the table was mesmerising at times. It captured people.

Obama's presence opened a new field for writers, and what began as curiosity about the man himself eventually expanded into curiosity about the community he had so consciously made his home and all the old, fitfully slumbering questions he'd awakened about American identity.

We all know he was talented but he was also a very smart, kind, funny individual and his personality and presence will be deeply missed. There will never be another person like him but his legacy will live forever. R.I.P. Chad Butler.

Being a presence on the defensive end, I know that's important to me, I have to establish that.

My father Eric had a magnetic presence. He was about 6ft 4in, with dark hair and pale blue eyes - and very attractive to women.

To feel the presence of the Lord is an amazing thing.

I think that social media influence is such a powerful presence in our society to the point where it's a little bit scary sometimes.

I think my presence is better felt on the ice.

We will see the presence of angels and we will see an intensification of miracles around the world.

There is no presence of American infidels in the city of Baghdad.

It is too expensive to have a bricks and mortar presence everywhere.

My father was not really a presence for me. He was away; he was in the German army.

I love a song that will usher in the very presence of God. Then there's no Andrae; there's no fabulous band, there's no greatness of ours. I've had hundreds of concerts like that, and that's what I try to achieve.

I've never made a penny being a doctor, so that makes it not a job. My sense of a doctor is that one is a presence caring for health. So I'm never not a doctor. People call me from all over the world who are hurting, and I care for them. Chatting is what more people want than anything.

Meryl Streep does things I would never have thought possible... Her presence on screen is outstanding.

I wouldn't overestimate the importance of my popularity in the country and abroad but at the end of the day it's not as important because I believe that my presence here could make some difference and it could encourage people.

The mind is a great gift, but it has to be quieted down in order to feel, hear and see the presence of God.

God has blessed me with a certain amount of presence and a certain amount of charisma.

I think whether you work with Salman or not, his presence in your life is more than enough.

One thing I do believe is I'm a believer in the presence of God. I believe that God is close. Whether it's in joy, pain or personal failure, I believe that God is close. That much I feel in my life.

There can be a conspiracy, but the presence of a conspiracy is actually not an excuse for conspiracy thinking.

As the writer, you're always a presence in the song. If you get close to what human beings are like, you're writing about common experience. We all do much the same things, so if you nail somebody, then you've also nailed yourself.