Quotes About Presence

I don't think you can find someone who has my combination of look, talking ability, presence. I don't think you can find an exact copy to fill my shoes.

Racism has never been outright gone in the history of this nation, but I think we've had moments where everybody has been really fed up with its presence.

Nobody compares to Drake as far as hits, but Michael Jackson had presence. That's the difference.

Success for me is finding ways to lead and be a presence.

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

The ambassador was never present, but his presence was never absent.

There's no biography so interesting as the one in which the biographer is present.

I think this is what hooks one to gardening: it is the closest one can come to being present at creation.

Clearing your head of distractions in order to notice and understand the people you are with can feel inefficient - there are so many other people and issues to think about. But being present makes you effective.

Nowadays we have so many things that take our attention - phones, Internet - and perhaps we need to disconnect from those and focus on the immediate world around us and the people that are actually present.

A chaplain's biggest gift is to be present and just listen.

Jazz is there and gone. It happens. You have to be present for it. That simple.

You have been called to be who you are - the whole luminous light. No one can dim your light when you are fully present to the depth and breadth of it.

I think what we're attracted to on the page is something that is very difficult to do in life, which is to examine in what seems like a moment. To examine what we can't do in life very well, which is to be as present and accountable to what an experience is. That's why life is short and art is very long.

Be present and in the moment.

The mind is always present. You just don't see it.

The audience, upon learning that the real Buffalo Bill was present, gave several cheers between the acts.

When you know you haven't been connecting with, persuading, or getting through to someone, consciously pause before meeting them and say to yourself, 'During this conversation, I am committing to being present and to connecting.'

Life is about being present. Sometimes your home will demand more attention, and you should be there. Sometimes your work is more demanding. But the beautiful thing when you create your life's work is that it always feels like you're on a mission.

Just stay present in the moment, and what will come will come.

I love fumbling around on the guitar, I love being present with people.

International summits and organisations like WTO take decisions, which will bind us, and if we are not present in such summits, we may be hurt by the decisions taken.

We have to get back to the beauty of just being alive in this present moment.

There are plenty of reasons to put our cellphones down now and then, not least the fact that incessantly checking them takes us out of the present moment and disrupts family dinners around the globe.