Quotes About Presence

What withdraws, what becomes scarce, suddenly seems to deserve our respect and honor. What stays too long, inundating us with its presence, makes us disdain it.

Our continual connection to social media makes us prone to new forms of viral emotional effects. These are not media designed for calm reflection. With their constant presence, we have less and less mental space to step back and think.

Remember, your own image and presence are materials you can control. The sense that you are engaged in this kind of play will make people see you as superior and worthy of imitation.

Remember: In the beginning, make yourself not scarce but omnipresent. Only what is seen, appreciated, and loved will be missed in its absence.

Intense desire has a distracting power on a woman, just as the Siren's physical presence does on a man.

People who involve themselves completely in the immediate problem are intimidating; because they are focusing so intensely, they seem more powerful than they are.

Daily Law: If you are too present and familiar, always available and visible, you seem too banal. You give people no room to idealize you. But if you are too aloof, people cannot identify with you. The Laws of Human Nature, 15: Make Them Want to Follow You—The Law of Fickleness

The more you are seen and heard from, the more common you appear.

What makes us go astray in the first place is that we are unattuned to the present moment, insensitive to the circumstances. We are listening to our own thoughts, reacting to things that happened in the past, applying theories and ideas that we digested long ago but that have nothing to do with our predicament in the present. More books, theories, and thinking only make the problem worse.

And as with Louis, he will not admit the truth, but will find an excuse to rid himself of your presence.

Primero, debes tener una presencia tan desbordante que llene la mente de tu objetivo como un close-up llena la pantalla. Debes poseer un estilo o presencia que te distinga de los demás. Sé vago e irreal, pero no distante ni ausente: no se trata de que las personas no puedan contemplarte ni recordarte. Tienen que verte en su mente cuando no estás con ellas.

La gente de tu tipo gravitará hacia ti, se identificará contigo, compartirá tu alegría o tristeza. La atracción debe ser insconsciente, y no han de transmitirla tus palabras sino tu pose, tu actitud.

Segundo, cultiva un rostro inexpresivo y misterioso, el centro que irradia tu estelaridad. Esto le permitirá a la gente ver en ti lo que quiere, imaginar que puede advertir tu carácter, y aun tu alma. En vez de indicar estados anímicos y emociones, en vez de emocionar o exaltar, la estrella despierta interpretaciones. Una estrella debe sobresalir

In dealing with fools you must adopt the following philosophy: they are simply a part of life, like rocks or furniture. All of us have foolish sides, moments in which we lose our heads and think more of our ego or short-term goals. It is human nature. Seeing this foolishness within you, you can then accept it in others. This will allow you to smile at their antics, to tolerate their presence as you would a silly child, and to avoid the madness of trying to change them.

more than anything it is social media that spreads the grandiosity virus. Through social media we have almost limitless powers to expand our presence, to create the illusion that we have the attention and even adoration of thousands or millions of people.

This process of hardwiring cannot occur if you are constantly distracted, moving from one task to another. In such a case, the neural pathways dedicated to this skill never get established; what you learn is too tenuous to remain rooted in the brain. It is better to dedicate two or three hours of intense focus to a skill than to spend eight hours of diffused concentration on it. You want to be as immediately present to what you are doing as possible.

Do not show all your cards. An air of mystery heightens your presence; it also creates anticipation.

So much of our obsessive, internal thought process tends to disconnect us from the world.

Power depended on being in the room when the decisions were taken.

Never think I have abandoned you. When the sun shines on you, it is my smile. When you hear the breeze stir through the apple blossoms, it is my whisper that I love you. My love is yours forever.

A horse leaves footprints, even on this ground. If we find them, we'll know for a fact he was there. If not...well, these are days to make a man think he's seeing things.

Hopper sent to him, but you are here too strongly, and too long from your body.

she folded her arms beneath that impressive bosom.

She held herself with a grace and air of command that made him feel awkward and stumble-footed. She was barely tall enough to come up to his chest, but her presence was such that her height seemed the proper one, and he felt ungainly in his tallness.