Quotes About Presence

My mind is in another planet behind the blocks. Sometimes I'm up in the blocks, and I'm like, 'What am I doing here?' I'm just not trying to think too much.

The show isn't about screens, and we don't have any video content or lasers or things blowing up. I want people to come to our show to listen. I want the show to be the music.

I love to look at women with good bones and good bodies in good clothes.

I'm not at every party; I'm not seen everywhere. That's why people still care about my brand.

I take breaks from social media periodically because I think it is healthy to walk away and focus on the life that's in front of you instead of the life happening on your screen.

What's the good of drawing in the next breath if all you do is let it out and draw in another?

As people, no matter what we are doing, your whole body is living and breathing.

Breathing is always key in any character. When you have a character with no voice, that makes it even more important.

I want to be able to be a father to my kids, where I've never seen my father, but my kids can see me whenever they want, so that was broken.

My buildings don't speak in words but by means of their own spaciousness.

I'm a businessman and actor and I still make appearances.

My kids need to be around me. And the times that I'm out of town, if I'm not too busy, they can come to me.

Facebook succeeded because it was about real people having a presence on the Internet. There were all these other social networking sites people had, but they were all about fictional people.

I really believe you can carry yourself in such a way that people don't notice you.

You can't lose your concentration at all. And there are times when you're on the stage, and you've got silence, which is wonderful, but you have to have the confidence to make you realize it's fine. You can't suddenly wobble and think, 'They're not interested.'

There are moments that you suffer a lot, moments you won't photograph. There are some people you like better than others. But you give, you receive, you cherish, you are there. When you are really there, you know when you see the picture later what you are seeing.

Mindfulness helps you to be where you are when you're there. When I'm interacting with constituents who are suffering, that matters.

For the life of the believer, one thing is beautifully and abundantly true: God's chief concern in your suffering is to be with you and be Himself for you. And in the end, what we discover is that this really is enough.

With a suit, even if you're having a nervous breakdown, you still look like you're in charge.

In the past, I found myself on occasions not playing the game at the speed that suits me. I need to make sure I'm in control of what is going on out there as much as I can.

I believe that God knows what each of us wants and needs. It's not necessary for us to make it to church on Sunday to reach Him. You can find Him anyplace. And if that sounds heretical, my source is pretty good: Matthew, Five to Seven, The Sermon on the Mount.

Because too many times in life there's just one person that I met, just one thing that I heard, one movie that I saw, one song that was sung, that changed my life. So I'm always trying to stay awake to be in the moment, and capture the moments when they come, because they come and go all the time.

I desperately want to see the day today and do the best I can not miss a shred of sunlight. It'll be over before I know it.

Really appreciate the sunset as you're driving home, cursing all the terrible drivers on the road. Be where you are when you're there rather than out there in the future or back there in the past.