Quotes About Presence

It's important to contribute to group discussions, but if all you're thinking about is when you'll get the opportunity to speak - and stressing about whether you'll sound smart - you won't be fully engaged in the conversation.

My main thing is not being distracted, being present at dinner time. I'll make sure my phone's not there and I'm not replying to emails.

Humans get distracted when we see and touch something.

If you've ever had the experience of being in conversation with someone when they were fully present, listening deeply to you when you're sharing with them, you know that five minutes of a fully present conversation like that can be more powerful than 30 minutes of distracted conversation.

I think in today's world, we're so busy, and we're so distracted. But it's also really important to slow down.

An account of an expedition is not a novel. Therefore an authentic account can never be given, let alone written down by someone who was not present.

Happiness is found by deeply experiencing the exact moment we are in.

For me, it's a matter of balance. Living inside your head and experiencing real things - both are important.

For me, the whole idea of performance is not being self-aware, and then sort of just experiencing.

On 'Y Tu Mama Tambien,' we started exploring shots that are longer, where the camera is moving around the actors, and there are no cuts, and you feel like you're there.

When you enjoy the moment you're in, it shows in your actions, it shows in your words, in your expressions and in your eyes.

I hate to admit it, but anytime you're at a stoplight and your phone is within reach? You pick it up. It's become instinctual. Even if you put the phone down and walk out of the room, you're always aware of where it is. It's become an extension of you.

There's always an extra 10% you give when it's live as suppose to do a pre-recorded show.

Whether it's working on five or 10 different things at the same time, I've got to stay in people's faces.

I'm always singing and dancing and getting up in people's faces.

I don't really exude that 'it' factor.

Conor has got the X factor.

I want to have all of my faculties.

You can't fake listening. It shows.

I know how to fake someone out, if they break into my house, into thinking there are other people there.

I'm not asking actors to act. I'm asking them to behave. I want to see their being, not how they can fake it.

Acting is the art of being and existing, and not being fake.

For an international business such as ours, you can't localise without a local. That was a hard lesson for us. We had to be closer, physically present, which is when we put teams on the ground.

We can detect very small differences in telomere length, and it is a very simple and fast technique where many samples can be analysed at the same time. Most importantly, we are able to determine the presence of dangerous telomeres - those that are very short.