Quotes About Presence

I want to be part of every note, every single moment going on in the studio. I want nothing forgotten; I want nothing missed.

Just being there at the Olympics, you kind of just take in every single moment.

I think that every day should be savored, and so a lot of 'Stop Where You Are' comes out of that idea that life is really precious, the people around us are precious, and every single moment is worth celebrating.

You know how you feel somebody looking at you, and you turn, and somebody actually is? It's the same at an art gallery. You're looking at one portrait, turn around, and there is a work of art directly behind you. Because it's all energy. Every single thing has energy.

Sometimes I just walk through; I just show up, as in The Other Sister.

My mom's real cool. We're like sisters. My father wasn't there, but she was always there.

An extraordinary diva would never sit by herself.

To sit for one's portrait is like being present at one's own creation.

That's when you know you really fit with someone - when you can just sit there and not do anything. Kind of ignoring each other.

Too many drummers sit at the back covered in drums, and you never see them.

I make sure to sit down for at least five minutes a day to just capture whatever passes through my mind.

It's too easy to do your own site to not have one these days. I guess everyone has one.

I'm there on all the social networking sites, as it plays an important role.

I don't know if he remembers, but the first time I ever met Cudi was the first time I met Kanye. I've never told anyone this, but it was the same day. That was the first time I was around G.O.O.D. Music at all. I was sitting like, 'Man, I'm in the presence of 'Ye and Cudi. This is the art level where I want to be.'

I'm not sitting dwelling about the past or stressing or fretting about something in the future.

At times when I am myself sitting at a retreat, and at the end I get into my car to drive away, I watch my hand move forward to turn on the radio. When I can be mindful, I notice the fact that I actually don't want in that moment to listen to the news or hear some music.

Charisma seems to be more about the intoxicating quality that you have on other people, as opposed to presence, which is more about the self in relation to others, and how you feel you represented yourself in a situation, and how you were able to engage. So it's less about how others see you and more about how you see yourself.

I like to work with it so that you feel it physically, so you feel the presence of light inhabiting a space. My desire is to set up a situation to which I take you and let you see. It becomes your experience.

I think until Britain acknowledges just how much of a presence black people had here before the Sixties, then there are certain stories that are not going to be inclusive of what I have to offer.

When people are infected by my charm, they don't see my size. My piercing deep blue eyes are distracting.

Learning how to be calm and centered in any situation is a skill for life, whatever you do.

Unending joy is actually closer to us than our own skin, and there is nothing we have to do or get or be to experience it. All we have to do is stop driving it away.

When you become thoughtless, then you can see, feel Reality.

You're not lost, Kaylee. You can't ever be lost, because I'll always know where you are. And if I'm not there with you, I'm on my way, and nothing standing between us will be standing for very long.