Quotes About Presence

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But I do not know how else the work can be done. To touch a person's heart, you must see a person's face. One cannot reach a soul through a telephone.

And it seemed to me that I was closer to him during those early months of his absence than at any other time of my life.

it seems to me that life's moments don't have to be so right or not right anymore, so fraught and weighted with valve, but just of themselves, what they are...

so we texted about getting some "quality time" in then. We were long practiced at assuring this, which worked for us. But we all know the truth: real "quality time" happens without you knowing it's happening

I am here, Eric said. And I am here. I was a little amused at Eric's phone answering technique. Sookie, my little bullet-sucker, he said, sounding fond and warm. Eric, my big bullshitter.

Eric will survive your absence,(…) but you may not survive your presence.

He had thinning brown hair, broad shoulders, sharp blue eyes, and a suggestion of a gut.

If you are playing King Lear you are the centre of attention anyway. You don't need to draw attention to yourself. It's all laid out for you.

For me, it's always this constant battle and search when I'm out on stage as to where and when do I really open myself up to the people that are there. How do I let myself feel present in the space, and how do I allow myself to get into the music and interact with the band members.

If you don't have your experiences in the moment, if you gloss them over with jokes or zoom past them, you end up with curiously dispassionate memories.

I've never had an actual haunting experience, in the way you might anticipate a ghost in a movie haunting someone, but I do feel presences around me all the time, and I do feel that memories haunt us the way ghosts haunt us or might haunt characters in a film.

I know I've got the ability to bring a sense of menace to the screen. I have that specific competence, and it's generally kept me working.

I like figuring out where I need to be mentally so that I'm not thinking about the camera and that it's second nature. I want to get to a place where I can exist within the confines of what you can do with filmmaking and not have to think about it.

You can see when people's locked in and they are ready mentally, and when they are not.

It's all about being comfortable, forgetting there's a microphone in front of you.

The catcher is in the middle of everything. He sees it best.

I was my high school football team's captain, not because I was the guy who scored the most touchdowns, but the guy who was in the midst of every play.

Sometimes we get so focused on the results that we miss doing it - we miss the adventure of being in the midst of something because we're looking too far ahead.

Someone can be miles away, but if they're in your heart, that means they're locked in your head, too.

But all that having been said, you can't, in a city of a million people like Karbala, or 5 million like Baghdad, you can't be in all places at all times.

That's the thing: when I'm on stage, I don't care; there could be ten people there, there could be ten million people there. But if I'm offstage, I'm, like, counting the people. I know exactly where everyone's standing, how far they are from me.

A lot of people think it takes millions of dollars to give back or inspire, but just you showing up means a lot.

You could be in a room with somebody you don't realize you're in a room with and that first impression or something that you give off might be appreciated by someone or it might not. I'm always just being mindful of you never know who's watching.