Quotes About Presence

Cooking is one of the most zen things - you have to be there.

There's a Zen to acting, by being in the moment. That's where the power is.

I am a partisan for conversation. To make room for it, I see some first, deliberate steps. At home, we can create sacred spaces: the kitchen, the dining room. We can make our cars 'device-free zones.' We can demonstrate the value of conversation to our children. And we can do the same thing at work.

There are times where you're in the zone and everything moves in slow motion, and there's sometimes when everything goes really fast and you have to slow yourself down.

You can't be in the zone in front of 12 million people, you've got to be chill.

A work-only zone does wonders for your productivity. So, I prefer working at the office now. I spend 8 focused hours there, then I go home to be present with my family.

You lose your habitual behavior, which allowed you to sort of zone out. You have to be here, you have to be now, you have to be present.

There's these things we do that take us into the zone - and we go in that place that I feel like is the place of love that you reach when you're in love or making love, or you're having a good conversation. I feel like that is God.

I find it really difficult to turn my head off. I find it difficult to zone out.

I get in that zone, even if I'm relaxing or whatever, where I just zone out. I don't even hear anybody. You could ask me a question five times, and I don't even hear it.

I've been so in the zone, you don't know where you are or where you're at.

I don't stay in the constant worried and over-thinking zone.

If I enter a set, I am all over the place and be in my zone once the camera is on.

The absent are always wrong.

Absent in body, but present in spirit.

A play visibly represents pure existing.

Some people can stay longer in an hour than others can in a week.

It is native personality, and that alone, that endows a man to stand before presidents or generals, or in any distinguished collection, with aplomb -and not culture, or any intellect whatever.

While the work or play is on ... don't constantly feel you ought to be doing the other.

I believe in the gods. Or rather, I believe that I believe in the gods. But I don't believe that they are great brooding presences watching over us; I believe they are completely absent-minded.

Charm is a cunning self-forgetfulness.

Whether we name divine presence synchronicity, serendipity, or graced moment matters little. What matters is the reality that our hearts have been understood. Nothing is as real as a healthy dose of magic which restores our spirits.

All wise people say the same thing; that you are deserving of love, and that it's all here now, everything you need. When you pray, you are not starting the conversation from scratch, just remembering to plug back into a conversation that's always in progress.

And when he is out of sight, quickly also he is out of mind.