Quotes About Presence

I see my boys about 10 days every month. And, yes, they are the most important people in my life.

Because I'm so big, you have to look at me. I think of myself as a monument. But sometimes I like to feel small.

I just like to bring energy. I always try to create a moment. Memories are important to me, and I like my look to go with the mood or the moment.

So being present becomes more and more the exercise the older you get.

Many more people saw me on TV than will ever get to see me on stage, but I do love being in the same room as the people I'm telling the story to.

One thing that is almost always said to me is, I grew up with you. They are meeting me and feel that they actually grew up with me. I was with them during their play hours and thinking hours. I was a part of their childhoods. That's one of the most amazing things.

When you're acting, it should be the most important thing that's going on. But when you're not, leave it alone.

Before I found my peace, I was way too much in my head. I found myself on the field in my own thoughts. I've learned that there's a time and a place for my thoughts. The most important thing when I'm on the field is to just be in the moment and let it all go.

I think one of the things about listening is that it's always at its most powerful when it's present, when it's right here, when it's right now. And that's a lesson about improv that I think just made me a much more social person.

Mothers don't let your daughters grow up to be models unless you're present.

It has to be real, and I think a lot of the problems we have as a society is because we don't acknowledge that family is important, and it has to be people who are present, you know, and mothers and fathers, both are not present enough with children.

I can't be everywhere, but I'm always in one of my kitchens, and hopefully I'm motivating and inspiring.

Antes de continuar me volví para ver si el tiempo seguía allí.

We expect God's presence to be thunderous, spectacular, monumental; but it is our need that is so large. The real presence slips past our demands for spectacle. It slips past our despair.

Uno debe estar donde está su corazón.

The presence of danger has a way of making you feel fully awake.

What stories can do, I guess, is make things present.

He didn't speak. He was simply there, like the river and the late-summer sun. And yet by his presence, his mute watchfulness, he made it real. He was the true audience. He was a witness, like God, or like the gods, who look on in absolute silence as we live our lives, as we make our choices or fail to make them.

For if one is remembered by a friend, one is never truly gone. —

She was here, and it was now; and as the emperor's instructors had so often drummed into her, the first item of business was to fit into her surroundings. And that meant not looking like an escapee from the medical ward

But I would also warn against diverting too many of the Empire's resources from a flexible navy of capital ships and starfighters to massive projects that can bring the Imperial presence to only one system at a time.

A friend need not be kept either within sight or within reach. A friend must be allowed the freedom to find and follow his own path. If one is fortunate, those paths will for a time join. But if the paths separate, it is comforting to know that a friend still graces the universe with his skills, and his viewpoint, and his presence. For if one is remembered by a friend, one is never truly gone. —

Don't think about it too hard. If your heart longs to be here…then your heart is here. If your heart is here…that is reason enough.

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