Quotes About Presence

I came down to the living room one day and my wife was standing in the living room. It wasn't an illusion. I saw her out of the corner of my eye. The moment I saw her, she vanished.

It's hard to get lost in a scene, to get into a character when everyone's standing around you on the set.

When you're present, be present the best you can. Like I said, we all fail. But I think from a dad standpoint, children want our time. Sometimes it might just be five minutes, and sometimes it can be a lot more, but I think they want our time and to be engaged with them and present.

I think people look great in black. I love that what stands out is the person, especially. Black just conveys a kind of drama, even if it can be quiet drama. It does lend to the wearer a sense of confidence.

I'm a very reluctant frontman. I've seen reviews where they talk about my strong presence on stage, but it's nothing I do. It's like the person in a long grocery line who stands out because he's so agitated. He'll have presence, too.

No matter how slow the film, Spirit always stands still long enough for the photographer It has chosen.

It's definitely important to have your mom and family there to back you up and cheering from the stands. You'd love them to come to every big dance and every big game, but sometimes that's not possible.

If my parents are at the meet, I'll try to look and just kind of spot them out in the stands.

MIA stands for 'missing in action,' which is the way others can experience you when you're too busy multi-tasking, being pulled at by the world and by everything that's going on in your head, and, essentially, when you're too busy being busy.

More than the length, it's the meat of the character that is more important. It does not matter if you are on screen, standing in the corner for the whole film, as opposed to doing something that stands out in two scenes.

In a game, I'm locked in. I maybe notice three rows in the stands the arena over, and that's it.

It's always good to have my dad there to support me. I know he's watching every game when he's at home. But when he's in the stands it's a great feeling.

A stammering man is never a worthless one. Physiology can tell you why. It is an excess of sensibility to the presence of his fellow creature, that makes him stammer.

Every man has an atmosphere which is affecting every other.

As a wise man once said: Wherever you go, there you are.

An abstract style is always bad. Your sentences should be full of stones, metals, chairs, tables, animals, men, and women.

Man was so engineered by God that the presence of the Creator within the creature is indispensable to His humanity.

If you are able to explain suffering, a man once told him, you weren't really there.

You know how a woman gets a man excited? She shows up.

If there is no meditation, then you are like a blind man in a world of great beauty, light and colour.

He who sedulously attends, pointedly asks, calmly speaks, coolly answers and ceases when he has no more to say is in possession of some of the best requisites of man

A man's presence suggests what he is capable of doing to you or for you. By contrast, a woman's presence... defines what can and cannot be done to her.

Be a beneficial presence on the planet. Give your Gifts. Boldly go where no woman or no man has ever gone before.

Great men lose somewhat of their greatness by being near us; ordinary men gain much.