Quotes About Presence

It always impresses me when a person of small stature has command.

I want to bring back the human encounter into places where material things have a prime status. In a museum, you're supposed to look at things and not talk to other people.

I'm more interested in people the way they are than what they've done onscreen before. So I don't worry much about the acting skills or the name, the status. I just think, 'Do I believe this person? Do I like them? Are they interesting, complicated, have the right aura, energy?'

You have to stay fresh and blank in your mind when you go out to bat. You complicate things, and you're gone.

Coming from a background of being onstage, you're onstage for two and a half hours and you're in it for the whole time no matter what you're doing. Even if you don't have a line, you have to stay in it.

I do think we've become so reliant that the phones are never out of our reach. We're always trying to stay connected that way and the irony is that it's actually disconnecting us from everything else because we're not just focused on what's in front of us; we focus on what's in our hand or off to the side.

Everyone wants to look to the future and into the past. I stay focused on now.

I want to stay true to who I am by trying to be in the moment.

The Queen has stayed with me in the sense that she lets people come to her. She doesn't feel like she has to go out. I mean, she doesn't have to anyway because of her rank and her position, but she doesn't have to overdo it.

Rajiv largely stayed with me, he had a house in Pune but he was mostly in Mumbai.

It's about just staying in the moment.

Staying present in a high-pressure situation where you have so much coming at you is gold.

As long as I'm communicating and staying in the game, my concentration is always going to be there.

Staying in the moment is something I'll never achieve unless I'm hanging out with the right people and just being in the gym as well.

For me, it's all about staying present and just being in the moment.

Performance is there, and if you are not there in that moment it happened, it just stays in the memory. It's so immaterial and something this immaterial is very difficult to collect. Its difficult to buy, its how we can buy immaterial art.

As a quarterback, I always feel like it's my job to be that steady, calm presence in there.

You can't steal every scene. There are scenes in which you need to sit back and do a lot less, verbally, physically.

I don't know if you can ever steal a scene from Louis C.K. or Melissa McCarthy. I think that's kind of impossible.

I've been stealing scenes all my life.

The steel business is a local business. We do believe in the U.S. economy and would like to have a strong, balanced presence here.

The key to creating the mental space before responding is mindfulness. Mindfulness is a way of being present: paying attention to and accepting what is happening in our lives. It helps us to be aware of and step away from our automatic and habitual reactions to our everyday experiences.

Emotionally, I think you're going on a journey with the character, so you have to be present for each and every scene, and for me,one thing I like to do is step away between takes, away from everyone else, listen to some music, and just get into that place to help me perform.

When I stepped away two springs ago, I just really wanted to shift my priorities to be able to be more available and present to show up for things that I felt were mattering more than being a professional athlete.