Quotes About Presence

We must never undervalue any person. The workman loves not that his work should be despised in his presence. Now God is present everywhere, and every person is His work.

God is present everywhere, and every person is His work.

Understand the difference between being at work and working.

In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.

Even the most perfect reproduction of a work of art is lacking in one element: its presence in time and space, its unique existence at the place where it happens to be.

Let me keep my mind on what matters, which is my work, which is mostly standing still and learning to be astonished.

God is in the midst of us, or rather we are in the midst of him; wherever we are he sees us and touches us: at prayer, at work, at table, at recreation.

Walks work for me. I enter some arena that is neither conscious or unconscious.

Life can't work for you if you don't show up as you.

I will always have two regrets. I don't have a presence in London, and I would have liked to have done more work in the Middle East.

I want my work to create space where people can meet God, rather than give them something they can "apply" to their daily life.

God is always at work around you.

It is not opium which makes me work but its absence, and in order for me to feel its absence it must from time to time be present.

Gratitude is a sacred space where you allow and know that a force greater than your ego is always at work and always available.

Most people show up for work being physically accoutered but mentally disheveled.

By slowing down at the right moments, people find that they do everything better: They eat better; they make love better; they exercise better; they work better; they live better.

My favorite on screen moments are when you are really there and you know you're creating something. That's so exciting... it's why you come to work.

The very basis of the work- the very core of the work, is that everything we do can come always new.

Health is a presence of a superior state of wellbeing, a vigor, a vitality, a pizzazz you have to work for every single day of your life.

Work to recognize the primary importance of the present moment.

The proper response to a great work of art is to enter it as though there were nothing else in the world.

Especially when I'm heckled, that's a sticky situation because I don't defuse it... I really envy guys who have a grittier onstage presence and can really go after someone. I used to teach preschool.

If your mom is still around, you're so lucky.

The ability to be frightening with stillness is what appeals to me.