Quotes About Presence

What makes a person sexy is when he's not trying to be sexy.

Tomorrow is shallow, but today is as deep as truth.

When I'm on stage, I know exactly where I am. It's not an ego thing or anything like that, but I am more in my body and aware of myself and aware of what I'm doing, and I feel more from that, from sharing the music.

You walk with a different air if you're wearing something sharp.

Music has become so ever-present in our lives. You can't walk through a shopping mall or go into a restaurant without what we used to call Muzak.

I'm so focused on the game that I hardly understand what the people sing or shout or what they do.

Showing up in the lives of children is everything.

I'm all about showing up for my friends, especially when they need me the most.

If you're really in the process of photographing, you are absolutely aware. You are looking.

I do try to schedule out the week and I do make sure that when I get home, I'm done. That's when my emails can get really backed up because when I get home I need to be totally present for the kids.

I actually barely ever go on the Internet.

I'm barely at home enough to enjoy the simple lifestyle that I want to live.

A full mind is an empty bat.

I think if you think so much, you simply cannot bat.

My only ambition is to be true every moment I am living.

It's not like I'm back for bath-time and bedtime for the children. You're back when they are asleep and you go out before they wake up. Really, that time when they are young goes all too quickly.

When you have an engagement, at least in my world, the world that I create for myself, an engagement doesn't begin when you hit the stage and end when you leave the stage. It begins when you hit the city limits, and it ends when you leave the city limits.

I feel that being comfortable - being yourself - when you walk into an audition room is a really important thing. I think being able to own every aspect of your life is only going to make you be more comfortable in front of a table of people you don't know.

It is simply a practical way to be more in touch with the fullness of your being through a systematic process of self-observation, self-inquiry, and mindful action.

No existe nada como "yo", "mí" o "lo mío" a lo que aferrarse.

You can think of concentration as the capacity of the mind to sustain an unwavering attention on one object of observation.

The deeper your concentration, the deeper the potential for mindfulness.

Every time you get a strong impulse to talk about meditation and how wonderful it is, or how hard it is, or what it's doing for you these days, or what it's not, or you want to convince someone else how wonderful it would be for them, just look at it as more thinking and go meditate some more.

We tend to be particularly unaware that we are thinking virtually all the time. The incessant stream of thoughts flowing through our minds leaves us very little respite for inner quiet. And we leave precious little room for ourselves anyway just to be