Quotes About Presence

You can observe a lot just by watching.

No matter where you go, there you are

When I set my hat at a certain angle and saunter down Seventh Avenue. . . . the cosmic Zora emerges. . . . How can anybody deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It's beyond me!

He asked questions, he was interested and interesting, he rarely spoke of himself. He had a calm voice for the worst accidents and emergencies.

she made you feel that just being in this moment, doing this thing, was the most important and marvellous possibility for you.

They were the kind of soldiers instructed in brutality only...We were the weak and they were the strong, and whatever force is meant to mediate between the weak and the strong was not present, not on the ferry, not in the country.

You need to build an ability to just be yourself and not be doing something.

It's great to just be here with you, watching the world go by.

If you cannot find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it?

How you get here is immaterial, it's being here that really matters.

Those who love us never leave us alone with our grief.

He had a bow-down command in his face, and every step he took made the thing more tangible.

The mediocre have no importance except through appointment. They feel invaded and defeated by the presence of creative folk among them.

I cook so that there is no absence. I cook so that I am always there, even when I'm gone, even when I die, and my cooking translates in my daughter's memory as, simply, this: time.

I've wanted to be a parent for a really long time, and I'm going to make sure I'm doing everything I can to be present in her life, to be her mother. I don't want to be absent from her life.

I've been set up with a Twitter account, and I just never use it.

I don't believe in success, I don't believe in achievements so to speak. I just believe in relishing every moment of my life. That's enough for me.

If you don't want to be there, it shows in the energy that you put out and in your actions.

Never go dead for a second on stage. Even if you are doing nothing, do it actively.

The feeling of actually being with someone you love at that moment is completely different than a video afterwards.

Al Pacino never looks like he's being filmed.

I don't want to have that thing where I make an album and then I'm super-constantly present in everyone's life for three years, and then gone for the next three.

You women will live as if father is still alive and in the next room.

I like to feel that something's alive in acting, like something's really going on.