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Quotes About Presence

Sit. Feast on your life.
~ Daniel J. Siegel
recae en ti la responsabilidad de aprender a ofrecer tu presencia de formas que te empoderen en grado sumo a ti como progenitor y fomenten en tu hijo la resiliencia y la fortaleza. Es este poder de la presencia lo que nos permite crear una mente empoderada para nuestros hijos… incluso si metemos la pata con regularidad.
~ Daniel J. Siegel
I'm with you. I've got your back. Even when you're at your worst and I don't like the way you're acting, I love you, and I'm here for you. I understand you're having a hard time, and I am here.
~ Daniel J. Siegel
Estar presentes crea por tanto en nuestros hijos vías neurales que conducen a la identidad individual, la determinación, la fortaleza y la resiliencia.
~ Daniel J. Siegel
La «cantidad de tiempo» sí importa. Claro que sí. Pero ver a un niño va más allá de la mera presencia física. Conlleva estar en sintonía con lo que sucede dentro de ellos y centrar realmente la atención en sus sentimientos, pensamientos y recuerdos íntimos, lo que sea que pase por sus mentes, que subyazga a su comportamiento.
~ Daniel J. Siegel
at these moments, logic isn't our primary vehicle for bringing some sort of
~ Daniel J. Siegel
Solo te necesitan a ti: auténtico, defectuoso y plenamente presente. Si eres uno de esos padres, nuestro mensaje es que no seas tan duro contigo mismo.
~ Daniel J. Siegel
Presence may require that we move both our neural and our mental sides of experience flexibly toward the open plane of possibility. Rather
~ Daniel J. Siegel
being receptive makes us available to shift into an open internal place and enable unpredictable states to be created so that we may resonate with others. This is a way of seeing how we can intentionally cultivate creativity and presence in our lives.
~ Daniel J. Siegel
If we have preconceived ideas, if we are taken over by judgments, our plateaus of probability or our peaks of activation will block us from being truly open, from having open presence. Presence
~ Daniel J. Siegel
being present with others involves the experience of openness to whatever arises in reality. Presence means being open, now, to whatever is. We
~ Daniel J. Siegel
The idea of a 'happening' is that there is little distance between the viewer and it, whatever 'it' is. It's an experience that's on-going and evolving.
~ Doug Aitken
Even when you're making a movie about life, death is a presence, and I guess it's part of my dramatic viewpoint. I'm not sure why exactly. Maybe I'm drawn to it as a story element.
~ Gus Van Sant
Pope John Paul II was a great presence on the stage. Pope Benedict is a much more gentle and refined person, and I think he benefits greatly from the television close-ups because he wants to engage in a dialogue, in conversation. He wants to put forward his views in a measured, eloquent, rational way.
~ Vincent Nichols
Life in a Chinese village is much more organised because the Chinese Communist Party has a presence even in the remotest Chinese village - a presence of the kind that no governmental or non-governmental organisation has in Indian villages.
~ Pankaj Mishra
Harvard was also a little bit of a villain in my first book, 'The Dante Club.' I guess there might be a way to make Harvard more of a sympathetic presence, but it's such a powerful institution that it more naturally lends itself toward not necessarily a negative but an obstructionist element in a story.
~ Matthew Pearl
It's true in the beginning I started playing villains, and I think that's pretty clear, because if you don't conventionally look a certain way and you've got a certain kind of presence when you're young, then what's available to you is character roles, and the best character roles when you're young tend to be villains.
~ Willem Dafoe
There was once this viral photo of the Pope doing his Pope-mobile parade, and everyone had their phones up. But there was this one old woman looking over the fence so beautifully at him. She was totally in the moment. For me, then, I think there shouldn't be any phones at a Pope-mobile situation - or at a Beyonce concert.
~ Chrissy Teigen
Physical presence provides chemical, relational, psychological and physiological effects that virtual relationships cannot. Our brains change in the presence of another person and their behavior.
~ Henry Cloud
The virtual world can never be a substitute for real world experience. And the more it takes over our lives, the more we forget to feel the sun on our skin, the more we forget that there is an entire universe to be discovered even during a 10 minute walk to work.
~ Keri Smith
I'm convinced that the main reason we've become so obsessed with restaurants is due to our basic need to get out of virtual space and into a real one. We're not going out to eat merely to share food; we're there to sit at the same table together, slow down, breathe the same air.
~ Ruth Reichl
When you're with real people, you don't have to be with virtual people.
~ Connor Franta
I'm excited about Augmented Reality because unlike Virtual Reality, which closes the world out, AR allows individuals to be present in the world but hopefully allows an improvement on what's happening presently.
~ Tim Cook
When you seek the presence of your creative Spirit and are filled with passion about virtually everything you undertake, you'll successfully remove the roadblocks from your life and enjoy the active presence of Spirit.
~ Wayne Dyer