staying present Quotes

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

I'm learning in my old age that the only thing you can do to keep your sanity is to stay in the moment.

I try to focus on the present, what I'm doing now. I feel like the best design I can have is an awareness of where I've come from so that I don't repeat myself. Luckily, my work provides me with a tremendous source of new opportunities.

Everyone saying, 'She'll bring back women's skating. This will be the one to watch at the Olympics.' And they say things that are so far away, but really, you have to bring it back in and look at the next competition, the next day, what you want to accomplish because if you get too far ahead of yourself, you can trip yourself up.

You just try to take it one day at a time, ... You step on the basketball floor and just play. It's fun. I'm comfortable with it.

Each time you stay present with fear and uncertainty, you're letting go of a habitual way of finding security and comfort.

How do we cultivate the conditions for joy to expand? We train in staying present.

It's all about mentally staying in the moment and not losing concentration and trying to back up every day.

I must not fall asleep in the middle of my life. Out of the blankness that surrounds me I must pluck the incident after incident after incident whose little explosions keep me going.

I try to live in the moment and let that moment carry me to the next great place.

It's about just staying in the moment.

You need to focus so much on what's in front of you rather than thinking about what might happen in the future.

I didn't dare let my mind wander off.

At some point, you gotta stop looking up at the sky, or one of these days you'll look back down and see that you floated away, too.

Focus on the moment, not the monsters that may or may not be up ahead.

I don't feel I'm very present in each moment. I feel like every moment I'm either thinking about something that's coming down the road or something that's been in the past.

As the actor, you can't be worried about the scene that you're going to playing two days from now. You think about what's going on right now and in the moment. That's what you worry about.

Follow the ball, man. There's only one ball. They can only give it to one of them at a time, so let's not get too far away from the reality of it all.

I am trying so very hard to stay in the moment despite the ferocity of my ambition.

I think it's important to keep the audience interested. But the best advice that I've gotten is to live in the moment. Sometimes you can get too into your head when you're in a scene.

I work out. I try to work out every day. That keeps me in the moment, which is great. Keeps my head from thinking about the future and the past too much. I love working out. That really helps me a lot.

I think one of my biggest strengths overall is staying in the moment.

I think, in this business, you grow up quickly because you are surrounded by adults; you are needing to stay present and stay cautious of what you are saying. I have been working since I was 10, but I also went to public high school, so I know how to handle all of it.