Total Engagement Quotes

If I do commit myself to something, I will commit myself 100 percent.

Everything can become a meditation if you live it totally and intensely. And then your life becomes whole.

Never treat anything you do as a stepping stone. Do it fully, and follow it completely.

Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart.

I think, because of the kind of writer I am, I can't do it halfway. I can't do it without dedicating my entire life to it. I have to give it a hundred percent.

If a man is to live, he must be all alive, body, soul, mind, heart, spirit.

Give full attention and devotion to each act.

The most deeply compelled action is also the freest action. By that I mean, no part of you is outside the action.

I am not talking about you being a spectator, I am talking about involvement. I am talking about involving yourself into life in such a way that you dissolve into it.

You become so obsessed, and that's not a bad thing for a movie. Serve it with that sense that it's the whole world.

The attainment of wholeness requires one to stake one's whole being. Nothing less will do; there can be no easier conditions, no substitutes, no compromises.

I always want to make an album that lets people immerse in it, kind of like you get caught up in a good movie.

Better immersion than to live untouched.

I monetized my life so I never do anything that I don't like or that I'm not participating in 100 percent.

If you're going to be an artist, all life is your subject. And all your experience is part of your art. A youngster told me recently that he was going to give himself a year to see if he has talent. A year! It takes a lifetime to see if you have it. Painting is total engagement.

When I take on something, I take the whole thing on. It's not even a question of separating, "Oh, am I going to be naked?" If you know you have to do something in life, for me, I go with my whole person.

If you are going to do a film properly you have to give yourself completely to it.

When you are doing any work, do not think of anything beyond. Do it as worship, as the highest worship, and devote your whole life to it for the time being.

The best literature is always a take [in the musical sense]; there is an implicit risk in its execution, a margin of danger that is the pleasure of the flight, of the love, carrying with it a tangible loss but also a total engagement that, on another level, lends the theater its unparalleled imperfection faced with the perfection of film. I don’t want to write anything but takes.

If I'm working on one thing, then that's all that there is going on, and there's no such thing as a side project to me. It's 100 percent.

I speak passionately. I drive passionately. If I hit a ball, I will do it passionately, too. Because I don't understand how you go through life without involvement. Whatever I am doing in my life, whether big or small, I am 100 per cent involved.

Be an all-out, not a hold-out.

You do it for the highs, when you're totally engrossed and everything's flowing and whatever you want, you get. It's like magic. That's why you play the game. That's what it's for. That's why you work.

I prepare mentally and physically for everything I do. I like having to do both, because you submerge yourself into the character and the world and you live it until it's over.

Resolve that whatever you do, you will bring the whole man to it; that you will fling the whole weight of your being into it.