Tyler Hoechlin Quotes

The part I enjoy most is not the doing, but the noticing.

I meditate. Like, I try. Not every day, but even if I'm not doing that meditation, the moments of my day have changed because I'm not on my phone so much. I'm intentionally not checking my phone every two seconds.

Patience, he thought. So much of this was patience - waiting, and thinking and doing things right. So much of all this, so much of all living was patience and thinking.

While you are looking, you might as well also listen, linger and think about what you see.

You must treat the days respectfully, you must be a day yourself, and not interrogate it like a college professor.

Being in a hurry. Getting to the next thing without fully entering the thing in front of me. I cannot think of a single advantage I've ever gained from being in a hurry. But a thousand broken and missed things, tens of thousands, lie in the wake of all the rushing.... Through all that haste I thought I was making up time. It turns out I was throwing it away.

I have always loved the gaps, the spaces between things, as much as the things. I love staring, pondering, mulling, puttering. I love the times when someone or something is late-there's that rich possibility of noticing more, in the meantimePoetry calls us to pause. There is so much we overlook, while the abundance around us continues to shimmer, on its own.

I think people can find a breath and listen sometimes.

Stop and take your time to notice things and make those things you notice matter.

The best gift we can have is living in the present moment and really enjoying it for what it is; and, not being in our heads and getting sidetracked.

I do think it's important to live in the present because in that way you won't be living in a state of regret.

For me, writing is a way of thinking. I write in a journal a lot. I'm a very impatient person, so writing and meditation allow me to slow down and watch my mind; they are containers that keep me in place, hold me still.

I think it's kind of nice, in this day and age of instant gratification, that you have to wait for something.

I regularly take my entrepreneurship students out walking because I want to get them in the habit of noticing and thinking about what they notice. They have to leave their phones behind to learn the basic lesson: Be where you are.

It's very important for me to be absolutely present in order to be emotional.

I think it's really important to live in the moment.

I've been in beautiful landscapes where one is tempted to whip out a camera and take a picture. I've learned to resist that.

Long walks force a certain meditative awareness. You're not moving so fast that you miss the world's details passing by - in fact, you can stop to inspect something that might catch your eye.

My children teach me to slow down and enjoy life.

I love to be in the moment. I love to analyse things a bit.

Don't underestimate the value of doing nothing, of just going along, listening to all the thing you can't hear, and not bothering.

When I wake up in the morning, I like to express my gratitude for being on the planet. That gratefulness makes me very present.

I'd like to be the sort of person who can enjoy things at the time, instead of having to go back in my head and enjoy them.

If only, then, I had been more living out of the present--such a beautiful word...present. The sense of it being, now to me, more beautiful than 'to look forward.

I have learned how to observe, far better than most people observe. I am not blinded by the past or motivated by the future. I focus on the present, because that is where I am destined to live.