Jim Rohn Quotes

Presence is in the eye and ear and gut of the beholder. When you are totally present in a conversation or in a meeting, others around you perceive you as totally focused on the matter at hand and on being of value to them.

Presence is more than just being there.

We are so distracted and focused on what's next, we can fail to see what is actually in front of us.

The best way to learn to be present and develop presence is to have the experience of someone you respect and admire being present with and for you.

Being fully present is the best guarantee for a bright future.

The simple act of paying attention can take you a long way.

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.

As long as you're fully present in what you're doing at the moment, you're doing it.

I think a lot of times we can get distracted and not be in the moment with people and be missing all the life happening in the moment.

Wherever you are - be all there.

My life is going at the speed of light, so it's a lot of just trying... to be present in each moment... Giving each situation and each part of life that space and making sure that it's sacred in every aspect.

To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present in all that one does, from the effort of loving to the making of bread.

Whatever I'm doing, I'm in that moment and I'm doing it. The rest of the world's lost. If I'm cooking some food or making soup, I want it to be lovely. If not, what's the point of doing it?

I pay attention to everything now - the taste of bread, the taste of water.

Meditation is a state of mind which looks at everything with complete attention, totally, not just parts of it. And no one can teach you how to be attentive. If any system teaches you how to be attentive, then you are attentive to the system, and that is not attention.

Pay attention. Don't just stagger through the day.

Listen. Pay attention. Treasure every moment.

The act of paying attention contains tremendous power.

Where ever you are, be there totally.

In an age of distraction, nothing can feel more luxurious than paying attention.

A lot of what acting is is paying attention.

The capacity for delight is the gift of paying attention.

Whatever you are doing, give it all of your attention. Prioritise what you're going to do carefully, and then be in the moment.

If you're really in the process of photographing, you are absolutely aware. You are looking.

Do you, and the rest is background noise.