James Lipton Quotes

When you start worrying about form, then you're not in the moment.

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

Correct meditation means correctly understanding your situation moment by moment - what are you doing now? Only do it! Then, each action is complete; each action is enough. Then no thinking, so each moment I can perceive everything just like this.

Just try to live in moment as much as you can each pitch, not worry about what happened after the past has happened.

Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.

What I love about photography, and it's the same thing I love about acting, really, is that it forces you, like, right into the moment, where you can't be distracted, where you can't be, like, thinking about other things or ahead of yourself or behind yourself.

Don't wait to be successful at some future point. Have a successful relationship with the present moment and be fully present in whatever you are doing. That is success.

I think it's very important to live in the present. One of the great things that improvising teaches you is the magic of the moment that you're in because, when you improvise, you're in right now. You're not in yesterday or tomorrow - you're right in the moment.

Anytime you put your mind on the results, you lose something in the moment.

I believe in being fully present. That means you should be with the person you’re with.

When you are here, you are here. When you are gone, you are gone. It isn't a problem to be gone, so long as you are really here when you're here.

I'm always pre-occupied with what it is that I'm doing at the moment.

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 am not in yesterday; I am not in tomorrow. I am right now.

You lose your habitual behavior, which allowed you to sort of zone out. You have to be here, you have to be now, you have to be present.

I am only at home in the present.

I don't look ahead. I'm right here with you. It's a good way to be.

If you surrender completely to the moments as they pass, you live more richly those moments.

Only when your consciousness is totally focused on the moment you are in can you receive whatever gift, lesson, or delight that moment has to offer.

Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have. Make the Now the primary focus of your life.

I've always been someone who's really tried to live in the here and now. My memory isn't very good so maybe that's why, but it just seems like I've been living this life, my current chapter, for a really long time and I don't really remember what it was like before. It's just been sort of ingrained in me. What I deal with day to day.

I don't think you go out of style when you're living in the present most of the time. And I think that is what I do.

Presence is more than just being there.

I can enjoy what I'm engaged in and be fully present rather than planning my answers to questions while someone else is speaking or thinking about my next appointment while my current engagement is still in in progress.

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.