Marc Randolph Quotes

Wherever you are - be all there.

The activity at this very moment must be the only thing that matters, to which one is fully given. If one is concentrated, it matters little what one is doing. The important, as well as the unimportant things, assume a new dimension of reality, because they have one's full attention.

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

We've lost the ability to immerse ourselves in things.

I like to be present; I like to be in the now. The way life has shaped up, it is difficult, you know, with mobile phones taking you to another time and space all the time. So it's always a battle to stay in the moment. But according to me, it's a better way to be.

Give your fullest attention to whatever the moment presents.

But it is impossible to enjoy a tennis game, a book, or a conversation unless attention is fully concentrated on the activity.

I tend to be so lost in the work that I don't notice the weather. My partner will come home and say, 'Beautiful day, wasn't it?' and I'll say, 'Was it?' as I won't have noticed the real world at all.

Harnessing the power of the present means having your full awareness on the task at hand and having access to the possibilities, the opportunities, and the support that exists right now.

I kind of entered a flow state. I've been there before while climbing. You are not thinking ahead. You are just thinking about what is in front of you each second.

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 tend to focus on what I'm doing at the moment, and that takes up the entire span of my focus.

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.

Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention.

I look at what's in front of me. I concentrate on that and then hopefully move on.

I'm good at separating things. When I'm in my classroom, I'm totally there. When I'm at an event, I'm totally there. And when I'm with my grandkids, my total attention is on them.

As a player, it's important to focus on the here and now.

If you aren't focused on what's right here in front of you, if you're daydreaming about what might be, you really aren't focused at all.

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.

To be concentrated means to live fully in the present.

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.

You have to be precisely in the moment in order to box. And I just love that. I just love the idea of right now we're here, be here.

The purpose of meditation is to create focus. It is about focusing your attention on your experience. The reason for focus: it allows you to be here now. Your only reality is This Moment, right here, right now. Peace is found in such awareness.