Russell Simmons Quotes

When you're in the game, you're still in the moment.

The joy of life is born of concentration. When you are having a cup of tea, the value of that experience depends on your concentration. You have to drink the tea with 100 percent of your concentration.

I can disappear into things very easily. But with acting, you have to be in the moment, and it gives me this incredibly fulfilling emotion: being really present.

When I'm in the movie, I'm entirely in the movie. When I'm on the set, I'm 200 per cent there; when I'm at home, I'm 200 per cent at home.

I get so into the moment.

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

The point is to be involved in the moment.

To be concentrated means to live fully in the present.

The primary purpose of life is in being in the NOW.

Where ever you are, be there totally.

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

What I have learned over the years is to try to stay in the moment.

I want to live every moment totally and intensely. Even when I'm giving an interview or talking to people, that's all that I'm thinking about.

When you wash your hands, when you make a cup of coffee, when you're waiting for the elevator - instead of indulging in thinking, these are all opportunities for being there as a still, alert presence.

There's a Zen to acting, by being in the moment. That's where the power is.

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

I always try to stay in the moment, in real life and in acting.

Practice being in the moment when you are running, whether you are on your own or in the race.

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.

Wherever you are - be all there.

Being a director, whether you're in rehearsal or you're in auditions or you're in a creative meeting, is so much to me about being present in the moment. There's a sense of time stopping.

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.

Presence is more than just being there.

A wonderful acting teacher I love, Josh Pais, has a system I love for being in the moment in acting, but also in life. And one of the things he reminds me of is to take a moment and just be here now.

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.