“Our life is whatever we are encountering right now, and our practice is shikantaza, which is literally 'just sitting.' More broadly it means to put our energy into settling everything in our world here and now, where we really live.” WorldMeanLife IsEnergyPracticeOur LivesRight NowSittingSettlingOur WorldHere And Now Author:Kosho Uchiyama
“Suppose someone sits down where you are sitting right now and announces to me that he is Napoleon Bonaparte. The last thing I want to do with him is to get involved in a technical discussion of cavalry tactics at the Battle of Austerlitz. If I do that, I'm getting tacitly drawn into the game that he is Napoleon Bonaparte.” IfsWantLastsGamesInvolvedRight NowBattleSittingDiscussionWhere You AreEconomistTacticsGet InvolvedCavalryBonaparte Author:Robert Solow
“I'm bad at a ton of things. I'm bad at sitting still. I'm bad at basketball. My worst habit is that while people are talking, I will already be thinking three other things. It's rude. Sometimes if the person is very in tune and they notice, they're like "Where are you right now?"” PeopleIfsThinkingPersonsStillsSometimesThreeTalkingWorstHabitRight NowBasketballSittingTunesRudeSitting Still Author:Jennifer Lopez
“I have always been very entrepreneurial minded. Oftentimes, while I was sitting in class listening to my professor ramble on, I would think to myself: I could be out there making money right now.” ThinkingClassListeningRight NowSittingMaking MoneyProfessorsEntrepreneurial Author:Shay Carl
“You're sitting there, with your wife and your baby and your smiling dog, and you're watching Real Housewives getting into fistfights on TV. And you go, 'How great is my life? I'm so happy right now.'” RealWifeDogTvsBabyRight NowSittingHousewifeReal Housewives Author:Jimmy Fallon
“The whole tape [Dedication 5] is amazing. It's my favourite accomplishment [working with Lil Wayne] and I say that with thought. It's the biggest accomplishment I've made today, because Lil Wayne is probably the biggest reason why I'm sitting here right now, rapping and doing what I do. I'm a huge Wayne fan forever.” MadeReasonWholeTodayForeverFansHugeRight NowSittingRapReason WhyAccomplishmentDedicationTapeFavouriteWayne Author:Chance the Rapper
“Then you have these people in the movie theaters that talk the whole time during the movie. You ever go with somebody like that to a movie but you don't realize until you get there that you're with somebody like that? Brand new movie. First day it's open. You're there together and the entire time they're sitting there: Where's she going? Why'd he do that? Is he mad at her? I don't know, let's watch and find out together shall we? You know who you are. You're denying it right now: I do not do that. Why is she saying that?. What's she gonna say next?” PeopleKnowsFirstsWholeTogetherNextRealizingWatchesRight NowSittingTheaterMadWho You AreBrandsBrand NewMovie Theater Author:Ellen DeGeneres
“The president is on national TV apologizing for getting oral sex. Why didn't he just stick with his lie? You got to stick with your lie. If you lie, you have to believe that lie whole-heartedly. It has to become the truth for you. But this man, the most powerful man in the world, is on national TV apologizing for receiving oral sex. He's an idiot. There are men sitting in here right now who would gladly accept oral sex on national TV.” IfsMenWorldBelieveWholeLyingSexPresidentPowerfulAcceptingTvsRight NowSittingSticksIdiotMost PowerfulReceivingApologizingPowerful Man Author:Wanda Sykes
“This country you're sitting in right now was not built on love, hugs, time-outs and trophies you didn't earn. This country was built on shame, humiliation and striving to be better. By the way, if you're in this room right now and you're successful... you didn't get there because someone loved you too much or gave you too many hugs or you got a trophy when you lost. You did it because at one point in your life, somebody turned to you and said you're a loser, and in that second, you decided to bust your ass to make them choke on that sentence... Or, your parents gave you the money.” IfsWaySaidCountryLostParentRoomsSuccessfulToo MuchRight NowSittingBuiltDecidedShameStriveSentencesAssLoserHugHumiliationOne LoveChokeTrophiesLost You Author:Christopher Titus
“So when you do board, the first class people, they're sitting there. A lot of them are working as your boarding. They have computers out and calculators. They're looking up at you like, Hey, we're making money right now!” PeopleFirstsClassRight NowComputerSittingHeyMaking MoneyBoardsFirst ClassCalculators Author:Brian Regan
“There will never again be a day exactly like today. There will never again be a moment exactly like this moment. After my next birthday, I will never again be the age I am right now. After midnight tonight, today will be part of history. Someday I'll be dying and I'll wish I'd done all the things I want to do now. Someday I'll be dead and I won't be able to do anything. But today, right now, I'm alive. And yet I'm writing nonsense on the back of my literature book. But I'm alive. And yet I'm just sitting here. But I'm alive.” WantWritingBookDoneMomentsAgeTodayAbleNextLiteratureWishAliveDyingRight NowSittingNonsenseTonightSomedayMidnightI'm Alive Author:Ryan Miller
“It's one of those things that hits you when you're not even looking for it. It's a moment when you find those words surging through your mind - "I feel so alive right now." There's varying degrees of it. Acting definitely makes me feel so remarkably alive. Sitting on a beach or walking through nature makes me come alive always.” FeelsMindMomentsActingAliveWalkingRight NowDegreesSittingBeach Author:Ian Somerhalder
“Had "Malcolm in the Middle" been picked up I would not have been available for the pilot of "Breaking Bad." And right now someone else would be sitting in this chair talking to you. Not me.” Has BeensWould BeTalkingMiddleRight NowSittingAvailableChairsPilots Author:Bryan Cranston
“Some of you guys are sitting down, some of you guys are standing up. But if you really take a moment and you go inside your body, you can feel your weight against the earth, and you can recognize that you're the only person who's feeling your own weight against the earth right now.” IfsFeelsPersonsMomentsFeelingsBodyEarthGuyRight NowSittingStandingWeightYour BodySitting Down Author:Rowan Blanchard