Showing Up Quotes

Im unfinished. Im unfixed. And the reality is thats where God meets me is in the mess of my life, in the unfixedness, in the brokenness. I thought he did the opposite, he got rid of all that stuff. But if you read the Bible, if you look at it at all, constantly he was showing up in peoples lives at the worst possible time of their life.

. . . when it comes down to it, that’s what life is all about: showing up for the people you love, again and again, until you can’t show up anymore.

Whether you like me or you don't, I still dig showing up for work.

Courage starts with showing up and letting ourselves be seen.

Showing up is essential. Showing up consistently is powerful. Showing up consistently with a positive outlook is even more powerful.

Showing up fully exactly where you are is the fastest way to get where you want to go!

Showing up is important and it is a big part of becoming successful.

Ninety percent of life is just showing up.

Showing up every day isn't enough. There are a lot of guys who show up every day who shouldn't have showed up at all.

I guess I was a little bit nervous, because there seemed to be so much secrecy with Ben [Stiller] wanting to make sure that it was a surprise when we walked out on the [Valentino] runway. I remember showing up at Place Vendôme and doing the fitting and seeing the pajamas that I was going to wear - which I like very much - and seeing Ben arrive kind of in disguise.

Half the battle is just showing up.

Life is a series of family photos in which eventually you stop showing up.

The intrinsic social structure, the family structure and so forth, is certainly in a very bad state. And I think that this is showing up in productivity. I think part of the reason, and I can't prove this, we're seeing a decline in some places is the breakup of the family, which is partly the result of an extreme form of individualism.

If 90% of success in life is showing up, the other 10% depends on what you're showing up for.

Showing up is 80 percent of life.

I make 50 cents for showing up... and the other 50 cents is based on my performance.

There's what is on screen and then for us, it's if you get along with the people and enjoy showing up at work.

There’s nothing more daring than showing up, putting ourselves out there and letting ourselves be seen.

Most of life is showing up. You do the best you can, which varies from day to day.

Major labels didn't start showing up really until they smelled money, and that's all they're ever going to be attracted to is money-that's the business they're in- making money.

I've been showing up late and dirty all my life.

When we die our entire legacy is simply the added together strengths of all the connections we make with others. This is the ghost of ourselves we leave behind. This is showing up.

People have got to show up, showing up at meetings, rallies, marches, City Council, courtrooms. You've got to show up.

Parents have subtle ways of humbling you, of reminding you of your origins, perhaps by showing up at the moment of your greatest glory and reminding you where you came from and demonstrating that you still have some of it between your toes.

A live action movie is work, and an animated movie is you showing up in your pajamas once every three months, or in my case, just a splash of baby powder. It's not any kind of heavy lifting.

There is nothing more vulnerable than creativity. . . It's not about winning, it's not about losing, it's about showing up and being seen.

I do try to separate my personal activism - showing up at a demonstration or something - from what I write.

It's about showing up. And sometimes I don't do it. I almost always regret it, but sometimes I don't do it. Sometimes I walk into a situation where I'm intimidated and I want to be liked and I want to fit in, and I don't choose authenticity. And it's always pretty miserable.

To stay on the map, you've got to keep showing up.

I think a lot of us are looking for the same thing. I feel very lucky to have a definitive moment where I know everything shifted in me, and it was the moment I read that quote. Because I thought, A. That's everything I know about vulnerability. It's not winning, it's not losing, it's showing up and being seen. B. That's who I want to be.

Success is an accident. Showing up, even if it’s just for 5 minutes, makes us accident-prone.

I feel strongly about showing up and being prepared and not taking the opportunity for granted and being conscientious about my fellow co-workers.

At some point each day (well, most days) I unroll my mat and practice for an hour. I sit in meditation for a while. This can be five minutes or twenty minutes, but the daily practice - simply showing up for it - is centering.

For me, just showing up for the traveling and writing gave me the power to overcome my fear of fear.

Pornography is essentially reductive, an exercise in the nothing-but mode, a depersonalizing of the human beings involved, a showing-up of human lust as nothing but an affair of the genitals.

Showing up is not all of life - but it counts for a lot.

Any image I have, it's just what I do, but it comes off as being very pretentious. When you're a bit in the public astigmatism, anything you do seems like you did it so somebody would see you do it, like showing up at the right parties.

You can beat 80% of the competition just by showing up.

You can never discount the pleasure of showing up to work with Scarlett Johansson and now Cobie Smulders. That's just a day that's easy on your eyes.

The decimation of Lebanon was showing up in Chicago as a series of restaurants and little shops, just as the destruction of Vietnam had been visible here a decade earlier. If you never read the news but ate out a lot you should be able to tell who was getting beaten up around the world.

You keep showing up here? Being who you are?' There was a pause. 'I'm going to fall in love with you.' -Rehvenge

Instead of showing up to let everyone know how great we are, show up to find out how great everyone else is.

I heard that in relativity theory, space and time are the same thing. Einstein discovered this when he kept showing up three miles late for his meetings.

We're not talking about insignificant amounts of code. It's substantial System V code showing up in Linux.

90% of success in life is showing up

[The Democrats] have got to do a better job of showing up.

Love has a funny way of showing up when you aren't looking for it and didn't plan on it.

The writer can't stop her unconscious from showing up, that's certain.

Why would anyone be able to make $21 million not showing up for work for a single day? That is vulgar capitalism. That is not good for the nation.

I would go to work on the show and I felt awful every day, that's not the way it was. ... I felt like some kind of prostitute or something. If I feel so bad, why keep on showing up to this place? I'm going to Africa. The hardest thing to do is to be true to yourself, especially when everybody is watching.