Quotes About Showing Up

#1. Yoga isn't just about showing up on the mat. It's about showing up in your life, in your day; it's about opening your heart while standing firm and strong and believing in yourself.

Kathryn E. Livingston

#2. I can't thank you enough for showing up. It's not the same without you.

James Taylor

#3. Finally, finally, this is what bravery looks like. This is what courage looks like. It has nothing to do with dominating the day, every single day. It has to do with showing up and speaking truth. One true sentence after one true sentence.

Hannah Brencher

#4. I'm almost used to you showing up without shoes, but where the hell are your pants?

Dani Harper

#5. Physically, it's getting impossible for me to travel that much. I want to support my artists by showing up at their openings, but I can't always be in Hong Kong one minute and Geneva the next.

Larry Gagosian

#6. Your projects can often demonstrative new and innovative approaches that can be supported and eventually replicated with greater support from the public sector. Showing up and speaking up at city council and state legislature hearings are essential, but so is the project work.

Mark Winne

#7. Time is what makes good stories. Much has been cooking for a long time, and at last finds an out in narration one day. That's a supreme joy. And why the characters keep showing up.

Barry Hannah

#8. And there are so many people in the third world suffering so horribly right now, and we are so focused on ourselves and our culture that a lot of things are showing up in our culture that are making it impossible for us to focus on others. We're so self-focused.

Martin Sheen

#9. We will never known what opportunities we may have missed in life by showing up tight-fisted. It is hard to receive anything if we don't open our hands to give.

Bruna Martinuzzi

#10. The volume exploded when Travis appeared in a doorway across the room. He made his entrance, shirtless, relaxed and unaffected. He strolled into the center of the circle as if he were showing up to another day at work.

Jamie McGuire

#11. When Paul announced himself in a rather formal way to the secretary, he said simply, "I am Watzlawick." She suspected he was a new psychiatric patient showing up for an appointment at the wrong time, and she interpreted his introduction as, "I am not Slavic.

Paul Watzlawick

#12. The business of peace requires more than showing up with paint brushes, foodstuffs and an oil pipeline or two.

Tony Snow

#13. There are fewer and fewer good jobs where you can get paid merely for showing up. Instead, successful organizations are paying for people who make a difference and are shedding everyone else. Just

Seth Godin

#14. And it was pretty clear that no prince was showing up, or at least that he was really late.

Scott Westerfeld

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

Paul Budnitz

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

Hillary Clinton

#17. Acting is really about showing up that day and telling the writers what you feel like saying.

Tina Fey

#18. 90% of success in life is showing up

Woody Allen

#19. The forces of immorality and Marxism and evil count on one thing: Us not showing up. And often, they're justified in that. And I think if you look at some of the things that have happened this year with the Freedom Agenda, it should encourage you, that when you show up, we actually win.

Matt Shea

#20. 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.

Ian MacKaye

#21. Seventy percent of success in life is showing up.

Woody Allen

#22. but he just keeps showing up in my head, forcing me to work harder whenever I feel like quitting, forcing me to be better.

Randy Pausch

#23. Directing your first film is like showing up to the field trip in seventh grade, getting on the bus, and making an announcement, 'So today I'm driving the bus.' And everybody's like, 'What?' And you're like, 'I'm gonna drive the bus.' And they're like, 'But you don't know how to drive the bus.'

Mike Birbiglia

#24. I worked at a hot dog place, a bagel place, the Jersey Store and the hottest fashion joint around. I was getting too famous to work there anymore. I was almost showing up as a joke. I made $2,000 on my show the previous night and I'm going to go shopping during my five-hour shift.

Wale

#25. Are you getting a big kick out of the Enron scandal? I find this interesting that whenever a big crisis starts, people start showing up in church. So, Ken Lay shows up in church this weekend. Church officials are still looking for the collection plates.

David Letterman

#26. Vulnerability is about showing up and being seen. It's tough to do that when we're terrified about what people might see or think.

Brene Brown

#27. I love showing up and giving a performance without the benefit of a lot of rehearsal or dissection. It's fun to me to act on a kind of instinctual level and go straight for the performance.

Ron Perlman

#28. I think there's something so wonderful about being part of the process from the seed of the idea to seeing it come to life on a screen. And to have a hand in that creatively, not just showing up as an actor for hire.

Jennifer Aniston

#29. Nothing worth having comes easy is not about showing up early at the office. It's about showing up in your own life. And living inside the very moment you want to run away from.

Augusten Burroughs

#30. My Halloween costume is Godot. I'm not showing up at the party, just texting the host every 10 minutes that I'm on my way.

Wynne McLaughlin

#31. Really poor children in really poor neighborhoods have no habits of working and have nobody around them who works. So they literally have no habit of showing up on Monday. They have no habit of staying all day. They have no habit of 'I do this and you give me cash' unless it's illegal.

Newt Gingrich

#32. I don't have many people showing up at my door. Very few people come out. When they do, I get a little suspicious. I live way up on a hill, way, way back in the country.

Robert Duvall

#33. that the majority of success in life is about showing up.

Alan Downs

#34. There's plenty of ways you can go and encourage people. And you should do that. But don't demonize what you do, I do, what other comics are doing, when you see people showing up and listening and responding because they've heard the messaging in the new kind of way.

Lizz Winstead

#35. I do not need love now, I needed it while I was down and the majority of the faces that are showing up, were not anywhere to be found when I really needed their support. Now they swarm like flies.

D. Hunter

#36. Denial is pushing something out of your awareness. Anything you hide in the basement has a way of burrowing under the house and showing up on the front lawn.

Howard Sasportas

#37. Alice once told me artistry does not reside in motivation but rather stems from showing up, with the intent to be honest. When I meet a dreamer with calluses I try to shut up and listen.

Michael Perry

#38. 90% of life is showing up. I'm staying home to wait for the other 10%.

Brian Spellman

#39. I think no matter what the occasion may be, you can never go wrong by showing up at the dinner table with a hot plate of fried chicken.

Paula Deen

#40. In Denmark, we're making 20 films a year. If I'm showing up in even two of those, people will get tired of me really fast.

Mads Mikkelsen

#41. People are salaried for the work they do, not the specific hours they sit at their desks. When you ding salaried employees for showing up five minutes late even though they routinely stay late and put in time on the weekend, you send the message that policies take precedence over performance.

Travis Bradberry

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

Ursula K. Le Guin

#43. I found it hugely insulting that people believed I'd go so far out of my way - living with Playmates, vacationing with actresses, showing up at nightclubs - to act out a lifestyle that would amount to a charade. If I was gay, I'd be gay all the way.

Mike Piazza

#44. I struggled with being in the public eye, losing my anonymity when my star rose quickly in the late 90's. But I need the challenge of showing up and getting up there to spill my guts and connect with my loyal folks.

Paula Cole

#45. 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.

Ryan Reynolds

#46. I pray because I am real clear that what I am doing and how I am doing it is my service, is my ministry, and so I want to be in perfect alignment with my creator. I do not care who you are. If I do not get the okay on the inside, you will not be showing up on the outside.

Iyanla Vanzant

#47. We'll let the B and E slide," Quirk said. "But corpses keep showing up in your area, we might cite you for littering.

Robert B. Parker

#48. I suppose I have a special talent for showing up where I shouldn't be.

Susan Ee

#49. As is the Vermont way, our trips were pretty low-key. No entourage. No advance people. No communications director. No security. Just Phil and me flying in coach, renting cars, and showing up for meetings - trying to get a sense of the potential support that might exist. I

Bernie Sanders

#50. The laughter that happens when people are truth-telling and showing up and being real - I call that "knowing laughter." That's what happens between people when we recognize the absurdity of the belief that we're alone in anything.

Brene Brown

#51. That's the thing about becoming a family: you gotta melt. You have to keep melting into each other until you become something entirely new. The only constant family rule is that everyone has to keep showing up.

Glennon Doyle Melton

#52. As you go through your workweek, reflect on the people that you work with and ask yourself whether you are showing up at your best with them and treating them as the magnificent people that they truly are.

Robin S. Sharma

#53. 87% of life is just showing up.

Jennifer R. Pournelle

#54. Little pinpricks fire-cracker up and down my body. Just calm down, I tell myself. You just make her nervous showing up all out of the blue like that. Still, I'm flattered that I matter
even if it's just enough to scare her.

Gayle Forman

#55. Keeping Christ in Christmas is like showing up at someone's house every year, insisting on a party they never planned and never agreed to.

Rebecca McKinsey

#56. Miracles sometimes look like a kapow! lightning-strike revelation; and sometimes miracles look like showing up for your counseling appointments.

Sarah Bessey

#57. Real kindness and compassion is not about feeling sorry for someone else. Rather, it is showing up, to help them discover their true value.

Charles F. Glassman

#58. [E]ighty percent of success is just showing up.

Stephen King

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

Darl McBride

#60. I'm cynical by nature, but I am also very hopeful because I see people from the Left and the Right showing up to these tea parties. You have people, bikers, union members and guys in three-piece suits showing up to these things.

Joe Wurzelbacher

#61. caughtoutedness. Some examples: People jumping out of alleys. Schoolteachers suddenly being aware of every sin you've ever committed. Police showing up at the door each time a leaf turns or a distant gate slams shut.

Markus Zusak

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

J.R. Ward

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

Woody Allen

#64. 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.

James Altucher

#65. Angels are showing up in our lives as friends. We just have to recognize them.

Debasish Mridha

#66. I could croak with no warning, and the only tragedy anyone would experience would be showing up on the last day of my estate sale simply to discover that all remaining items had copious amounts of dog hair on them.

Laurie Notaro

#67. Apparently Coyote has a habit of showing up when he finds one of us - his descendants - interesting." Adam laughed ruefully. "Shouldn't take you long, then.

Patricia Briggs

#68. Clearly, there are things a runner does, intentionally or not, that disrupt team cohesion. And there are also things a runner doesn't do that can cause problems: not trying, showing up late, skipping team-building activities, and ignoring the coach's instructions.

Don Kardong

#69. Showing up unannounced was risky. This guy was known for being cantankerous at best, violent at worst. But she was ready. As soon as the door opened, she let loose a stream of urine right on his doorstep . . . and then ran like hell. A few days more of that, she knew, and he' d be all hers.

Marah J. Hardt

#70. I had many moments of disappointment, despondency, and exhaustion, but I always found that by reading the literature and showing up at my lab looking at the data as they emerged day by day and discussing them with my students and postdoctoral fellows, I would gain a notion of what to do next.

Eric Kandel

#71. Sometimes life is your opponent and just showing up is a victory.

JohnA Passaro

#72. Interview - two years of practicing being brave and putting myself out there - and vulnerability is still uncomfortable and falling still hurts. It always will. But I'm learning that the process of struggling and navigating hurt has as much to offer us as the process of being brave and showing up.

Brene Brown

#73. Eighty percent of showing up for life is ninety percent exaggerated.

Brian Spellman

#74. Showing up for another says, "I see you. Your pain is known, and though I cannot make it better, I'm here and that's what matters.

Kara Tippetts

#75. Brennan remembers a Nortel recruiting truck showing up at a Newbridge mass termination meeting at the local hockey arena and offers this practical advice: "If all the meeting rooms are booked at the same time, it means something's up." By "something," he means firings.

Douglas Coupland

#76. The best Christmas present you can give to your dead grandfather is not showing up until Easter. And telling no one about it. Especially not yourself.

Will Advise

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

Peter Gallagher

#78. Leaders must attend to one key growth question: How authentically am I showing up in the world and my organization?

Tom Gegax

#79. Showing up is what counts.

Gabrielle Zevin

#80. We need not wait for the world to become more mystical; the world is mystical. Our problem is not that the world lacks magic; our problem is that we don't believe in its magic. We do not show up fully for life, and then wonder why life is not showing up more fully for us.

Marianne Williamson

#81. You can't go around chasing your own plays and showing up every time somebody does one somewhere. You just cross your fingers and hope that they're OK.

Tom Stoppard

#82. 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.

Brene Brown

#83. The dirty little secret of foreign correspondents is that 90 per cent of it is showing up. If you can find a way to get there, the story, the reporting, it's the easiest you'll ever do. 'Cause the drama's everywhere.

Geraldine Brooks

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

Brene Brown

#85. A Permeable Life is about what presses out from the heart, what comes in at a slant and what shimmers below the surface of things. To live permeably is to be open-hearted and audacious, to risk showing up as our truest self, and embracing a willingness to be astonished.

Carrie Newcomer

#86. It's my job."
"Then thanks for showing up at work today.

Shannon K. Butcher

#87. If you manage to make it to some semblance of adulthood, just showing up turns out to be one of the kindest, most selfless things you can do for someone.

Tim Kreider

#88. I had placed a lot of faith in Woody Allen's belief that 80 percent of success is just showing up. I said to myself: Are you serious? 80 percent? Sure, I can just show up. Here I am, New York! Give me a job!

Mindy Kaling

#89. 'Justice League' takes place in the past, and Aquaman has a lot more to prove. He's just starting out. The perception is already beginning, and all these super humans are just showing up, and here's Aquaman. The perception is, 'What's next? Now we've got a guy talking to fish. What can be next?'

Geoff Johns

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

Marie Forleo

#91. I organise jam sessions every month. We have an open session, so everyone knows about it, and we can get as many as 30 people showing up at the house. Somebody will play a tune, and everyone will pick up on it. My best friends are all musicians.

Tess Gerritsen

#92. Dying is simply showing up for your time of departure - from this realm.

Art Hochberg

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

Paul Schneider

#94. When I moved from Cambridge, I donated all my fiction. I carefully cut out pages the authors had autographed for me. I didn't want those autographed books showing up on eBay.

Lois Lowry

#95. I don't think my kids have to worry too much about me embarrassing them because that's not how I would want to grow up, with wacky dad showing up at school and performing for everyone.

Steve Carell

#96. When I'm hired just to be an actress, I don't have to worry about anything else but showing up on set, making sure I know my lines and making sure I know what I'm bringing to the character. When I'm a creator and executive producer, I have to worry about the whole thing.

Paula Garces

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

Harvey MacKay

#98. No experience in this world has ever been cathartic without the willing participation of the individual. Life does not automatically bestow wisdom or growth upon anyone just for showing up.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#99. Just trying to do something - just being there, showing up - is how we get braver. Self-esteem is about doing.

Joy Browne

#100. Most of an award-show host's job is showing up and keeping a cool head and soldiering through it, whether it's the Oscars or the Hallmark Channel's 'Hero Dog Awards.'

Rob Sheffield