Quotes About Present

And of those two ways of living - living in the moment and living outside it - which was more real?

There is something a little vulgar about writing a novel that is too close to the present, too concerned with current events, too eager to critique technological advancements.

Obviously, a lot of things play on your mind when you're batting. This might happen and this might not. The best thing you can do when you're batting is not to think too much, and wait for the next ball.

You are not waiting for your life to start. It's going on right now.

There was a point where there was a vision that we'll get to a certain age, and then we'll retire and be happy. Now that's like, that's being compromised every day. So I think we have to start living happy now and stop waiting for the forty years because by then you'll be so sick, you wouldn't enjoy it anyway.

I love the fact that tomorrow never comes. You can never wake up and say, 'It's tomorrow.' It's always today.

I do what I love to do at the moment. If I wake up tomorrow and decide I want to dance, that's what I'd do. Or design clothes. I think I'd throw myself into whatever I'm doing now. It's not about abandoning what I was doing before, or giving up. It's about knowing that if I die tomorrow, I lived the way I wanted to.

I don't want to be one of those people who have the best part of their life be 'back when.'

There's no better time than now to be who you are.

I have never been one to look beyond today.

I think that often in the United States we're very blind to the ways that history lives in the present.

You can do a lot of breakdown on games you played, but the takeaways from games you've played has to be on what's in front of you.

I always live in the present. Every night, my mother asks me what I want for breakfast the next morning, and I say that I can only tell her that when I wake up the next day.

Sometimes you think you have all the time in the world. But the time is now. Sometimes you only have a brief opportunity.

I learned that the acting I really like is when the actors did a lot of bringing themselves, and where they're at at the moment, to the character.

I don't have a bucket list.

I think the history and the past we have is just an energy we've built up to do what we do now.

My goal has always been not to look forward to the next thing, but to relish and celebrate the successes I have at the moment. Whether it's landing a part in a student film or having a good day in acting class, I never discredit anything.

Liverpool is a club with a big, big, big history, and all the clubs in the world have a big history if the present is not too successful. If you have never had success, then nobody knows how it is, but in Liverpool, everybody knows how it was.

I try, in the present, to not exalt the past because I think that's such a way of diminishing the present. And it's hard to live like that.

I guess I'm kind of a sucker for the emotion of music. I guess it's kind of odd, but it's the way I appreciate music. I present my stuff that way as well.

I take each thing as it comes and appreciate everything that's in front of me now because people in this industry are so fixated on the next thing that they don't enjoy the moment. It passes you by, and all of a sudden, it's over.

Suddenly, you are very much in the present, and you learn it's really the place where you should always live.

On Facebook, your past comes into your present when someone from your second grade class suddenly pops up to send you a message, and your future is being manipulated by what Facebook knows to put in front of you next.