Quotes About Present

While you are meditating, if your mind wanders, gently bring it back to the present moment.

The present moment is changing so fast that we often do not notice its existence at all. Every moment of mind is like a series of pictures passing through a projector. Some of the pictures come from sense impressions. Others come from memories of past experiences or from fantasies of the future.

I try to just stay in the present moment as much as possible.

One of the things I like about performing on the stage is that it is a kind of meditative experience. Time does stand still. You have no concept or feeling of the passing of two or three hours' time. It's all kind of one present moment, which is a kind of a description of meditation.

Take each day as it comes and focus on the present moment.

From about 5 years old on, I was very contemplative and started to become constantly filled with nostalgia for the present moment and the feeling that it's always fleeting.

The more you live in the present moment, the more the fear of death disappears.

Children have a way of forcing you back into the present moment.

Use the energy that fear creates to focus the mind more intently on the present moment - where fear doesn't exist.

Meditation has taught me to be in the present moment and observe the present moment at the same time. Just breathe, follow your breath, and your intuition can take you from there.

I don't like to look into the future. I just want to stay in the present moment.

History is weirdly dismissed as not having anything to do with the present moment.

When the participants of the Femina Miss India contest join the Art of Living course, we stress that they must live in the present moment and enjoy it.

One of the best Christmas presents I ever got was the globe that I now keep right beside my desk.

We were bemused, I guess, when we got the call from Hollywood. We didn't know anything about the entertainment industry or even what a casting agency was. But I thought, 'What do I have to lose?' It's not every day a great opportunity presents itself.

On occasion, I used to give presents to the kings, besides the hire that I gave to to their sons who accompany me; and nevertheless, they seized me with my companions.

Saturday mornings, or at night when I'm trying to go to bed, I'll watch Hitchcock mysteries and stuff. I know that's pretty boring, but it feels comfortable. It's called 'Alfred Hitchcock Presents.'

The common people have no history: persecuted by the present, they cannot think of preserving the memory of the past.

You simply can't understand the present if you don't understand the past. There is no more alarming case study of the consequences of historical ignorance than President Trump.

While I love to read contemporary fiction, I'm not drawn to writing it. Perhaps it's because the former journalist in me is too inhibited by the press of reality; when I think about writing of my own time I always think about nonfiction narratives. Or perhaps it's just that I find the present too confounding.

I never read my press when I was competing. I never got caught up in what I was doing at that moment.

Never permit the pressure to exceed the pleasure of the moment, ever.

I never put myself under any pressure or anything. I embrace the moment, play in the moment, and I feel strong. Nothing fazes me; I just want to be myself.

I have learned that there's a little bit of a danger in stressing ourselves out and living in the future - worry affects how we are today.