Quotes About Present

Well," Winston said, "a few of the others are proclaiming 'faith' to be the only answer. Considering our present location, I considered it particularly bold of Mark Twain to loudly refer to their assertion as brownnosing.

Although Yamashita and Amemiya grow and prepare their own food—both of which definitely take a lot of time—they seem to be suffused in timelessness, in an endless present.

We spend so little time in the present moment that it's anything but ordinary.

Like the wild beasts, she lives without a future. She inhabits only the present tense, a fugue of the continuous, a world of sensual immediacy as without hope as it is without despair.

They look around the world and think: 'There must be something better!' But there isn't. Sorry, chum. This is it. What you see is what you get. Only the here and now.

Why should I worry about that until it happens? That would spoil all the joy I feel today.

nobody grows up. Everyone carries around all the selves that they have ever been, intact, waiting to be reactivated in moments of pain, of fear, of danger. Everything is retrievable, every shock, every hurt. But perhaps it becomes a duty to abandon the stock of time that one carries within oneself, to discard it in favour of the present, so that one's embrace may be turned outwards to the world in which one has made one's home.

Not everyone is born to fulfill an heroic role. The only realistic ambition is to live in the present. And sometimes, quite often in fact, this is more than enough to keep one busy. Time, which was once squandered, must now be given over to the actual, the possible, and perhaps that evanescent hope of a good outcome which never deserts one, and which should never be abandoned.

Today is the tomorrow we worried about yesterday.

Then they all jumped in again, sharing memories, telling the same old stories, because if they were talking about the past, somehow they didn't have to think too much about the present.

I wanted to make connections between Whale's past and present.

'Whale Rider' was quite an extraordinary shoot. We were in that community on the east coast and so much of what you see in that film was very present.

I try not to go down the 'what if' road very often. It isn't fruitful and just makes you feel crummy.

Whatever dream you have, be sure that it is going to be happen, and then forget about it. Then you have to come back to the present and be there 100 percent.

My passion lies with whatever I'm doing at the time... I only see what is front of me.

I am a big believer that whatever has gone lies in the past. You should only learn from it, and you should only look at the present and the future. That's been my father's philosophy and mine as well.

I don't spend any time whatsoever thinking about what might have been.

I'm not too interested in talking about the past. It doesn't do us any good whatsoever.

My momma says whenever you go to somebody's house, you have to give them something. Don't come empty-handed.

Do not waste time dreaming of great faraway opportunities; do the best you can where you are. Open your petals of power and beauty and fling out the fragrance of your life in the place that has been assigned to you.

Nobody got where they are today by living for tomorrow.

You can be happy where you are.

The striking thing about love and will in our day is that, whereas in the past they were always held up to us as the answer to life's predicaments, they have now themselves become the problem.

One feels that the past stays the way you left it, whereas the present is in constant movement; it's unstable all around you.