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Quotes About Present

However and wherever we are, we must live as if we will never die.
~ Nazim Hikmet
I live every day, day to day. I will go wherever life takes me. I'm not questioning it.
~ Sabrina Carpenter
I don't want to go anywhere; I don't want to leave anybody behind. Happiness is right here, right now, in this world, in this room. I am happiest wherever it is that I am.
~ Alexandra Stoddard
When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer 'Present' or 'Not guilty.'
~ Theodore Roosevelt
Accordingly, globalization is not only something that will concern and threaten us in the future, but something that is taking place in the present and to which we must first open our eyes.
~ Ulrich Beck
When I paint, I definitely live in the present, like someone in a shower whistling or singing.
~ Orhan Pamuk
None of us, remember, knew that 9/11 was gonna happen. We didn't live in a state of anxiety and fear about Osama Bin Laden. The CIA might have, and they failed to prevent it. But the general public didn't have any knowledge. Now we have knowledge of it, and it's a very clear and present danger in our lives.
~ Damian Lewis
At the start of every game, you are focussed on the game you are playing, so you don't look back at previous games.
~ Jesus Navas
Most of the early monks were not ordained. It was the pastoral work they undertook with the faithful that, over the centuries, gradually led to the present situation in which most monks are ordained priests.
~ Basil Hume
If you are a responsible scientist, you are going to present your new results in a paper, and maybe if, over time, things are established, and it's prime time for the public to hear about it, then you include it in a book.
~ Lisa Randall
All our own present experiences are primordial. What could be more primordial than experience itself?
~ Edith Stein
The dynamic, creative present, however conditioned and restricted by the effects of prior presents, possesses genuine initiative.
~ Corliss Lamont
Our specious present as such is very short. We do, however, experience passing events; part of the process of the passage of events is directly there in our experience, including some of the past and some of the future.
~ George Herbert Mead
I'm always most excited about the job I'm doing at the present, and that's especially true about 'Price' because of my respect for the show and it's production team.
~ Randy West
Given that everyone's got a voice, it's the age of the democratisation of information through digital technology. That means women can rise up, and people of colour can rise up, and these stories are much more present to us. And that's great.
~ Tim Minchin
I'm not here to discuss the past... I'm here to be positive.
~ Mark McGwire
Focus on what needs to be done that day. Don't think too far ahead. Once you start thinking too far ahead, you get distracted by things that don't matter on that day.
~ Khris Middleton
I think I have a job, which is to present a character in a story and entertain you and divert you with my work - that's it.
~ Rebecca Hall
Happiness is found by deeply experiencing the exact moment we are in.
~ Tim Ryan
Sometimes it just becomes so technical that you forget what you're doing. If you start thinking about how you come down the stairs and think about how each muscle is working, you can't go down the stairs. Anyway, I'm a person who overthinks and overanalyzes everything, so if you give me one thought, it creates a lot more.
~ Ana Ivanovic
'Phantom' was for me an interesting technique of telling the story. You have one voice that it is in the present telling what is happening, and then there's one voice from the past that's also driving the story forward. And you know that the two story lines will meet eventually.
~ Jo Nesbo
Just do me a favor. Don't call me 'former teen heartthrob,' okay? It's as if they were constantly discussing your second year of college. I'm not back there anymore. I'm living in the present.
~ David Cassidy
I was an only child for 15 years and then this lovely present, Fred, came along. It was great - it meant I had my teenage years with a little one around.
~ Emilia Fox
I asked for a horse for Christmas, and I got one! It's an adult horse. I didn't want a 5-year-old, which is a teenager for horses. It has a beautiful gait. It's the Cadillac of horses.
~ Rick Harrison