Quotes About Present

I never go beyond immediate reality. There is nothing beyond immediate reality.

Em nada me pesa ou em mim dura o escrúpulo da hora presente. Tenho fome da extensão do tempo, e quero ser eu sem condições.

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Every part of me is a vague nostalgia neither for the past nor for the future: the whole of me is a nostalgia for the anonymous, prolix, unfathomable present.

The sweetness of the past? Our memory of it, since to remember it is to make it present, and it isn't present nor ever can be – absurdity, my love, absurdity.

The high-school English teacher will be fulfilling his responsibility if he furnishes the student a guided opportunity, through the best writing of the past, to come, in time, to an understanding of the best writing of the present. He will teach literature, not social studies or little lessons in democracy or the customs of many lands. And if the student finds that this is not to his taste? Well, that is regrettable. Most regrettable. His taste should not be consulted; it is being formed.

I don't like to think too far ahead.

I don't think too far ahead of myself.

If your feet are in Fresno, Calif., that's where your head needs to be. That's where your mind needs to be. You don't need to be thinking about anything else other than the next game you're going to play.

I'm finally locked into the now, and it's great.

I don't plan ahead; each book finds me. History itself, the resonance of the past with the present, is the common denominator in all of them.

I'm taking each match one at a time, not putting expectations on myself, just getting fired up to compete, and taking each match as is.

There's nothing more exciting than to watch a story break and grow, and to be the first one to present it to the world.

I used to have a five-year plan when I was younger. But that's changed. Technology is changing every day. So you have to live in the day. You have to see what the opportunities are, and go for them.

Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present.

No valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.

There are people in every time and every land who want to stop history in its tracks. They fear the future, mistrust the present, and invoke the security of a comfortable past which, in fact, never existed.

The law of humanity ought to be composed of the past, the present, and the future, that we bear within us; whoever possesses but one of these terms, has but a fragment of the law of the moral world.

There is surely nothing other than the single purpose of the present moment. A man's whole life is a succession of moment after moment. If one fully understands the present moment, there will be nothing else to do, and nothing else to pursue. Live being true to the single purpose of the moment.

Time is something that interests me a whole lot - past and present, and how the past appears as people change.

A city whose living immediacy is so urgent that when I am in it I lose all sense of the past.

I never think about the past. Why waste time thinking about something I cannot change.

I must be careful not to get trapped in the past. That's why I tend to forget my songs.

Why not show off if you've got something to show?