Quotes About Present

Things can change in an instant, so why not live truthfully?

I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep.

It's a privilege to present 'Late Night Live'. No radio program, anywhere on Earth, casts a wider net.

This bizarre industry presents so many paths of temptation. If you don't have some kind of foundation, typically from family, then it will be difficult to deal with.

There's definitely times when I'm tempted to look at the future, like any of us are. I'd be lying if that wasn't the case. But you have to reel back in and stay in the present.

I am incredibly bad at predicting the future; I am only smart enough to observe the present and listen to my intuition about tendencies.

Psychologists and economists love to talk about the notion of two selves: present self and future self. It's a nice way to explain the tendency to have one preference about the future, but a very different preference when the future becomes the present.

Technology is rooted in the past. It dominates the present and tends into the future. It is a real historical movement - one of the great movements which shape and represent their epoch.

In the past, people have looked at photos as a record of memory. The focus has been on the past tense. With Instagram, the focus is on the present tense.

Existence really is an imperfect tense that never becomes a present.

Rodgers and Hammerstein didn't mean anything to me. I just wanted to have a hit, I just wanted to be like those people on the radio. It was all of a case of the present tense with no projecting into the future, particularly.

I've always thought that you live in the present, you live in a specific present. You are writing, present tense, so write in the present as it is.

Facebook is about sharing experiences that you've had. Foursquare is more about the present tense and the future tense.

We're in an age when everything's present tense. People don't know how to be still and surrender to the music.

People's - most people's job is talking about the future or like money not even in the present tense. It's not even paper.

As you do Pilates, use your breath to draw your mind into the present and whisk the tension out of your body.

In the medium or long term we'll all be dead. Let's deal with the problems at hand.

I just don't want to live like I used to. And at some point, I'm going to put a gag order on myself in terms of talking about the past. I've got to slam the door and deal with the present and the future.

We shall be better prepared for the future if we see how terrible, how doomed the present is.

If I think even a week ahead, I get terrified. My big thing is trying to enjoy the moment as much as I can.

It's good to get your hands dirty a bit and to test how you see things at a given point. And it's very pleasing after writing something like 'Atonement' or 'On Chesil Beach,' which are historical, to get involved in some plausible re-enactment of the here and now.

What is important for me is playing cricket and not thinking about how my Test career is shaping up. I am not into future planning and all. I am concerned about my present and not the future.

Launching a Broadway show is like no other endeavor. It's taxing because you're present - it's not like cutting a movie and test focus-grouping it and filling out forms.

His name was Sir William Osler, and these are the words he read: "Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.