Quotes About Present

It's only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth - and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up, we will then begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it was the only one we had.

I subscribe to William Faulkner's' view that history is not just about what we were before but who we are now.

We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee, we get nervous about her, and admit censorship.

I'm just living in the moment, trying to win every game. That's all I'm focused on.

I drove to Nashville a few times, met with some people and hung out, went to the Opry, and that kind of stuff. I made the decision - you've got to be present to win, so I packed it up and moved out here, and it's been great. It's been the best decision I ever made.

I'm doing a lot more handmade gifts. When I go to a party, I cook whatever it is I need to bring instead of just grabbing a bottle of wine.

Winners live in the present tense. People who come up short are consumed with future or past. I want to be living in the now.

Continuous present is all we have, and stream of consciousness - which in a novel is arguably just as artificial as the stilted dialogue that you get in most conventional novels. They're all stratagems to try to get closer to the texture of lived life.

I'm grateful for always this moment, the now, no matter what form it takes.

In fact, the history of North America has been perhaps more profoundly influenced by man's inheritance from his past homes than by the physical features of his present home.

There seems to be an interest in connecting the history of the past to the present and asking whether things have really changed. Films like 'The Contender' and 'Bulworth' seem quaint compared with Trump!

I live in the moment. The moment is the most important thing. That's my entire philosophy: Make the best of the good moments.

The most important thing in the world is the moment you're in now, so take it and be grateful.

The one thing I'm good at is taking things day by day.

The only thing simple about the past is that it's not now.

The only thing we can control is the present.

Now is the only thing that exists.

We no longer have to capture the 'real world' and recreate it online. We simply live and communicate at the same time.

Theatre is the art form of the present: it exists only in the present, and then it's gone.

People who live in the past generally are afraid to compete in the present. I've got my faults, but living in the past is not one of them. There's no future in it.

As you go back or move toward insights/ideas/events/words/lessons/mistakes in the past, you develop into the future from the present. I think that's pretty cool that two quote-unquote opposites are intrinsically linked. That whole theme of opposites being two sides of the same whole is a theme that's always been intriguing to me.

Don't expect to much of the future. Live in the present and let the future evolve as it will and trust.

regrets— I look back and ask myself if I didn't do a certain thing that I'm really ashamed of, how would that change the present? What would it erase from my current life? What if I hadn't been such a badass idiot back then? Would I have learned the cost of that recklessness? Would you be here? There are things I'm totally ashamed of that I wouldn't change.

I was focusing on the now. But that didn't mean I couldn't still wonder about what came after.