Quotes About Present

Every film that is made about the past is always a reflection of the present.

Either people cling to the past and refuse to advance their ways, or they're always looking to future and not appreciating what's in front of them right now.

I agree that sometimes Michelle Obama can come across as angry - and anger is discomforting. We venerate that empty word, closure, wanting to seal off the pain of the past and refusing it admittance to the chirpy present. This, of course, is nonsense.

In these fixtures, the past is forgotten. What is rewarded is the present. This is a Clasico: two teams that will be at 100 percent regardless of the situation.

I do try to keep my show very improvisational. I don't work off a set list; I like to keep it more in the moment. I like to have information about where I'm going, what might be happening in that particular region as well. I like for people to feel like the show is for them.

I would love it if we made more comparisons between current issues and issues of the past. Maybe we'd realize that sometimes 'current issues' and 'past issues' are one and the same. Our world's people still fight over natural resources, kill in the name of religion, occupy regions and give them up - just as we did 'so long ago.'

I live in the present because the past is regret, and the future is anxiety.

I do think it's important to live in the present because in that way you won't be living in a state of regret.

I don't live in regret land. I live in the now and in the future, and in the dreams that I have.

As long as youre happy where you are now, you cant really regret anything youve done.

Life is not a rehearsal.

What I think is more important than actually believing in reincarnation or thinking about a post-death existence is to live in the present.

Our judgment and moral categories, our idea of the future, our opinions about the present or about justice, peace, or war, everything, without excluding our rejections of Marxism, is impregnated with Marxism.

I'm interested in history, in trying to relate the past to the present and to understand how people thought about their problems and pleasures.

I'm interested in music that happens now and that relates to our lives now.

'Nowness' is a dynamic relation between the past and the future.

The only real security is not in owning or possessing, not in demanding or expecting, not in hoping, even. Security in a relationship lies neither in looking back to what it was, nor forward to what it might be, but living in the present and accepting it as it is now.

Work and play go hand in hand. A lot of people want to work, work, and work until 40, and then relax. Who says you'll get to 40? Or 50? Who knows what'll happen in the next five minutes? The only reality is the present. And if you can't learn to live in the moment, you'll never be content.

I wanted to make an album that sounded like a release of inhibitions, really getting away from the idea that you have to be anything other than in that moment.

Well, I started conducting kind of by accident. I wanted to give myself a special birthday present for my fortieth birthday, and I was living in San Francisco at the time and I started attending some of the concerts and then simply dropping hints.

I'm an old hippie who lives in the now. I seldom look forward, but we have to.

While doing 'Jhoom Barabar Jhoom' with Abhishek, I never thought about my dad's and Amitabhji's hit 'Jodi.' I just play my character and don't think about history and the future.

I'm like most people. We just concentrate on the present. I live right where the film is going through the film projector and it hits the light.

I live hour by hour, day by day. I can't even plan a holiday. I go on holiday, like, the day after I book it.