Quotes About Present

It's a waste of time to think about things you can't know

Tomorrow is tomorrow. Today is all we have right now.

You can't look too far ahead. Do that and you'll lose sight of what you're doing and stumble.

The past and the present, might we say, go like this . The future is a maybe . Yet we look back on the darkness that obscures the path that brought us fair, we only come up with another indefinite maybe . The only thing we perceive with any clarity is the present moment, and even that just passes by.

Nuestra existencia es una sucesión de instantes aprisionados entre el <> que queda a nuestra espalda y la <> que tenemos delante.

The weather service reported that there weren't any atmospheric conditions present that might have led to fish raining from the sky.

He had no place he had to go to, no place to come back to. He never did, and he didn't now. The only place for him was where he was now.

Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart. Nakata shook his head. "That's a tough one. Nakata still doesn't understand. The only thing I understand is the present." "I'm the exact opposite," Miss Saeki said.

Rules for Living by Olivia Joules 14) Sometimes you just have to go with the flow. and then the new one from Elsie, added at the bottom: 15) Don't regret anything. Remember there wasn't anything else that could have happened, given who you were and the state of the world at that moment. The only thing you can change is the present, so learn from the past.

Ramona was, to the world at large, a far more important person than the Señora herself. The Señora was of the past, Ramona was of the present.

When I try to classify my earliest impressions, I find that fact and fancy look alike across the years that link the past with the present. The woman paints the child's experience in her own fantasy.

In college, there is no time to commune with one's thoughts. One goes to college to learn, it seems, not to think. When one enters the portals of learning, one leaves the dearest pleasures–solitude, books and imagination–outside with the whispering pines. I suppose I ought to find some comfort in the thought that I am laying up treasures for future enjoyment, but I am improvident enough to prefer present joy to hoarding riches against a rainy day.

Very rarely do I talk off the top of my head on stage. I'm not an improv guy. I'm a writer-guy who presents what he's written.

What I do is I keep trying to focus on what I am doing now, instead of wasting time thinking about what went wrong in the past or will happen in the future.

If you put someone in a job who is thinking for even a moment about the next job, you have the wrong person.

I wrote Time' while I was filming 'The Umbrella Academy' and it is a tribute to the journey of my character on the show as well as to the music of My Chemical Romance, but it is also about the idea of living fully in the present moment.

I wrote a play for Miu Miu called 'The Moment Is the Present, That's Why It's Called a Gift.' Instead of doing a catwalk show, all the actors wore the clothes and performed a 20-minute play.

Americans are future-minded to the point of obsession. We are impatient at living in the present. Tomorrow is bound to be better... next year, next century, always what might be rather than what is. This trait in us makes for 'progress;' it also makes for a continuing dissatisfaction.

We don't talk about next year. We talk about today, and we talk about the next game. And that's all we can really control. The rest of it will take care of itself.

Of how much real happiness we cheat our souls by preferring a trifle to God! We have a general intention of living religion; but we intend to begin tomorrow or next year. The present moment we prefer giving to the world.

You can't live on last year, you can't live on the year before. I can't bring in my 13 Pro Bowls in the locker room and say, look at me. No. That is gone. That is the best thing about the game of football is that everybody starts over.

I never look forward. I live for today. And if you think about what's going to happen in a year, in two years, then you begin to plan. And plans never come true.

At the beginning of the nineteenth century we abandoned tradition, it's at that point that I intend to renew it because the present is built on the past just as the past was built on the times that went before it.

I'm over the moon to be involved in the 'Doctor Who' Christmas special. I can't quite believe it as it's a part of the family tradition at the Jenkins household. I heard the news that I got the role on my 30th birthday and it was the best birthday present ever.