Quotes About Present

No existe el instante, sólo el pasado o el futuro. Porque ahora, por ejemplo, este instante… cuando hablo de él ya ha pasado.

I wish everything would stay like this forever,' he said. 'The moment is forever,' she replied.

Manche Dinge brauchen ihre Zeit – und Zeit war ja das Einzige, woran Momo reich war.

Herkes çok sevinçliydi. Bunun asl?nda, vaktiyle k?s?tlad?klar? kendi öz zamanlar? olduÄŸunu ve ÅŸimdi onlara döndüÄŸünü asla bilemediler.

Do not get hung up on the past. Your life is made up of the present and future, and your past helps you navigate.

If you have one foot in yesterday and one foot in tomorrow, you're pissing all over today.

Feminism expects a man to be ethical, emotionally present, and accountable to his values in his actions with women — as well as with other men. Feminism loves men enough to expect them to act more honorably and actually believes them capable of doing so.

I'm not paying you for the player you used to be, I'm paying you for the player you are right now.

Never mind that you weren't actually making money—there'd be time for that later, assuming someone eventually figured out how to make money from the Internet. For the moment you needed to plow all of your revenues back into growth. You had to show that you were the company not of the present but of the future.

The options market also tended to presuppose that the distant future would look more like the present than it usually did.

Life must not be spent always hoping, always waiting. Life is for living.

Life is not be spent always hoping, always waiting. Life is for living.

One consequence of thoroughgoing evangelical individualism is a tendency to be ahistorical, to not grasp fully how history has an influence on the present.

She wanted Kip to know her only in the present, a person perhaps more flawed or more compassionate or harder or more obsessed than the girl or young woman she had been then.

It seems to me that one of the great luxuries of life at this point is to be able to do one thing at a time, one thing to which you give yourself wholeheartedly. Unitasking.

The efficiencies of the adult mind, useful as they are, blind us to the present moment. We're constantly jumping ahead to the next thing. We approach experience much as an artificial intelligence (AI) program does, with our brains continually translating the data of the present into the terms of the past, reaching back in time for the relevant experience, and then using that to make its best guess as to how to predict and navigate the future.

There's a parable here somewhere, about the difference between journalism and history. What might appear to be the story in the present moment may actually be a distraction from it, a shiny object preventing us from seeing the truth of what is really going on beneath the surface of our attention, what will most deeply affect people's lives in time.

After a week in front of the screen, the opportunity to work with my hands—with all my senses, in fact—is always a welcome change of pace, whether in the kitchen or in the garden. There's something about such work that seems to alter the experience of time, helps me to reoccupy the present tense. I don't want you to get the idea it's made a Buddhist of me, but in the kitchen, maybe a little bit. When stirring the pot, just stir the pot.

The banquet is in the first bite.

In writing 'A Portrait of Athens' I have attempted - rather impressionistically - to give a panorama of its present. But I have also brought in its past because I sincerely think that there is a continuity.

The single guiding principle that I try to follow, assuming blindly that the rest will fall into place, is to operate squarely in the present. I think it's one of the most difficult things for anyone to do.

I am just so grateful for every single day, and if I could just not think past today, I would be living the life that I think God meant me to live.

I try to live in the moment. When you're in a singles match, you're in there, and the guy's on top of you, and you're in a hold, and you're being smothered: You're in the fight at all times. But when we're doing these team fights, you have a little time to take in the moment and just absorb the energy of the crowd.

Both Dhoni and me, we are so interested in what we are doing right now that we don't sit and think about future. This thing commands your attention because you love it so much. Your experience is not distorted by your fear or desire to attain something.