Quotes About Present

Notice that close to two centuries ago people had an idealized opinion of their own past, just as we have an idealized opinion of today's past.

The wise man listens to meaning; the fool only gets the noise. The modern Greek poet C. P. Cavafy wrote a piece in 1915 after Philostratus' adage "For the gods perceive things in the future, ordinary people things in the present, but the wise perceive things about to happen.

law of iterated expectations, which I outline here in its strong form: if I expect to expect something at some date in the future, then I already expect that something at present.

There is actually a law in statistics called the law of iterated expectations, which I outline here in its strong form: if I expect to expect something at some date in the future, then I already expect that something at present.

Il rifiutarsi al presente, l'isolarsi nel rimpianto d'un passato defunto, vuol dire rifiutarsi di pensare. Mi sembra però ancora più melenso, e ancora più colpevole, l'atteggiamento inverso: cioè il costringere noi stessi ad amare e inseguire tutto quanto di nuovo compare intorno a noi. Questa è ancor più un'offesa contro il vero. Vuol dire aver paura di mostrarci come siamo, cioè stanchi, amari, ormai immobili e vecchi.

You got to take what comes. We just go along, like everybody else, one day at a time.

You don't have to live forever, you just have to live.

You don't have to live forever, you just have to live.

Life's got to be lived, no matter how long or short," she said calmly. "You got to take what comes. We just go along, like everybody else, one day at a time.

Doing what I am doing while I am doing it.

All human progress is in a circle; or, to use a more accurate and beautiful figure, in an ascending spiral curve. While we fancy ourselves going straight forward, and attaining, at every step, an entirely new position of affairs, we do actually return to something long ago tried and abandoned, but which we now find etherealized, refined, and perfected to its ideal. The past is but a coarse and sensual prophecy of the present and the future.

The past is but a coarse and sensual prophecy of the present and the future.

The momentary circumstance was too strong for him; he failed to look beyond the shadow scope of time, and, living once for all eternity, to find the perfect future in the present.

Let us not look back, the past is gone! Wherefore should we linger upon it now?

All resonates. The past, the present, and the future. The tales we hear as children—the stories we then pass on—have happened, are happening, or will happen soon enough. If not, then the stories would not exist. They resonate in our hearts because they are true. Even the ones that begin as lies.

Milestone! This is a momentous occasion, he tells her cheerily. It should be witnessed by a friend. She throws him an icy gaze, and he does a verbal back pedal. Aaaand since no friends are present, I'll have to do.

but how can you live in the moment when all you want is for the moment to end?

Tomorrow is going to have to take care of itself for a while, Alyssa says. Then she adds, Yesterday, too.

Who he was and who he will be are connected only by the fine, nearly invisible thread of who he is now.

Leave the past in the past, and live for the moment. That's wisdom you can take to the grave, and dig up when you need it!

Leave the past in the past, and live for the moment.

Tomorrow is going to have to take care of itself for a while. Yesterday too.

Ha buscado por doquier la belleza pasajera, fugaz, de la vida presente, el carácter de aquello que el lector nos permitió llamar la modernidad.

la pintura de costumbres del presente. El pasado es interesante no solo por la belleza que supieron extraer de él los artistas para quienes era presente, sino además por pasado, por su valor histórico. Lo mismo ocurre con el presente. El placer que obtenemos en las representaciones del presente depende no solo de la belleza que este pueda revestir, sino además de su cualidad esencial de presente.