Quotes About Present

you will be willing to think about the past and present in order to learn things that can help you better deal with the obstacles to tranquility thrown your way in the future, you will refuse to spend time engaging in "if only" thoughts about the past and present.

You will realize that inasmuch as the past and present cannot be changed, it is pointless to wish they could be different. You will do your best to accept the past, whatever it might have been, and to embrace the present, whatever it might be.

Hear the voice of the Bard!Who Present, Past, and Future sees,Whose ears have heardThe Holy WordThat walk'd among the ancient trees.

But not of course in the same condition as heretofore. There is a miraculous bonus in the hunt for the miraculous, as you have noticed before in all these heroes; at every turn of the impossible road is waiting an impossible good, unearned; a present.

The single biggest reason organizational changes fail is because no one has thought about endings or planned to manage their impact on people. Naturally concerned about the future, planners and implementers all too often forget that people have to let go of the present first. They forget that while the first task of change management is to understand the desired outcome and how to get there, the first task of transition management is to convince people to leave home.

Caress me, be kind. We have no history.

Become aware that creation in your life occurs only in the present moment.

Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn't stop to enjoy it.

Some people are making such thorough plans for rainy days that they aren't enjoying today's sunshine.

Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn't stop to enjoy it.

How real is any of the past, being every moment revalued to make the present possible...

When the past is always with you, it may as well be present; and if it is present, it will be future as well.

The present tense made him nervous.

My thoughts will be taken up with the future or the past, with what is to come or what has been. Of the present there is necessarily no image.

So that it is not the love of any present sin in thy heart, but the fear of thy past sins in thy conscience, that keeps thee from believing. Now for thee it is that I would gather the best encour agements I can out of the word, and with them strew thy way to the throne of grace.

The secret of life is paying absolute attention to what is going on. The enemy of life is distraction. If you're not present in the present, where the hell are you? Word of Wisdom No. 1.

The present is an age of talkers, and not doers; and the reason is, that the world is growing old. We are so far advanced in the Arts and Sciences, that we live in retrospect, and doat on past achievements.

Todo aquello que se encuentra fuera del alcance del sentido y del conocimiento, todo aquello que se percibe defectuosamente, la imaginación lo recompone a su antojo; y todo menos el momento presente, menos el lugar presente, la pasión lo reclama para sí, lo incuba con las alas extendidas y le imprime su propia imagen. La pasión es dueña del espacio infinito y los objetos distantes nos gustan porque limitan con sus confines y se moldean con su contacto.

But if you can understand the chapter's central point—that the value of a stock or a bond is simply the present value of its future income stream—then you will have a better grasp of the investment process than most professionals. As

el valor de una acción o bono es simplemente el valor presente de su flujo de ingresos futuro–

To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds

The Girl in the Black Raincoat" Thinking of you this evening, I think of mystery; I think of umbrellas of crystal Shading a cinnamon sea; I think of swallow-tailed shadows Enveloping history; And the past becomes the future, And the present is yet to be; And life is a rain-swept mirror Through which perpetually A girl with bright hair flowing, Dappled dark coat blowing, Into the unknown, knowing Walks with me.

It was a limitation of human consciousness: We live only in the future and past, we cannot perceive now. Now occupies no space, a hypothetical gap between future and past. Only an exceptional few could feel now athletes and jazzmen and, yes, thieves...

But things were racing too fast to linger over the past or future. There was only now.