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Quotes About Present

The World is three days: As for yesterday, it has vanished, along with all that was in it. As for tomorrow, you may never see it. As for today, it is yours, so work in it.
~ Hasan of Basra
Always work with the present moment, not against it. Make it your friend and ally, not your enemy. This will miraculously transform your whole life.
~ Eckhart Tolle
While we are living in the present, we must celebrate life every day, knowing that we are becoming history with every work, every action, every deed.
~ Mattie Stepanek
Passion kept one fully in the present, so that time became a series of mutually exclusive 'nows.'
~ Sue Halpern
Let the future tell the truth and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine.
~ Nikola Tesla
Work hard for your goals and live in the moment.
~ Nadia Comaneci
With unfailing kindness, your life always presents what you need to learn. Whether you stay home or work in an office or whatever, the next teacher is going to pop right up.
~ Joko Beck
Do every act of your life as if it were your last.
~ Marcus Aurelius
Why should all life be work, when we all can borrow. Let's think only of today, and not worry about tomorrow.
~ Zelda Fitzgerald
I try not to plan ahead. I just kind of try to think in the moment. I always believe everything will work out the way it's supposed to.
~ Jane Lynch
Just live! Live now! Don't wait, and don't let anyone tell you that you're a work in progress.
~ Lindy West
My art would be that of living: each moment, each breath is a work inscribed nowhere.
~ Marcel Duchamp
It is the people who figure out how to work simply in the present, rather than the people who mastered the complexities of the past, who get to say what happens in the future.
~ Clay Shirky
The more I give myself permission to live in the moment and enjoy it without feeling guilty or judgmental about any other time, the better I feel about the quality of my work.
~ Wayne Dyer
To me there is no past or future in art. If a work of art does not live in the present, it must not be considered at all.
~ Pablo Picasso
The work of art shows people new directions and thinks of the future. The house thinks of the present.
~ Adolf Loos
Just a few words on time management: forget all about it.
~ Tim Ferriss
Rash indeed is he who reckons on tomorrow, or happily on the days beyond it; for tomorrow is not, until today is past.
~ Sophocles
Lay hold of today's task, and you will not depend so much upon tomorrow's.
~ Seneca the Younger
I believe that the best way to prepare for a Future Life is to be kind, live one day at a time, and do the work you can do best, doing it as well as you can.
~ Elbert Hubbard
Imagine working 20% smarter instead of 20% longer...Work-life balance and startup success at any stage aren't mutually exclusive. There are enough hours in the day to be effective and present.
~ David Cummings
The future is only a thought form. Work with the present moment. Be with what is.
~ Eckhart Tolle
Therefore it is essential that some means should be sought whereby the work of the nation may be carried on without constant yet at present necessary dislocation.
~ James Larkin
The future works out great men's destinies; The present is enough for common souls, Who, never looking forward, are indeed Mere clay wherein the footprints of their age Are petrified forever.
~ James Russell Lowell