Quotes About Present

The best way to treat the watch, then, is to wear it.

Plato's distinction between lovers of opinion and philosophers is a distinction between those who embrace present particulars just as they self-evidently are and those who instead recognize absent universals as what makes particulars into what they are. The implicit link between philosophy and emancipation is clear here. Emancipation is nothing if not the refusal to rest content with what is merely present.

Living in the present doesn't mean that you can't or shouldn't plan ahead. You need to have an intention in mind when you embark on something, but the thing to do is make plans and then wait to see what happens. There are no guarantees.

I don't do nostalgia. It just doesn't occur to me. I'm living in the moment, and I don't have that gene.

I'm one of these people who couldn't imagine the future. The future never occurred to me. I just loved life every day.

I'm trying to focus on every play and not to worry about the offensive end.

I need to stay in the present and use that new-age mantra: 'I'm okay right now.' But I worry about all the things I'm failing at every moment.

Live every day as if it's going to be your last, and one day, you'll be right.

I barely have time to think. But the best way to stay grounded is to take it one day at a time.

I typically take life one day at a time.

I'm very much a 'one day at a time' kind of guy.

I take one day at a time. I am not someone to define my goals.

I keep my life to one day at a time.

I have always been the kind of guy who just takes it one day at a time.

I take life one day at a time.

I live one day at a time.

One of the things I like about doing historical films is drawing the line between now and then.

One thing about me: I don't try to live out what ifs.

I only live one time.

I am always living in the now, so I like what fate brings to you. That's always fun for me. To have a process and someone be like, 'How about this?' And you just grab onto that and see where it takes you.

A book is a gift you can open again and again.

I actually hate when people open my gifts, and I hate opening gifts in front of people.

Post-modernism has cut off the present from all futures. The daily media add to this by cutting off the past. Which means that critical opinion is often orphaned in the present.

If they know nothing of death, it is because they know little of life, for the secrets of life and death belong to those, and those only, whom the sequence of time affects, and who possess not merely the present but the future, and can rise or fall from a past of glory or of shame. Movement, that problem of the visible arts, can be truly realised by Literature alone. It is Literature that shows us the body in its swiftness and the soul in its unrest.