Quotes About Present

There's a desire for me in the work, even when I'm looking at the past, to be looking from the present. It's to be here now. It's looking in the present tense.

Do what you can while you can.

Living in active consciousness is being in the "here and now

Always live in the here and now

Our time is the life we have at the moment

Your time is the life you have at a particular moment

Don't neglect or ignore every second that passes

Time is God's gift to us as humans

My two most unproductive days of the week have always been yesterday and tomorrow. Keeping that in mind, I try to focus majority of my attention on today.

Make today a gift to your future self.

Personally, I am stuck with one foot in the past and one foot in the present.

I've always been hopelessly stuck in the present.

I assume that the proper study of interaction is not the individual and his psychology, but rather the syntactical relations among the acts of different persons mutually present to another.

It may be enough to study history in all its nuance and ambiguity for its own sake. But there is no country free of the need to find new ways of reading the past as an inspiring way of thinking about everything else, including the present.

I'm here in the present, and I want to make sure I don't stumble on my own feet.

What can be more stupid than to be in pain about future things and absent ones which at present are not felt?

My style is how I feel about the moment.

I think it is very difficult today to have a reasoned public discourse on any controversial subject. Certainly, election years present a complicating factor.

I've often used the extremes in my work to comment on the mainstream. I think that sometimes a subject that I'm working on, like popular culture, is so present all around us that they're hard to see. It's like: How do you see the air you breathe? How do you see how it affects you?

Submit to the present evil, lest a greater one befall you.

One thing I've learned to do with my age, I really don't look ahead. For years, I've been preaching the precious present and having to always subscribe to it.

Sometimes we are so involved with our activity that we lose ourselves in it, and in that sense we are living in the moment.

I tell you, when you stop doing things out of hope and the desire for continuity, all you do along with it stops. You will stay afloat.

The only way the past can survive and maintain its continuity is through the constant demand to experience the same thing over and over. That is why life has become a bore. Life has become boring because we have made of it a repetitive thing. So what we mistakenly call the present is really the repetitive past projecting a fictitious future. Your goals, your search, your aspirations are cast in that mold.