Quotes About Present

All generations think the present moment is the greatest but also have this fascination with before their time. I do the same thing. I see old British movies. I'm like, 'Man, I would love to be in London at that time.' But then I wouldn't be able to watch 'The Walking Dead,' I wouldn't have cable, and my pizza options would be limited.

I'm not one of those people who say last year I caught a fish this big or I surfed a wave 20 feet or something. It's a matter of what I do today. Everything else is a pleasurable memory.

Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.

The most reliable way to forecast the future is to try to understand the present.

Most people treat the present moment as if it were an obstacle that they need to overcome. Since the present moment is life itself, it is an insane way to live.

Things have never been more like the way they are today in history.

We cannot put off living until we are ready.

One of the most important things that I did to turn my life around was to realize and to accept that from this minute, that's all we have. Everything that happened behind us we cannot change so you might as well look to the future.

The simple truth of our finiteness is that we could, by whatever means, go on interminably only at the price of either losing the past and, therewith, our identity, or living only in the past and therefore without a real present. We cannot seriously wish either and thus not a physical enduring at that price.

I think we have to be positive and think about what we can do now because the past is the past - we cannot change it.

We cannot think about playoffs. We just need to play the games.

Let's face it: the present self is present. It's in control. It's in power right now. It has these strong, heroic arms that can lift doughnuts into your mouth. And the future self is not even around. It's off in the future. It's weak. It doesn't even have a lawyer present.

I would say I stay pretty calm. Don't let the game get too fast on me. I try to keep my emotions in check, I guess, so I don't show that anything fazes me out there. And I try to take it one pitch at a time.

Now I've learned to enjoy my football while I can. Every time I'm on the pitch, I just enjoy it.

I'm not looking into the future. I take every game as it comes, and as long as I am on the pitch and playing football, that is what keeps me happy.

I hate to plan my life.

I never had a long-term plan.

I've never had a game plan. It's just if something comes along and it feels right in the moment.

I have never planned things in life. I believe in living life or doing things to the moment.

For me, I don't have a grand vision planned or an end goal. I'm just exploring what's given to me at any given moment.

I don't have that much forward planning about what I want to do next, or in the future.

I am not bothered about my career graph, as I am someone who doesn't believe in planning things.

I do not believe in planning.

I don't believe in the idea of planning. I take life as it comes.