Quotes About Present

To be a manager, you have to perform always. You cannot live in history. It's now and tomorrow that counts.

I'm more of a debit card person, and I live in the 'now'. I don't like credit cards anymore. I try to live with whatever I can afford and don't try to put myself in an awkward position. I've done that before.

When you cross the whitewash, you only think about the present.

History happens as soon as I pick up my coffee cup - it happened 30 seconds ago. It's history.

We're the curator for the African-American experience for the past, present and future. That's my job.

I have always tried to stay current.

What we have currently available is what we have available.

Younger customers are the future, but older customers have the money. So you need both: one for the present, and the other for the future.

On a daily basis, I pay almost no attention to the macro.

When it comes to tackling your financial goals, whatever they might be, there's no time like the present.

Every day is a new experience and I take it as it comes.

On your journey, don't forget to smell the flowers. Take time out to notice that you're alive. You can only live in one day.

I've got to take advantage of every day.

For me, it's just about taking it one at-bat, one pitch, one play at a time.

Chicago's history is a classic American tale of reinvention, while its present is buzzy, chic and architecturally stunning.

I don't talk about the past.

If we don't talk about the things that are happening, why are we talking about anything at all? Does something have to be a year old for me to have an opinion on it or a conversation with people about it?

I've become President of the Author's Guild, and, in part because they thought I had to know what I was talking about and also as a sort of coronation present, they got me an iPad. And I have to tell you, I'm crazy about it. It's got some bugs, but it's basically replaced my laptop. I'm very happy with it.

but there is in me something that feeds on the now of things.

Begin now to obey Him in every way you can. Start right where you are, in the midst of all the tasks that press in upon you. Do not wait for some future time when you will have more time or be more perfect in knowledge.

If you ask me do I love you, I have to tell you that I have never loved you, not even now, not tomorrow. In this way, I can begin to love you again and again because there is no past. This is the way the moon unbutton the stars as it passes overhead. The way even the most distant galaxies continue to tug on us. This is the way I love you.

It is eternity now. I am in the midst of it. It is about me in the sunshine; I am in it as the butterfly in the light-laden air. Nothing has to come; it is now. Now is eternity; now is the immortal life.

It is nothing to the green-finches; all their thoughts are in their song-talk. The sunny moment is to them all in all. So deeply are they rapt in it that they do not know whether it is a moment or a year. There is no clock for feeling, for joy, for love

A preoccupation with the next world clearly shows an inability to cope credibly with this one.