Quotes About Time

The present in New York is so powerful that the past is lost.

Everything that ever happened is still happening. Past, present and future keep happening in the eternity which is Here and Now.

If the present is really all we have, then the present lasts forever.

Historians tell the story of the past, novelists the story of the present.

We think we're living in the present, but we're really living in the past.

I want to go make a movie and be very present for that and give it everything I have, and after we're done, then the rest of the time is mine.

I've seen the future and it's much like the present only longer.

To appreciate present conditions, collate them with those of antiquity.

I think we're going to carry the 'Ice Age's up to 'Ice Age 15,' which means basically they'll be in the present decade.

Remember the past, live the present, think a little less about the future.

To me, living in the present means being aware of your conscious choice to focus on the past, present or future - it is not necessarily having to focus on the present.

I thought I'd live to a ripe old age, because I always felt there was a lot to do. I had a driven feeling. I always thought in the present.

Other people's lives come at us without a backstory most of the time. The present is like that.

I live for the present always. I accept this risk. I don't deny the past, but it's a page to turn.

We are always acting on what has just finished happening. It happened at least 1/30th of a second ago. We think we're in the present, but we aren't. The present we know is only a movie of the past.

Idleness is only a coarse name for my infinite capacity for living in the present.

The point of power is always in the present moment.

Live in the present moment. The past and future are nonexistent. Only the present can be grasped or, better, embraced.

The present moment is changing so fast that we often do not notice its existence at all. Every moment of mind is like a series of pictures passing through a projector. Some of the pictures come from sense impressions. Others come from memories of past experiences or from fantasies of the future.

One of the things I like about performing on the stage is that it is a kind of meditative experience. Time does stand still. You have no concept or feeling of the passing of two or three hours' time. It's all kind of one present moment, which is a kind of a description of meditation.

I see things about the present more clearly when I'm looking through the frame of the past: I think it's very hard to assess the present moment that we are in.

From about 5 years old on, I was very contemplative and started to become constantly filled with nostalgia for the present moment and the feeling that it's always fleeting.

Children have a way of forcing you back into the present moment.

I don't like to look into the future. I just want to stay in the present moment.