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Quotes About Moment

It was only a moment of confusion, but it was carnivorous, and he sensed that by acknowledging it he had allowed it in.
~ M. John Harrison
Time creates history. Meditation creates the moment.
~ Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati
Era muita felicidade para uma só hora. Um beijo e férias!
~ Machado de Assis
O derradeiro homem, ao despedir-se do sol frio e gasto, há de ter um relógio na algibeira, para saber a hora exata em que morre
~ Machado de Assis
A razão não podia ser outra senão o momento oportuno. Não era oportuno o primeiro momento, porque, se nenhum de nós estava verde para o amor, ambos o estávamos para o nosso amor; distinção fundamental. Não há amor possível sem a oportunidade dos sujeitos.
~ Machado de Assis
Taking off your shoes is a sacred ritual. It is a hallowed moment of remembering the goodness of space and time. It is a way of celebrating the holy ground on which you stand.
~ Macrina Wiederkehr
The fast pace of our lives makes it difficult for us to find grace in the present moment, and when the simple gifts at our fingertips cease to nourish us, we have a tendency to crave the sensational.
~ Macrina Wiederkehr
inevitably someone will ask me about the word mindfulness with a tone of caution, suggesting that this is a Buddhist concept. It is true that Buddhists have long been faithful to the practice of mindfulness, but striving to live mindfully is a universal quest and belongs to us all. Living mindfully is the art of living awake and ready to embrace the gift of the present moment.
~ Macrina Wiederkehr
We cannot always cry at the right time and who is to say which time is right?
~ Madeleine L'Engle
Just a moment, Mrs. Whatsit murmured, and appeared to calculate rapidly upon her fingers. She nodded triumphantly. Exactly 2,379,152,497 years, 8 months and 3 days.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
Time isn't any more important than size. All that is required of you is to be in the Now, in this moment which has been given us.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
There's something truly strange about living in a historical moment in which the conservative anxiety and despair about queers bringing down civilization and its institutions (marriage, most notably) is met by the anxiety and despair so many queers feel about the failure or incapacity of queerness to bring down civilization and its institutions.
~ Maggie Nelson
I like the ephemeral thing about theatre, every performance is like a ghost - it's there and then it's gone.
~ Maggie Smith
being able to act intelligently and instinctively in the moment is possible only after a long and rigorous of education and experience
~ Malcolm Gladwell
We have, in short, somehow become convinced that we need to tackle the whole problem, all at once. But the truth is that we don't. We only need to find the stickiness Tipping Points
~ Malcolm Gladwell
If suicide is coupled, then it isn't simply the act of depressed people. It's the act of depressed people at a particular moment of extreme vulnerability and in combination with a particular, readily available lethal means.
~ Malcolm Gladwell
Of the three, the third trait—the idea that epidemics can rise or fall in one dramatic moment—is the most important, because it is the principle that makes sense of the first two and that permits the greatest insight into why modern change happens the way it does. The
~ Malcolm Gladwell
From experience we gain a powerful gift, the ability to act instinctively, in the moment. But — and this is one of the lessons I tried very hard to impart in Blink — it is easy to disrupt this gift.
~ Malcolm Gladwell
From experience, we gain a powerful gift, the ability to act instinctively, in the moment.
~ Malcolm Gladwell
Overwhelmingly, the people who want to jump off the Golden Gate Bridge at a given moment want to jump off the Golden Gate Bridge only at that given moment.
~ Malcolm Gladwell
The name given to that one dramatic moment in an epidemic when everything can change all at once is the Tipping Point.
~ Malcolm Gladwell
Tarihteki özel yerimizin bize sunduÄŸu özel f?rsatlardan kaynaklan?yor.
~ Malcolm Gladwell
I've always thought that the Cold War when it was on was one of the most bizarre wars in history because wherever you had the Americans, they created Communists and wherever you had the Communists they created anti-Communists. So that really the Cold War became the question of whether the Americans would create more Communists than the Russians would create anti-Communists. At the present moment the Americans are doing rather well.
~ Malcolm Muggeridge
Every moment in front of a customer is a gorgeous opportunity to live your values.
~ Robin Sharma