Quotes About Moments

To think in moments is to be attuned to transitions and milestones

Moments of insight deliver realizations and transformations.

in recalling an experience, we ignore most of what happened and focus instead on a few particular moments.

5. In individual relationships, we believe that relationships grow closer with time. But that's not the whole story. Sometimes long relationships reach plateaus. And with the right moment, relationships can deepen quickly.

5. In individual relationships, we believe that relationships grow closer with time. But that's not the whole story. Sometimes long relationships reach plateaus. And with the right moment, relationships can deepen quickly. • Fisherow and her team turned around the troubled Stanton Elementary School by relying, in part, on short parent-teacher home visits before the start of school. 6. According

What's indisputable is that when we assess our experiences, we don't average our minute-by-minute sensations. Rather, we tend to remember flagship moments: the peaks, the pits, and the transitions.

Target a specific moment and then challenge yourself: How can I elevate it? Spark insight? Boost the sense of connection? Life is full of "form letter in an envelope" moments, waiting to be transformed into something special.

Our good intentions to create these moments are often frustrated by urgent-seeming problems and pressures.

In the short term, we prioritize fixing problems over making moments, and that choice usually feels like a smart trade-off. But over time, it backfires.

Stay alert to the promise that moments hold. These moments do not need to be "produced.

that's the charge for all of us: to defy the forgettable flatness of everyday work and life by creating a few precious moments.

What if we didn't just remember the defining moments of our lives but made them?

This is what we mean by "thinking in moments": to recognize where the prose of life needs punctuation.

First, you fill the pits. That, in turn, frees you up to focus on the second stage: creating the moments that will make the experience "occasionally remarkable." Fill pits, then build peaks.

Some moments are vastly more meaningful than others. For tourists, the Popsicle Hotline is a 15-minute experience that pops out of the surrounding 2-week vacation. For students at YES Prep, Senior Signing Day is a single morning that rises above a 7-year journey.

Defining moments rise above the everyday. They provoke not just transient happiness, like laughing at a friend's joke, but memorable delight.

Transitions should be marked, milestones commemorated, and pits filled. That's the essence of thinking in moments.

He told me that visions of all he needed to write came to him at the oddest moments, forcing him to abandon other activities and write them down.

He who binds to himself a Joy Doth the wingèd life destroy; But he who kisses the Joy as it flies Lives in Eternity's sunrise.

a genuine, loving relationship with lasting potential will reveal itself in the ordinary moments of daily living.

Life is filled with small moments that seem prosaic until one has the distance to look back and see the chain of large moments they unleashed.

Don: You know what makes this alright? We took every moment and wrung it out for all it was worth. Every second, every touch. Every share. My life would've been worthless without you, Edie. If I hadn't met you, it wouldn't've been worth being here. You're the greatest woman ever walked God's earth. No word of a lie.

Life is extremely short and you cannot dance to current affairs.

The true moments of one's life were sadder for the fact that they must always be synchronized with the ordinary: with rail timetables, with breaks in traffic.