The Present Quotes

Life is a fragile and awesome gift.

Sometimes I think I live more closely to the past than the present.

The present structure of rewards in high schools produces a response on the part of an adolescent social system which effectively impedes the process of education.

It is the province of poetry to be more realistic and present than the artificial narratives of an outer discourse, and not afraid of the truthful difficulty of the average human life.

Inspiration, in its rich variety, must be present in any discussion about Africa. We need role models - they are essential to the advancement of our society.

If we wish to foresee the future of mathematics, our proper course is to study the history and present condition of the science.

Truth: We are the present. We are now. We are the razor's edge of history. The future flies at us and from that dark blur we shape the past. And the past is forever.

There’s been terrible things we seen, en’t there? And more a coming, more’n likely. So I think I’d rather not know what’s in the future. I’ll stick to the present.

But can we, should we, let apprehensions about the future immobilize us in the present?

She didn't want to be reminded of her past or how different her present was from the future she'd taken for granted.

There's a desire for me in the work, even when I'm looking at the past, to be looking from the present. It's to be here now. It's looking in the present tense.

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

I have no designs on society, or nature, or God. I am simply what I am, or I begin to be that. I live in the present. I only remember the past, and anticipate the future. I love to live.

There were times when I could not afford to sacrifice the bloom of the present moment to any work, whether of the head or hand. I love a broad margin to my life.

I never think of what it's going to be like later. I only think in the present tense. The only time I think backwards is when I have to reissue something.

At the shock of a joke, everything disappears but the present moment.

The American, who up to the present day, has evinced, in Literature, the largest brain with the largest heart, that man is Nathaniel Hawthorne.

What's not often in the present moment is the thinking mind.

Enjoy the present day, trust the least possible to the future.

Enjoy the present day, as distrusting that which is to follow.

I have other projects to do. I try not to let that documentation interfere with my present day.

Practice remembrance of the present moment, again and again.

one of the greatest hindrances to happiness in the present day is our tendency to standardize our conception of it.

The message is that ultimate meaning is to be found in this present moment, infusing our everyday lives, here and now.

With respect to the present time, there are few persons who unite the qualifications of good observers with a situation favourable for accurate observation.

When we're fully engaged in the present moment, no matter what we're doing, the question of meaning never seems to arise. It's because we feel fulfilled and that is inherently meaningful.

You have to wake up a virgin each morning.

I am the worst at keeping secrets. I am the kind of person that the second I buy someone a Christmas present, I tell them what I bought them. I don't wait until Christmas. I'm not good at it.

Paintings exist in the present tense, yet somehow, because of how it's structured, it can move backwards through time as well.

Painting has this ability to send the viewer [backward], but it's also this physical object in the room with you. It's always knocking you back into the present moment, which I find very pleasurable.

The present moment is a powerful goddess.

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

(on being born on Christmas Day, 1924) I was a Christmas present that was delivered unwrapped.

I believe that the school must represent present life - life as real and vital to the child as that which he carries on in the home, in the neighborhood, or on the play-ground.

A money-lender--he serves you in the present tense; he lends you in the conditional mood; keeps you in the conjunctive; and ruins you in the future.

The best gift we can have is living in the present moment and really enjoying it for what it is; and, not being in our heads and getting sidetracked.

From a craft standpoint, telling a story in the first-person present tense over the course of 500 pages is a daunting challenge.

Men of the present time testify of heaven and hell, and have never seen either.

I would tell people to enjoy the present moment and the journey rather than the outcome.

I live in the #‎ present moment.

The present moment is that one point where everything comes together.

I never live in the present. I'd do interviews and people will say, "Isn't this great?" or "Can you believe?" And I would react, like, "No, I can't believe it because I'm not living in this moment."

Learning to live in the present tense-one that's free from the failures of the past and the anxieties of the future-is a wonderful gift, and one you always should be striving for.

But you have to live in the present. You have to take the old and make it new -- that's my point.

You spend very little time in the present moment. Reality exists only in the present moment. Therefore you spend very little time in reality.

An author who sets about to depict events of the past that have run their course is suspected of wishing to avoid the problems of the present day, of being, in other words, a reactionary.

The present moment is the only moment available to us and it is the door to all other moments.

There is something tragic about the enormous number of young men there are in England at the present moment who start life with perfect profiles, and end by adopting some useful profession.

To meditate with mindful breathing is to bring body and mind back to the present moment so that you do not miss your appointment with life.

The only link between Literature and the Drama left to us in England at the present moment is the bill of the play.