Present Quotes
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My ever-present mania meant I was never phased by staying up twenty hours a day or by the different time zones. I was Superman.
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Nothing makes one old so quickly as the ever-present thought that one is growing older.
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Most dystopian, classic and contemporary, paints a future world that puts a twist on present society - a future world that could plausibly happen.
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Pop artists deal with the lowly trivia of possessions and equipment that the present generation is lugging along with it on its safari into the future.
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Where you have been is not nearly as important as where you are and where you're going.
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For time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.
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Nonetheless, I sense that it will be the task of the future to somehow synthesize the sheer diversity of our present resources into a more organic and well-ordered procedure.
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That's such a common saying: Just be present, live in the moment. But there's actually really something to it when you really start to learn it.
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What is important to me in my work is the identity that is hidden behind so-called reality. I search for a bridge from the given present tot the invisible, rather as a famous cabalist once said, 'If you wish to grasp the invisible, penetrate as deeply as possible into the visible'.
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Bracketing has turned all my experiences, remembered and present, into a gallery of miracles where I wander around dazzled by the beauty of events I cannot explain.
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'Dogfight' was everything wonderful and terrifying about a show, and I feel it 1,000% gave me the knowledge and the confidence that I could do this. I can step up and be present enough to command scenes with amazing actors.
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I am always making sketches of how information should look or mapping out a marketing campaign. When I present my notes, people start responding to them. Desktop publishing makes everything look slick. When you present sketches, it helps start the dialogue and collaboration.
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I'm ready to live in the present - not the past and not in the future - because in the present is where there's peace.
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We live in this thought web; we identify things and put them away and distance ourselves from them. But to be completely present? That is source, that is art, that is spirituality. And meditation is a way to defy fear and experience that source.
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To live in an evolutionary spirit means to engage with full ambition and without any reserve in the structure of the present, and yet to let go and flow into a new structure when the right time has come.
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One learns the art of dying by learning the art of living: how to become master of the present moment.
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Toward his critics, the artist harbors a defensive ace: knowledge that the future will erase the present.
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When each thing is unique in itself, there can be no comparison made.... There is only this strange recognition of present otherness.
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Success and failure are emotional and physiological experiences. We need to deal with them in a way that is present and calm.
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The wise form right judgment of the present from what is past.
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I just try to tell a story rather than present an open diary to the world.
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A cold atheistical materialism is the tendency of the so-called material philosophy of the present day.
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The President of a great democracy such as ours, and the editors of great newspapers such as yours, owe a common obligation to the people: an obligation to present the facts, to present them with candor, and to present them in perspective.
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An editor named Kerrie Hughes wanted me to write a short story that brought my fire-spider Smudge from my goblin books into the present-day world. I came up with libriomancy as a way to make that happen.
