Present Quotes
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As a writer, or as a filmmaker, you have to present yourself, and part of what yourself is is what you're interested in, or what you think is funny, or what you think is sad, or what you think is horrible.
Charlie Kaufman
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We need to have faith in the future to make sense of the present.
Charles Handy
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Corporate responsibility extends not only to the customers, the resources and the workers of the present, but also to those of the future.
Donella Meadows
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It's in vain to recall the past, unless it works some influence upon the present.
Charles Dickens
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Lady Gaga is the present and the future. She is the most revolutionary and inspirational artist. She is fearless and daring.
Donatella Versace
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America is false to the past, false to the present, and solemnly binds herself to be false to the future.
Frederick Douglass
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We also know that religion, as the Marxists have always insisted, has, too often, like an opiate, tended to put people to sleep to the reality and the need for the present struggle for peace and justice.
Dorothy Day
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I frequently hear our present period described as uncertain, confused, chaotic.
George Crumb
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We're in an age when everything's present tense. People don't know how to be still and surrender to the music.
Pete Hamill
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Take a good look at your life right now. If you don't like something about it, close your eyes and imagine the life you want. Now allow yourself to focus your inner eye on the person you would be if you were living this preferred life. Notice the differences in how you behave and present yourself; allow yourself to spend several seconds breathing in the new image, expanding your energy into this...
Marianne Williamson
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We have to get back to the beauty of just being alive in this present moment.
Mary McDonnell
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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.
Ben Foster
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My major preoccupation is the question, 'What is reality?' Many of my stories and novels deal with psychotic states or drug-induced states by which I can present the concept of a multiverse rather than a universe. Music and sociology are themes in my novels, also radical political trends; in particular I've written about fascism and my fear of it.
Philip K. Dick
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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.
Lauren DeStefano
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There is a constant in the average American imagination and taste, for which the past must be preserved and celebrated in full-scale authentic copy; a philosophy of immortality as duplication. It dominates the relation with the self, with the past, not infrequently with the present, always with History and, even, with the European tradition.
Umberto Eco
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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.
George Crumb
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If the present be compared with the remote past, it is easily seen that in all cities and in all peoples there are the same desires and the same passions as there always were.
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
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True happiness is... to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
