Present Quotes
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The past is past, and the future is yet to come. That means the future is in your hands - the future entirely depends on the present. That realization gives you a great responsibility.
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What I want in my career is different to what I wanted when I was 21. It's got to be something that keeps my family together, that allows me to be present in their lives.
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Stillness is a harder concept for me than ecstasy, but I can imagine it best when I am fully present and paying strict attention to a place I am moving through.
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The future depends on what we do in the present.
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Happy is the person who knows what to remember of the past, what to enjoy in the present, and what to plan for in the future.
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There is not past, no future; everything flows in an eternal present.
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Having rationalized his economic syste, that is, having saturated it with consciousness and planfulness, man will not leave a trace of the present stagnant and worm-eaten domestic life.
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Our loving Lord is not just present, but nearer than the thought can imagine - so near that a whisper can reach Him.
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It is a struggle; for though the black man fights passively, he nevertheless fights; and his passive resistance is more effective at present than active resistance could possibly be. He bears the fury of the storm as does the willow tree.
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The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present.
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The present is the key to the past.
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Roger Fry is painting me. It is too like me at present, but he is confident he will be able to alter that. Post-Impressionism is at present confined to my lower lip... and to my chin.
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The ever-present impulse is to push against restriction and, in so doing, to feel intolerably hemmed in. Thus in practice, every liberation increases the sense of oppression. Nor is the paradox merely in the mind: the laws enacted to secure the rights of every person and group, by creating protective boundaries, create new barriers.
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I don't know my future. I don't know about tomorrow. I can just control for today or present, right now. I don't want to think about future too much, because present is most important for me.
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time past and time future what might have been and what has been point to one end, which is always present.
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Temporality temporalizes as a future which makes present in the process of having been.
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Without the faculty of forgetting, our past would weigh so heavily on our present that we should not have the strength to confront another moment, still less to live through it. Life would be bearable only to frivolous natures, those in fact who do not remember.
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We are living in a computer-programmed reality, and the only clue we have to it is when some variable is changed, and some alteration in reality occurs. We have the overwhelming impression that we were reliving the present - deja vu.
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Anytime you present a message that is seen as hate, you're going to have a negative impact.
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To be in flow means to be totally absorbed in whatever one is doing at the moment. It occurs when one is fully present and completely focused on the task at hand...Flow can occur during any human activity, whether work or at play.
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As for the notion that everything has already been said, maybe it has, but life is like meatloaf: there are so many different ways to present it.
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I feel like the blues is actually some kind of documentary of the past and the present - and something to give people inspiration for the future.
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What man really seeks is not perfection which is in the future, but fulfillment which is ever in the present.
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The facts of the present won't sit still for a portrait. They are constantly vibrating, full of clutter and confusion.
