Present Quotes
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Real stories - whether in pure fiction or historical - have a certain indefinable power; we are endlessly curious about the past and hungry for learning that we hope will illuminate the present.
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The only living life is in the past and future - the present is an interlude - strange interlude in which we call on past and future to bear witness that we are living.
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What the ego doesn't want us to see is that our pain doesn't come from the love we weren't given in the past, but from the love we ourselves aren't giving in the present.
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Let the future tell the truth and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine.
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We need a proper understanding of the past to correctly judge the present if we ever are to foretell the future.
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Society expresses its sympathy for the geniuses of the past to distract attention from the fact that it has no intention of being sympathetic to the geniuses of the present.
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That's why I tell stories: to create readiness, to nudge the people toward receptive insight. In their present state they can stare till doomsday and not see it, listen till they're blue in the face and not get it.
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Stories come from somewhere," said the witch. "The past haunts the present in more ways than we realise.
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There is no present or future-only the past, happening over and over again-now.
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It seems we're not only uninformed about our present, we're ignorant of our past.
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If you try to measure the future, you will never risk the present. Playing it safe. A ghastly game.
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I finally learned to live in the present and focus only on what I want rather than what I don't want.
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God giveth and God taketh away. Just be sure you’re present when he giveth – and somewhere else when he taketh it all back.
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I don't think too much about the past when I am actually playing, I prefer to concentrate on the present. The performance of a piece, no matter how long ago or where it was written, is always a new production, something that comes alive in the present. And it doesn't matter if the piece was written two or three hundred years ago if it is alive in us.
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She is tolerable, but not handsome enough to tempt me, and I am in no humor at present to give consequence to young ladies who are slighted by other men.
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It's difficult for me, to look into eyes of a journalist and trust him to present it as you say.
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At the end of the day, right now, right here, wherever you are, you can make a choice to be present and happy and fulfilled.
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Only one person in a thousand knows the trick of really living in the present.
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The complexity of the world is so overwhelming and so present to everyone.
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Trust is simply a set of expectations about the present and the future. The key is to ensure that these are chosen and evaluated based upon awareness versus fear.
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A gasline will help shape our economic future - the same way that oil has shaped our economic present.
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I stay in the present, so I don't know about the future.
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More than four decades after Nixon met Mao, the relationship between the U.S. and China has reached a pivotal moment. To date, even as China has become more powerful and present in our lives, Americans have generally found it to be an unsatisfying 'enemy.'
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The camera is not only an extension of the eye but of the brain. It can see sharper, farther, nearer, slower, faster than the eye. It can see by invisible light. It can see in the past, present, and future. Instead of using the camera only to reproduce objects, I wanted to use it to make what is invisible to the eye - visible.
