Present Quotes
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The future is made of the same stuff as the present.
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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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The past haunts the present in more ways than we think. It certainly scares the living daylights out of ME"~ Old Wrinkly
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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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I live in a perpetual present. I don't look back and I don't look forward. I just live from week to week.
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I've always been hopelessly stuck in the present.
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So far as I have myself observed, the distinctive character of a child is to live always in the tangible present.
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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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By losing present time, we lose all time.
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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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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 funny how the present can change the past.
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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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At the entrance to the original tower, there is a stone into which Jung carved some words with his own hand: 'Cold or not, God is present.
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We have four great clubs that not only represent the history of European basketball but also have an important present and a bright future.
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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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You don't need a plan; you just need to be present.
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The judges of normality are present everywhere. We are in the society of the teacher-judge, the doctor-judge, the educator-judge, the social worker-judge.
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We scornfully decline, because of one whom we love and who will some day be of so little account, to see another who is of no account to-day, with whom we shall be in love to-morrow, with whom we might, perhaps, had we consented to see her now, have fallen in love a little earlier and who would thus have put a term to our present sufferings, bringing others, it is true, in their place.
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If you want to know the past, look at your present. If you want to know the future, look at your present.
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I love my past, I love my present. I am not ashamed of what I have had, and I am not sad because I no longer have it.
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The best investors are visionaries—they look beyond the present. By the same token, vision remains vision until you focus, do the work, and bring it down to earth where it will do some good.
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What would be left of our tragedies if an insect were to present us his?
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Be greatly aware of the present.
