Present Quotes
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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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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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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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Stories come from somewhere," said the witch. "The past haunts the present in more ways than we realise.
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It's finding time for each other. That's the trick to any relationship, you know. Finding time to really be present for each other.
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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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It's funny how the present can change the past.
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Be greatly aware of the present.
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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 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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In time there is no present, In eternity no future, In eternity no past.
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When I over-prepare, I try to let it all go and forget all about it when the camera rolls, so I can just be present with the other actors and allow what's going to happen to happen without too much preconception.
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You don't need a plan; you just need to be present.
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The past is the present, isn’t it? It’s the future too.
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The future is made of the same stuff as the present.
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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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The complexity of the world is so overwhelming and so present to everyone.
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By losing present time, we lose all time.
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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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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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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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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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A gasline will help shape our economic future - the same way that oil has shaped our economic present.
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A prig is a fellow who is always making you a present of his opinions.
