Peace and abstinence from European interferences are our objects, and so will continue while the present order of things in America remain uninterrupted.
Another one of the old poets, whose name has escaped my memory at present, called Truth the daughter of Time.
Physics grapples with the largest questions the universe presents. 'Where did the totality of reality come from?' 'Did time have a beginning?'
Being a director, whether you're in rehearsal or you're in auditions or you're in a creative meeting, is so much to me about being present in the moment. There's a sense of time stopping.
Mental states of every kind, - sensations, feelings, ideas, - which were at one time present in consciousness and then have disappeared from it, have not with their disappearance absolutely ceased to exist.
The long time to come when I shall not exist has more effect on me than this short present time, which nevertheless seems endless.
Time perspective is one of the most powerful influences on all of human behavior. We're trying to show how people become biased to being exclusively past-, present- or future-oriented.
One gains a double benefit in writing about the past, conjuring up how things might have been, and at the same time acquiring a different perspective on the present.
Martin Riggs: Maybe we'll stay alive long enough for me to buy you a present.
Man may act according to that principle or inclination which for the present happens to be strongest, and yet act in a way disproportionate to, and violate his real proper nature.
And so it is, that both the Devil and the angelic Spirit present us with objects of desire to awaken our power of choice.
As in geology, so in social institutions, we may discover the causes of all past changes in the present invariable order of society.
If mankind were to continue in other than the present barbarism, a new path must be found, a new civilization based on some other method than technology.
It's dangerous to buy into praise and criticism for what you do when you're trying to present your music to people. I don't ignore it completely, but I don't dwell on it too much.
I think actors are at the mercy of the opportunities presented to them. So you kind of have to wait for them to choose you. My music is insular - I can choose that.
A lot of exercise is mindless; you can have music or the radio on and not be aware. But if you're aware in anything you do - and it doesn't have to be yoga - it changes you. Being present changes you.
If a professional musician in a symphony orchestra is playing Beethoven. But this particular orchestra have played this particular chestnut so many times, they can play it in their sleep. Does the genius remain present in the music or not?
Although we are being presented in Carnegie Hall, we have to furnish a budget for our guest stars, and for the music writing - which is a huge budget in any orchestra that plays popular music.
The greatest task before civilization at present is to make machines what they ought to be, the slaves, instead of the masters of men.
Movies have to handle time very efficiently. They're about stringing scenes together in the present. Novels aren't necessarily about that.
WE ALMOST NEVER think of the present, and when we do, it is only to see what light it throws on our plans for the future.
