It is always perilous to suppose that the past is over and done with or that it can ever safely be disconnected from the pressing concerns of the present.
The thing I have always tried to do is surprise people: to present them with something they didn't expect.
Opportunity is present is wreckage as much as it is in that which is wonderful. It’s not so much how it comes to us, but what we do with it.
There's a physicality and confidence to Americans; they're very present. That's something I enjoy being around because it rubs off on you.
The seeking face that does not alter when presented with peace and reason, must bask in its wearer's prideful ignorance.
The study of history is an antidote to the hubris of the present – the idea that everything we have, everything we do and everything we think is the ultimate, the best.
Professional learning does not advance… through the inexorable confirmation of previous certainties, but through a systematic challenge to our present conceptions
Trying to get more learning out of the present system is like trying to get the Pony Express to compete with the telegraph by breeding faster ponies.
I was the type of person that would show a PowerPoint presentation about why I should do something versus crying and screaming over it.
The bottom line as far as I was concerned was presenting to the public who Gerry Ferraro was.
'The Merchant of Venice' is a straightforward, clear story, while 'The Winter's Tale,' as a general rule, is hard to present because there is so much plot.
If you meet a number of failures the causes of which are not known, look for something that is common for each failure and that is never present when there is a success.
Traditionally, photography is supposed to capture an event that has passed; but that is not what I'm looking for. Photography brings the past into the present when you look at it.
If the world is presented as resources to be exploited, then, more than likely, you're going to exploit the world.
One sheds one's sicknesses in books - repeats and presents again one's emotions, to be master of them.
When life presents you with a problem, show the courage, make yourself a hundred times bigger than the problem.
Writing as a woman presents enormous problems but I have attempted it several times and haven't had many complaints.
In order to live in the present, we have to learn how to feel safe even when a situation feels threatening to us.
The definition of an extreme authoritarian is one who is willing blindly to assume that government accusations are true without any evidence presented or opportunity to contest those accusations.
My goal in life is to get the federal government down to half its present size and under control, and then I can write murder mysteries.
Improv as an actor makes you present in the moment. You listen, you're attentive. You're not acting so much as reacting, which is what you're doing in life all the time.
