When preparing a presentation, it’s never a good idea to begin with a rule. If you do, you’re focusing on the appearance of good delivery and not the effect of it.
Often the deep valleys of our present will be understood only by looking back on them from the mountains of our future experience.
Out of fifty mathematical papers presented in brief at such a meeting, it is a rare mathematician indeed who really understands what more than half a dozen are about.
The humans were protecting their heritage, or so they thought. Strange that Mud Men seem more concerned about the past than the present.
We may still contrive to raise three cheers for democracy, although at present she only deserves two.
It just is nothing foreign to consciousness at all that could present itself to consciousness through the mediation of phenomena different from the liking itself; to like is intrinsically to be conscious.
As an Old Navy style attendant, I'm all about upgrading your bare basics and presenting them to your customer as basics you need to have in your wardrobe.
We are a people trying not only to solve the problems of the present: unemployment, inflation... but we are attempting on a larger scale to fulfill the promise of America.
Many of us seem to live our lives looking for happiness. That is not always a bad thing, but it can be if we continually believe that happiness is someplace else and not in the present.
Choices of right or wrong are not presented to you in black and white. If they were, I'm sure most people would choose white.
Present annual world energy consumption is about equal to the annihilation energy of 4 tons of matter.
But I'm a historian. I wasn't interested in just being a producer, I was interested in doing research and presenting that research to a general public.
Present law has a process to ascertain whether or not a patient is in a persistent vegetative state, and it should not matter what politicians think.
Instead of kids just hearing about beads and baskets and fringe, and about what 'was' and 'were,' we present Native American culture as a living contemporary culture.
If I were to limit myself to the opportunities that were presented playing only Chinese-American parts, I would be virtually without a career.
Often it takes some calamity to make us live in the present. Then suddenly we wake up and see all the mistakes we have made.
I think journalism gets measured by the quality of information it presents, not the drama or the pyrotechnics associated with us.
To him who looks upon the world rationally, the world in its turn presents a rational aspect. The relation is mutual.
Imagery is not past but present. It rests with what we call our mental processes to place these images in a temporal order.
The audience too should be respected by being presented with a film as they remember it, and for those who have not seen it, as it was intended to be seen. Anything less is a degradation of the film and its audience.
Fashion in the past meant conforming and losing oneself. Fashion in the present means being individual and finding oneself.
