Quotes of: Present-time Keyword

I've been bothered about time generally and our tripartite division of time into past, present, and future. I think I know what the past is, and I think I know what future is, but I'm really not comfortable with the notion of present.

Martin Seligman

Time that is spent dwelling on the past will surely continue in your present moment - and the future.

Michelle Cruz-Rosado

He who would confine his thought to present time will not understand present reality.

Jules Michelet

This is what it means to be mindful. To watch the thoughts as they come and go without judgment while completely accepting what arises in the present moment.

#Human: Learning To Live In Modern Times

My foot slips on a narrow ledge; in that split second, as needles of fear pierce heart and temples, eternity intersects with present time. Thought and action are not different, and stone, air, ice, sun, fear, and self are one. What is exhilarating is...

The Snow Leopard

We live in the present all the time and the past does not matter anymore. Only if we can understand this in the past, when the past is the present, we would be able to live every moment with satisfaction and joy. Only if we understand that the quarre...

Weapon of Mass Construction

No time better than the present,’ I always say. Or was that, ‘Nothing is better than a present’? I forget.

The Three Furies

Life gives you plenty of time to do whatever you want to do if you stay in the present moment.

Deepak Chopra

I could say now at 66, yeah, I was a fabulous dancer. I was really terrific, you know. But I was always present. I was present. I was supposed to be where I was supposed to be at the time I was supposed to be.

Judith Jamison

I look to historians for their power to illuminate not just the invisible lineaments of the present, but also that which is not present. What are the roads that were not taken that most shape our own time?

Rick Perlstein

It takes a long time to bring the past up to the present.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

It was a hard time for me to have a pure moment, to be present, to be here.

Stephan Jenkins

...the pride taken by the Italians in their gifted women is among the most important facts in the history of their Renaissance.

Women Painters of the World, from the Time of Caterina Vigri, 1413-1463, to Rosa Bonheur and the Present Day

Time is an illusion. Time only exists when we think about the past and the future. Time doesn't exist in the present here and now.

Marina Abramovic

How can the past and future be, when the past no longer is, and the future is not yet? As for the present, if it were always present and never moved on to become the past, it would not be time, but eternity.

Confessions

Never compel yourself to say words to which the heart yields no response.

Ruth Hall: A Domestic Tale of the Present Time

A man could only spend so much of his time ignoring the present before the present made him a thing of the past.

The Witch's Price

I hope I may have succeeded in presenting to you, however imperfectly, the currents of thought due to the work of the immortal Darwin which have helped to make anthropology what it is at the present time.

Franz Boas

In simple, the past is a time gone by and no longer exists in the present moment, but we choose to allow this past to occupy our minds, our bodies and our very existence.

Asa Don Brown

For the first time in the history of mankind, one generation literally has the power to destroy the past, the present and the future, the power to bring time to an end.

Hubert H. Humphrey

Since that time up until the present time, there have been progress, and changes all through the time. The changes have not come by themselves; these changes have come from the doings of everyone in the country.

Bhumibol Adulyadej