Present Quotes · Page 49

Fear collapses all of our concerns down to the present situation, and prevents us from thinking long-term or rationally.

— Bryan Johnson

I've always noticed that films set in any sort of future very rarely draw on the present.

— Nicolas Roeg

So yes, I would absolutely love to explore more films from the south as and when the opportunities present themselves.

— Shriya Pilgaonkar

Live in the present. The past is gone; the future is unknown - but the present is real, and your opportunities are…

— Maxwell Maltz

The nowness of everything is absolutely wondrous. [...] If you see the present tense, boy do you see it! And boy can…

— Dennis Potter

I wanted to make pictures where you would not know who took them. I also bring the present into the past.

— Julian Schnabel

Remember always in life behind you is past which doesn't matter anymore. In front of you is Present offering endless possibility, you…

— Anurag Prakash Ray

Remember the past, Love the present, look toward the future, never forget, always forgive, don't regret decisions, live every day as if…

— Nishan Panwar

Does Facebook behave like a tool in my hand, or a firehose designed to spew at me in accordance with other peoples'…

— Eric S. Raymond

Words matter, especially words defining complicated political arrangements, because they shape perceptions of the events of the past, attitudes toward policies being…

— Michael Mandelbaum

Keep both heart and hand in your own possession, till you see good reason to part with them; and if such an…

— Anne Bronte

In examining the CIA's past and present use of the U.S. media, the Committee finds two reasons for concern. The first is…

— Frank Church

It's being here now that's important. There's no past and there's no future. Time is a very misleading thing. All there is…

— George Harrison

“Do not beat yourself up for what you did or did not do. That will only bruise you and break you and…

— Toni Sorenson

In the present world, this technological, psychotic, politicised, nonsensical world, you have to believe that the good guys are going to win!…

— Rufus Wainwright

Most simply, 'present shock' is the human response to living in a world that's always on real time and simultaneous. You know,…

— Douglas Rushkoff

Accept your past without regret, handle your present with confidence & face your future without fear!

— Jean Norvy

I like gaps; all my stories have gaps. It seems this is the way people's lives present themselves.

— Alice Munro

“When in the presence of armed police officers, you must be constantly performing a risk assessment of the hazards they present to…

— Steven Magee

“He saw the need and he did something about it. He didn't just say he was for me or with me. He…

— Bob Goff

I am not a picture guy. I like to live in the present and keep the image of the past vivid in…

— Eric Ripert

“To some education is just a bore; to most education is food for the brain and enrichment for the present and future.”

— Ana Monnar

To be considered presidential timber, there has to be a measure in the way you present your argument.

— Judy Sheindlin

I'm learning how to live in the present and be grateful for what's working rather than look for the 'what's not working'…

— Ali MacGraw

I try to live in the present as much as possible. Savour each moment. But I can't help looking back.

— Rob Burrow

“while she wanted to look neither to her past nor her future, she lived exclusively in both. They had took different paths,…

— Monica Ali

Yesterday was a history tomorrow is a mystery and today is a gift that's why we call it as present

— Samar Singh

Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. And today? Today is a gift. That's why we call it the present.

— Babatunde Olatunji

Wake up with relaxed mood, let past be past, and that feeling energizes you & prepare you for best for today.

— Dr Anil Kumar Sinha

“Prayer is meeting with God. It's checking in, saying I am here, You are here. It is the present moment.”

— J.R. Rim

In this difficult era the most valuable commodity is the unfailing turn of the hours and how they retrieve for us the…

— Chang-Rae Lee

“Past and future is determined by what is now…right now! This is why the present is a gift; the only one that…

— T.F. Hodge

I hate to break it to you, but your his past, I'm his present and from the way things are going, it…

— Hussein Nishah

I don't plan ahead; each book finds me. History itself, the resonance of the past with the present, is the common denominator…

— Guy Gavriel Kay

I do not believe anything comes by chance. I regard the present as the necessary child of a necessary past.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

Do something in every given moment to make your future worth meaningful. Create your present as proud moment and as best as…

— Anil Sinha

“A sign of the times. But the times has so many signs that if we read them all we'd die of heartbreak.”

— Jeanette Winterson

Remind yourself: You can only deal with the present moment. Everything else is a memory, a hope or a fear.

— Ritu Ghatourey

I like the present. I'm always interested in new ideas, and what's happening. I'm not nostalgic.

— Douglas Coupland

Fashion in the past meant conforming and losing oneself. Fashion in the present means being individual and finding oneself.

— Gloria Steinem