Present Quotes

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In basketball - as in life - true joy comes from being fully present in each and every moment, not just when things are going… — Phil Jackson
Oh! it is sweet to be thus weaned from friends, and from myself, and dead to the present world, that so I may live wholly… — David Brainerd
This is the nature of genius, to be able to grasp the knowable even when no one else recognizes that it is present. — Deepak Chopra
What libraries give you is all three tenses - the past tense - the present tense in which we live and the future that we… — Pete Hamill
Who knows whether the gods will add tomorrow to the present hour? — Horace
Perhaps extreme danger strips us of all pretenses, all ambitions, all confusions, focusing us more intensely than we are otherwise ever focused, so that we… — Dean Koontz
Do not look back and do not dream about the future. It will neither give you back the past, nor satisfy your other daydreams. Your… — Dag Hammarskjold
I don't want to worry anymore thinking about the future. Mi Rae... 'Mi' meaning not yet. 'Rae' meaning coming. Why should I decide on the… — Yoon Mi-rae
Volunteerism is the voice of the people put into action. These actions shape and mold the present into a future of which we can all… — Helen Dyer
The development of an organism ... may be considered as the execution of a 'developmental program' present in the fertilized egg. ... A central task… — Aristid Lindenmayer
Last Christmas someone stole my present. I've spent this year living in the past. — Terry Alderton
There's a lot of fear-mongering about "losing control" of your brand online, when, in fact, you've got control over as much as you always have:… — Jay Baer
If you can see it, hear it, feel it, taste it, touch it, or smell it, you can be present with it. It is of… — Leonard Jacobson
Education : a debt due from present to future generations. — George Peabody
As historians, we refuse to allow ourselves these vain speculations which turn on possibilities that, in order to be reduced to actuality, suppose an overturning… — Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
As there is not in human observation proper means for measuring the waste of land upon the globe, it is hence inferred, that we cannot… — James Hutton
History, human or geological, represents our hypothesis, couched in terms of past events, devised to explain our present-day observations. — M. King Hubbert
Nothing is known in our profession by guess; and I do not believe, that from the first dawn of medical science to the present moment,… — Astley Cooper
The evidence at present available points strongly to the conclusion that the spirals are individual galaxies, or island universes, comparable with our own galaxy in… — Heber Doust Curtis
On May 15, 1957 Linus Pauling made an extraordinary speech to the students of Washington University. ... It was at this time that the idea… — Edward Condon

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