Present Quotes
6568 Present quotes by 3495 unique authors
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Learn to take responsibility for emotions, and to manage energies, always working within present resources.
— Lillian Russell
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What is the biggest thing that stops people from living their lives in the present moment? Fear - and we must learn how to overcome…
— Brian Weiss
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The only thing that the psychically-human being can do to improve society is to present society with one improved unit.
— Albert J. Nock
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The present moment is nice but it does not last. Living in it is like waiting in a junction town for the morning limited; the…
— Bruce Catton
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Printing links the present with forever. It carries personal identity into realms unknown.
— Neil Postman
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It is for us to see the Kingdom of God as always coming, always pressing in on the present, always big with possibility, and always…
— Walter Rauschenbusch
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Olduvai Gorge gives us one of the most remarkable stories of the past-the last chapter of the Earth's history, starting at the present day, right…
— Louis Leakey
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It is in our nature to travel into our past, hoping thereby to illuminate the darkness that bedevils the present.
— Farley Mowat
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Nothing matters more to AA's future welfare than the manner in which we use the colossus of modern communication. Used unselfishly and well, it can…
— Bill W.
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Only as one is willing to give up his present limitations and identity can he become that which he desires to be.
— Neville Goddard
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All transformation begins with an intense, burning desire to be transformed. The first step in the 'renewing of the mind' is desire. You must want…
— Neville Goddard
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Photography is about being exquisitely present.
— Joel Meyerowitz
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A historical perspective can also help free us from the ever-present danger -- especially at danger in the social sciences -- of absolutizing a theory…
— Rollo May
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A child is a person in whom all possibilities are present - present now at this very moment - not to be educed after many…
— Charlotte Mason
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At present, however, I don't think the Net is a very good medium for books, books should really be inexpensive lightweight paperbacks you can bang…
— Rudy Rucker
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Let us live simply in the freshness of the present moment, in the clarity of pure awakened mind.
— Matthieu Ricard
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In the freshness of the present moment, past is gone, future is not yet born, and—if one remains in pure mindfulness and freedom—disturbing thoughts arise…
— Matthieu Ricard
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People who think they know what they are talking about when they talk about baseball include the announcers and all of the sports press -…
— Michael Lewis
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And now, what has Anarchism to say to all this, this bankruptcy of republicanism, this modern empire that has grown up on the ruins of…
— Voltairine de Cleyre
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I like to think of my work as creating a private conversation with each person, no matter how public each work is and no matter…
— Maya Lin
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At a period when Literature was wont to attribute the grief of living exclusively to the mischances of disappointed love or the jealousy of adulterous…
— Joris-Karl Huysmans
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The tendency of modern scientific teaching is to neglect the great books, to lay far too much stress upon relatively unimportant modern work, and to…
— Ronald Fisher
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In my opinion, all previous advances in the various lines of invention will appear totally insignificant when compared with those which the present century will…
— Charles Holland Duell
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The past will find a way to squeeze into the present–if you let it.
— Laura Miller
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I could not fight the Nazis in the present, as they had the power to still my voice, so I decided to fight them in…
— Friedrich Kellner
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