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Present Quotes by William Gibson
- I don't have to write about the future. For most people, the present is enough like the future to be pretty scary.
- The present tense made him nervous.
- To present a whole world that doesn’t exist and make it seem real, we have to more or less pretend we’re polymaths. That’s just the…
- We have no future because our present is too volatile. We have only risk management. The spinning of the given moment's scenarios. Pattern recognition.
More Present Quotes
- Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit. — Aristotle
- Every one knows, that the mind will not be kept from contemplating what it loves in the midst of crowds and business.… — Mary Astell
- I'm a strict, strict agnostic. It's very different from a casual, 'I don't know.' It's that you cannot present as knowledge something… — Margaret Atwood
- Confine yourself to the present. — Marcus Aurelius
- Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today… — Marcus Aurelius
- The further we distance ourselves from the spell of the present, explored by our senses, the harder it will be to understand… — Diane Ackerman
- What matters is to live in the present, live now, for every moment is now. It is your thoughts and acts of… — Sai Baba
- A society that does not correctly interpret and appreciate its past cannot understand its present fortunes and adversities and can be caught… — Ibrahim Babangida