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We call the effort to cultivate our ability to be in the present moment ‘practice’ or ‘meditation practice.’
Death happens but once, yet we feel it every moment of our lives; it is worse to dread it than to suffer it.
The challenge, really, on any new film is to try to avoid that and achieve a few moments that aren't cliche.
It's about legacy, it's about moments, it's about being an icon - I'll do what I do and the money will flow.
Success depends on intuition, on seeing what afterwards proves true but cannot be established at the moment.
The next time someone is critical of you, just take a moment to consider their life. Then smile to yourself.
At the present moment, the security of coherent philosophy, which existed from Parmenides to Hegel, is lost.
And, as you know, the present moment is where ALL your power is. A reminder I need regularly. Maybe you too.
Courage? The moment when my troubles are going to end is not the moment when my courage is going to fail me.
There is something in us that loves certain disasters and the fever of this moment and surrendering to that.
It is easy at any moment to resign the possession of a great fortune; to acquire it is difficult and arduous
From '45, the moment Franklin Roosevelt dies, we're running ratlines with the Germans, helping Nazis escape.
It is a great moment in every freak's life when he or she finds out that at least they are not the only one.
Engaging each moment without reservation cuts through the illusion that things could be other than they are.
Clear moments are so short. There is much more darkness. More ocean than terra firma. More shadow than form.
I don't feel like I've hit my stride. So I wonder what the moment will be when I get to be who I want to be.
Your own positive future begins in this moment. All you have is right now. Every goal is possible from here.
You've got to be in the moment and respond to what you're feeling. I try to simplify it as much as possible.
One great thing about growing old is that nothing is going to lead to anything. Everything is of the moment.
Everything that we've ever done has led up to this moment, so I presume there's a certain intricacy in that.
Literature is like phosphorus: it shines with its maximum brilliance and the moment when it attempts to die.
It may well be there is something else going on in the brain that we don't have an inkling of at the moment.
What God arranges for us to experience at each moment is the best and holiest thing that could happen to us.
It's my memory, and what happened between that moment 10 or 15 years ago and now, there's a lot of gray area
Every moment I live, I live bowed to something. And if I don't see God, I'll bow down before something else.
Don't let it be forgot, that once there was a spot, for one brief shining moment, that was known as Camelot.
As is often said of photography, this photograph is a frozen moment. A frozen moment is not a moment at all.
Film is shot in fragments, and the same moments can be shot again and again until the director is satisfied.
The moment you make the internal changes necessary to obtain your goal, the outside world changes instantly.
Stay here!" he commanded me, then he raced off after Cal. I stopped for just a moment. Then I ran after them.
As the years have gone on, I find one of the dangers of watching dailies... is you fall in love with moments.
What I do not see I do not know. I see, hear and know simultaneously and learn what I know as if in a moment.
In another moment down went Alice after it, never once considering how in the world she was to get out again.
When I look through my sketchbooks, they bring back moments that I would otherwise have completely forgotten.
When Oprah Winfrey wears something, it works out, too. But if someone's having "a moment," that always helps.
I only read what I am hungry for at the moment when I have an appetite for it, and then I do not read, I eat.
We are called by God to do theology, that is, to live our lives with a moment-by-moment consciousness of God.
There are moments when you get out of your own head and you exist in the moment, and that can be good acting.
I only photograph myself at poignant moments in my life as a check of where I am and how large my thighs are.
There are moments when all anxiety and stated toil are becalmed in the infinite leisure and repose of nature.
In my darkest moments, I have not eaten an entire pie, but I have turned to other baked goods to find solace.
The other side of it is that, despite all that, people reach out to poetry at the key moments in their lives.
I take the ball, I go wide, I cross, I shoot, but when the moment beckons, I am ready to make the difference.
Players are under such pressure in crucial moments, especially at the highest level with what is on the line.
Happiness comes uninvited: and the moment that you are conscious that you are happy, you are no longer happy.
Awareness is the power that is concealed within the present moment. This is why we may also call it Presence.
For me, personally, the most difficult moments had to do with not just terrorist attacks, but also shootings.
I shall try to write a poem that is about the moment but doesn't betray things that are true to me as a poet.
I've had moments of brilliance but on my busier weeks when I haven't had my practice regime, it is hard-work.
At the moment of childbirth, every woman has the same aura of isolation, as though she were abandoned, alone.