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The present moment, if you think about it, is the only time there is. No matter what time it is, it is always now.
Use the energy that fear creates to focus the mind more intently on the present moment - where fear doesn't exist.
He who has gone, so we but cherish his memory, abides with us, more potent, nay, more present than the living man.
You always feel the drawing you are working on is the best you've ever done... I am only interested in the present.
We are not held back by the love we didn't receive in the past, but by the love we're not extending in the present.
We've fallen into a trap of ever-widening orbits of contact, and there is a total disregard for the present moment.
You can understand a lot about yourself by working out which fairytale you use to present your world to yourself in.
The essence of leadership is essentially taking the responsibility of trying to interpret the future to the present.
I come from a family where soccer has always been very present. My uncles, my father and my brother were all players.
I love my past, I love my present. I am not ashamed of what I have had, and I am not sad because I no longer have it.
Basically, I have a gift as an actress, and I want to present the sophisticated side of me as an actress and a person.
Live in the present moment. The past and future are nonexistent. Only the present can be grasped or, better, embraced.
As an architect, you design for the present, with an awareness of the past, for a future which is essentially unknown.
The way that you present yourself visually totally dictates your audience and everything that anyone thinks about you.
Defiance in itself is a sign of strength, and strength is a light side of human nature - when at all present, that is.
Alienation as our present destiny is achieved only by outrageous violence perpetrated by human beings on human beings.
Thus the regime has deprived Iranian women not just of their present rights, but also of their history and their past.
We must not only cease our present desire for the growth of the state, but we must desire its decrease, its weakening.
The French are the wittiest, the most charming, and up to the present, at all events, the least musical race on Earth.
For me, mental toughness is the ability to stay focussed in the present irrespective of what is happening at the match.
If you spend all of your time racing ahead to the future, you're liable to discover you've left a great present behind.
If you're really satisfied with your position on something, you just say, 'Hey;' you just very calmly present something.
I don't want to say 'gullible,' but when I saw someone, I always thought that person is the way they present themselves.
A lot of people are surprised when I talk so much about the present, but politics is just a crucial part of archaeology.
Time past, present, and to come, as also depth and height, near and afar off, are all one in God, one comprehensibility.
When I'm in the ring I've got a million people watching me weekly, looking for me to present something memorable to them.
I know that in my own mind, I struggle with a desire to be both entirely absent and entirely present in any given moment.
And so it is, that both the Devil and the angelic Spirit present us with objects of desire to awaken our power of choice.
The educator must above all understand how to wait; to reckon all effects in the light of the future, not of the present.
The Photograph is concerned with the power that the past has to interfere with the present: the time bomb in the cupboard.
The universe is built on a plan the profound symmetry of which is somehow present in the inner structure of our intellect.
Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux of past, present, and future.
I'm not a very good singer. I just know how to present a song, and honey, I think I've been through enough to do it right.
Jesus wept; Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of present civilization.
If you wait until those weapons pose a direct, clear, present danger to the United States, you've probably waited too long.
In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present time.
Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.
Imagery is not past but present. It rests with what we call our mental processes to place these images in a temporal order.
I chose to present myself as one who comes from among the people, and I can be touched by their pain because I have my own.
Fashion in the past meant conforming and losing oneself. Fashion in the present means being individual and finding oneself.
Often it takes some calamity to make us live in the present. Then suddenly we wake up and see all the mistakes we have made.
My mum is still present in my life. Every goal I score, I dedicate to her. When I am not doing well, I also think about her.
I don't really think about anything too much. I live in the present. I move on. I don't think about what happened yesterday.
Occupation is the Palestinian people's tragedy, but also Israel's present. We must liberate both people from the occupation.
Success and failure are emotional and physiological experiences. We need to deal with them in a way that is present and calm.
One feels that the past stays the way you left it, whereas the present is in constant movement; it's unstable all around you.
A classic is a work which persists as a background noise even when a present that is totally incompatible with it holds sway.
It's really rare that you find a designer who's willing to dress people who maybe present more masculine in their womenswear.
Happy is the person who knows what to remember of the past, what to enjoy in the present, and what to plan for in the future.
I know that the purpose of life is to understand and be in the present moment with the people you love. It's just that simple.