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“We live in the moment. We're not thinking about the future right now. We're not thinking about the past, you know. We're living in this moment right here and it's a sweet moment to live in.”

Thinking Knows Moments Past Sweet Right Now Championship Live In The Moment Nba Championships Thinking About The Future Thinking About The Past

Author:Dwyane Wade

“Novels help us to resist the temptation to think of the past as deficient.”

Thinking Helping Past Novel Temptation

Book:Conversations with Ian McEwan

Source: Conversations with Ian McEwan

“Happiness is in our own hearts. I have no regrets of anything in the past. I'm totally cheerful and happy, and I think that a lot of your attitude is not in the circumstances you find yourself in, but in the circumstances you make for yourself.”

Thinking Heart Past Attitude Regret Circumstances Finding Yourself Cheerful No Regrets Have No Regrets

Author:Maeve Binchy

“My way of thinking is to create a situation where we rally everyone together and create peace and pardon people, to not forget about the past - because we need to learn from it - but to mainly think about the future.”

People Thinking Way Needs Together Past Forget Situation My Way Way Of Thinking Pardon

Author:Michel Martelly

“I never got into Linux. I swear to God, it's only lack of time. I'm past the years of my life where I can really dig into something like running a Linux system. I'm very sympathetic to the whole idea; Linux people always think the way I want to think.”

People Thinking Way Want Years I Can Ideas Whole Running Past Swear Sympathetic Linux Swear To God Lack Of Time

Author:Steve Wozniak

“Stand-up life is really hard. At one point, I got so paralyzed I could write five screenplays before I could write three jokes for stand-up. Later, I've finally allowed myself to relax quite a bit, to think I can do it because I've done it in the past. The pressure to come up with the material is the same but the anxiety about whether I can do it is gone.”

Thinking Writing I Can Hard Done Past Life Is Three Bits Can Do Gone Five Materials Anxiety Jokes Pressure Come Up Relax Screenplays I Can Do It Paralyzed

Author:Steve Martin

“Leaving high school. It's sad and you're going to miss all your friends. You're going to miss your life and you've been doing that for the past four years, and it's comfortable. But now, there's something possibly bigger on the horizon, just new and fresh and exciting. I think we all kind of felt like that.”

Thinking Years Kind School Past Felt Four Missing Comfortable High School Bigger Exciting Leaving All Kinds Horizon Four Years

Author:Matt Lanter

“I think all in all, one thing a lot of plays seem to be saying is that we need to, as black Americans, to make a connection with our past in order to determine the kind of future we're going to have. In other words, we simply need to know who we are in relation to our historical presence in America.”

Thinking Knows Needs Kind Play Seems America Past Order Black One Thing Connections Relation Historical Determine Who We Are Our Past

Author:August Wilson

“If we try to think back to the dim and distant past... what is it that helps us reconstruct those times, and to picture the lives of those who lived in them? It is their art... It is thanks to the hand, the companion of the mind, that civilization has arisen.”

Ifs Thinking Trying Mind Art Helping Hands Past Civilization Thanks Companion

Author:Maria Montessori

“I've been dressing Renee on the red carpet for the past three years, ... I think she always looks great. She has the right proportion for my clothes. She has that tiny waist and she loves fashion.”

Thinking Years Looks Past Three Fashion Clothes Red Tiny Proportion Three Years Dressings Carpet Red Carpet Love Fashion

Author:Carolina Herrera

“In the past when a country became as powerful as the United States, other countries would band together to clip its wings. But that isn't happening now and I don't think it's not going to happen, because other countries are not threatened by us, and they secretly appreciate the services that we provide, even if they don't usually say so.”

Ifs Thinking Country States Happens Together Past United Powerful United States Band Happenings Appreciate Wings Other Countries Threatened Clip

Author:Michael Mandelbaum

“Ive at times in my past been so unhappy, and thought, like, I would give anything for this not to be happening. And, you know, as people say, time passes, and then you think, Im kind of glad that happened to me.”

People Thinking Knows Giving Kind Past Happened Happenings Glad Unhappy My Past Time Passes

Author:Susan Choi

“Most of society thinks that biography is destiny, that the past equals the future, and of course it does if you live there...but what we really have to remind ourselves is that decision is the ultimate power.”

Ifs Thinking Inspirational Doe Past Courses Decision Destiny Ultimate Biographies Ultimate Power

Author:Tony Robbins

“Every generation rewrites the past. In easy times history is more or less of an ornamental art, but in times of danger we are driven to the written record by a pressing need to find answers to the riddles of today.... In times of change and danger when there is a quicksand of fear under men's reasoning, a sense of continuity with generations gone before can stretch like a lifeline across the scary present and get us past that idiot delusion of the exceptional Now that blocks good thinking.”

Source: Occasions and protests

“We sail within a vast sphere, ever drifting in uncertainty, driven from end to end. When we think to attach ourselves to any pointand to fasten to it, it wavers and leaves us; and if we follow it, it eludes our grasp, slips past us, and vanishes for ever. Nothing stays for us.”

Ifs Thinking Ends Past Knowledge Driven Uncertainty Spheres Slips Sail Drifting Elude Inconstancy

Book:Pensees

Source: Pensees

“Ah, Christ, I love you rings to the wild sky And I must think a little of the past: When I was ten I told a stinking lie That got a black boy whipped.”

Thinking Littles Past Lying Black Christ Boys Sky Love You Ten Guilt Rings Christmas Black Boy

Book:Collected Poems, 1919-1976

Source: Collected Poems, 1919-1976

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