Financial trouble, financial crisis, medical trouble, I’ve seen it all. But I never experienced a moment of breakdown or self-doubt, somehow.
Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself – and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine with them. That’s what real love amounts to – letting a person be what he really is.
The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.
If you are doing mindfulness meditation, you are doing it with your ability to attend to the moment.
Before you know it, I’m not going to be able to tie these boots up and do what I do in the ring for my whole life. We’re all getting older, so I’m trying to live in the moment and enjoy everything that’s being thrown at me.
The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness.
The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle.
Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans. It is lovely to be silly at the right moment.
We do survive every moment, after all, except the last one.
The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it’s dead for you.
Most humans are never fully present in the now, because unconsciously they believe that the next moment must be more important than this one. But then you miss your whole life, which is never not now.
From the first moment you accept to join a club, the best thing you can do and the most respectful thing to do is ask yourself: ‘What is the history behind this club?’
When I’m out there, you just have to react. That’s why you work on those throws. When you’re in the moment, you can’t think to yourself, ‘How do I get this to go 47 yards and be 2 yards inside the sideline?’
There’s always that moment on every movie where you just go, ‘Okay, this is that moment. I’m about to potentially fall flat on my face, and I might as well just dive in and see what happens.’
Life has changed after Rio. Winning a silver medal was a huge moment for me. It has come with a lot of responsibilities.
No one ever talks about the moment you found that you were white. Or the moment you found out you were black. That’s a profound revelation. The minute you find that out, something happens. You have to renegotiate everything.
In every phenomenon the beginning remains always the most notable moment.
Good or bad, everything we do is our best choice at that moment.
A president either is constantly on top of events or, if he hesitates, events will soon be on top of him. I never felt that I could let up for a moment.
My imperative is to seek every moment and to live so God is in control.
I’m attracted to roles that are unpredictable, and if I can get my hands on something like that, I’m thrilled. I like performances where you don’t know what’s coming, moment to moment.
Time move forward, and time move quick. So you just have to enjoy every second, every moment.
People give more importance to material things, it all seems to be a power game, while people ought be making the most of every moment as time is fleeting.
There is one thing the photograph must contain, the humanity of the moment. This kind of photography is realism. But realism is not enough – there has to be vision, and the two together can make a good photograph.
Narrow your life down to this moment. Your life situation may be full of problems – most life situations are – but find out if you have a problem at this moment. Do you have a problem now?
Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no laziness, no procrastination: never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.
I fell in love with Rwanda the moment I saw those verdant, rolling hills rise up beneath the wings of the plane as we descended toward Kigali airport.
Remember this: classics never make a comeback. They wait for that perfect moment to take the spotlight from overdone, tired trends.
A minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection.
The best version of surfing is not competing, I think. It’s just… it’s perfect. You’re perfectly present. You’re perfectly in the moment. You’re perfectly not thinking about anything else in the world. You’re just surfing. You’re surfing away with your friends or your family, and that’s it. You’re just there.
I sum up the prospects for 1967 in three short sentences. We are back on course. The ship is picking up speed. The economy is moving. Every seaman knows the command at such a moment: ‘steady as she goes’.
I think we were trying to get off Combat from the moment we were on Combat.
I shall think of Freddie Mercury every day – maybe for a moment, maybe for longer.
The moment an emotion or fact is transformed into a photograph it is no longer a fact but an opinion.
Each moment is perfect and heaven-sent, in that each moment holds the seeds for growth.
Luxury is anything that feels special. I mean, it can be a moment, it can be a walk on the beach, it could be a kiss from your child, or it could be a beautiful picture frame, a special fragrance. I think luxury doesn’t necessarily have to mean expensive.
I want to find that defining moment that you’re satisfied and you’ve done what you want to do in your life.
But only a brief moment is granted to the brave one breath or two, whose wage is the long nights of the grave.
If you look at little kids and wild animals, these are two groups of things that whenever I’m with them forces me to be in the moment.
The defining moment in American economic history is when Bill Clinton lobbied to get China into the World Trade Organization. It was the worst political and economic mistake in American history in the last 100 years.
Every moment is an organizing opportunity, every person a potential activist, every minute a chance to change the world.
The moment someone asks you to do something you don’t have the time or inclination to do is fraught with vulnerability.
We write to taste life twice: in the moment and in retrospection.
While overeating would be seen by some as an indulgence of self, it is in fact a profound rejection of self. It is a moment of self-betrayal and self-punishment, and anything but a commitment to one’s own well-being.
Since God knows our future, our personalities, and our capacity to listen, He isn’t ever going to say more to us than we can deal with at the moment.
I watched the Trade Center buildings go down from my balcony, and it was a terrifying moment. I couldn’t get my mind around it at all.
Innovation and disruption are the hallmarks of the technology world, and hardly a moment passes when we are not thinking, doing, or talking about these topics.
Eternity: a moment standing still for ever.
Dinner is often a very celebratory environment, a very safe place, a time to reflect and let the day go and enjoy good food and good wine. It’s a very peaceful moment during the day. A great dinner can change your day around.
For every moment of triumph, for every instance of beauty, many souls must be trampled.
No matter the amount of negativity you’re presented with, five minutes from now could be your best moment.
Always Do Your Best. Your best is going to change from moment to moment; it will be different when you are healthy as opposed to sick. Under any circumstance, simply do your best, and you will avoid self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.
Courage! I have shown it for years; think you I shall lose it at the moment when my sufferings are to end?
I love that moment just before the curtain goes up, whether I’m sitting in the audience or standing backstage. It’s full of expectation. It’s a thrill that’s unequaled anywhere.
Whether in a moment of peace and quiet or exhilarating excitement, savor every minute of every place.
Every moment is, in some ways, eternal. Once you put something into the world, it stays there.
A moment’s reflection shows that Liberalism is entirely negative. It is not a formative force, but always and only a disintegrating force.
That was the moment I wanted to use bitcoin: when I saw Harriet Tubman on a $20 bill. It’s like, when you see all the slave movies, it’s like, why you gotta keep reminding us about slavery? Why don’t you put Michael Jordan on a $20 bill?
Hope is the magic carpet that transports us from the present moment into the realm of infinite possibilities.
There is at least one point in the history of any company when you have to change dramatically to rise to the next level of performance. Miss that moment – and you start to decline.
Everyone has a moment of difficulty.
When you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it’s your world for the moment. I want to give that world to someone else. Most people in the city rush around so, they have no time to look at a flower. I want them to see it whether they want to or not.
However, even during the preparations for action, we laid our plans in such a manner that should there be progress through diplomatic negotiation, we would be well prepared to cancel operations at the latest moment that communication technology would have permitted.
