Moment Quotes

‘Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.’ – Buddha

‘We’re born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we’re not alone.’ – Orson Welles

‘There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.’ – Graham Greene

‘If you have the opportunity to play this game of life you need to appreciate every moment. A lot of people don’t appreciate the moment until it’s passed.’ – Kanye West

‘The journey is never ending. There’s always gonna be growth, improvement, adversity; you just gotta take it all in and do what’s right, continue to grow, continue to live in the moment.’ – Antonio Brown

‘In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.’ – Theodore Roosevelt

‘Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.’ – Omar Khayyam

‘I have great respect for the past. If you don’t know where you’ve come from, you don’t know where you’re going. I have respect for the past, but I’m a person of the moment. I’m here, and I do my best to be completely centered at the place I’m at, then I go forward to the next place.’ – Maya Angelou

‘I firmly believe that any man’s finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle – victorious.’ – Vince Lombardi

‘I just want to live each moment to the fullest. And enjoy life.’ – Kadeena Cox

‘Everything can change at any moment, suddenly and forever.’ – Paul Auster

‘If you carry joy in your heart, you can heal any moment.’ – Carlos Santana

‘Life is short, and every moment is precious.’ – Gad Saad

‘There is no end to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning.’ – Jiddu Krishnamurti

‘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.’ – Don Miguel Ruiz

‘The paradoxes of today are the prejudices of tomorrow, since the most benighted and the most deplorable prejudices have had their moment of novelty when fashion lent them its fragile grace.’ – Marcel Proust

‘Winning an award is always a special moment.’ – Ravi Kishan

‘I’ve been absolutely terrified every moment of my life – and I’ve never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do.’ – Georgia O’Keeffe

‘Every moment is an organizing opportunity, every person a potential activist, every minute a chance to change the world.’ – Dolores Huerta

‘Man looks in the abyss, there’s nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss.’ – Hal Holbrook

‘If you aren’t in the moment, you are either looking forward to uncertainty, or back to pain and regret.’ – Jim Carrey

‘Life was always a matter of waiting for the right moment to act.’ – Paulo Coelho

‘How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.’ – Anne Frank

‘There is never time in the future in which we will work out our salvation. The challenge is in the moment; the time is always now.’ – James Baldwin

‘It is through gratitude for the present moment that the spiritual dimension of life opens up.’ – Eckhart Tolle

‘Injury in general teaches you to appreciate every moment. I’ve had my share of injuries throughout my career. It’s humbling. It gives you perspective. No matter how many times I’ve been hurt, I’ve learned from that injury and come back even more humble.’ – Troy Polamalu

‘Every morning that I wake up and I’m breathing, I can feel it and take a moment to say, you know, ‘Thank God I’m alive for another day.’ – Ron Cephas Jones’ – Ron Cephas Jones

‘This is love: to fly toward a secret sky, to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment. First to let go of life. Finally, to take a step without feet.’ – Rumi

‘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.’ – Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

‘Recovery begins from the darkest moment.’ – John Major

‘Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it.’ – Oprah Winfrey

‘Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.’ – Benjamin Franklin

‘You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.’ – Henry David Thoreau

‘Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.’ – Tennessee Williams

‘I will thank God for the day and the moment I have.’ – Jim Valvano

‘We are born at a given moment, in a given place and, like vintage years of wine, we have the qualities of the year and of the season of which we are born. Astrology does not lay claim to anything more.’ – Carl Jung

‘The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.’ – Robert Frost

‘Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear. If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today.’ – Thich Nhat Hanh

‘The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed.’ – Swami Vivekananda

‘The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness.’ – Abraham Maslow

‘Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what’s going to happen next.’ – Gilda Radner

‘Just enjoy every moment – don’t stress. Just be yourself.’ – Mabel

‘There is no such thing as paranoia. Your worst fears can come true at any moment.’ – Hunter S. Thompson

‘The moment when you feel like giving up is right before your breakthrough.’ – Victoria Arlen

‘The challenge is to stay cool enough to handle the pressure in the moment so that you can succeed in the future.’ – Jurgen Klopp

‘I’ve always felt music is the only way to give an instantaneous moment the feel of slow motion. To romanticise it and glorify it and give it a soundtrack and a rhythm.’ – Taylor Swift

‘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.’ – Jim Morrison

‘The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it.’ – George Bernard Shaw

‘Life is short, and if we enjoy every moment of every day, then we will be happy no matter what happens or what changes along the way.’ – Gretchen Bleiler

‘Learn from the past, set vivid, detailed goals for the future, and live in the only moment of time over which you have any control: now.’ – Denis Waitley

‘I am building a fire, and everyday I train, I add more fuel. At just the right moment, I light the match.’ – Mia Hamm

‘Love the moment and the energy of that moment will spread beyond all boundaries.’ – Corita Kent

‘Heroism is endurance for one moment more.’ – George F. Kennan

‘Character is the ability to carry out a good resolution long after the excitement of the moment has passed.’ – Cavett Robert

‘You can’t let one bad moment spoil a bunch of good ones.’ – Dale Earnhardt

‘If you love someone, you say it, right then, out loud. Otherwise, the moment just passes you by.’ – Julia Roberts

‘I know that every good and excellent thing in the world stands moment by moment on the razor-edge of danger and must be fought for.’ – Thornton Wilder

‘Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans. It is lovely to be silly at the right moment.’ – Horace

‘This is the key to time management – to see the value of every moment.’ – Menachem Mendel Schneerson

‘It is not easy to be a pioneer – but oh, it is fascinating! I would not trade one moment, even the worst moment, for all the riches in the world.’ – Elizabeth Blackwell

‘Don’t make things too complicated. Try to relax, enjoy every moment, get used to everything.’ – Angelique Kerber

‘I have often been asked what I think about at the moment of take-off. Of course, no pilot sits and feels his pulse as he flies. He has to be part of the machine. If he thinks of anything but the task in hand, then trouble is probably just around the corner.’ – Amelia Earhart

‘These things bring you to reality as to how fragile you are; at the same moment you are doing something that nobody else is able to do. The same moment that you are seen as the best, the fastest and somebody that cannot be touched, you are enormously fragile.’ – Ayrton Senna

‘You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call ‘failure’ is not the falling down, but the staying down.’ – Mary Pickford

‘Live life for the moment because everything else is uncertain!’ – Louis Tomlinson

‘The human brain starts working the moment you are born and never stops until you stand up to speak in public.’ – George Jessel

‘Courage! I have shown it for years; think you I shall lose it at the moment when my sufferings are to end?’ – Marie Antoinette

‘A moment’s insight is sometimes worth a life’s experience.’ – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

‘Man is free at the moment he wishes to be.’ – Voltaire

‘Life is short, and we should respect every moment of it.’ – Orhan Pamuk

‘I think my worst problem is actually living in the moment and understanding everything that’s going on. I feel like I’m in my own bubble.’ – Kendrick Lamar

‘Every time I step on stage an’ see all of the lights or hear fans singing the words to my songs ,it’s a surreal moment for me.’ – A Boogie wit da Hoodie

‘I am not going to Heaven because I have preached to great crowds or read the Bible many times. I’m going to Heaven just like the thief on the cross who said in that last moment: ‘Lord, remember me.” – Billy Graham

‘You never know when a moment and a few sincere words can have an impact on a life.’ – Zig Ziglar

‘What matters is to live in the present, live now, for every moment is now. It is your thoughts and acts of the moment that create your future. The outline of your future path already exists, for you created its pattern by your past.’ – Sai Baba

‘The best way to pay for a lovely moment is to enjoy it.’ – Richard Bach

‘The moment that changed me for ever was the moment my first child was born. I was happy, filled with hope, and thought, ‘Now I understand the whole point of work, of life, of love.” – Paul Theroux

‘The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing… not healing, not curing… that is a friend who cares.’ – Henri Nouwen

‘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.’ – Elizabeth Cady Stanton

‘There is surely nothing other than the single purpose of the present moment. A man’s whole life is a succession of moment after moment. If one fully understands the present moment, there will be nothing else to do, and nothing else to pursue. Live being true to the single purpose of the moment.’ – Yamamoto Tsunetomo

‘Luck has nothing to do with it, because I have spent many, many hours, countless hours, on the court working for my one moment in time, not knowing when it would come.’ – Serena Williams

‘Every moment and every event of every man’s life on earth plants something in his soul.’ – Thomas Merton

‘It is better to die than to preserve this life by incurring disgrace. The loss of life causes but a moment’s grief, but disgrace brings grief every day of one’s life.’ – Chanakya

‘When we die our money, fame, and honors will be meaningless. We own nothing in this world. Everything we think we own is in reality only being loaned to us until we die. And on our deathbed at the moment of death, no one but God can save our souls.’ – Michael Huffington

‘I found the experience of falling in love or being in love was a death: a death of everything. You kind of watch yourself die in a wonderful way, and you experience for the briefest moment – if you see yourself for a moment through their eyes – everything you believed about yourself gone. In a death-and-rebirth sense.’ – Hozier

‘Compassion brings us to a stop, and for a moment we rise above ourselves.’ – Mason Cooley

‘No matter how dark the moment, love and hope are always possible.’ – George Chakiris

‘The moment we believe that success is determined by an ingrained level of ability as opposed to resilience and hard work, we will be brittle in the face of adversity.’ – Joshua Waitzkin

‘It is as if my life were magically run by two electric currents: joyous positive and despairing negative – whichever is running at the moment dominates my life, floods it.’ – Sylvia Plath

‘Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.’ – Henry Miller

‘Freedom of speech and thought matters, especially when it is speech and thought with which we disagree. The moment the majority decides to destroy people for engaging in thought it dislikes, thought crime becomes a reality.’ – Ben Shapiro

‘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.’ – Aerin Lauder

‘There is a real vulgarity in the way women dress at the moment. They show off too much and try too hard. They don’t understand where the line is between sexy and vulgar. I know where that line is.’ – Roberto Cavalli

‘Jazz is about being in the moment.’ – Herbie Hancock

‘All my possessions for a moment of time.’ – Elizabeth I

‘Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society dominating them.’ – Martin Luther King, Jr.

‘The power for creating a better future is contained in the present moment: You create a good future by creating a good present.’ – Eckhart Tolle

‘I stopped thinking; I just go out, and everything is in the moment. I just stop thinking and start moving – you just gotta be you.’ – Lil Uzi Vert

‘A line will take us hours maybe; Yet if it does not seem a moment’s thought, our stitching and unstitching has been naught.’ – William Butler Yeats

‘Happiness, for me, has to be real – life that is made of real conversations, of spending quality time with close friends, walks in nature and woods, praying, feeling real gratitude, reading good books, being able to be in the moment and hearing the sounds of nature.’ – Bhumika Chawla

‘Life has no meaning the moment you lose the illusion of being eternal.’ – Jean-Paul Sartre

‘Consider a tree for a moment. As beautiful as trees are to look at, we don’t see what goes on underground – as they grow roots. Trees must develop deep roots in order to grow strong and produce their beauty. But we don’t see the roots. We just see and enjoy the beauty. In much the same way, what goes on inside of us is like the roots of a tree.’ – Joyce Meyer

‘The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you’re an artist.’ – David Hockney

‘The art of life is to live in the present moment, and to make that moment as perfect as we can by the realization that we are the instruments and expression of God Himself.’ – Emmet Fox

‘Every particular in nature, a leaf, a drop, a crystal, a moment of time is related to the whole, and partakes of the perfection of the whole.’ – Ralph Waldo Emerson

‘Remember this: classics never make a comeback. They wait for that perfect moment to take the spotlight from overdone, tired trends.’ – Tabatha Coffey

‘A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.’ – Antoine de Saint-Exupery

‘Wisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life.’ – Hermann Hesse

‘I always did something I was a little not ready to do. I think that’s how you grow. When there’s that moment of ‘Wow, I’m not really sure I can do this,’ and you push through those moments, that’s when you have a breakthrough.’ – Marissa Mayer

‘For the meaning of life differs from man to man, from day to day and from hour to hour. What matters, therefore, is not the meaning of life in general but rather the specific meaning of a person’s life at a given moment.’ – Viktor E. Frankl

‘Every moment of resistance to temptation is a victory.’ – Frederick William Faber

‘In football, everything is possible, from the moment you work and you believe in your qualities.’ – Kylian Mbappe

‘Life gives you plenty of time to do whatever you want to do if you stay in the present moment.’ – Deepak Chopra

‘The moment there is suspicion about a person’s motives, everything he does becomes tainted.’ – Mahatma Gandhi

‘For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen.’ – Douglas Adams

‘I like the moment when I break a man’s ego.’ – Bobby Fischer

‘Life is but a moment, death also is but another.’ – Robert H. Schuller

‘Every moment is memorable to me.’ – Suga

‘Just as in earthly life lovers long for the moment when they are able to breathe forth their love for each other, to let their souls blend in a soft whisper, so the mystic longs for the moment when in prayer he can, as it were, creep into God.’ – Soren Kierkegaard

‘I’ve got big shoes to fill. This is my chance to do something. I have to seize the moment.’ – Andrew Jackson

‘The moment of change is the only poem.’ – Adrienne Rich

‘Any life is made up of a single moment, the moment in which a man finds out, once and for all, who he is.’ – Jorge Luis Borges

‘Take each day as it comes and focus on the present moment.’ – Vera Lynn

‘We are weighed down, every moment, by the conception and the sensation of Time. And there are but two means of escaping and forgetting this nightmare: pleasure and work. Pleasure consumes us. Work strengthens us. Let us choose.’ – Charles Baudelaire

‘I’m like a big 10-year-old when I’m on stage. I just go up there and do whatever I think is cool at the moment.’ – Tyler, The Creator

‘Hope is the magic carpet that transports us from the present moment into the realm of infinite possibilities.’ – H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

‘This is the moment when we must come together to save this planet. Let us resolve that we will not leave our children a world where the oceans rise and famine spreads and terrible storms devastate our lands.’ – Barack Obama

‘In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.’ – Leo Tolstoy

‘My love is a hummingbird sitting that quiet moment on the bough, as the same cat crouches.’ – Charles Bukowski

‘Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied.’ – Pearl S. Buck

‘All places where women are excluded tend downward to barbarism; but the moment she is introduced, there come in with her courtesy, cleanliness, sobriety, and order.’ – Harriet Beecher Stowe

‘Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.’ – Joseph Addison

‘At any given moment, public opinion is a chaos of superstition, misinformation and prejudice.’ – Gore Vidal

‘Every moment of light and dark is a miracle.’ – Walt Whitman

‘No matter what you achieve, what you want to aspire to be, or how famous and powerful you become, the most important thing is whether you are excited about each and every moment of your life because of your work and people around you.’ – Sushant Singh Rajput

‘Music does a lot of things for a lot of people. It’s transporting, for sure. It can take you right back, years back, to the very moment certain things happened in your life. It’s uplifting, it’s encouraging, it’s strengthening.’ – Aretha Franklin

‘I’m thankful for every moment.’ – Al Green

‘Donald Trump’s election was a watershed moment. Even those like me, who had previously pulled levers for candidates of both parties, felt that Mr. Trump had not only violated all sense of common decency, but, alarmingly, that he seemed to have no idea that there even existed such an unspoken code of civility and dignity.’ – Bari Weiss

‘How can you prove whether at this moment we are sleeping, and all our thoughts are a dream; or whether we are awake, and talking to one another in the waking state?’ – Plato

‘I believe that miracles happen every day. Every person is a miracle. Every moment is a miracle. If only we can open our eyes, we’ll see God’s love everywhere.’ – Bo Sanchez

‘Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible – it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.’ – Barbara De Angelis

‘Whatever I like, even after a long time, I still like it. And I reminisce about the moment when I first heard it. That’s what I love. Just remembering those moments.’ – G-Dragon

‘It’s an absolute honor to be taking part in the pageant for the Diamond Jubilee. This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity and will be a moment in history that will always be remembered. I’m really looking forward to being out on the river with friends and family. To mark this historic moment will be extremely special.’ – Steve McFadden

‘Once in one’s life, for one mortal moment, one must make a grab for immortality; if not, one has not lived.’ – Sylvester Stallone

‘The present moment, if you think about it, is the only time there is. No matter what time it is, it is always now.’ – Marianne Williamson

‘Anything can happen to anyone at any time and you shouldn’t just live through the days, or you lose them. You should do what you can to enjoy every moment.’ – Sarah Brightman

‘I never think about the play or visualize anything. I do what comes to me at that moment. Instinct. It has always been that way.’ – Lionel Messi

‘Every moment in our lives is a miracle we should enjoy instead of ignoring.’ – Yoko Ono

‘Fencing is a game of living chess, a match where reflexes only work in combination with intent, and mind and body must work together at every moment.’ – V. E. Schwab

‘History isn’t something you look back at and say it was inevitable, it happens because people make decisions that are sometimes very impulsive and of the moment, but those moments are cumulative realities.’ – Marsha P. Johnson

‘The moment the alarm goes off is the first test; it sets the tone for the rest of the day. The test is not a complex one: when the alarm goes off, do you get up out of bed, or do you lie there in comfort and fall back to sleep? If you have the discipline to get out of bed, you win – you pass the test.’ – Jocko Willink

‘We write to taste life twice: in the moment and in retrospection.’ – Anais Nin

‘From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Someday I intend reading it.’ – Groucho Marx

‘As long as you’re having fun, that’s the key. The moment it becomes a grind, it’s over.’ – Barry Gibb

‘I suppose that’s one of the ironies of life doing the wrong thing at the right moment.’ – Charlie Chaplin

‘Putting yourself out there is hard, but it’s so worth it. I don’t think anyone who has ever spoken out, or stood up or had a brave moment, has regretted it. It’s empowering and confidence-building and inspiring. Not only to other people, but to yourself.’ – Megan Rapinoe

‘There is nothing besides a spiritual world; what we call the world of the senses is the Evil in the spiritual world, and what we call Evil is only the necessity of a moment in our eternal evolution.’ – Franz Kafka

‘Catch, then, O catch the transient hour; Improve each moment as it flies!’ – St. Jerome

‘Just be thankful for what you have in the moment, but most importantly, work hard. The things that you work hard on have a lot of impact.’ – Santan Dave

‘Any unarmed people are slaves, or are subject to slavery at any given moment.’ – Huey Newton

‘I think, often, people who run away are people who got into things most enthusiastically, and then they want more. They just demand more of life than what is happening in the moment. Sometimes this is a great mistake, as it’s always a good deal different than you expect it.’ – Alice Munro

‘God isn’t present in the past or future. The great ‘I Am’ is in the present moment. When I claim that presence, I can get through anything today.’ – Regina Brett

‘Everyone goes through the ups and downs of living – fretting about the future, worrying about what happened. Music teaches us how to be in the moment.’ – David Sanborn

‘Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies.’ – Erich Fromm

‘Be grateful for the home you have, knowing that at this moment, all you have is all you need.’ – Sarah Ban Breathnach

‘The point of power is always in the present moment.’ – Louise L. Hay

‘The moment you’re born you’re done for.’ – Arnold Bennett

‘I live for the moment – not the future, not the past.’ – MS Dhoni

‘I think Sting would be denying his fans a great moment if Sting did not step into WWE competition at least once. I have always been a huge admirer of what Sting brings to the table and his relationship with his audience, and I would be dramatically disappointed if Sting does not wrestle a WWE match.’ – Paul Heyman

‘He is the best man who, when making his plans, fears and reflects on everything that can happen to him, but in the moment of action is bold.’ – Herodotus

‘You are lost the moment you know what the result will be.’ – Juan Gris

‘Gamble, cheat, lie, and steal. Let me explain: Gamble for your best shot in life – dare to take risks. Cheat those who would have you be less than you are. Lie in the arms of those you love. And finally, steal every moment of happiness.’ – Caitlyn Jenner

‘Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have. Make the Now the primary focus of your life.’ – Eckhart Tolle

‘Isn’t it the moment of most profound doubt that gives birth to new certainties? Perhaps hopelessness is the very soil that nourishes human hope; perhaps one could never find sense in life without first experiencing its absurdity.’ – Vaclav Havel

‘When obedience ceases to be an irritant and becomes our quest, in that moment God will endow us with power.’ – Ezra Taft Benson

‘Prefer a loss to a dishonest gain; the one brings pain at the moment, the other for all time.’ – Chilon

‘We do not wish to impoverish the environment any further, and yet we cannot for a moment forget the grim poverty of large numbers of people. Are not poverty and need the greatest polluters?’ – Indira Gandhi

‘Camera lies all the time. It’s all it does is lie, because when you choose this moment instead of this moment, when you… the moment you’ve made a choice, you’re lying about something larger. ‘Lying’ is an ugly word. I don’t mean lying. But any artist picks and chooses what they want to paint or write about or say. Photographers are the same.’ – Richard Avedon

‘Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why.’ – Kurt Vonnegut

‘It’s a moment that I’m after, a fleeting moment, but not a frozen moment.’ – Andrew Wyeth

‘Every moment there is creation, every moment destruction. There is no absolute creation, no absolute destruction. Both are movement, and that is eternal.’ – Ramana Maharshi

‘I would like to say every moment counts for you, so make the time that you spend for your dreams a very special moment, make sure that you do something that you’ll be happy with when you go back and look at yourself.’ – Jennie

‘Those who have the strength and the love to sit with a dying patient in the silence that goes beyond words will know that this moment is neither frightening nor painful, but a peaceful cessation of the functioning of the body.’ – Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

‘I shall endeavour still further to prosecute this inquiry, an inquiry I trust not merely speculative, but of sufficient moment to inspire the pleasing hope of its becoming essentially beneficial to mankind.’ – Edward Jenner

‘The moment that you feel that just possibly you are walking down the street naked… that’s the moment you may be starting to get it right.’ – Neil Gaiman

‘Every single moment is a coincidence.’ – Douglas Coupland

‘Exhaust the little moment. Soon it dies. And be it gash or gold it will not come Again in this identical guise.’ – Gwendolyn Brooks

‘It takes but one person, one moment, one conviction, to start a ripple of change.’ – Donna Brazile

‘Etretat is becoming more and more amazing. Now is the real moment: the beach with all its fine boats; it is superb, and I am enraged not to be more skillful in rendering all this. I would need two hands and hundreds of canvases.’ – Claude Monet

‘The arts, quite simply, nourish the soul. They sustain, comfort, inspire. There is nothing like that exquisite moment when you first discover the beauty of connecting with others in celebration of larger ideals and shared wisdom.’ – Gordon Gee

‘Never permit the pressure to exceed the pleasure of the moment, ever.’ – Joe Maddon

‘A reputation for a thousand years may depend upon the conduct of a single moment.’ – Ernest Bramah

‘I aimed at the Archduke. I do not remember what I thought at that moment.’ – Gavrilo Princip

‘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.’ – Hideki Tojo

‘A minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection.’ – Chuck Palahniuk

‘During my first semester of college, I raised my hand in a class and asked the professor to define a word I didn’t know. The word was holocaust, and I had to ask because, until that moment, I had never heard of it.’ – Tara Westover

‘This is a moment that I deeply wish my parents could have lived to share. My father would have enjoyed what you have so generously said of me-and my mother would have believed it.’ – Lyndon B. Johnson

‘Wherever men and women are persecuted because of their race, religion, or political views, that place must – at that moment – become the center of the universe.’ – Elie Wiesel

‘Fascism, the more it considers and observes the future and the development of humanity, quite apart from political considerations of the moment, believes neither in the possibility nor the utility of perpetual peace.’ – Benito Mussolini

‘That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.’ – Samuel Taylor Coleridge

‘Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what is seen during the moment.’ – Carl Sandburg

‘The moment for action has arrived, and I know that I can trust in you to save our country.’ – George B. McClellan

‘The moment you are old enough to take the wheel, responsibility lies with you.’ – J. K. Rowling

‘When I got married, the Sun ran the headline: ‘Here comes the bride, all fat and wide.’ Luckily, it was a few days after the wedding – but it was still hideous to read at a great romantic moment.’ – Jo Brand

‘The moment of victory is much too short to live for that and nothing else.’ – Martina Navratilova

‘If you wait for the perfect moment when all is safe and assured, it may never arrive. Mountains will not be climbed, races won, or lasting happiness achieved.’ – Maurice Chevalier

‘A lady’s imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.’ – Jane Austen

‘They are shooting The Thief Lord in Venice at the moment.’ – Cornelia Funke

‘I was only the servant of my country and had I, at any moment, failed to express her unflinching resolve to fight and conquer, I should at once have been rightly cast aside.’ – Winston Churchill

‘Every person remembers some moment in their life where they witnessed some injustice, big or small, and looked away because the consequences of intervening seemed too intimidating. But there’s a limit to the amount of incivility and inequality and inhumanity that each individual can tolerate. I crossed that line. And I’m no longer alone.’ – Edward Snowden

‘It is a very proud moment for our entire family that a movie has been made on our lives and we have taken a small village of Haryana to Hollywood.’ – Geeta Phogat

‘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.’ – Robert Frank

‘Time move forward, and time move quick. So you just have to enjoy every second, every moment.’ – Alexander Ovechkin

‘Life is intrinsically, well, boring and dangerous at the same time. At any given moment the floor may open up. Of course, it almost never does; that’s what makes it so boring.’ – Edward Gorey

‘No books ever go into my laboratory. The thing I am to do and the way are revealed to me the moment I am inspired to create something new. Without God to draw aside the curtain, I would be helpless. Only alone can I draw close enough to God to discover His secrets.’ – George Washington Carver

‘One is never more on trial than in the moment of excessive good fortune.’ – Lew Wallace

‘I think I am difficult to satisfy, because when I win something, I’m already thinking about the next step, and that is maybe a problem for me. I’m not enjoying the moment. I’m already on the mission to win the next trophy.’ – Zlatan Ibrahimovic

‘I really concentrate on what’s on my plate at the moment and do the very best I can.’ – Ruth Bader Ginsburg

‘Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.’ – Thomas Jefferson

‘Metamorphosis has always been the greatest symbol of change for poets and artists. Imagine that you could be a caterpillar one moment and a butterfly the next.’ – Louie Schwartzberg

‘People always say time heals. Time doesn’t necessarily heal anything. It allows you to manage things. There are occasions where you feel the pain as if it just happened, but you know that it’s a fleeting moment.’ – Jason Reynolds

‘Motherhood has taught me the meaning of living in the moment and being at peace. Children don’t think about yesterday, and they don’t think about tomorrow. They just exist in the moment.’ – Jessalyn Gilsig

‘Lose not yourself in a far off time, seize the moment that is thine.’ – Friedrich Schiller

‘Take your mind off the problems for a moment, and focus on the positive possibilities. Consider how very much you are able to do.’ – Ralph Marston

‘I believe sustainable use is the greatest propaganda in wildlife conservation at the moment.’ – Steve Irwin

‘Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.’ – Oprah Winfrey

‘With a fast pace world and wanting to reach and accomplish goals sometimes we neglect to pause and just enjoy the moment.’ – Paul Millsap

‘Truth is the most bitter to accept, swallow and digest it. The moment you speak truth, you lose your popularity. But I don’t care.’ – Bikram Choudhury

‘It’s always fun to reminisce for a moment. You can only let that happen for a moment and then you have to move on and take care of the task at hand.’ – Justin Tucker

‘The beauty of art is that it allows you to slow down, and for a moment, things that once seemed unfamiliar become precious to you.’ – Kehinde Wiley

‘The real meditation practice is how we live our lives from moment to moment to moment.’ – Jon Kabat-Zinn

‘The mind of a 19-year-old is very different from the mind of a 26-year-old. You grow. You get into better relationships. You experience more, meet more people, better people. But when you’re in a dark hole at an earlier point in your life – you write about the mindset you’re in at that moment.’ – The Weeknd

‘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?’ – Candace Owens

‘Men are so simple and yield so readily to the desires of the moment that he who will trick will always find another who will suffer to be tricked.’ – Niccolo Machiavelli

‘I used to have all these plans and think ‘Ah, I have my whole life figured out’, but then I realized no matter how much I plan: life happens! So I find myself living day to day trying to do my best, embracing every moment as a learning opportunity and chance to get to know myself a little more.’ – Q’orianka Kilcher

‘When I try to appreciate something, it feels like my hands are around the moment, trying to squeeze it. It’s when you really release yourself of the responsibility to be enjoying things that you actually do.’ – Timothee Chalamet

‘It’s a rare moment when we take a break from the tribulations of the daily rat race to reflect on assumptions and values that we casually accept as gospel.’ – Graydon Carter

‘I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse’s good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment.’ – Ludwig Wittgenstein

‘Both the ‘Gregor’ series and ‘The Hunger Games’ are what I call lightning-bolt ideas. There was a moment where the idea came to me. With ‘The Hunger Games,’ the lightning bolt sort of hit at a moment when I was channel surfing between reality TV and the coverage of the Iraq war.’ – Suzanne Collins

‘I have seen (as far as it can be seen) many persons changed in a moment from the spirit of horror, fear, and despair to the spirit of hope, joy, peace; and from sinful desires, till then reigning over them, to a pure desire of doing the will of God.’ – John Wesley

‘It is warm work; and this day may be the last to any of us at a moment. But mark you! I would not be elsewhere for thousands.’ – Horatio Nelson

‘Always say ‘yes’ to the present moment… Surrender to what is. Say ‘yes’ to life – and see how life starts suddenly to start working for you rather than against you.’ – Eckhart Tolle

‘Hey, I live life by the moment. I have no regrets. I live it to the fullest. I have made a lot of mistakes in my life and I’m learning from them. I’m ‘The Situation.” – Michael Sorrentino

‘Uncertainty is the worst of all evils until the moment when reality makes us regret uncertainty.’ – Alphonse Karr

‘You are, at this moment, standing, right in the middle of your own ‘acres of diamonds.” – Earl Nightingale

‘People have to understand one thing: at the age of 18, I arrived at a dream club like Manchester United. It was a dream come true. But, even at that moment, I was thinking about playing in England for some years and then going to play in Spain. Even at that time I was thinking that way, and I always gave 100% everything.’ – Cristiano Ronaldo

‘Horror fiction shows us that the control we believe we have is purely illusory, and that every moment we teeter on chaos and oblivion.’ – Clive Barker

‘The world is a perpetual caricature of itself; at every moment it is the mockery and the contradiction of what it is pretending to be.’ – George Santayana

‘I try as much as possible to take a moment every so often, pause, and enjoy the journey.’ – Tommaso Ciampa

‘Whether in a moment of peace and quiet or exhilarating excitement, savor every minute of every place.’ – Lorrie Morgan

‘The whole aspect of cinema and film festivals should be a moment to come together and celebrate art and humanity. It would be a shame if there was such a divide.’ – Keanu Reeves

‘A good snapshot stops a moment from running away.’ – Eudora Welty

‘Our birth is nothing but our death begun, As tapers waste the moment they take fire.’ – Edward Young

‘The big ‘Aha!’ moment is that the trauma never goes away.’ – Viola Davis

‘When we look for what’s best in the person we happen to be with at the moment, we’re doing what God does, so in appreciating our neighbor, we’re participating in something truly sacred.’ – Fred Rogers

‘I wouldn’t change a thing about what I’ve done in the past because what may have been bad choices have all led me to this moment.’ – Minnie Driver

‘A blunder at the right moment is better than cleverness at the wrong time.’ – Carolyn Wells

‘Nearly every moment of every day, we have the opportunity to give something to someone else – our time, our love, our resources.’ – S. Truett Cathy

‘My best moment? I have a lot of good moments but the one I prefer is when I kicked the hooligan.’ – Eric Cantona

‘I have spent more than half a lifetime trying to express the tragic moment.’ – John Locke

‘I kiss the soil as if I placed a kiss on the hands of a mother, for the homeland is our earthly mother. I consider it my duty to be with my compatriots in this sublime and difficult moment.’ – Pope John Paul II

‘My happiest moment is the day they call wrap and I’m free. I’m not looking back.’ – Brad Pitt

‘The dog lives for the day, the hour, even the moment.’ – Robert Falcon Scott

‘When we adopt a dog or any pet, we know it is going to end with us having to say goodbye, but we still do it. And we do it for a very good reason: They bring so much joy and optimism and happiness. They attack every moment of every day with that attitude.’ – W. Bruce Cameron

‘Even in our moment of greatest darkness, there is light. And there is hope. And there is hope not only for our own lives, but we should be hopeful about our ability to change the world.’ – Ritchie Torres

‘The greatest thing is, at any moment, to be willing to give up who we are in order to become all that we can be.’ – Max de Pree

‘We have to keep an eye on the future with a sense of the past in every passing moment of the present.’ – Amanda Harlech

‘There’s certainly never a dull moment in the Stewart clan.’ – Penny Lancaster

‘I can be jubilant one moment and pensive the next, and a cloud could go by and make that happen.’ – Bob Dylan

‘God is always coming to you in the Sacrament of the Present Moment. Meet and receive Him there with gratitude in that sacrament.’ – Evelyn Underhill

‘My first priority is my children. If at any moment I put aside something that I want to do to be a better parent than that is more than okay for me.’ – Monica

‘What you do, what you say, how you react to critical situations defines not just the moment, but it defines and shapes you.’ – Christiane Amanpour

‘We have more possibilities available in each moment than we realize.’ – Thich Nhat Hanh

‘The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.’ – Mignon McLaughlin

‘No man can stand still; the moment progress is not made, retrogression begins. If the blade is not kept sharp and bright, the law of rust will assert its claim.’ – Orison Swett Marden

‘People often remark that I’m pretty lucky. Luck is only important in so far as getting the chance to sell yourself at the right moment. After that, you’ve got to have talent and know how to use it.’ – Frank Sinatra

‘I’m very shy, and I shy away from people. But the moment I hit the stage, it’s a different feeling I get nerve from somewhere; maybe it’s because it’s something I love to do.’ – Ella Fitzgerald

‘We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner at the right moment and for the right length of time.’ – Aristotle

‘The moment my doctor told me, I went silent. My mum and dad were with me, then we all went to pieces. I was saying, No, I’ve got my flight to Sydney in two hours. I’m getting on a plane.’ – Kylie Minogue

‘That’s the nice thing about being a live act. I can get the audience, but it’s for the moment. It’s like, ‘Can I do it tonight?’ And you can see when people like you. But on record – and with the pen – it’s almost for all time. Really, a lot more thought has to go into it.’ – Phil Lynott

‘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.’ – Charles Stanley

‘The moment I let fear slip in is the moment that the fights are gonna start getting closer and closer.’ – Jon Jones

‘In the future, maybe quantum mechanics will teach us something equally chilling about exactly how we exist from moment to moment of what we like to think of as time.’ – Richard K. Morgan

‘The moment is everything. Don’t think about tomorrow; don’t think about yesterday: think about exactly what you’re doing right now and live it and dance it and breath it and be it.’ – Wendy Whelan

‘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.’ – Andy Grove

‘The miracles of the church seem to me to rest not so much upon faces or voices or healing power coming suddenly near to us from afar off, but upon our perceptions being made finer, so that for a moment our eyes can see and our ears can hear what is there about us always.’ – Willa Cather

‘Every moment is an experience.’ – Jake Roberts

‘Good or bad, everything we do is our best choice at that moment.’ – William Glasser

‘Rest assured that whatever station of life we are placed, princely or lowly, it contains the lessons and experiences necessary at the moment for our evolution, and gives us the best advantage for the development of ourselves.’ – Edward Bach

‘To become mindfully aware of our surroundings is to bring our thinking back to our present moment reality and to the possibility of some semblance of serenity in the face of circumstances outside our ability to control.’ – Jeff Kober

‘There’s no need to look too far into the future or the past. Enjoy the moment.’ – Ashleigh Barty

‘The single worst moment of my life… was the moment I was born.’ – Jack Kevorkian

‘Everything is a subject. Every subject has a rhythm. To feel it is the raison detre. The photograph is a fixed moment of such a raison detre, which lives on in itself.’ – Andre Kertesz

‘Each moment is perfect and heaven-sent, in that each moment holds the seeds for growth.’ – Suzan-Lori Parks

‘I’m extremely happy that I could win the gold medal. It’s a special moment in my career.’ – Ma Long

‘A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new; when an age ends; and when the soul of a nation long suppressed finds utterance.’ – Jawaharlal Nehru

‘There are people who have never been taught anything, and know everything, have never been anywhere, and understand everything, have never given a moment’s thought to anything, and comprehend everything. ‘Blessed hands’ is the name bestowed on these fortunate beings. The world envies, honours and respects them.’ – Sholom Aleichem

‘I called to the other men that the sky was clearing, and then a moment later I realized that what I had seen was not a rift in the clouds but the white crest of an enormous wave.’ – Ernest Shackleton

‘We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing.’ – R. D. Laing

‘I always get carried away when I’m kissing. I just go nuts! Walking away after it is the strangest moment for me. It’s embarrassing – not knowing what to say to each other.’ – Robert Pattinson

‘My own valuation moment: When I started ‘Antiques Roadshow,’ John Benjamin looked at my engagement ring, which is Victorian. I sat there as a visitor would and he dated it, talked me through the stone, which is an opal, and which mine it would have been from.’ – Fiona Bruce

‘I really believe in fate and that everything happens for a reason. There’s always a plan. Even things that happen to you that feel like an obstacle or a disaster in the moment will pave the way for your next step.’ – Fala Chen

‘When an audience is laughing with a character, they make themselves so vulnerable, and they open up. They expose their heart the moment they’re laughing, because they’re relaxed and they’re disarmed.’ – Phoebe Waller-Bridge

‘Cycling can be lonely, but in a good way. It gives you a moment to breathe and think, and get away from what you’re working on.’ – David Byrne

‘At the moment of death, when the seed atom in the heart is ruptured, which contains all the experience of the past life in a panoramic picture, the spirit leaves its physical body, taking with it the finer bodies.’ – Max Heindel

‘In the world of photography, you get to share a captured moment with other people.’ – James Wilson

‘I cannot say for certain if there is such a thing as love at first sight, but I do know that the moment I first glimpsed Winnie Nomzamo, I knew that I wanted to have her as my wife.’ – Nelson Mandela

‘I’ve never been so star struck in my life as when I met President Obama and Bill Clinton… and at the same time, no less! I’m not one to be at a loss for words, and that was a moment when I really was speechless. It was a big, big night.’ – Megan Hilty

‘All I know is that every moment we’ve had as The New Day has been amazing. Just awesome.’ – Kofi Kingston

‘The moment you give up your principles, and your values, you are dead, your culture is dead, your civilization is dead. Period.’ – Oriana Fallaci

‘What’s a bigger mystery box than a movie theater? You go to the theater, you’re just so excited to see anything – the moment the lights go down is often the best part.’ – J. J. Abrams

‘A desire arises in the mind. It is satisfied immediately another comes. In the interval which separates two desires a perfect calm reigns in the mind. It is at this moment freed from all thought, love or hate. Complete peace equally reigns between two mental waves.’ – Swami Sivananda

‘We’re going to have a moment. It’s coming: just that breakthrough that’s going to give us a cool factor, and more people will want to be a part of it. Because that, to me, is the only thing we’re lacking – that social thing: ‘It’s cool to go to a WNBA game.” – Sue Bird

‘I have discovered the secret of happiness – it is work, either with the hands or the head. The moment I have something to do, the draughts are open and my chimney draws, and I am happy.’ – John Burroughs

‘Once you permit those who are convinced of their own superior rightness to censor and silence and suppress those who hold contrary opinions, just at that moment the citadel has been surrendered.’ – Archibald MacLeish

‘When I took the habit, the Lord immediately showed me how He favours those who do violence to themselves in order to serve Him. No one saw what I endured… At the moment of my entrance into this new state I felt a joy so great that it has never failed me even to this day; and God converted the dryness of my soul into a very great tenderness.’ – Saint Teresa of Avila

‘Anything can go wrong, but you can’t think about it all the time. You have to enjoy every moment.’ – JoJo Siwa

‘When I eat with my friends, it is a moment of real pleasure, when I really enjoy my life.’ – Monica Bellucci

‘With an undefended heart, we can fall in love with life over and over every day. We can become children of wonder, grateful to be walking on earth, grateful to belong with each other and to all of creation. We can find our true refuge in every moment, in every breath.’ – Tara Brach

‘In history as in human life, regret does not bring back a lost moment and a thousand years will not recover something lost in a single hour.’ – Stefan Zweig

‘Everyone wants to be safe. Well, I got news for you: You can’t be safe. Life’s not safe. Your work isn’t safe. When you leave the house, it isn’t safe. The air you breathe isn’t going to be safe, not for very long. That’s why you have to enjoy the moment.’ – Lemmy

‘People talk about perfect timing, but I think everything is perfect in its moment; you just want to capture that.’ – Eddie Huang

‘Your entire life only happens in this moment. The present moment is life itself. Yet, people live as if the opposite were true and treat the present moment as a stepping stone to the next moment – a means to an end.’ – Eckhart Tolle

‘You have to rely on your preparation. You got to really be passionate and try to prepare more than anyone else, and put yourself in a position to succeed, and when the moment comes you got to enjoy, relax, breathe and rely on your preparation so that you can perform and not be anxious or filled with doubt.’ – Steve Nash

‘Be grateful. That’s one of the most important lessons in life, I think, is to just be grateful for every minute, every moment.’ – Stephanie McMahon

‘A great hallmark of mental wellness is the ability to be in the present moment, fully and with no thoughts of being elsewhere.’ – Wayne Dyer

‘Enjoy every moment: you never know when things might change.’ – Natalie Imbruglia

‘The closing of a door can bring blessed privacy and comfort – the opening, terror. Conversely, the closing of a door can be a sad and final thing – the opening a wonderfully joyous moment.’ – Andy Rooney

‘When my father died in my arms it had such a profound affect on me that at that very moment when my dad passed I realized that I needed to face my own fears.’ – Criss Angel

‘I think that a man should not live beyond the age when he begins to deteriorate, when the flame that lighted the brightest moment of his life has weakened.’ – Fidel Castro

‘I like the evening in India, the one magic moment when the sun balances on the rim of the world, and the hush descends, and ten thousand civil servants drift homeward on a river of bicycles, brooding on the Lord Krishna and the cost of living.’ – James Cameron

‘One thing is sure. We have to do something. We have to do the best we know how at the moment… If it doesn’t turn out right, we can modify it as we go along.’ – Franklin D. Roosevelt

‘I don’t get caught up in the moment.’ – Ray Dalio

‘The judiciary must not take on the coloration of whatever may be popular at the moment. We are guardian of rights, and we have to tell people things they often do not like to hear.’ – Rose Bird

‘Our ancestors are totally essential to our every waking moment, although most of us don’t even have the faintest idea about their lives, their trials, their hardships or challenges.’ – Annie Lennox

‘Science, as illustrated by the printing press, the telegraph, the railway, is a double-edged sword. At the same moment that it puts an enormous power in the hands of the good man, it also offers an equal advantage to the evil disposed.’ – Richard Jefferies

‘His heart was like a sensitive plant, that opens for a moment in the sunshine, but curls up and shrinks into itself at the slightest touch of the finger, or the lightest breath of wind.’ – Anne Bronte

‘Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn’t the work he is supposed be doing at that moment.’ – Robert Benchley

‘The moment a little boy is concerned with which is a jay and which is a sparrow, he can no longer see the birds or hear them sing.’ – Eric Berne

‘Exploring is an innate part of being human. We’re all explorers when we’re born. Unfortunately, it seems to get drummed out of many of us as we get older, but it’s there, I think, in all of us. And for me that moment of discovery is just so thrilling, on any level, that I think anybody that’s experienced it is pretty quickly addicted to it.’ – Edith Widder

‘We have to get back to the beauty of just being alive in this present moment.’ – Mary McDonnell

‘This is a moment I will cherish forever… the first man to score 500 runs.’ – Brian Lara

‘Every photo you take communicates something about a moment in time – a brief slice of time of where you were, who you were with, and what you were doing.’ – Kevin Systrom

‘My life is every moment of my life. It is not a culmination of the past.’ – Hugh Leonard

‘Authoritarians have always been here. But the features of a given moment make that way of thinking more or less appealing. Germany in the 1920s, when people are starving, suddenly makes ‘populist’ answers and scapegoating different groups as the source of the problem much more appealing.’ – Robert Sapolsky

‘I would argue that nothing gives life more purpose than the realization that every moment of consciousness is a precious and fragile gift.’ – Steven Pinker

‘I must say, I always – from experience, when I watch TV shows and I see characters leave without a proper explanation or leave with not enough time, I get irritated. I like it when there’s a clean-cut reason or a defining moment where they have to go. Whether that’s death or not, I think that’s subjective.’ – Alycia Debnam-Carey

‘Live in the present moment. The past and future are nonexistent. Only the present can be grasped or, better, embraced.’ – Stephen Hough

‘I just keep getting better and keep learning. Keep an open mind, and live in the moment, and love what I do. Discipline myself, and hard work.’ – Glover Teixeira

‘Man’s naked form belongs to no particular moment in history; it is eternal, and can be looked upon with joy by the people of all ages.’ – Auguste Rodin

‘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.’ – Jane Seymour

‘The nature of the video camera really makes you focus on the present. Since I have always been a diarist filmmaker, not one who stages scenes with actors, it has always been about the present moment.’ – Jonas Mekas

‘Every moment contains an opportunity to create feelings of satisfaction and excitement in a customer. It’s up to retailers to make it happen.’ – Neil Blumenthal

‘The true Christian is called to be a soldier and must behave as such from the day of his conversion to the day of his death. He is not meant to live a life of religious ease, indolence and security. He must never imagine for a moment that he can sleep and doze along the way to heaven, like one traveling in an easy carriage.’ – J. C. Ryle

‘To put down an ideogram of a table so that people will recognize it as a table is not the work of a painter, but to sense it for a moment as a magic carpet with a leg hanging down at each corner is the beginning of a painter’s imagination.’ – Frank Auerbach

‘Because God gave you your makeup and superintended every moment of your past, including all the hardship, pain, and struggles, He wants to use your words in a unique manner. No one else can speak through your vocal cords, and, equally important, no one else has your story.’ – Charles R. Swindoll

‘Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all: only our characters are steadfast, not our gold.’ – Euripides

‘Not to discriminate every moment some passionate attitude in those about us, and in the very brilliancy of their gifts some tragic dividing on their ways, is, on this short day of frost and sun, to sleep before evening.’ – Walter Pater

‘We are creatures of the moment; we live from one little space to another, and only one interest at a time fills these.’ – William Dean Howells

‘The moment that changed me for ever was when I had my first seminar with my history professor at the University of Sussex. I realised that history would answer all the questions I had spent my life asking. It was an extraordinary moment.’ – Philippa Gregory

‘There wasn’t a key moment when I knew I wanted to quit.’ – Chris Cornell

‘The arguments in the Brexit vote and in the American presidential campaign are about the same. In a friendly way, may I also give some advice to the American people to make the right choice when the moment comes.’ – Francois Hollande

‘I am trying to make art that relates to the deepest and most mythic concerns of human kind and I believe that, at this moment of history, feminism is humanism.’ – Judy Chicago

‘I feel myself part of something. Not only being part of a community but part of an actual moment and a movement of Irish writing and art. That sense of being part of the whole thing is the deepest joy.’ – Seamus Heaney

‘I did not know it then, but Frida had already become the most important fact in my life. And would continue to be, up to the moment she died, 27 years later.’ – Diego Rivera

‘The experiencing self lives in the moment; it is the one that answers the question, ‘Does it hurt?’ or ‘What were you thinking about just now?’ The remembering self is the one that answers questions about the overall evaluation of episodes or periods of one’s life, such as a stay in the hospital or the years since one left college.’ – Daniel Kahneman

‘The right man is the one who seizes the moment.’ – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

‘Public hangings are teaching moments. Every company has to do it. A teaching moment is worth a thousand CEO speeches. CEOs can talk and blab each day about culture, but the employees all know who the jerks are. They could name the jerks for you. It’s just cultural. People just don’t want to do it.’ – Jack Welch

‘There is a universal, intelligent, life force that exists within everyone and everything. It resides within each one of us as a deep wisdom, an inner knowing. We can access this wonderful source of knowledge and wisdom through our intuition, an inner sense that tells us what feels right and true for us at any given moment.’ – Shakti Gawain

‘Travel stories teach geography; insect stories lead the child into natural science; and so on. The teacher, in short, can use reading to introduce her pupils to the most varied subjects; and the moment they have been thus started, they can go on to any limit guided by the single passion for reading.’ – Maria Montessori

‘You could write a song about some kind of emotional problem you are having, but it would not be a good song, in my eyes, until it went through a period of sensitivity to a moment of clarity. Without that moment of clarity to contribute to the song, it’s just complaining.’ – Joni Mitchell

‘There is nothing wrong with dedication and goals, but if you focus on yourself, all the lights fade away and you become a fleeting moment in life.’ – Pete Maravich

‘Ask any successful person to look back over the events of his or her life, and chances are there’ll be a turning point of one kind or another. It doesn’t matter if that success has come on a ball field or in a boardroom, in a research laboratory or on a campaign trail – it can usually be traced to some pivotal moment.’ – Bill Rancic

‘I want to be a recording artist for my whole entire life. But Broadway is something I would come back to at any given moment. I love, love, love doing theater.’ – Ariana Grande

‘The moment is supreme.’ – Franz Schubert

‘Most whites live, grow, play, learn, love, work and die primarily in social and geographic racial segregation. Yet, our society does not teach us to see this as a loss. Pause for a moment and consider the magnitude of this message: We lose nothing of value by having no cross-racial relationships.’ – Robin DiAngelo

‘There is something in the way that we are now, with our cell phones, and people are not looking at each other and not being in the moment with each other, that kids feel isolated.’ – Lady Gaga

‘The most significant moment in the course of intellectual development, which gives birth to the purely human forms of practical and abstract intelligence, occurs when speech and practical activity, two previously completely independent lines of development, converge.’ – Lev Vygotsky

‘More than anything, praying just helps me to concentrate and let go of things that don’t matter in that moment. It gives me peace knowing I’m in good hands.’ – Katie Ledecky

‘The happiest moment of my life was probably when my daughter was born.’ – David Duchovny

‘A great writer creates a world of his own and his readers are proud to live in it. A lesser writer may entice them in for a moment, but soon he will watch them filing out.’ – Cyril Connolly

‘For every moment of triumph, there is an unequal and opposite feeling of despair. Take that iconic photograph of Muhammad Ali standing triumphantly over the prostrate, semiconscious wreckage of Sonny Liston. Great photo. Now think of Liston. Do the pleasure/pain calculus.’ – Charles Krauthammer

‘The audience is the best judge of anything. They cannot be lied to. Truth brings them closer. A moment that lags – they’re gonna cough.’ – Barbra Streisand

‘Radical common sense is the wisdom gleaned from the past that recognizes the perishable opportunities of the moment. It is the willingness to admit error and the refusal to be deterred by failure.’ – Marilyn Ferguson

‘The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transformed.’ – Jiddu Krishnamurti

‘I remember thinking, ‘If I don’t love the woman that I look at in the mirror, I am never going to be successful.’ That was the moment I had to start convincing myself to look in the mirror and start saying, ‘I love you.” – Ashley Graham

‘I’m not an active person on social media, really. I always get nervous tweeting anything. The moment I tweet, I get this plummeting sense of regret. I delete roughly 95 percent of my tweets immediately.’ – Charlotte Ritchie

‘Your home is regarded as a model home, your life as a model life. But all this splendor, and you along with it… it’s just as though it were built upon a shifting quagmire. A moment may come, a word can be spoken, and both you and all this splendor will collapse.’ – Henrik Ibsen

‘The moment that we realize our attention has wandered is the magic moment of the practice, because that’s the moment we have the chance to be really different. Instead of judging ourselves, and berating ourselves, and condemning ourselves, we can be gentle with ourselves.’ – Sharon Salzberg

‘There is a divine moment in our lives when we all become one. It’s called procreation, and it is reborn, continually and forever.’ – Dirk Benedict

‘No country can act wisely simultaneously in every part of the globe at every moment of time.’ – Henry Kissinger

‘Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little.’ – Agnes de Mille

‘The creative act lasts but a brief moment, a lightning instant of give-and-take, just long enough for you to level the camera and to trap the fleeting prey in your little box.’ – Henri Cartier-Bresson

‘You kind of have to celebrate the moment that you get to create something that you love that falls into the parameters of a 3-minute-and-20-second song, to try to be creative inside of those parameters.’ – Tyler Joseph

‘We need to have complete certainty that things will work out, not because we are righteous or wise, but because of the time, the effort, the prayers, and the tools we are using. From the moment we are given awareness about some bigger picture or mission, we have to have complete focus on what to do to get to that place.’ – Yehuda Berg

‘But only a brief moment is granted to the brave one breath or two, whose wage is the long nights of the grave.’ – Muhammad Iqbal

‘It is only in the act of nursing that a woman realizes her motherhood in visible and tangible fashion; it is a joy of every moment.’ – Honore de Balzac

‘I’m grateful for always this moment, the now, no matter what form it takes.’ – Eckhart Tolle

‘It was always going to be difficult, no matter what I’d set up, no matter how many children I have got to take my mind off things. There was always going to be a moment when I finished playing, that I was going to find tough.’ – David Beckham

‘We do not pray to God to instruct Him as to what He should do; neither for a moment must we presume to dictate the method of the divine working.’ – Charles Spurgeon

‘The greatest moments are those when you see the result pop up in a graph or in your statistics analysis – that moment you realise you know something no one else does and you get the pleasure of thinking about how to tell them.’ – Emily Oster

‘It’s important to have people around you with enough confidence to say if you are not acting in a good way. Normally, when you are at the top, people say everything is fantastic. Probably in that moment it is what you want to hear, but it’s best to be reminded how to act properly.’ – Rafael Nadal

‘For the show, it’s really important that we remember that Lucifer is the Devil. It’s important for Lucifer sometimes to remember that he’s the Devil: to keep the notion that he is a wild animal that is seemingly being tamed but, at any moment, could snap.’ – Tom Ellis

‘My speaking style was criticised by no less an authority than Arnold Schwarzenegger. It was a low moment, my friends, to have my rhetorical skills denounced by a monosyllabic Austrian cyborg.’ – Boris Johnson

‘It’s all about balance and, I think, being in the moment.’ – Jennie Finch

‘Satan, really, is the romantic youth of Jesus re-appearing for a moment.’ – James Joyce

‘I am always looking for that nuance, that moment of truth, and you can’t really do that fast.’ – Paul Thomas Anderson

‘A rare experience of a moment at daybreak, when something in nature seems to reveal all consciousness, cannot be explained at noon. Yet it is part of the day’s unity.’ – Charles Ives

‘The moment people feel they know what to expect from you, your spell on them is broken. More: You have ceded them power.’ – Robert Greene

‘You don’t always realize the impact you have on people’s lives. You just think ‘I’m an actor, I don’t think I’m doing anything particularly important in life’ and then you suddenly realize that actually for a fleeting moment you do make a difference to somebody’s life – it has an impact.’ – Sarah Lancashire

‘Photography is like a moment, an instant. You need a half-second to get the photo. So it’s good to capture people when they are themselves.’ – Patrick Demarchelier

‘Reality shows are all the rage on TV at the moment, but that’s not reality, it’s just another aesthetic form of fiction.’ – Steven Soderbergh

”Deal or No Deal’ works nicely with my ADD/ADHD symptoms. I show up, meet the contestants, and move around the set. I’m not stuck behind a pedestal reading trivia questions. I’ve always had problems sitting still and listening for long periods of time. The show spares me these challenges. I can live in the moment. It’s like a standup act.’ – Howie Mandel

‘The current state of knowledge is a moment in history, changing just as rapidly as the state of knowledge in the past has ever changed and, in many instances, more rapidly.’ – Jean Piaget

‘As we wander, grieving, in yet another dark moment, amid our pain we must struggle to remember the redemptive power of love and hope.’ – Ephraim Mirvis

‘When it comes down to that moment, when it’s me against you, you know in your head whether you worked hard enough. You can try to lie to yourself. You can try to tell yourself that you put in the time. But you know – and so do I.’ – J. J. Watt

‘From the moment I open my eyes, I’m trying to free my body. I’m trying to get looser, more flexible, to gain control. Movement is medicine to me.’ – Conor McGregor

‘It’s impossible, I think, however much I’d become disillusioned politically or evolve into a post-political person, I don’t think I’d ever change my view that socialism is the best political moment humans have ever come up with.’ – Christopher Hitchens

‘Happiness is found by deeply experiencing the exact moment we are in.’ – Tim Ryan

‘We have such rigid rules, sometimes, that they don’t have to be rules. They can be policies and procedures that can be adapted for the moment.’ – Oscar Munoz

‘If you’re in the middle of the ocean with no flippers and no life preserver and you hear a helicopter, this is music. You have to adjust to your needs at the moment.’ – Tom Waits

”The Summer I Turned Pretty’ is about how, as a young woman, everyone gets that moment of being in bloom, but nobody really appreciates it.’ – Jenny Han

‘Whenever a film allows you to think and feel and take it beyond the moment, I think it’s achieved something. And ‘Funny Games’ does that.’ – Naomi Watts

‘Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure.’ – Oprah Winfrey

‘To take a photograph is to participate in another person’s mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time’s relentless melt.’ – Susan Sontag

‘A principle is the expression of perfection, and as imperfect beings like us cannot practise perfection, we devise every moment limits of its compromise in practice.’ – Mahatma Gandhi

‘I just hope that as I get older, I calm down and enjoy the moment, enjoy the great gifts that God has given me.’ – Alex Rodriguez

‘The moment you grab someone by the lapels, you’re lost.’ – Burt Reynolds

‘To see the world for a moment as something rich and strange is the private reward of many a discovery.’ – Edward M. Purcell

‘There comes a moment on a journey when something sweet, something irresistible and charming as wine raised to thirsty lips, wells up in the traveller’s being.’ – Patrick MacGill

‘I can only speak for myself, but when I was growing up in Memphis – and having the Martin Luther King holiday and the moment of pause on April 4th – he was just a statue to me. I wanted to make him a little bit more real to me as a human being.’ – Katori Hall

‘I think the defining moment in my career is the day that I moved to Nashville – September 1, 2001. That’s the biggest step to getting here is making that move. Anything that happens, the wonderful opportunities that happen to you, can’t happen until you make that move.’ – Luke Bryan

‘Be ready for when your time comes, you will have that window of opportunity, so seize the moment and capitalise on it.’ – Anthony Anderson

‘You just never know when somebody’s gonna die. It could happen at any moment so you’ve got to really treat everybody that way. Just really let everybody know how you feel about them.’ – John Frusciante

‘The moment you have a child, in an instant your life is not for you, and your life is completely, 100 percent dedicated to another human being, and they will always come first. It changes you forever. It changes your perspective, and it gives you a nice purpose and focus.’ – Angelina Jolie

‘I remember I took a music course in junior year of high school, and some girl brought in ‘Teardrops On My Guitar,’ and she was like, ‘Isn’t this song great?’ And everyone was like, ‘Who’s Taylor Swift?’ And now, every time I listen to Taylor Swift, I remember that moment.’ – Mitski

‘Software options proliferate extremely easily – too easily, in fact – because too many options create tools that can’t ever be used intuitively. Intuitive actions confine the detail work to a dedicated part of the brain, leaving the rest of one’s mind free to respond with attention and sensitivity to the changing texture of the moment.’ – Brian Eno

‘I have an aversion to laugh tracks – the moment I hear a laugh track, I go to another channel.’ – Bob Newhart

‘My father died when I was only five years old, and that was the moment when I learned a cruel lesson that tomorrow, in fact, might not be another day.’ – Kara Swisher

‘To me, food is as much about the moment, the occasion, the location and the company as it is about the taste.’ – Heston Blumenthal

‘As the time goes by, you change, your learn new things, your attitude is different. For the moment, I’m still enjoying ski racing so much that it would be difficult for me to think about ending my career.’ – Hermann Maier

‘Tremble: your whole life is a rehearsal for the moment you are in now.’ – Judith Malina

‘There is a need for aloneness, which I don’t think most people realise for an actor. It’s almost having certain kinds of secrets for yourself that you’ll let the whole world in on only for a moment, when you’re acting. But everybody is always tugging at you. They’d all like sort of a chunk of you.’ – Marilyn Monroe

‘I am not very comfortable about dancing at weddings and New Year parties. Maybe it’s because of the way I have been brought up; I wouldn’t want my family to feel that cringe moment. Dance is an art for me.’ – Deepika Padukone

‘There came a moment in my life when I realized that I had stepped into another part of my life. I used to walk into a room full of people and think, do they like me? And one day I walk in and I thought, do I like them?’ – Victoria Principal

‘If at any moment of the day I ever think I’m remotely cool at all, which is hardly ever, I have two daughters who make sure that never happens.’ – Pat Benatar

‘The moment you design the post of a HR manager in the police, your whole outlook towards your team changes. You designate an official to look after their health, their professional needs, their preparedness and motivation, which in most cases becomes quintessential.’ – Kiran Bedi

‘The moment you feel yourself hesitate on something you know you should do, count 5-4-3-2-1 to activate your prefrontal cortex and interrupt the habit of overthinking, self-doubt, and fear.’ – Mel Robbins

‘My tattoo is of a cannon in Vancouver that I got in a fleeting moment of stupidity maybe 14 years ago. A lot of people have really beautiful tattoos, and I get real tattoo envy. But then other people basically just treat them like bumper stickers for their bodies.’ – Ryan Reynolds

‘In our Western culture, although death has come out of the closet, it is still not openly experienced or discussed. Allowing dying to be so intensely present enriches both the preciousness of each moment and our detachment from it.’ – Ram Dass

‘Everyone has a moment of difficulty.’ – Seo In-guk

‘I live in the moment. The moment is the most important thing. That’s my entire philosophy: Make the best of the good moments.’ – Rita Moreno

‘There is a brief moment when all there is in a man’s mind and soul and spirit is reflected through his eyes, his hands, his attitude. This is the moment to record.’ – Yousuf Karsh

‘The enemies of our people have chosen the moment when I am knocked off my feet with sickness to stab me in the back because they know what the territorial integrity, national unity and the dignity of this great Zaire mean to me. I have devoted my life to defending these sacred values.’ – Mobutu Sese Seko

‘I was a crazy young man who let himself be blinded by his passions and obeyed only the impulses of the moment.’ – Gustav Mahler

‘Fear is a far more dominant force in human behaviour than euphoria – I would never have expected that or given it a moment’s thought before, but it shows up in the data in so many ways.’ – Alan Greenspan

‘It’s funny, the moment you dread the most, seeing yourself bald, is actually not such a bad moment at all.’ – Sylvie Meis

‘There is a moment when you get older when your metabolism slows down and you don’t feel like working out any more, so you don’t want to keep yourself fit any more, but that’s your decision. Why should you be judged for it?’ – Janet Jackson

‘Life is precious and time is a key element. Let’s make every moment count and help those who have a greater need than our own.’ – Harmon Killebrew

‘I have, thanks to my travels, added to my stock all the superstitions of other countries. I know them all now, and in any critical moment of my life, they all rise up in armed legions for or against me.’ – Sarah Bernhardt

‘Chocolate is the first luxury. It has so many things wrapped up in it: deliciousness in the moment, childhood memories, and that grin-inducing feeling of getting a reward for being good.’ – Mariska Hargitay

‘Not for a moment, beautiful aged Walt Whitman, have I failed to see your beard full of butterflies.’ – Federico Garcia Lorca

‘God has to let you be there, and then you just have to have good fortune for whatever reason. I’m enjoying every moment of my life. We are so fortunate just to be alive.’ – Randy Owen

‘Happiness is not a brilliant climax to years of grim struggle and anxiety. It is a long succession of little decisions simply to be happy in the moment.’ – J. Donald Walters

‘A defining moment takes a long time to get over, if you ever do.’ – Mick Jones

‘I’m a vagabond. I have a suitcase that is ready to go at a moment’s notice. The thought of being in one place for a long time, or playing one character for a long time, is terrifying for me.’ – Kevin Bacon

‘Women are degraded by the propensity to enjoy the present moment, and, at last, despise the freedom which they have not sufficient virtue to struggle to attain.’ – Mary Wollstonecraft

‘I will never forget the moment when I was liberated by the American Army. I will never forget those very young boys coming up the hill, who had to take me a prisoner to liberate me.’ – Heinrich Boll

‘For the creation of a masterwork of literature two powers must concur, the power of the man and the power of the moment, and the man is not enough without the moment.’ – Matthew Arnold

‘The beauty that addresses itself to the eyes is only the spell of the moment; the eye of the body is not always that of the soul.’ – George Sand

‘It’s a goalkeeper’s job. There’s so many times you’re doing nothing for 89, 90 minutes, and then there’s a split-second moment. It’s a different challenge to outfield players, who have a lot of physical challenges and battle. We have a lot of mental battles; it’s about maintaining your focus, refining processes of what you do in a game.’ – Karen Bardsley

‘Almost all our suffering is the product of our thoughts. We spend nearly every moment of our lives lost in thought, and hostage to the character of those thoughts. You can break this spell, but it takes training just like it takes training to defend yourself against a physical assault.’ – Sam Harris

‘Anxiety is a really crippling condition, and I suffer with it myself, and I feel for anyone who suffers from it. The way that I deal with it is try as much as possible to stay in the moment to not think about the past and not think about what’s coming up in the future: to try and just seize the moment as much as possible.’ – James Arthur

‘I’m a very modest person. But I’m also extremely confident. And if you put me in the situation or in the moment, I’m gonna have some swagger, I’m gonna have some cockiness.’ – Drew Brees

‘The most terrifying moment in my life was October 1962, during the Cuban Missile Crisis. I did not know all the facts – we have learned only recently how close we were to war – but I knew enough to make me tremble.’ – Joseph Rotblat

‘I was born to Haitian parents, and the idea of giving back is really just a part of our culture. So, I don’t think there was ever a moment that I questioned my call to philanthropy, but I can say that the more I’ve grown, the bigger that call has become.’ – Karen Civil

‘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.’ – Eckhart Tolle

‘The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.’ – John F. Kennedy

‘I was lucky that I met the right mentors and teachers at the right moment.’ – James Levine

‘A photograph is a moment – when you press the button, it will never come back.’ – Rene Burri

‘The only thing that holds true happiness is that moment when you’re in it. Nothing can be controlled.’ – Eliza Doolittle

‘What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we are. The mere aspiration, by changing the frame of the mind, for the moment realizes itself.’ – Anna Jameson

‘The world is not imperfect or slowly evolving along a path to perfection. No, it is perfect at every moment, every sin already carries grace in it.’ – Hermann Hesse

‘Whether you’ve seen angels floating around your bedroom or just found a ray of hope at a lonely moment, choosing to believe that something unseen is caring for you can be a life-shifting exercise.’ – Martha Beck

‘With photography, you’ve captured a moment time – it’s that moment only – and in painting, you play with it; you manipulate how time is presented. It’s about fantasy and illusion and the creation of desire.’ – Mickalene Thomas

‘I don’t think that one moment in people’s life should define them. Within reason: I emphasise that.’ – Santan Dave

‘Everything is interconnected. The moment you take philosophy, psychology, religion and business and look at the underlying commonalities, that’s when you start looking at business in a different way.’ – Jochen Zeitz

”Bellyache’ is totally fictional. I like writing about things that aren’t real. The song is about not trusting anyone and then putting trust in yourself and realizing that you don’t know what you are doing, either. Or realizing that things you do with a group of people that you think are cool in the moment are ultimately all on you.’ – Billie Eilish

‘I’m in the camp that says that if you’re to the right of South Dakota on anything, you should use that as a moment to recalibrate your core values.’ – John Fetterman

‘As I get older, the things that I want are starting to make more sense. Being able to travel makes me happy, and I am a person that lives in the moment. I also want to live a good life. Traveling makes everyday issues seem so much smaller and really changes my perspective on things.’ – Jacqueline MacInnes Wood

‘Work and play go hand in hand. A lot of people want to work, work, and work until 40, and then relax. Who says you’ll get to 40? Or 50? Who knows what’ll happen in the next five minutes? The only reality is the present. And if you can’t learn to live in the moment, you’ll never be content.’ – Gautam Singhania

‘At the moment of death I hope to be surprised.’ – Ivan Illich

‘I was a bit of a backstage baby, but I wasn’t at all precocious, and there was never a light bulb moment when I decided to go on the stage.’ – Rachael Stirling

‘I’m in deep in everything, every moment of the day. I create the systems and oversee every aspect of the execution. Every mark on a sculpture and every brush-stroke on a painting is in a controlled situation, exactly as they’d be if I’d have done them myself.’ – Jeff Koons

‘You have to pay attention to the moment and make it the best it can be for you. I’ve been trying to do that. It’s really made a major difference for me. I’m a happier person.’ – Tracy Chapman

‘I like to be present; I like to be in the now. The way life has shaped up, it is difficult, you know, with mobile phones taking you to another time and space all the time. So it’s always a battle to stay in the moment. But according to me, it’s a better way to be.’ – Ranveer Singh

‘I love Newark, but it was easy to get caught up in the wrong situation. You know, when you come from very humble beginnings, you always have that fear that everything could go away at any moment.’ – Michael B. Jordan

‘Do not for a moment suppose that you must make yourself better, or prepare your heart for a worthy reception of Christ, but come at once – come as you are.’ – Archibald Alexander

‘After the 1954 Geneva international conference, Vietnam was divided into two parts. On paper, North and South Vietnam were twin countries born at the same moment.’ – Nguyen Cao Ky

‘We have indeed at the moment little cause for pride: as a profession we have made a mess of things.’ – Friedrich August von Hayek

‘Actually, the Kentucky moment was better than winning the two National Championships, because it was the epitome of what I try to get from a team in a crisis situation.’ – Mike Krzyzewski

‘Kind words not only lift our spirits in the moment they are given, but they can linger with us over the years.’ – Joseph B. Wirthlin

‘My coach at UConn, Geno Auriemma, taught me to take more risks, because in basketball, if you overthink things, the moment will pass you by. That’s good advice for life off the court, too.’ – Maya Moore

‘Those of us who can remember our childhoods will recall how ardently we relished the moment of the bedtime story, when our mother or father would sit down beside us in the semi-dark and read from a book of fairy tales.’ – Paul Auster

‘I acknowledge the privilege of being alive in a human body at this moment, endowed with senses, memories, emotions, thoughts, and the space of mind in its wisdom aspect.’ – Alex Grey

‘Naming a baby is an act of poetry, for many people the only creative moment of their lives.’ – Richard Eyre

‘The moment you start being in love with what you’re doing, and thinking it’s beautiful or rich, then you’re in danger.’ – Miuccia Prada

‘Man is free; yet we must not suppose that he is at liberty to do everything he pleases, for he becomes a slave the moment he allows his actions to be ruled by passion.’ – Giacomo Casanova

‘Darling: the popular form of address used in speaking to a member of the opposite sex whose name you cannot at the moment remember.’ – Oliver Herford

‘Who makes quick use of the moment is a genius of prudence.’ – Johann Kaspar Lavater

‘The prerequisite of originality is the art of forgetting, at the proper moment, what we know.’ – Arthur Koestler

‘My favourite car I drove in the ‘shoot out’ at Silverstone was the 2016 Mercedes DTM car. I loved every moment in it, the downforce being particularly surprising.’ – Lando Norris

‘I try to just stay in the present moment as much as possible.’ – Geraldine Viswanathan

‘The world does not have tidy endings. The world does not have neat connections. It is not filled with epiphanies that work perfectly at the moment that you need them.’ – Dennis Lehane

‘Thing is, I’m a funny actor, but I’m not good at being funny. I’m going to ramble for a second: I’m an actor who can make things funny in the moment, like in stakes or in circumstances or out of character.’ – Matthew Lillard

‘In the beginning of the lockdown days, I was very active and motivated. I made sure not to waste a single moment and tried to be organized and disciplined.’ – Anupama Parameswaran

‘Staying in the moment is not worrying about the outcome but just focusing on the process on the next shot.’ – Tony Finau

‘I believe that, the moment I had a very personal relationship with God and I really knew what his Word said, it was not about religion. It was about knowing that what the Bible tells us is what He has left us. It changed my life. It filled the void in my heart. That is why I am so grateful.’ – Keylor Navas

‘If you abandon the present moment, you cannot live the moments of your daily life deeply.’ – Thich Nhat Hanh

‘When was the last time you spent a quiet moment just doing nothing – just sitting and looking at the sea, or watching the wind blowing the tree limbs, or waves rippling on a pond, a flickering candle or children playing in the park?’ – Ralph Marston

‘I love Mike Tyson. I was a fan, as everybody else was. The moment somebody stood up to him, he didn’t do so well. And that’s the same thing with Anthony Johnson. The guy’s a bully. He wants to intimidate you; he wants to dominate you. He wants to knock you out. But what happens when you don’t knock somebody out? What happens?’ – Daniel Cormier

‘A good poem is an amazing thing: a perfectly distilled, articulate moment. It opens you up – sometimes slowly, like the blooming of a flower, and sometimes with a quick knife-slice.’ – Celeste Ng

‘We may not know what each day has in store for us. We could be gone tomorrow. Any minute could truly be our goodbye. But we do have this moment. This time. Today. Right now. It takes way more effort to shell out hate then it does to allow love to flow freely in our lives. After all, it’s what we were born to do.’ – Grace Gealey

‘I would like to take a moment of silence to remember all those who lost their lives at the hands of ISIS, especially Americans James Foley, Steven Sotloff, and, most recently, Kayla Mueller.’ – Michael McCaul

‘I wouldn’t be honest if I told you that in some moment of my life I had a lot of rage – probably hate – I’m not sure of hate, but rage. But you know what happens is that then you realize you cannot do to others what you think nobody has to do to anybody. Life is important for me and not any kind of life, quality too of life.’ – Michelle Bachelet

‘In an F1 team at the end you have your little family and I feel that Red Bull is definitely mine and my place to be at the moment.’ – Carlos Sainz Jr.

‘Comedy is created when someone is trying very earnestly to do what he feels is the right thing to do at that moment.’ – Madeline Kahn

‘Children are natural Zen masters; their world is brand new in each and every moment.’ – John Bradshaw

‘I’ve decided to pick my moment to retire very carefully – in about 200 years time.’ – Brian Clough

‘From the moment I was six I felt sexy. And let me tell you it was hell, sheer hell, waiting to do something about it.’ – Bette Davis

‘Not only will this make you treat each moment more preciously, but you will be more patient with yourself and with others, recognizing that there are millions of moments on the path to any worthwhile achievement.’ – Menachem Mendel Schneerson

‘I didn’t know how to play guitar until I was 21, but from the moment I was good enough on guitar to even put one song together, I kind of billed myself as an artist.’ – Luke Combs

‘A sobering thought: what if, at this very moment, I am living up to my full potential?’ – Jane Wagner

‘I have a wife and a son and daughter. What do I need to do to make their lives better, happier? What can I do in terms of my time or my attention given that I am very busy at work? That’s a personal rule of thumb I live by from the moment I get up to the moment I go to bed.’ – Jake Tapper

‘The journey matters as much as the destination. By engaging in the moment on set, I’ve stopped rushing and now find pleasure in the collaborative process – the characters, the costumes – rather than worrying about the finished product.’ – Michelle Dockery

‘We’re losing social skills, the human interaction skills, how to read a person’s mood, to read their body language, how to be patient until the moment is right to make or press a point. Too much exclusive use of electronic information dehumanises what is a very, very important part of community life and living together.’ – Vincent Nichols

‘Most people forget that you have to create relationships. The allure of the first years settles down, and at that moment, you better start creating it; otherwise, you’re going to lose out.’ – John Travolta

‘Most people treat the present moment as if it were an obstacle that they need to overcome. Since the present moment is life itself, it is an insane way to live.’ – Eckhart Tolle

‘In virtual reality, we’re placing the viewer inside a moment or a story… made possible by sound and visual technology that’s actually tricking the brain into believing it’s somewhere else.’ – Chris Milk

‘I’m most drawn to characters who are compelling and repellant at the same time, very often right at the same moment, and who are frightening and funny all at once.’ – James Spader

‘I’ve done a little bit of TV. I’m doing a little mini-series at the moment called ‘Scooter.” – Ben Nicholas

‘In Eastern Europe, the past is not only always hovering over the present, it is not even passed. It waits, like some malevolent caged beast, ready at any moment to escape and bring back all the horrors.’ – Michael Korda

‘I’m riveted by extreme sports like big-wave surfing, ‘megaramp’ skateboarding and half-pipe snowboarding. I’m fascinated partly because the sports are so exhilaratingly acrobatic. But I’m also captivated by the fear that a terrible accident might happen at any moment. And accidents do happen.’ – Lucy Walker

‘That was the problem with the ‘celibate’ word because they don’t consider for a moment that you’d rather not be, but you just are. I was never a sexual person.’ – Morrissey

‘Christians are as subject to complacency as anybody else, and we can certainly settle into repetition and forget that something radical and extraordinary is being asked of us as well – that we hold to an extraordinary promise about how, from moment to moment, something enters the world and enters us, after which everything is different.’ – Francis Spufford

‘I think of ‘Mommy’ as very simplistic or not simplistic, but I wish for the style to actually work with what you see onscreen and what you feel in that very moment. I hope we did not disrespect the characters by being too flamboyant when it’s not necessary.’ – Xavier Dolan

‘At this high moment, ability failed my capacity to describe.’ – Dante Alighieri

‘I sound like a crazy person… but I feel when a piano is happy, and I feel when they find that moment to be alive. I want them to remember me.’ – Hiromi Uehara

‘The present moment is changing so fast that we often do not notice its existence at all. Every moment of mind is like a series of pictures passing through a projector. Some of the pictures come from sense impressions. Others come from memories of past experiences or from fantasies of the future.’ – Henepola Gunaratana

‘I think of a piece of music as something that comes alive when it is being performed, and I feel that my role in the transmission of music is to be its best advocate at that moment.’ – Yo-Yo Ma

‘I remember I did the movie ‘Eulogy,’ and there was a dramatic moment in it. It was pretty heavy, and I went for it. It was… I didn’t feel that comfortable doing it.’ – Ray Romano

‘One of the most powerful networking practices is to provide immediate value to a new connection. This means the moment you identify a way to help someone, take action.’ – Lewis Howes

‘I say ‘here’s the thing’ a lot, both to alert people that I’m about to say something important and to give myself a moment to figure out what that important thing might be, because my head is so often completely empty.’ – Walter Kirn

‘When you’re doing a film, narrative is your most important tool, but it’s a tool to create a cinematographic experience, to create those moments that are beyond narrative, that are almost an abstraction of that moment that hits your psyche.’ – Alfonso Cuaron

‘In literature there was always an epiphany – a tingling moment, sometimes buried – the pearl around which the whole work formed.’ – Lisa Brennan-Jobs

‘Let us not be afraid to see the hatred that consumes the lives of hundreds of thousands of Arabs who sit around us and wait for the moment when their hands will be able to reach our blood.’ – Moshe Dayan

‘No matter the amount of negativity you’re presented with, five minutes from now could be your best moment.’ – Mod Sun

‘In Italy, football is too important. There is more pressure on coaches, teams, directors. Now is not a good moment for football in Italy. The stadiums are not full. There are problems with violence; it’s very difficult with the ultras. People don’t go to the stadium just to enjoy 90 minutes of football. People go to the stadium to fight, to win.’ – Carlo Ancelotti

‘Even the first suitcase-off-the-train moment, it’s easy to be discouraged, frustrated, annoyed, angry. Because you’re waiting in freezing weather outside of an open call, and you’re like, ‘This moment of me right now is not the joy I felt when I was doing J. Pierrepont Finch in ‘How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying’ in high school.” – Jonathan Groff

‘I knew from the first moment I picked up a camera, on my first school assignment, what I wanted to do for the rest of my life. I was going to find a way to travel the world and tell the stories of the people I met through photographs.’ – Mary Ellen Mark

‘If I had the uniform on, you didn’t doubt for a moment I was a pilot. No one ever blinked an eye if I tried to cash a cheque wearing that uniform.’ – Frank Abagnale

‘Every moment of one’s existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.’ – Norman Mailer

‘I’d love to be an artist that’s multifaceted. At the moment, I am not. But wouldn’t that be cool if I was like, ‘Yeah, let me pull out my guitar and play you a song.’ I would adore that. I am so far not gifted in that way. But I am a very hard worker and a very determined person, so who knows?’ – Anne Hathaway

‘The characteristic of great innovators and great companies is they see a space that others do not. They don’t just listen to what people tell them; they actually invent something new, something that you didn’t know you needed, but the moment you see it, you say, ‘I must have it.” – Eric Schmidt

‘Acting is a symbiotic process, it is an amalgamation of many many things put together and when there is a call for action, that’s when you surrender and the moment of truth comes out, that’s when you perform. That is the process for every good actor.’ – Kay Kay Menon

‘What is the biggest thing that stops people from living their lives in the present moment? Fear – and we must learn how to overcome fear.’ – Brian Weiss

‘I’m just like so many women – I was frustrated, I had these white pants that I had spent a lot of money on, and you get home and you think, ‘What am I really supposed to wear under this?’ So it was a frustrated consumer moment.’ – Sara Blakely

‘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.’ – Georgia O’Keeffe

‘Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.’ – Theodore Roosevelt

‘I haven’t really made plans for the future; I’m just enjoying the moment, going with the flow. I haven’t really had time to mortify myself thinking about the future.’ – Yalitza Aparicio

‘When I was young, the best moment came when I was 10 and I got invited to the academy. I remember getting all this Ajax training gear and suddenly I was able to call myself an Ajax player.’ – Rafael van der Vaart

‘I paint and I draw and I write and I do other things too, and recently some people at school were asking if I’d ever publish any of my work. But I almost feel like I would have to publish it under another name because there’s a definition of me out there that feels kind of stuck in the moment when it was formed.’ – Emma Watson

‘I don’t see America as a mainland, but as a sea, a big ocean. Sometimes a storm arises, a formidable current develops, and it seems it will engulf everything. Wait a moment, another current will appear and bring the first one to naught.’ – Jacques Maritain

‘No matter what your age is, you only have now. So it’s always about living in the moment and being in the moment… I refuse to let those numbers define me, and I just try to face each day positively.’ – Christie Brinkley

‘I want children, but at the moment the liberty I have now finally, has a far too high value.’ – Gabriela Sabatini

‘The acceptance of death gives you more of a stake in life, in living life happily, as it should be lived. Living for the moment.’ – Sting

‘The moment I have realized God sitting in the temple of every human body, the moment I stand in reverence before every human being and see God in him – that moment I am free from bondage, everything that binds vanishes, and I am free.’ – Swami Vivekananda

‘When I was 11 years old, my parents wanted me to do something besides get in trouble. So they enrolled me in sailing classes at the Sea Shell Association in Santa Barbara, Calif. From the moment I climbed into that 8-foot dinghy in 1952, I knew instinctively what to do and sensed I had done it before.’ – David Crosby

‘The important thing is this: to be able, at any moment, to sacrifice what we are for what we could become.’ – Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

‘Thank you, hard taco shells, for surviving the long journey from factory, to supermarket, to my plate and then breaking the moment I put something inside you. Thank you.’ – Jimmy Fallon

‘Screen work always boils down to that moment between the camera and the actor or the actors. It always boils down to that, ultimately. You serve the camera.’ – Alfred Molina

‘All I know is that, thanks to a sort of habit which has always been ingrained in me, I have never, at any moment of my life, experienced the least difficulty in addressing myself to God as to a supreme Someone.’ – Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

‘I’m good where I am at this moment.’ – Whitney Houston

‘If every moment is sacred, and If you are amazed and in awe most of the time when you find yourself breathing and not crazy, then you are in a state of constant thankfulness, worship and humility.’ – Bernice Johnson Reagon

‘I had a house burn down once, and everything in life burned, except my family, and it was so liberating. I didn’t have a bad moment about it. It sort of reinvigorated my interest in a lot of things.’ – Sean Penn

‘The moment I first heard love I gave up my soul, my heart, and my eyes.’ – Rumi

‘My only ambition is to be true every moment I am living.’ – Juliette Binoche

‘The French Revolution ends slavery unilaterally. And it does so at this moment when the British, the Spanish, the Portuguese and the Americans – all of the other major powers – keep slavery. And the fact is that it’s almost bankrupting the French Colonial Empire.’ – Tom Reiss

‘I do recall one moment when I went to India by myself. I was paralyzed with fear to travel alone, but I had this intuitive hint that I had to do it. It was transformative and beautiful.’ – Jen Sincero

‘Television, radio, social media. The 24/7 news cycle plows forward mercilessly on our desks, in our cars and in our pockets. Thousands and thousands of messages and voices bombard us from the moment we wake, fighting for our attention. All we see and hear, all day long, is news. And most of it is bad.’ – Joseph Prince

‘My school reports always used to point out that my concentration levels were appalling. I never listened in class because I was always daydreaming about racing. I never thought for a moment about doing anything else. There was no guarantee that I’d make a career in it but I never had any plan B.’ – Jenson Button

‘Meditation is key. It’s a crazy world we live in. Everything is happening so fast in our world, so to take a moment and clear the mind and just be totally present is so healing. I want to meditate more.’ – Jamie Anderson

‘Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.’ – Francis Bacon

‘Most things in life are moments of pleasure and a lifetime of embarrassment; photography is a moment of embarrassment and a lifetime of pleasure.’ – Tony Benn

‘There are so many emotions that you’re feeling, you can get stifled by them if you’re feeling them all at once. What I try to do is take one moment – one simple, simple feeling – and expand it into three-and-a-half minutes.’ – Taylor Swift

‘There’s no more to Holden Caulfield. Read the book again. It’s all there. Holden Caulfield is only a frozen moment in time.’ – J. D. Salinger

‘If you are doing mindfulness meditation, you are doing it with your ability to attend to the moment.’ – Daniel Goleman

‘My songs form a kind of biography or diary of my life as they are about people I have loved and people I only knew in my heart, places I have seen only for a moment and places I have lived all my life.’ – Justin Hayward

‘When I was 15 and had the light bulb moment I wanted to be an actor, it was my sole focus and goal, and I went after it with determination.’ – Anna Gunn

‘The governments of the present day have to deal not merely with other governments, with emperors, kings and ministers, but also with the secret societies which have everywhere their unscrupulous agents, and can at the last moment upset all the governments’ plans.’ – Benjamin Disraeli

‘A moment’s thinking is an hour in words.’ – Thomas Hood

‘Improv as an actor makes you present in the moment. You listen, you’re attentive. You’re not acting so much as reacting, which is what you’re doing in life all the time.’ – Nathan Fillion

‘Yes, I’m blonde. When I started as an actor, because of the accent and my body and my personality, it was not what the stereotype of the Latina woman in Hollywood is, so they didn’t know where to put me. The blond hair wasn’t matching. The moment I put my hair dark, it was better for my work.’ – Sofia Vergara

‘If I can bring joy into the world, if I can get people to stop thinking about their pain for a moment, or the fact the tomorrow morning they’re going to get up and tell their boss off… then I’ll be successful.’ – Bobby McFerrin

‘Don’t wait to be successful at some future point. Have a successful relationship with the present moment and be fully present in whatever you are doing. That is success.’ – Eckhart Tolle

‘At this moment in time I did not say them things.’ – Glenn Hoddle

‘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.’ – Toni Morrison

‘When you’re watching Psycho, there’ s that moment when you have a visceral reaction to watching someone being stabbed. And then you have the intellectual revelation that you’re not, and that’s where the celebration comes in.’ – Penn Jillette

‘Life starts at conception and must be protected from the first moment.’ – Viktor Orban

‘Winning the Pulitzer is wonderful and it’s an honor and I feel so humbled and so grateful, but I think that I’ll think of it very much as the final sort of final moment for this book and put it behind me along with the rest of the book, as I write more books.’ – Jhumpa Lahiri

”Mi Gente’ is a song that embodies a special moment in music – a new sound of a Latino culture on the rise and being embraced globally.’ – J Balvin

‘To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life.’ – William Samuel Johnson

‘The moment one gives close attention to any thing, even a blade of grass it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself.’ – Henry Miller

‘For every moment of triumph, for every instance of beauty, many souls must be trampled.’ – Hunter S. Thompson

‘Whatever has happened to you in your past has no power over this present moment, because life is now.’ – Oprah Winfrey

‘I’m just looking for that moment to drop my Jedi knickers and pull out my real light saber.’ – Ewan McGregor

‘Religion must mainly be a matter of principles only. It cannot be a matter of rules. The moment it degenerates into rules, it ceases to be a religion, as it kills responsibility which is an essence of the true religious act.’ – B. R. Ambedkar

‘Our present moment is a mystery that we are part of. Here and now is where all the wonder of life lies hidden. And make no mistake about it, to strive to live completely in the present is to strive for what already is the case.’ – Wayne Dyer

‘The moment in between what you once were, and who you are now becoming, is where the dance of life really takes place.’ – Barbara De Angelis

‘Live in the moment; make the most of any opportunity that comes your way.’ – Rishabh Pant

‘I was a second-division B player, and I’ve had to work very hard. I tell the players, ‘The moment we stop working hard on this, as soon as we stop dedicating hours to this, we’ll fall.” – Unai Emery

‘I am learning the importance of living in the moment.’ – Sushant Singh Rajput

‘I’m always aiming for some magic in films if I can find a mystical quality either in a song or in a moment or a character’s intention.’ – Jean-Marc Vallee

‘I only wanted to sing. Never to act. But somehow, thanks to peculiar circumstances, I was persuaded to act in the movies. I hated every moment of it and tried virtually every trick to get out of it.’ – Kishore Kumar

‘Seize the moment of excited curiosity on any subject to solve your doubts; for if you let it pass, the desire may never return, and you may remain in ignorance.’ – William Wirt

‘I’m conscious of a series of circles working its way through my life. And at this particular moment I have come round to the beginning of my writing cycle. It begins with poetry. There’s hardly a day that goes past on which I don’t write poetry.’ – Ben Okri

‘I’ve had a very fortunate career and I’ve loved every moment of it.’ – Ricky Schroder

‘I enjoy the simplistic training and life in marathon. You run, eat, sleep, walk around – that’s how life is. You don’t get complicated. The moment you get complicated it distracts your mind.’ – Eliud Kipchoge

‘Adapting a novel is not really about being faithful to every word and every moment the author has created. It’s more about that same story being filtered through somebody else’s sensibility.’ – Peter Jackson

‘The word majesty was now dropped; but, with the deepest respect and humility, I was addressed as the count. What could I do? I accepted the title, and from that moment I was known as Count Peter.’ – Adelbert von Chamisso

‘Our difficulties of the moment must always be dealt with somehow, but our permanent difficulties are difficulties of every moment.’ – T. S. Eliot

‘When you first read a script is the purest moment. That’s when you can understand how an audience will ultimately receive it. The first reading of the script is so important because you’re experiencing it all for the first time, and it’s then that you really know if it’s going to work or not.’ – David Tennant

‘I have now reached the happy age of 23. No, happy is not quite the right word. At this particular moment I am certainly not happy.’ – Eva Braun

‘A good story should make you laugh, and a moment later break your heart.’ – Chuck Palahniuk

‘We should not fret for what is past, nor should we be anxious about the future; men of discernment deal only with the present moment.’ – Chanakya

‘I do what I do, and I do it well, and focus and take it one moment at a time.’ – Jim Caviezel

‘A ‘real pastor’ is not preaching of their own; they are speaking what God put in their heart by the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is using them at that very moment to speak to the congregations situations -past, present, and future.’ – Monica Johnson

‘I love doing theatre and musicals, but when we start shooting ‘Hustle’ we film two episodes concurrently, with the scenes out of sequence. Knowing where you are in the intricate plots at any one moment is quite – how shall I put this? – challenging.’ – Adrian Lester

‘The moment that justice must be paid for by the victim of injustice it becomes itself injustice.’ – Benjamin Tucker

‘In the computer field, the moment of truth is a running program; all else is prophecy.’ – Herbert A. Simon

‘When someone endorses a fixed mindset, it can limit them, even if they’re successful at the moment, because if they start struggling and tumbling, they can lose their confidence, but also, they may not create a growth mindset environment for others.’ – Carol S. Dweck

‘Everybody has a creative potential and from the moment you can express this creative potential, you can start changing the world.’ – Paulo Coelho

‘In a story, you have to have a theme and an angle, you have to have a beginning, middle and an end. You have to have a defining moment and kick it to death. You gotta be able to recognize that, by the way. It probably takes experience.’ – Dan Jenkins

‘In Hollywood, more often than not, they’re making more kind of traditional films, stories that are understood by people. And the entire story is understood. And they become worried if even for one small moment something happens that is not understood by everyone.’ – David Lynch

‘Never forget: This very moment, we can change our lives. There never was a moment, and never will be, when we are without the power to alter our destiny. This second, we can turn the tables on Resistance. This second, we can sit down and do our work.’ – Steven Pressfield

‘There are, as is known, insects that die in the moment of fertilization. So it is with all joy: life’s highest, most splendid moment of enjoyment is accompanied by death.’ – Soren Kierkegaard

‘I had no idea of the character. But the moment I was dressed, the clothes and the make-up made me feel the person he was. I began to know him, and by the time I walked onto the stage he was fully born.’ – Charlie Chaplin

‘The decisive moment in human evolution is perpetual. That is why the revolutionary spiritual movements that declare all former things worthless are in the right, for nothing has yet happened.’ – Franz Kafka

‘No more distressing moment can ever face a British government than that which requires it to come to a hard, fast and specific decision.’ – Barbara W. Tuchman

‘There are things I take sides about, like capital punishment, which it seems to me there is only one side about: it is evil. But there are two or three sides to sexual harassment, and the moment you get into particular cases, there is injustice in every conceivable direction. It’s a mess.’ – A. S. Byatt

‘I’ve walked a lot in the mountains in Iceland. And as you come to a new valley, as you come to a new landscape, you have a certain view. If you stand still, the landscape doesn’t necessarily tell you how big it is. It doesn’t really tell you what you’re looking at. The moment you start to move the mountain starts to move.’ – Olafur Eliasson

‘I look at the human life like an experiment. Every new moment, every new experience, tragic or otherwise, is an opportunity to gain a more accurate perspective and helps lead me to clarity.’ – Steve Gleason

‘The meaning of a theater event is that none of us could see something so clearly as with the new energy that is brought with the meeting of a theme, actors living it, and an audience gradually entering it to live it with them. At that moment, a certain light appears, revealing what we would never have thought of on our own.’ – Peter Brook

‘Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.’ – Tennessee Williams

‘I was curious and hungry at a young age, and jazz was such a mystery to me, an ocean where you can express yourself in the moment. It represented freedom, it represented wearing wings and going somewhere with music.’ – Paula Cole

‘All things will be produced in superior quantity and quality, and with greater ease, when each man works at a single occupation, in accordance with his natural gifts, and at the right moment, without meddling with anything else.’ – Plato

‘When we meet a work of art, there’s something about that encounter that isn’t fixed in time, but rather, it unfixes time: the shaft opens. The past and present exist in the same moment, and we know, as beings, that we are connected. All the people who lived before us, all who will come after us, are connected in this moment.’ – Ali Smith

‘I only worked with Rafa Benitez for a short time, but he’s a great manager, and he showed it from the first moment he came. He worked with the players and made us a better team. He’s a good person, always trying to help players out.’ – Georginio Wijnaldum

‘The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle.’ – Anais Nin

‘Every time I have some moment on a seashore, or in the mountains, or sometimes in a quiet forest, I think this is why the environment has to be preserved.’ – Bill Bradley

‘I have no driver’s license, so I ride a bicycle beside the Han River. That’s what I really love because no one gives a damn about me for that moment. I feel so free.’ – RM

‘I romanticise every moment of my life, and that is why I have fallen in love with life.’ – Mahira Khan

‘My mom and dad used to call me ‘full drama’. Mom had many videos of me as a kid where I was doing some dance moves, and suddenly the next moment, I was on the floor.’ – Janhvi Kapoor

‘I’m trying to be in the moment and really enjoy my pregnancy. I feel really lucky.’ – Jewel

‘You and I are essentially infinite choice-makers. In every moment of our existence, we are in that field of all possibilities where we have access to an infinity of choices.’ – Deepak Chopra

‘My mother was born in Sinaloa, and she moved to Los Angeles when she was three years old. My father was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico, and moved here when he was 19. They met at the Palladium in Hollywood, and they’ve been together from that moment on.’ – Alanna Ubach

‘My style is in the 21st century. If you look at the process, it goes from photography through Photoshop, where certain features are heightened, elements of the photo are diminished. There is no sense of truth when you’re looking at the painting or the photo or that moment when the photo was first taken.’ – Kehinde Wiley

‘Music was never an obligation for me; from a very young age, I understood it as a moment of freedom where you could express yourself. I realized how much joy it could bring and how much that meant to me.’ – Lara Fabian

‘I have never appreciated a quiet moment with a friend as much, a quiet moment with a book and I think part of that is my obsession with being older and time going faster and it’s become increasingly sweeter for me.’ – Candice Bergen

”Step Brothers’ itself, when I did it, I don’t know if I had any idea that it would become a defining moment in my career and life like it has, and I’m really happy that that’s the one that ended up being that for me.’ – Adam Scott

‘I really believe that God puts things in front of you for a reason, even if you don’t always appreciate it in the moment.’ – Amanda Borden

‘I can’t control what’s going to happen in the future. I can’t control what’s going to happen in five hours. So I’m not really worried about it. I’m just focused on doing what I can at this moment.’ – Sam Bradford

‘Jazz is all about improvisation and it’s about the moment in time, doing it this way now, and you’ll never do it this way twice. I’ve studied the masters. Why would I want to play ball after the guys who sit on a bench? I want to play like Michael Jordan.’ – Brian McKnight

‘Eternity: a moment standing still for ever.’ – James Montgomery

‘Ms. Oprah Winfrey gave me some advice to just always stay in the moment, and don’t waste energy on negative things, and put your energy into positive things in your life. I just try to remember that every day and keep on going.’ – Storm Reid

‘I just think Cam Newton is a guy who doesn’t get overwhelmed by the moment. He seems to thrive in the spotlight.’ – Troy Aikman

‘Become a worry-slapper. Treat frets like mosquitoes. Do you procrastinate when a bloodsucking bug lights on your skin? ‘I’ll take care of it in a moment.’ Of course you don’t! You give the critter the slap it deserves. Be equally decisive with anxiety.’ – Max Lucado

‘If you are not living this moment, you are not really living.’ – Eckhart Tolle

‘Of course everyone has those moments of frustration now and then, when you say, ‘I wish I could play well already – or just stop.’ But it’s too much trouble to stop just for a moment of frustration. It is when you keep going that you make the most progress.’ – Hilary Hahn

‘Everybody asks, ‘What does ‘Humans of New York’ mean?’ and I always say that I try to avoid putting any kind of message in the work even if it is a positive or optimistic message. The moment you do that, you’re looking for certain people and words that fit into the world view you are trying to show, and it becomes preachy.’ – Brandon Stanton

‘Two years ago, of course, I was just a rookie and listened to everybody. In a way I am still a rookie. I’m only 23 and I’ll be surrounded by great players who have played in a lot more Ryder Cups than myself. But the rankings say I am the best player at the moment and so that brings a responsibility.’ – Rory McIlroy

‘I meditate a lot and pray for guidance. If, in a moment of self-contemplation or meditation, I were to feel very strongly that I shouldn’t be an entertainer anymore, that I should be doing something else, I would stop immediately.’ – Michael Feinstein

‘Certainly people have a lot tougher situations than I’ve had to deal with. But I will say we are all dying from the moment we are born. This is not just rehearsal.’ – Michael J. Fox

‘Different people have different styles, but there is an opportunity as a director to be a writer in every moment, with every visual cue and every piece of production design. Everything is a decision, and everything can be obsessed over.’ – B. J. Novak

‘Watching a peaceful death of a human being reminds us of a falling star; one of a million lights in a vast sky that flares up for a brief moment only to disappear into the endless night forever.’ – Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

‘Yes, I think it’s really important to acknowledge that Dr. King, precisely at the moment of his assassination, was re-conceptualizing the civil rights movement and moving toward a sort of coalitional relationship with the trade union movement.’ – Angela Davis

‘I think it is such an amazing moment when people realize what they are and what they can be, and they start putting themselves out into the world. I think you can see it in people when it’s happening. They look different.’ – Elizabeth Peyton

‘It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.’ – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

‘The impossible talked of is less impossible from the moment words are laid to it.’ – Storm Jameson

‘Through my illness I learned rejection. I was written off. That was the moment I thought, Okay, game on. No prisoners. Everybody’s going down.’ – Lance Armstrong

‘All through life I’ve harbored anger rather than expressed it at the moment.’ – Jessica Lange

‘The moment I see my daughter’s face, I am instantly happier, my stress just disappears, and I forget everything else.’ – S. Sreesanth

‘Basically, when I put on clothes, it’s all strictly about my mood. It’s all about how I’m feeling that day or in that moment.’ – Shai Gilgeous-Alexander

‘When I went out to America, and someone wanted to sign me and invest in me, that was a big moment because, all my life, people have been trying to tell me to be different to what I was.’ – Yungblud

‘When it comes to the grieving process, we all try to ignore that feeling – but it’s important to grieve. Even if something’s happened for the best, you need to take that moment to feel something.’ – Oliver Sykes

‘The recipe for a human doesn’t fill up a shopping list as you may suspect. Just twenty-two elements can describe almost all of the molecules that are, at this moment, you.’ – Kyle Hill

‘The underlying message of the Neighborhood is that if somebody cares about you, it’s possible that you’ll care about others. ‘You are special, and so is your neighbor’ – that part is essential: that you’re not the only special person in the world. The person you happen to be with at the moment is loved, too.’ – Fred Rogers

‘To inspire a singularity of focus, a challenge must be important to you and it must be something you feel you should do now in this moment. If it’s trivial or not time-bound, you won’t engage. So in selecting your next challenge in life, choose one that is meaningful and will demand your complete concentration.’ – Brendon Burchard

‘Goth culture, as mired in the past as it is, even it goes through changes, so Goth when I was growing up is not what it is now. When I think of Goth culture as it is at the moment I think of mall culture.’ – Jhonen Vasquez

‘If Congress wants to get involved in the business of morality by allowing a moment of silence in our schools, I support that. But if our representatives in Washington are truly going to be moral leaders, then they have to do more than just tell us to pray for guidance.’ – Ruth Westheimer

‘Death is with you all the time; you get deeper in it as you move towards it, but it’s not unfamiliar to you. It’s always been there, so what becomes unfamiliar to you when you pass away from the moment is really life.’ – bell hooks

‘If you leave the smallest corner of your head vacant for a moment, other people’s opinions will rush in from all quarters.’ – George Bernard Shaw

‘The moment rules over everything.’ – David Hockney

‘One thing that I’ve always tried to do is create lifts – the moment that you have a rush of feelings. That’s always something that I’m trying to communicate in music, and particularly the style of music that I write for Japanese Breakfast: I’m always trying to build things up into each other.’ – Michelle Zauner

‘I do not want to foresee the future. I am concerned with taking care of the present. God has given me no control over the moment following.’ – Mahatma Gandhi

‘The absurd depends as much on man as on the world. For the moment, it is all that links them together.’ – Albert Camus

‘I decide my future. I decide what I want to do. Nobody else. If I decide this will be my last year, maybe it is. If I decide it will be my last contract, I decide that. Nobody else. So I will decide when the moment is there.’ – Zlatan Ibrahimovic

‘We’ve all had that moment, the first time you’re exposed to live theater, and it’s shocking in the best possible way. You see something and say to yourself, ‘I didn’t know this could exist.” – Joshua Jackson

‘When you’re a confused 19-year-old filled with questions you can’t even articulate and a kind of black rage that feeds at your heart from the moment you wake up in the morning, and you discover Marcus Aurelius’ ‘The Meditations,’ that changes your life.’ – Nic Pizzolatto

‘I used to feel unsafe right in the moment of an accomplishment – I felt the ground fall from under my feet because this could be the end. And even now, while everyone is celebrating, I’m on to the next thing. I don’t want to get lost in this big cushion of success.’ – Rihanna

‘Make it easier to do things that increase your wellbeing before you have to make a choice because a lot of our choices, though they seem small in the moment, have a big effect.’ – Tom Rath

‘I want to get away from couture just being done for a picture or for a single moment on the red carpet. I want to try and convince women that couture can be worn in the day and that there’s a reality and relevance there, because that’s what Mr. Christian Dior wanted.’ – Raf Simons

‘I am always in self-doubt… every moment of my filmmaking. I am supremely confident when the story is being written and everything is in our head. But the moment we get into the filmmaking, I start doubting myself – from the camera angle to the re-recording to getting the actors to do their shots.’ – S. S. Rajamouli

‘If, at any moment, reality gets dull or boring, our phone offers something more pleasurable, more productive and even more educational than whatever reality gives us.’ – Tristan Harris

‘You make a decision whether you just work on the script and believe in every moment and pick out every moment, or if you sit down and memorize lines. Once you really dig into a script, learning lines becomes almost second nature.’ – Adria Arjona

‘A cookbook is a moment in time because, otherwise, you look back at the end of the day, and all the meals have been eaten, and the experience is gone.’ – Daniel Humm

‘My godfather was a Chicago policeman, and I’ve always looked at law enforcement as a challenging and interesting job. There are so many decisions that law enforcement officers have to make, and the incident or situation changes so much from moment to moment and day to day. I have a lot of respect for officers and what they go through.’ – Bob Odenkirk

‘My parents are the coolest of the cool on every single level, and it’s because they have a deep appreciation for every moment of their lives.’ – Rashida Jones

‘At the moment the Queen stuff does sell really well, but there’s no guarantee it’ll go on forever.’ – Brian May

‘I went from silent films to watching French new wave cinema. I became entrapped by it all. That’s when I knew I wanted to do film. The moment you start looking at film from a critique point of view – there’s a difference between watching a film as an audience and with a critical point of view.’ – Josh O’Connor

‘With mindfulness, you can establish yourself in the present in order to touch the wonders of life that are available in that moment.’ – Thich Nhat Hanh

‘I was more independent than any farmer in Concord, for I was not anchored to a house or farm, but could follow the bent of my genius, which is a very crooked one, every moment.’ – Henry David Thoreau

‘Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.’ – Thornton Wilder

‘In order for comedy to be funny you have to play the truth of the moment. But if you’re not being completely truthful to the basis of the character, its not going to be funny.’ – Stephen Root

‘I’d say it was always in me – it’s just what’s required of you is very different in the moment that you become leader. When you’re part of a team, you defer, and you’re there to support your leader.’ – Jacinda Ardern

‘It is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May I ask whether these pleasing attentions proceed from the impulse of the moment, or are they the result of previous study?’ – Jane Austen

‘People want to see musicians sing things that come from their own mind and own heart in real time, responding to the moment for them.’ – John Mayer

‘Most people tell you there are certain moments you should celebrate in life: for example, the weekend coming, so you should party on a Friday. Or your birthday or New Year’s Eve. But what if you’re excited about being alive every day? Can’t you be in that celebratory state every moment you’re not dead?’ – Andrew W.K.

‘If you can help guide somebody through a challenging moment because you’ve been there, that ends up becoming a great gift.’ – Christian Slater

‘I’m into fashion because it contains the mood of the day, of the moment – like music, literature, and art.’ – Zaha Hadid

‘Photography has always been about documentary, the depiction of the instant, a moment, sometimes a place. Each project is somehow an experimentation of a specific context or a character.’ – Hedi Slimane

‘Sometimes a game comes at just the right moment in your life. ‘Flower’ is beautiful, serene, and a bit of sunshine in a gloomy world. I remember going through a rough spot in my life and turning on ‘Flower’ for a little break in the day. You fly through luscious landscapes collecting petals and painting the world with life.’ – Rob Manuel

‘People of Berlin – people of the world – this is our moment. This is our time.’ – Barack Obama

‘When you have a house full of children, there’s never a quiet moment, so I like getting out in the garden for a bit of time to myself.’ – Bob Mortimer

‘With my height in high school, I was really thinking basketball. But I guess I wasn’t that good, because my sophomore year I didn’t make the team. That was a really brutal moment for me.’ – Dean Potter

‘Fear not, the people may be deluded for a moment, but cannot be corrupted.’ – Andrew Jackson

‘I realized that nature had invented reproduction as a mechanism for life to move forward, as a life force that passes right through us and makes us a link in the evolution of life. Rarely seen by the naked eye, this intersection between the animal world and the plant world is truly a magic moment.’ – Louie Schwartzberg

‘The moment a person forms a theory, his imagination sees in every object only the traits which favor that theory.’ – Thomas Jefferson

‘I do things because I think they’re right. Not because other people think they are right, but it’s what I feel and what I feel needs to be said in the moment.’ – Eddie Kingston

‘Retirement has never entered my mind for one moment because I don’t feel the age I am – and I don’t act it, and I don’t speak like it. When God calls me, that’s when I stop. Until then, I’m going to just keep going.’ – Engelbert Humperdinck

‘It’s almost like you see too much, because when it happens for real, everything flies at you so fast, you never get a sense of the ice and where everyone is at that one moment.’ – Steve Yzerman

‘God is a God of the present. God is always in the moment, be that moment hard or easy, joyful and painful.’ – Henri Nouwen

‘I love being in the present. When I was playing for my school, the only thing I wanted to do was get selected for the under-16 or the under-19 district teams. When I was selected for the district, I would think about the next level, which was getting selected for the state side. I’m a person who lives very in the moment.’ – MS Dhoni

‘The worldly stuff is not always going to be there and it could be taken away at any moment.’ – Rich Froning Jr.

‘It doesn’t matter what odds are on paper or what’s happened before. It matters what happens that moment.’ – Holly Holm

‘Like after a nice walk when you have seen many lovely sights you decide to go home, after a while I decided it was time to go home, let us put the cubes back in order. And it was at that moment that I came face to face with the Big Challenge: What is the way home?’ – Erno Rubik

‘This was a seminal moment in my life – my dad took me to see the original production of ‘Jesus Christ Superstar’ at the Palace Theatre in 1973. I thought it was just amazing, so powerful. The idea of using rock music to tell the story of Jesus was incredible.’ – Michael Ball

‘When you take your attention into the present moment, a certain alertness arises. You become more conscious of what’s around you, but also, strangely, a sense of presence that is both within and without.’ – Eckhart Tolle

‘It matters little where a man may be at this moment; the point is whether he is growing.’ – George MacDonald

‘A lot of times songs are very much of a moment, that you just encapsulate. They come to you, you write them, you feel good that day, or bad that day.’ – Mick Jagger

‘As an assistant you have lots of ideas and suggestions that might be perfect for that moment and time, but you don’t think through all of the ramifications down the road. As a head coach it’s about being conscious of the whole group and what’s best for us long term. And that’s on and off the court.’ – Mike Budenholzer

‘At the present moment, the security of coherent philosophy, which existed from Parmenides to Hegel, is lost.’ – Karl Jaspers

‘Find things you’re passionate about, and find others who are as passionate as you are and will focus on giving you an opportunity to shine and to have your moment where you can be in front of others to show what you can do.’ – Nick Jonas

‘It is a full time job being honest one moment at a time, remembering to love, to honor, to respect. It is a practice, a discipline, worthy of every moment.’ – Jasmine Guy

‘I do remember when it occurred to me the first time, when I got the idea of painting the way I feel at a given moment. I was sitting in a chair and felt it pressing against me. I still have the drawings where I depicted the sensation of sitting.’ – Maria Lassnig

‘Once is a man’s life, for one mortal moment, he must make a grab for immorality; if not, he has not lived.’ – Sylvester Stallone

‘I want a painting to be difficult to do. The more obstacles, obstructions, problems – if they don’t overwhelm – the better. I would like to feel that I am involved at any stage of the painting with all its moments, not just this ‘now’ moment where a superficial grace is so available.’ – Richard Diebenkorn

‘No matter what you say you might do, you never really know until you’re in the moment. Every situation is so different.’ – Garth Brooks

‘All the events you have experienced in your lifetime up to this moment have been created by your thoughts and beliefs you have held in the past. They were created by the thoughts and words you used yesterday, last week, last month, last year, 10, 20, 30, 40, or more years ago, depending on how old you are.’ – Louise L. Hay

‘Early on, when I was quite young and going from job to job, I was foolish enough to sometimes speak to my fellow workers: ‘Hey, the boss can come in here at any moment and lay all of us off, just like that, don’t you realize that?’ They would just look at me. I was posing something that they didn’t want to enter their minds.’ – Charles Bukowski

‘Brian Johnson, AC/DC, singing ‘The Hokey Pokey’ with him – I’ll take that over any other moment.’ – Jim Breuer

‘A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.’ – Herbert Spencer

‘The question of who is right and who is wrong has seemed to me always too small to be worth a moment’s thought, while the question of what is right and what is wrong has seemed all-important.’ – Albert J. Nock

‘Whenever the lion fish in the fish tank in the captain’s ready room died it was always a sad moment.’ – Patrick Stewart

‘I don’t paint, and I can’t draw, but I see things, I think, quite well, and I love being able to freeze things with the camera, particularly the children. Then I discovered with the camera that you can tell a whole story with just freezing a moment in reality. I find it a very good way, a very satisfying feeling.’ – Margaret Trudeau

‘I profoundly feel that the art of living is the art of giving. You’re fulfilled in the moment of giving, of doing something beyond yourself.’ – Laurance Rockefeller

‘The difference between the Parthenon and the World Trade Center, between a French wine glass and a German beer mug, between Bach and John Philip Sousa, between Sophocles and Shakespeare, between a bicycle and a horse, though explicable by historical moment, necessity, and destiny, is before all a difference of imagination.’ – Guy Davenport

‘Actually, the moment of victory is wonderful, but also sad. It means that your trip is ended.’ – Bill Toomey

‘The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it’s dead for you.’ – Oscar Wilde

‘I didn’t know much about the ‘Walking Dead’ until after I booked the gig, and then I watched the first four seasons. I binge watched them in two weeks, and at that moment I realised, ‘Oh, this is a much bigger thing than I thought it was.” – Alycia Debnam-Carey

‘Finally here is a beautiful day, a superb sun like at Giverny. So I worked without stopping, for the tide at this moment is just as I need it for several motifs. This has bucked me up a bit.’ – Claude Monet

‘I studied what happened in the bond and the stock markets during previous periods when the Fed stopped manipulating the bond market. In every single case, the moment the Fed announced that there would be a cessation of intervention, stocks declined and interest rates went up.’ – Porter Stansberry

‘I wanted really to make it moment to moment, partly because I’m an actor and that’s how I operate – actors are all about creating the moment.’ – Anthony Rapp

‘What I find compelling is the moment in which people realize, with suffering and pain, that in the past there was a time when they were happy, because back then the present and the future coincided – they were one and the same thing.’ – Paolo Sorrentino

‘At the height of the British Empire very few English novels were written that dealt with British power. It’s extraordinary that at the moment in which England was the global superpower the subject of British power appeared not to interest most writers.’ – Salman Rushdie

‘I think Coran Capshaw is such a brilliant entrepreneur and he always thinks about new stuff; the biggest stuff you can imagine. I know he’s working on a lot of things for me at the moment, and I think it will definitely help my career to go to the next level.’ – Tiesto

‘Now, I’m an atheist. I really don’t believe for a moment that our moral sense comes from a god.’ – Ian Mcewan

‘It’s hard to explain where ideas come from. They’re an amalgamation of a million thoughts, dreams and sparks of imagination and it’s difficult to pinpoint the exact moment of conception.’ – Carrie Hope Fletcher

‘In a majority of hospitals, in a majority of places, it is the nurses that are on the frontlines. They’re the ones working every moment with the patients to ensure that they do well.’ – Deborah Birx

‘Whatever I am doing at that moment, I want to make the most of it.’ – Jennie Finch

‘A reputation takes years and years and years to build, and it takes one press of a button to ruin it. Don’t let that happen to you. You’ve done so much work; you’ve put in so much effort. Don’t let one moment ruin your entire life because you wanted to be funny or you were mad or because you had a mood.’ – J. J. Watt

‘Pretty much everyday, there’s a moment where I’m having to pinch myself and think, ‘When did this happen to my life?” – Carly Rae Jepsen

‘Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke.’ – Hermann Hesse

‘I’ve been allowed to grow over the past twenty years. I’ve managed to avoid being trapped in one moment of my career and for that, I’m very thankful.’ – Giovanni Ribisi

‘If you’re walking down the street and you smell a scent, it can take you right back to a memorable time in your life, whether it’s a moment with an ex-girlfriend or a childhood event.’ – Chris Evans

‘The happiest moment was when I just played with a ball as a boy, carefree, without worrying about anything.’ – Park Ji-sung

‘You don’t have to be a chef or even a particularly good cook to experience proper kitchen alchemy: the moment when ingredients combine to form something more delectable than the sum of their parts. Fancy ingredients or recipes not required; simple, made-up things are usually even better.’ – Erin Morgenstern

‘I’m interested when things are upside down – because there are so many possibilities in that one moment. There is a lot that is exposed.’ – Anna Deavere Smith

‘I have been waiting for someone to come along and tap into that very real frustration that exists in a very large segment of the working-class Republican base. And no one had done it until Donald Trump. I very clearly saw a void, and I knew somebody would fill it. And the moment I knew he had filled it, I knew he would win the nomination.’ – J. D. Vance

‘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.” – Johnny Depp

‘I think being completely authentic about the time you live in is something that I would view as a career-long objective – to find out what is authentically this moment.’ – Sophie

‘I’m always looking to the next thing. There are always hurdles, whether it’s the White House dinner or hosting charity events or that night’s show: Until they’re over, I worry, then I move right on to the next thing. It’s hard for me to enjoy the moment. I’m just thinking about not failing.’ – Jimmy Kimmel

‘I didn’t come out for 21 years because I thought that everything I wanted to do with my life – have a family, get a great job, make a change in this world – that the moment I came out, that I would not be able to do any of those things.’ – Sarah McBride

‘There are times when I prefer a cerebral moment with an artist, and I’ll just enjoy the wit of a Picabia or a Duchamp. It amuses me that they thought that what they did would be a good way of making art.’ – David Bowie

‘My main objective with every album is to capture a moment in time, which usually makes the whole process very relaxing. I only discover in retrospect when looking back at the songs how my life is going!’ – Alanis Morissette

‘I’m 15 and everything I’m doing right now is really exciting to me, so, actually, whatever I’m into at the moment, I’m somehow able to stay very focused on. I just keep moving forward.’ – Aidan Gallagher

‘There were musicians that influenced me, but they weren’t all women. Teena Marie was a big influence because she wrote and produced her own music, which let me know that women could write and produce their own music, which was an empowering moment for me.’ – Queen Latifah

‘Food that’s served at the table in a paper parcel always creates a remarkable culinary moment when opened, because the package is full of aromatic steam from the lightly cooked ingredients inside.’ – Yotam Ottolenghi

‘When you’re on stage, unless you surrender to the moment, you’re not telling the truth. I look for people that tell me the truth.’ – David Sanborn

‘There have been many, many paintings of Theseus and the Minotaur, as it is one of the more popular myths, so how could I make mine different and new? I decided it would be best to make the most dynamic painting I could. I wanted to capture the moment right before the Minotaur’s horn was snapped.’ – John Rocco

‘This is your moment. You’re meant to be here.’ – Herb Brooks

‘I cannot escape the objection that there is no state of mind, however simple, that does not change every moment.’ – Henri Bergson

‘I always say this about my music, and music in general: Music is like a time capsule. Each album reflects what I’m going through or what’s going on in my life at that moment.’ – Eminem

‘Well every moment, every project is different. I took a very slow approach to acting, trying to really work with people I could learn from. And I got something different out of each experience.’ – Mark Wahlberg

‘In anything, there has to be that moment of fasting, really, in order to enjoy the feast.’ – Stephen Hough

‘At the solemn moment of death, every man, even when death is sudden, sees the whole of his past life marshalled before him, in its minutest details. For one short instant the personal becomes one with the individual and all-knowing ego. But this instant is enough to show to him the whole chain of causes which have been at work during his life.’ – Annie Besant

‘We all want to be famous people, and the moment we want to be something we are no longer free.’ – Jiddu Krishnamurti

‘I jetset around and play these songs and get to hang with some pretty amazing people, then I go home to a really great farm, though actually it’s a disaster area of a farm at the moment. But it’s certainly a blast. I wouldn’t trade lives with anyone right now.’ – Brad Paisley

‘To increase our objectivity, we must learn to switch off the mini-movies. Objectivity requires us to be mindful, present in the moment, and experiencing what is happening without judgment.’ – Elizabeth Thornton

‘I want to keep doing what I’m doing and see how far I can go. See when it stops. See what the end is like. I want to make this moment last as long as I can make it. If I miss a day, I’m afraid I’ll miss out on a smash record.’ – Future

‘I don’t think I realized that the cost of fame is that it’s open season on every moment of your life.’ – Julia Roberts

‘You can always cope with the present moment, but you cannot cope with something that is only a mind projection – you cannot cope with the future.’ – Eckhart Tolle

‘The future hasn’t happened yet and the past is gone. So I think the only moment we have is right here and now, and I try to make the best of those moments, the moments that I’m in.’ – Annie Lennox

‘Temptation is just that – she’s the girl you claim you don’t want, but in the moment, you have more drinks than you should in the club. One thing leads to another, and suddenly you’ve done something really stupid. You’ve jeopardized what could’ve potentially been a really great relationship, all due to temptation.’ – Ne-Yo

‘What I’ve discovered is that in art, as in music, there’s a lot of truth-and then there’s a lie. The artist is essentially creating his work to make this lie a truth, but he slides it in amongst all the others. The tiny little lie is the moment I live for, my moment. It’s the moment that the audience falls in love.’ – Lady Gaga

‘For the moment and for some time great events have been denied me, forward action not come my way.’ – John Burns

‘Sometimes you feel you have the truth of a moment in your hand, then it slips through your fingers and is lost.’ – Harold Pinter

‘At the same time, one of the things I noticed was that the moment there was any kind of audio attached to virtual reality, it really improved the experience, even though the audio didn’t feel like a sound engineer or composer had been anywhere near it.’ – Thomas Dolby

‘I’ll be running, the ball will be in the air and I’ll feel like I’ve been in that moment before. It’s basically deja vu, like an active deja vu, I guess you could say.’ – Davante Adams

‘For nearly two years, I was flying above the planet with my camera. I knew straight away that this was something important to do, just at this moment, a portrait of the planet for the millennium year. I worked in 80 countries, fighting for money all the time.’ – Yann Arthus-Bertrand

‘I think as an actor, you’re constantly putting yourself out there, and a lot of times failing – and failing in front of a bunch of people – and sometimes you have a good moment and something clicks.’ – Chris Messina

‘The moment an emotion or fact is transformed into a photograph it is no longer a fact but an opinion.’ – Richard Avedon

‘Climbing in a beautiful location, the goal is not to power my way up but to become for that moment a part of the landscape, part of the rock.’ – Adam Ondra

‘I was the – my trendsetting moment was my bar mitzvah had the first, like, temporary tattoo guy.’ – Evan Goldberg

‘Louis Armstrong’s ‘What a Wonderful World’ is my ultimate karaoke song. It is a wonderful world. People forget we only have a certain amount of time, and it can all end at any moment. Armstrong and Frank Sinatra’s ‘My Way’ are the ultimate one-two punch.’ – Dhani Jones

‘Not to get too deep on shaving my mustache, but it was kind of symbolic of, ‘This is a moment of liberation, a chance to reinvent yourself.’ That’s kind of what I did.’ – Lester Holt

‘Schools that are freely accessible allow the organization of certain specific learning tasks which a person might propose to himself. Schools, when they are compulsory – as we see at this moment in the United States – create a dazed population, a ‘learned’ population, a mentally pretentious population, such as we have never seen before.’ – Ivan Illich

‘If I was on a march at the moment I would be saying to everyone: ‘Be honest with each other. Admit there are limitless possibilities in relationships, and love as many people as you can in whatever way you want, and get rid of your inhibitions, and we’ll all be happy.’ – Ian Mckellen

‘The message I want to give my fans is, always have a way to pull yourself out of the dark place. Don’t sit and cry about it. Have your moment, and then get over it.’ – Jessie J

‘Loneliness and rootlessness are just symptoms of an insecurity that assails us all when hitting this midlife moment. The world appears intent on blanking you out.’ – Mariella Frostrup

‘To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet born, and yet not become desperate if there is no birth in our lifetime.’ – Erich Fromm

‘I’ve often noticed that there is a moment when a man develops enough confidence and ease in a relationship to bore you to death. Sometimes one hardly even notices it’s happened, that moment, until some careless remark arouses one’s suspicions.’ – Eve Babitz

‘I always wanted a great love affair: something that feels big and full, really honest, and enough. No moment should feel slight, false, or a little off. For me, it had to be everything.’ – Angelina Jolie

‘A good actor always sets you straight. If you’ve written a false moment and thought it was probably pretty great, the actor’s gonna show you when he gets to that moment. They’re the great test of the validity of the material.’ – Sam Shepard

‘I didn’t get into acting to have a moment, I got into it because of people who’ve inspired me, like Judi Dench, Holly Hunter, and Jodie Foster.’ – Amy Adams

‘I really haven’t been cognitive of gas prices. It wasn’t until I filled up my husband’s Toyota Prius Hybrid that I had a moment of understanding of how people who drive gas cars feel.’ – Alexandra Paul

‘The Stonewall riots were a key moment for gay people. Throughout modern history, gays had thought of themselves as something like a mental illness or maybe a sin or a crime. Gay liberation allowed us to make the leap to being a ‘minority group,’ which made life much easier.’ – Edmund White

‘Yet, in spite of this world-wide system of linkages, there is, at this very moment, a general feeling that communication is breaking down everywhere, on an unparalleled scale.’ – David Bohm

‘To photograph is to hold one’s breath, when all faculties converge to capture fleeting reality. It’s at that precise moment that mastering an image becomes a great physical and intellectual joy.’ – Henri Cartier-Bresson

‘It is possible to experience an awakening in this life through realising just how precious each moment, each mental process, and each breath truly is.’ – Christy Turlington

‘I remember a specific moment, watching my grandmother hang the clothes on the line, and her saying to me, ‘you are going to have to learn to do this,’ and me being in that space of awareness and knowing that my life would not be the same as my grandmother’s life.’ – Oprah Winfrey

‘Some days, 24 hours is too much to stay put in, so I take the day hour by hour, moment by moment. I break the task, the challenge, the fear into small, bite-size pieces. I can handle a piece of fear, depression, anger, pain, sadness, loneliness, illness. I actually put my hands up to my face, one next to each eye, like blinders on a horse.’ – Regina Brett

‘Working with Pierce Brosnan and Minnie Driver was just a dream. A bit of a pinch-yourself moment.’ – Nicholas Galitzine

‘The moment comes when a character does or says something you hadn’t thought about. At that moment he’s alive and you leave it to him.’ – Graham Greene

‘Be mindful of the very moment you are living. Start exactly this second. You don’t wait until the children get out of the house or when the sun comes out. Create something better.’ – Alexandra Stoddard

‘The moment someone chooses to trust in Jesus Christ, his sins are wiped away, and he is adopted into God’s family. That individual is set apart as a child of God, with a sacred purpose.’ – Charles Stanley

‘The moment you say, ‘Please, give me a reason for this’, then you are being impossible and temperamental.’ – Montserrat Caballe

‘Once I see my mother’s smiling face, I forget all the shooting pressures and tensions. I am the happiest person at that moment.’ – Prabhas

‘It was a very rare moment in Japan after the Fukushima nuclear plant accident. Ordinary people went out to the streets to speak anti-nuclear sentiments.’ – Ryuichi Sakamoto

‘The CIA could not face up to the American people and admit that its former employees had conspired to assassinate the President; so from the moment Kennedy’s heart stopped beating, the Agency attempted to sweep the whole conspiracy under the rug.’ – Jim Garrison

‘There’s no one defining moment that kills you or makes you.’ – Sinbad

‘I don’t think anyone is ever writing so that you can throw it away. You’re always writing it to be something. Later, you decide whether it’ll ever see the light of day. But at the moment of its writing, it’s always meant to be something. So, to me, there’s no practicing; there’s only editing and publishing or not publishing.’ – Steve Martin

‘I truly believe that what we’re seeing with online dating is very similar to what happened with the Myspace-Facebook era, where Myspace was once this place for online connecting for a very select group of young people. And then Facebook kind of hit at this moment where it was acceptable for everybody to do it.’ – Whitney Wolfe Herd

‘I’ve never formally trained for pain management, but I have a good understanding of how to conquer it. I just analyze the pain, feel it in the moment, and then mentally become numb to it.’ – Criss Angel

‘Nobody wants a judge to be subject to the political whim of the moment.’ – Stephen Breyer

‘When you waste a moment, you have killed it in a sense, squandering an irreplaceable opportunity. But when you use the moment properly, filling it with purpose and productivity, it lives on forever.’ – Menachem Mendel Schneerson

‘There are things that I would say that you could call an instant of time; or better, a now. As we live we seem to move through a succession of instants of time, nows, and the question is, what are they? There are where everything in the universe is at this moment, now.’ – Julian Barbour

‘The artist one day falls through a hole in the brambles, and from that moment he is following the dark rapids of an underground river which may sometimes flow so near to the surface that the laughing picnic parties are heard above.’ – Cyril Connolly

‘Out with stereotypes, feminism proclaims. But stereotypes are the west’s stunning sexual personae, the vehicles of art’s assault against nature. The moment there is imagination, there is myth.’ – Camille Paglia

‘Sinful and forbidden pleasures are like poisoned bread; they may satisfy appetite for the moment, but there is death in them at the end.’ – Tryon Edwards

‘A definite highlight was doing ‘The Brothers McMullen.’ Shooting that movie was such a joy – and then we wound up winning the Sundance Film Festival. That big-break moment is visceral. It happens once in a decade, maybe once in a lifetime.’ – Connie Britton

‘So when I look back at ‘Saw’ and ‘Insidious,’ I just think, ‘Wow. Both of those films went way past what we ever could’ve dreamt for them’ and it makes me genuinely thankful, like every single day, once a day, even if it’s just for thirty seconds, sitting in my car, I have a moment where I’m like, I can’t believe I’m here.’ – Leigh Whannell

‘One of the things I like about performing on the stage is that it is a kind of meditative experience. Time does stand still. You have no concept or feeling of the passing of two or three hours’ time. It’s all kind of one present moment, which is a kind of a description of meditation.’ – Michael Emerson

‘Creativity and insight almost always involve an experience of acute pattern recognition: the eureka moment in which we perceive the interconnection between disparate concepts or ideas to reveal something new.’ – Jason Silva

‘I didn’t get paid enough money really to live properly, sleeping on people’s sofas and stuff, but that was the moment when I thought, ‘I just wanna play football professionally; whether I get paid 10 euros or 10,000 euros, I just wanna play.” – Lucy Bronze

‘When I was young I had a moment of believing in the Communist doctrine. I wanted to save the world through Communism. Quite soon I understood that it doesn’t work, but I’ve never pretended it didn’t happen to me.’ – Wislawa Szymborska

‘No woman can be completely happy at any one moment in time. They’re always anticipating the next thing to argue or complain about.’ – Denis Leary

‘We’ve been co-evolving with our technology for a hundred thousand years. Human beings and the technology we make were always inseparable. We’re finally coming into this moment where it’s coming inside our body for the first time in history.’ – Daniel H. Wilson

‘Two decades later, Gary Jules sang ‘Mad World’ for the film ‘Donnie Darko’ and got the Christmas No 1 in 2003. That was probably the proudest moment of my career.’ – Roland Orzabal

‘What was any art but a mould in which to imprison for a moment the shining elusive element which is life itself – life hurrying past us and running away, too strong to stop, too sweet to lose.’ – Willa Cather

‘You must not allow yourself to dwell for a single moment on any kind of negative thought.’ – Emmet Fox

‘We will not take Arsenal lightly for one minute, as they showed in the two matches against us last season that they can be dangerous opponents if we lose our concentration for a moment.’ – Lionel Messi

‘There are plenty of reasons to put our cellphones down now and then, not least the fact that incessantly checking them takes us out of the present moment and disrupts family dinners around the globe.’ – Amy Cuddy

‘When I figured out how to work my grill, it was quite a moment. I discovered that summer is a completely different experience when you know how to grill.’ – Taylor Swift

‘People speak of the fear of the blank canvas as though it is a temporary hesitation, a trembling moment of self-doubt. For me it was more like being abducted from my bed by a clown, thrust into a circus arena with a wicker chair, and told to tame a pissed-off lion in front of an expectant crowd.’ – Hannah Kent

‘It’s almost like the better I do, the more my feeling of inadequacy actually increases, because I’m just going, ‘Any moment, someone’s going to find out I’m a total fraud, and that I don’t deserve any of what I’ve achieved. I can’t possibly live up to what everyone thinks I am and what everyone’s expectations of me are.” – Emma Watson

‘It is the quality of the moment, not the number of days, or events, or of actors, that imports.’ – Ralph Waldo Emerson

‘Theater is a space where you cross over from everyday life, because there are real people in that moment moving in front of you – you’re being invited to believe in a story and cross that bridge.’ – Cate Blanchett

‘I suppose even when I was growing up, I noticed I was most happy when I was absorbed in something, lost in the moment and forgot the time, whether was conversation, movie, or a game I was playing. That was my definition of happiness. And I was least happy when I was all over the place, distracted and restless.’ – Pico Iyer

‘Something can happen in your life, and you might want and need something different from your spouse. Most people forget that you have to create relationships. The allure of the first years settles down, and at that moment, you better start creating it; otherwise, you’re going to lose out.’ – John Travolta

‘Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable.’ – Francis Bacon

‘You have to have this straddling balance of realizing that games are incredibly complex. You can have an idea of where you want to go with something, the structure of something, but the actual moment to moment figuring all this out-it unravels over the course of, in ‘God of War”s case, about five years.’ – Cory Barlog

‘If I’m at a book signing, and someone decides to take me to task, it can make for quite a sticky moment.’ – Saul David

‘Without touching my subject I want to come to the moment when, through pure concentration of seeing, the composed picture becomes more made than taken. Without a descriptive caption to justify its existence, it will speak for itself – less descriptive, more creative; less informative, more suggestive – less prose, more poetry.’ – Ernst Haas

‘There is nothing a worker resents more than to see some man taking his job. A factory can be closed down, its chimneys smokeless, waiting for the worker to come back to his job, and all will be peaceful. But the moment workers are imported, and the striker sees his own place usurped, there is bound to be trouble.’ – Charles M. Schwab

‘A judgment about life has no meaning except the truth of the one who speaks last, and the mind is at ease only at the moment when everyone is shouting at once and no one can hear a thing.’ – Georges Bataille

‘I would leave the industry in a moment if I thought I was going to get stuck in one particular area of it.’ – Tom Goodman-Hill

‘This moment exhibits infinite space, but there is a space also wherein all moments are infinitely exhibited, and the everlasting duration of infinite space is another region and room of joys.’ – Thomas Traherne

‘People say the most stupid things on the spur of the moment that they then have to retract.’ – Michael Palin

‘I was always concerned with writing to my age at a particular moment. That was the way I would keep faith with the audience that supported me as I went along.’ – Bruce Springsteen

‘Sometimes you get a glimpse of a semicolon coming, a few lines farther on, and it is like climbing a steep path through woods and seeing a wooden bench just at a bend in the road ahead, a place where you can expect to sit for a moment, catching your breath.’ – Lewis Thomas

‘From the moment I wrote ‘Leaf Storm’ I realized I wanted to be a writer and that nobody could stop me and that the only thing left for me to do was to try to be the best writer in the world.’ – Gabriel Garcia Marquez

‘Meanwhile the fact that the connection with the activity of memory in ordinary life is for the moment lost is of less importance than the reverse, namely, that this connection with the complications and fluctuations of life is necessarily still a too close one.’ – Hermann Ebbinghaus

‘Some guy was just like, ‘You rap fast, man. Like a little machine gun,’ and from that moment, I was Lil Uzi.’ – Lil Uzi Vert

‘The worst moment for the atheist is when he is really thankful and has nobody to thank.’ – Dante Gabriel Rossetti

‘From the moment Messi was introduced, we all knew he was a unique talent. I remember Deco and Ronaldinho immediately realised how special he was, and they took him under their wing.’ – Frank Rijkaard

‘I’ve titled this book ‘Eighty Is Not Enough’ not just for the obvious play on words, but as a way of expressing the single idea that has governed my entire life, that every moment of life is precious, that every step we take is an adventure, that every day on earth is a gift from God.’ – Dick Van Patten

‘Though I still have no semblance of a life outside of Nine Inch Nails at the moment, I realize my goals have gone from getting a record deal or selling another record to being a better person, more well-rounded, having friends, having a relationship with somebody.’ – Trent Reznor

‘Turning 50 is a little bit of a ‘taking stock’ moment. I feel probably a little dumber. I don’t think I’m as sharp as I was when I was younger, but I’m definitely wiser and less likely to make gigantic blunders of an intellectual, spiritual, emotional or physical type.’ – Flea

‘I enjoy what I’m doing at the moment and try not to think too much about the future.’ – Katherine Kelly

‘There’s a moment in every book when the book turns and it surprises me.’ – Chuck Palahniuk

‘Live your days on the positive side of life, in tune with your most treasured values. And in each moment you’ll have much to live for.’ – Ralph Marston

‘Always beware your moment of triumphalism: such emotions are a poor steer on the future.’ – Martin Jacques

‘Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars.’ – Brian Tracy

‘Life is about choices, and the grace – or lack thereof – with which you execute them is a make-or-break moment in anyone’s life.’ – Gina Torres

‘This is the moment when we must build on the wealth that open markets have created, and share its benefits more equitably. Trade has been a cornerstone of our growth and global development. But we will not be able to sustain this growth if it favors the few, and not the many.’ – Barack Obama

‘Of course, we would love to know more about the exact moment of Big Bang, but interposing an outside intelligence does nothing to add to that knowledge, as we still know nothing about the creation of that intelligence.’ – Richard Dawkins

‘If you don’t seize that moment you sort of fall behind and get left in the smoke, so it’s full steam ahead.’ – Masked Wolf

‘We’re in the hands of the state legislature and God, but at the moment, the state legislature has more to say than God.’ – Ed Koch

‘Every day I’ve got to be thankful that I am alive, and you never know – the cliche is, I guess, you could get hit by a bus tomorrow, so you’d better be at peace with whatever you got going at the moment.’ – Joseph Gordon-Levitt

‘The single moment when I knew that I had to get busy and do more was around the death of my son.’ – Bobby Rush

‘I work in whatever medium likes me at the moment.’ – Marc Chagall

‘If danger arises in the present moment, there may be an emotion. There may even be pain. But that’s a challenge, not a problem. For a problem to exist, you need time and repetitive mind activity.’ – Eckhart Tolle

‘I love scoring. Putting music to picture is a rewarding challenge and one that relies on interpretation of emotion – as in, what is the pivotal feeling in a scene and which character’s point of view is driving it at any given moment?’ – Liz Phair

‘Popularity is a crime from the moment it is sought; it is only a virtue where men have it whether they will or no.’ – George Savile

‘I started at Pillsbury as a manager in one of their analysis functions, then worked my way up the corporate ladder to become vice president. Moving to Burger King was an important moment in my career.’ – Herman Cain

‘Having done a lot of magazines, I’m very curious how big magazines handle big stories, and I was very curious to see how ‘Time’ and ‘Newsweek’ would handle 9/11. And I was basically pretty disappointed to see that they had chosen to show the photo we’d already seen a million times, which was basically the moment of impact.’ – David Carson

‘I did learn eventually – perhaps far too late – to respect the talent I have. For a lot of years out there, I was just bashing on to the next thing and not really thinking about it too much. That’s what we do. But I’m learning to appreciate the moment.’ – Mark Knopfler

‘I was spoiled in a very strange way as a child, because everybody told me, from the moment I was able to hear, that I was absolutely marvelous, and I never heard a discouraging word for years, you see. I didn’t know what was ahead of me.’ – Orson Welles

‘People who weren’t there can say it was idiotic or shortsighted, but when you’re in a moment where horrible things are happening in front of you, sometimes you just need to act on what’s best.’ – Bob Morley

‘My best and worst ‘Idol’ moments? I don’t have a worst ‘Idol’ moment… I’ve been spectacular. Yes, I am going to toot my own horn. And then my best moment is every single moment. I’ll toot it again!’ – Nicki Minaj

‘Nothing ever begins. There is no first moment; no single word or place from which this or any other story springs.’ – Clive Barker

‘I think the moment you start trying to please a fan base is when you start going downhill. I’m going to always, always write about what I want, even if it doesn’t necessarily cater to most of them.’ – Ed Sheeran

‘When you stand up there and do a press conference, it’s a very preoccupied moment. You’re standing in front of cameras; people are watching you; it’s not so easy to be at ease.’ – Christine Quinn

‘People say a lot of things in the heat of the moment. But in the entertainment business, ya never say never.’ – Dickey Betts

‘We now have the technology to pretty much hear everything. Can you imagine how our holiday dinners would be if every relative’s entire conversations from birth to that moment in time was shown to every other relative?’ – Rick Santelli

‘By the time a person has achieved years adequate for choosing a direction, the die is cast and the moment has long since passed which determined the future.’ – Zelda Fitzgerald

‘In general, the straight line of a joke sets up a premise, an expectation. Then the funny ending – the punch line – in a sense contradicts the original assumption by refusing to follow what had seemed a reasonable train of thought. Many jokes involve that simple matter of leaping outside what had appeared to be the rules of the game at the moment.’ – Steve Allen

‘My favorite place in Indonesia is Bali. I was there with my family in Nusa Dua, and my kids loved it. I’m a workaholic, so for me, Bali is a place where you can have a vacation, but you can have your own moment as well. You feel like you blend with nature – and I love the beach.’ – Joe Taslim

‘For me, the terror of the zombie is that at any moment, your friend, your family, you neighbor, your teacher, the guy at the bodega down the street, can be revealed as the monster they’ve always been.’ – Colson Whitehead

‘I was in the bath at the time, and my dad came running in and said, ‘Guess who they want to play Harry Potter!?’ and I started to cry. It was probably the best moment of my life.’ – Daniel Radcliffe

‘Playing with Kaka is easy, as is Raul. They are very intelligent and they know what to do at each moment. With these types of players, with such quality, it is easy to get in tune with.’ – Marcelo

‘Who has words at the right moment?’ – Charlotte Bronte

‘I do feel grateful, and I love what I’m doing, and I’m happy, and I’m living in the moment, but I also have my eye on the long game and the big prize, and that is just to make this a life-long career. To make a big enough impact on everybody to stick around for a long time.’ – Cassadee Pope

‘If we can remain present and deal with the moment in front of us, no matter what our battle, then if we lose, we’ll know that ultimately we weren’t supposed to win that battle in the first place.’ – Yehuda Berg

‘As soon as things get serious in front of the goal, I don’t have any twitches… It’s probably because at that moment, my concentration on the game is stronger than the Tourette syndrome.’ – Tim Howard

‘A lot changed the moment I had kids; I had no idea of the perspective it would give me. It made making the right decisions a lot easier.’ – Michael Buble

‘In tennis, because of the way it’s scored, I don’t think that scoring one point out of luck is ever decisive in winning. But, of course, it depends on the moment.’ – Rafael Nadal

‘You’re watching your kids playing football, and you’re not present. It’s like the worst… it’s horrible. I despise myself for it. I think it’s a particularly male thing. Being present and in the moment with your kids is something a lot of men struggle with.’ – Andy Serkis

‘I think with improv – and I say it all the time because it’s become such a catch thing that you talk about improv – if the scene is well-written, you don’t need to improv. But that being said, if something strikes you in the moment and, most importantly, you know where the scene is supposed to go, it’s no different than method acting.’ – Vince Vaughn

‘I think I’m always somehow interested in characters who want to make one perfect thing, to transcend humanness, even if only for a moment.’ – Markus Zusak

‘When I look back, I don’t have regrets. In the moment I am really, really hard on myself, I’m definitely my own worst critic and can be my own worst enemy, and I’m trying very hard not to be that.’ – Emma Stone

‘A man’s motive in the small actions of daily life, like resting a moment on his pitchfork in the sun and listening intently, may be the most important thing about that man.’ – Haniel Long

‘Literally, from the moment I wake up from the moment I go to sleep, I’m just working without distraction. It’s just the way I’m wired.’ – Lee Zeldin

‘I was clipped from behind, and my leg got caught between my opponent’s legs. As we fell, my leg snapped. It was a spiral fracture. They had to put in a plate and five screws. It was a devastating moment: one minute I was on cloud nine, and then I was out for the season.’ – Ali Krieger

‘I have sometimes played my best Davis Cup matches away from home when you stay in the moment a bit more. But it is tough when half the crowd are spitting on you.’ – Lleyton Hewitt

‘O sweet, delusive Noon, Which the morning climbs to find, O moment sped too soon, And morning left behind.’ – Helen Hunt Jackson

‘There is no way that you can ever really repeat something. I have this great belief that the magic of the moment can never be recaptured.’ – Brian May

‘Usually in church, when the congregation is overcome by the Holy Spirit for a moment, the people will interrupt the sermon to yell their praises, and dance for joy.’ – Daniel Caesar

‘The NBA is the best league in the world. It’s no way you’re going to be able to fill the void that the energy of performing before 20,000 people every night gives you. That’s just impossible. So, I just try and move on from that and let it be a moment in time and leave it alone.’ – Chris Bosh

‘Financial trouble, financial crisis, medical trouble, I’ve seen it all. But I never experienced a moment of breakdown or self-doubt, somehow.’ – Pratik Gandhi

‘Man falls from the pursuit of the ideal of plan living and high thinking the moment he wants to multiply his daily wants. Man’s happiness really lies in contentment.’ – Mahatma Gandhi

‘The moment that most fascinated me in Ursula Le Guin’s ‘The Lathe of Heaven’ was its descriptions of times of transition from one reality to another.’ – Mark Fisher

‘The moment the angel enters a life it enters an environment. We are ecological from day one.’ – James Hillman

‘Running is a basic ingredient for your health, just as much as eating and sleeping, but going out for a run by yourself and taking a moment to think also creates a certain peace.’ – Phil Knight

‘I find that every day is not about where I’ll be tomorrow, but it’s about what I’m doing today and staying in the moment.’ – Serinda Swan

‘There was a moment in my life when I really wanted to kill myself. And there was one other moment when I was close to that. But even in my most jaded times, I had some hope.’ – Gerard Way

‘I have seen a lot of people, including myself, make a lot of tip money because of ‘Black Water,’ so this is a full circle moment. To collaborate and recreate this iconic song is just an amazing moment as an artist.’ – Zac Brown

‘I am a woman of the moment.’ – Rita Moreno

‘The more you live in the present moment, the more the fear of death disappears.’ – Eckhart Tolle

‘I think it’s time for me to get out, because at the moment I’m only thinking about fishing 21 hours a day, and they’re the waking moments. And even when I close my eyes I’m thinking about it.’ – Rex Hunt

‘Love or hatred must constantly increase between two persons who are always together; every moment fresh reasons are found for loving or hating better.’ – Honore de Balzac

‘When I was growing up in Iraq, there was an unbroken belief in progress and a great sense of optimism. It was a moment of nation building.’ – Zaha Hadid

‘How can we love days that are filled with sorrow? We can’t – at least not in the moment.’ – Joseph B. Wirthlin

‘My favorite role of all? Whatever I’m working on in the moment.’ – Misty Copeland

‘If we knew exactly the laws of nature and the situation of the universe at the initial moment, we could predict exactly the situation of the same universe at a succeeding moment.’ – Henri Poincare

‘I’ve always been attracted to the ‘don’t follow the rules’ type of girl, the rocker girl. I’ve always been attracted to somebody who you can lose yourself in the moment with. You can hang out with her, and it’s like you’re the only two people in the room.’ – Steven R. McQueen

‘I relate to happiness as an ecstatic moment – something you don’t create, you encounter.’ – Yoko Ono

‘You don’t have to be the sexiest girl or the most talented person to have the X factor. X factor is something you are born with that is your own. And the moment that you realize how to tap into that quality that you have within, and how to bring that individuality out of yourself, that is when you discover the X factor.’ – Sonu Nigam

”Black-ish’ is the cherry on the top of my career… When you come into your own, when you’re in your skin, you’re unstoppable, because you’re living in the moment of life.’ – Jenifer Lewis

‘To be able to throw one’s self away for the sake of a moment, to be able to sacrifice years for a woman’s smile – that is happiness.’ – Hermann Hesse

‘I’m not frightened about death. I don’t know why, but I just feel that at a certain moment your switch is switched off, and that’s it. And you can’t do anything about it.’ – Tony Benn

‘History is present in all my novels. And whether I am directly talking about the sociological moment or just immersing my character in the environment, I am very aware of it.’ – Paul Auster

‘Love is a choice you make from moment to moment.’ – Barbara De Angelis

‘The moment the world falls apart, you start forgetting history and wrongdoings in the past.’ – Alycia Debnam-Carey

‘I am a helicopter pilot. Something that gives me pleasure sometimes is taking my helicopter to go high, 2000 meter, 6000 feet, to go there and feel like a bird. In this moment I feel free.’ – Roberto Cavalli

‘There is so much division in this world. So what is really the path of healing? It can begin in this moment, by embracing the life that’s here.’ – Tara Brach

‘Brock Lesnar and Roman Reigns are the main event of WrestleMania 34 because neither one is content, and both are ambitious enough to push the limits of what is now considered their greatest moment, and that’s the point that neither one will ever accept. They will never accept the idea that they’ve peaked as individuals.’ – Paul Heyman

‘Every time I’ve gotten myself into trouble, it’s because I’m choosing a project based on a long-term career goal as opposed to something that speaks to me at the moment.’ – Ryan Reynolds

‘Some men give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal; While others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before.’ – Herodotus

‘Usually, people have a tendency to be caught in the worries concerning the future or in the regret concerning the past. There is some kind of energy that is pushing them to run, and they are not able to establish themselves in the present moment.’ – Thich Nhat Hanh

‘I want to – more than anything – to create a moment that people will never forget. Not for me, but for themselves. That’s what I remember about great Super Bowl performances in the past, when you really get lost in the moment with your family.’ – Lady Gaga

‘The human body is constantly undergoing a process of decay and of reconstruction. First builded into the astral form in the womb of the mother, it is built up continually by the insetting of fresh materials. With every moment tiny molecules are passing away from it; with every moment tiny molecules are streaming into it.’ – Annie Besant

‘I am interviewing people with a spirit of genuine interest and compassion, and therefore, the general tone of the site is one of genuine interest and compassion. The moment that culture changes, ‘Humans of New York’ is no longer viable.’ – Brandon Stanton

‘My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you I the best place for the next moment.’ – Oprah Winfrey

‘The answer is, who you are cannot be defined through thinking or mental labels or definitions, because it’s beyond that. It is the very sense of being, or presence, that is there when you become conscious of the present moment. In essence, you and what we call the present moment are, at the deepest level, one.’ – Eckhart Tolle

‘I have a real hard time classifying anything as my biggest moment, my favorite color or whatever.’ – Troy Aikman

‘I’m going to Heaven just like the thief on the cross who said in that last moment: ‘Lord, remember me.” – Billy Graham

‘A friend was surprised to hear me say that there was not one moment of my past that I would like to relive.’ – Gore Vidal

‘Favor comes because for a brief moment in the great space of human change and progress some general human purpose finds in him a satisfactory embodiment.’ – Franklin D. Roosevelt

‘I wanted to write about the moment when your addictions no longer hide the truth from you. When your whole life breaks down. That’s the moment when you have to somehow choose what your life is going to be about.’ – Chuck Palahniuk

‘Society sets us up to be everything but ourselves, but I want to take a moment and say to people, love yourself. Find your purpose. You are unique, and that makes you great. I pursued my dreams. You can do it, too.’ – Karen Civil

‘When I end up yelling, it’s not really deliberate. It’s usually out of some moment of passion or frustration or real desire to get unstuck.’ – Christine Quinn

‘To get an Oscar would be an incredible moment in my career, there is no doubt about that. But the ‘Lord of the Rings’ films are not made for Oscars, they are made for the audience.’ – Peter Jackson

‘In my own life I know that my state of cheerfulness is a reliable gauge of my level of spiritual enlightenment at that moment. The more cheerful, happy, contented, and satisfied I am feeling, the more aware I am of my deep connection to Spirit.’ – Wayne Dyer

‘The moment I started learning to play the piano it changed my whole dynamic with music and with school. Suddenly I had a reason to be there, or at least at my music lessons; it just took hold of me.’ – Santan Dave

‘Remember daydreams? No, of course you don’t. How could you? Three new text messages have just arrived, and another three, in a moment, will go out.’ – Walter Kirn

‘So many people have this idea: I want to achieve something great or be somebody great. And they neglect the step that leads to greatness. They don’t honor this step at this moment because they have this idea of some future moment where they are going to be great.’ – Eckhart Tolle

‘Nobody wants to put the creditworthiness of the United States in jeopardy. Nobody wants to see the United States default. So we’ve got to seize this moment, and we have to seize it soon.’ – Barack Obama

‘There is such a thing as old emotional pain living inside you. It is an accumulation of painful life experience that was not fully faced and accepted in the moment it arose. It leaves behind an energy form of emotional pain.’ – Eckhart Tolle