Successful Thoughts on Present

Posted by Shawn Altman on Dec 20, 2012 in The Zen Of Success

strongemOne of the most important and effective ways to gain knowledge, enlightenment and understanding about the PRESENT and the great importance of it to our lives, is to learn from Successful people in history that have gone before us and become a priceless part of our past and PRESENT, and who were and are generous with their thoughts, experience and understanding./em/strong

Do not dwell in the past, and do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the empresent /emmoment. – strongBuddha/strongstrong
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The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, nor to worry about the future, but to live the empresent/em moment wisely and earnestly. – strongBuddha/strongstrong
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If the empresent /emCongress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise in a body to which the people send one hundred and fifty lawyers, whose trade it is to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour? – strongThomas Jefferson/strong

Peace and abstinence from European interferences are our objects, and so will continue while the empresent/em order of things in America remain uninterrupted. – strongThomas Jefferson/strong

The distinction between the past, empresent/em and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion. – strongAlbert Einstein/strong

Politics is for the empresent/em, but an equation is for eternity. – strongAlbert Einstein/strong

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy empresent/em. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew. – strongAbraham Lincoln/strongstrong
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Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the empresent /eminaccessible. – strongMaya Angelou/strong

For Africa to me… is more than a glamorous fact. It is a historical truth. No man can know where he is going unless he knows exactly where he has been and exactly how he arrived at his empresent /emplace. – strongMaya Angelou/strongstrong
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If we open a quarrel between past and empresent/em we shall find that we have lost the future. – strongWinston Churchill/strongstrong
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I do not want to foresee the future. I am concerned with taking care of the empresent/em. God has given me no control over the moment following. strong- Mohandas Gandhi
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It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at empresent/em. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad. – strongC. S. Lewis/strongstrong
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If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the empresent/em world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this. – strongC. S. Lewis/strong

The absent are never without fault, nor the empresent/em without excuse. – strongBenjamin Franklin/strong

There’s no empresent/em. There’s only the immediate future and the recent past. – strongGeorge Carlin/strong

The future influences the empresent/em just as much as the past. – strongFriedrich Nietzsche/strongstrong
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Existence really is an imperfect tense that never becomes a empresent/em. – strongFriedrich Nietzsche/strong

When they call the roll in the Senate the Senators do not know whether to answer em”Present”/em or “Not guilty.” – strongTheodore Roosevelt/strong

Freedom from effort in the empresent/em merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past. – strongTheodore Roosevelt/strong

Fatherhood is pretending the empresent/em you love most is soap-on-a-rope. – strongBill Cosby/strong

The problem with the future is that it keeps turning into the empresent/em. – strongBill Watterson/strong

I do not know which makes a man more conservative – to know nothing but the empresent/em, or nothing but the past. – strongJohn Maynard Keynes/strongstrong
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The importance of money flows from it being a link between the empresent /emand the future. – strongJohn Maynard Keynes/strongstrong
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Often it takes some calamity to make us live in the empresent/em. Then suddenly we wake up and see all the mistakes we have made. – strongBill Watterson/strong

The future is keeping you out of the empresent /emtime. – strongVan Morrison/strong

The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the empresent/em. – strongBarbara de Angelis/strong