From Kelsey, I have learned among many other things the value of turning on a dime and how you can have an extremely funny and extremely poignant moment with absolutely no separation in between... and sometimes in the same moment.
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Related I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES Now is the only time we have, and the only time we have any control over. RICHARD CARLSON Now is the only time we have, and the only time that we have any control over. RICHARD CARLSON Mindfulness is observing the beauty of every moment unfolding before us. AMIT RAY Get pass your past, be a presence in your present, and let no one refute your future. JOHNNIE DENT JR. No, of course not. But surely you know your affair couldn't go on forever." "Forever has no mea... ELLEN HOPKINS I promise myself that I will enjoy every minute of the day that is given me to live. THICH NHAT HANH You can't go back to how things were. How you thought they were. All you really have is...now. JAY ASHER Life is a journey, not a destination. RALPH WALDO EMERSON The Buddha told him, "When we sit, we know we are sitting. When we walk, we know we are walking. Whe... THICH NHAT HANH She plucked the blossoms from the bag and arranged them, one by one, in the water glass on her dress... SARAH JIO Even as we live with the knowledge that each day might be our last, we don’t want to believe it. SHARON SALZBERG Life is neither a glorious highlight reel nor a monstrous tragedy. Every day is a good day to live a... KILROY J. OLDSTER Wherever you are, be there. If you can be fully present now, you’ll know what it means to live. STEVE GOODIER Avoid the temptation to force a moment so you won’t miss the one with your name on it. GINA GREENLEE Among other things, I use a Samsung mobile phone, a very bad quality video camera, and an old Olympu... ALISON JACKSON Savor the moment. Set a goal that you value and plan the steps to of getting there in a way that you... TERENCE T. GORSKI I think I've always been half out of my shell and half in. Sometimes I can be extremely wild and... EMILE HIRSCH I don't know what the fuck you think you're doing, ace, but this Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde shit ain't ... SYLVIA DAY The inventory process and stepping back in your life can sometimes be a very dark process. But it al... CRAIG CHARLES In every journey comes a moment... one like no other. And in that moment, you must decide between wh... J.C. MARINO Sometimes you never feel meaner than the moment you stop being mean. It's like how turning on a ligh... REBECCA STEAD What day is it?" It's today," squeaked Piglet. My favorite day," said Pooh. A.A. MILNE Be present in all things and thankful for all things. MAYA ANGELOU Look at everything always as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time: Thus is yo... BETTY SMITH Do not look back and grieve over the past, for it is gone; and do not be troubled about the future, ... IDA SCOTT TAYLOR MCKINNEY Life is a preparation for the future; and the best preparation for the future is to live as if there... ALBERT EINSTEIN The only way to survive eternity is to be able to appreciate each moment. LAUREN KATE Things were a little untidy, but what did that matter? It was possible to become the slave of things... ELIZABETH VON ARNIM Live today. Not yesterday. Not tomorrow. Just today. Inhabit your moments. Don't rent them out to to... JERRY SPINELLI How can something feel so crucial in the moment and then seem completely trivial after the fact? PAULA STOKES Mindfulness is like that—it is the miracle which can call back in a flash our dispersed mind and r... THICH NHAT HANH I think David Letterman is a genius. Night after night he is funny and smart. He seems to really enj... CASEY AFFLECK An actor finds things in the moment with a director and other actors that you don't have time to... ANDY SERKIS The bottom line is very simple: Can you clone a dog? Absolutely. But it is extremely inefficient and... MARK WESTHUSIN I know no medium: I never in my life have known any medium in my dealings with positive, hard charac... CHARLOTTE BRONTë I learned in an extremely hard way that the accountability falls with me. STEPHEN BALDWIN I'm a very modest person. But I'm also extremely confident. And if you put me in the situati... DREW BREES David is an extremely gifted and charismatic actor. KATE HARWOOD At this moment in time, the chances of any agreement are extremely small. ALI ANSARI We are extremely happy, we are extremely emotional. We have waited for this moment for a long time. ... VIVIANA DIAZ A new experience can be extremely pleasurable, or extremely irritating, or somewhere in between, and... LEMONY SNICKET New Year's eve is like every other night; there is no pause in the march of the universe, no breathl... HAMILTON WRIGHT MABIE I have learned so many things from my mother about the right upbringing, the right values, value for... KARISMA KAPOOR [He was aware] of the value of the word of praise dropped at exactly the right moment; and he would ... GEORGETTE HEYER Two lives that once part, are as ships that divide
When, moment on moment, there rushes between
... EDWARD GEORGE EARLE LYTTON BULWER-LYTTON, FIRST BARON LYTTON For me, the release was a spot in time with no past and no future. Just the extraordinary simplicity... TIFFANIE DEBARTOLO Where 'er thou art be thou (w)holy there. MURRAY I. MESZAROS Live in the moment. Don’t carry baggage from the past. Put that baggage in a history book and lear... DEBASISH MRIDHA There is no roles. No one is keeping any roles. The drummer is also answering everybody and everythi... MIROSLAV VITOUS Basically, my goal in life is to be David Hyde Pierce - go to Hollywood, make some money, come back ... BARRETT FOA In my ninety-plus years, I have learned a secret. I have learned that when good men and good women f... GORDON B. HINCKLEY Happiness, not in another place but this place...not for another hour, but this hour. WALT WHITMAN You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fool... HENRY DAVID THOREAU Forever is composed of nows. EMILY DICKINSON We spend precious hours fearing the inevitable. It would be wise to use that time adoring our famili... MAYA ANGELOU These are the days that must happen to you. WALT WHITMAN Live today. Not yesterday. Not tomorrow. Just today. Inhabit your moments. Don’t rent them out to ... JERRY SPINELLI If there's one thing I learned, it's that nobody is here forever. You have to live for the moment, e... SIMONE ELKELES The universe is a gathering of nows that I spread before my feet like a landscape. JANET TURPIN MYERS The point is to be in the moment, not miss the moment while trying to capture it. SHERALYN PRATT As you get to know what takes you away from life, you have more moments throughout your day where yo... MARY O'MALLEY You have a pet theory, one you have been turning over for years, that life itself is a kind of Rube ... KEVIN BROCKMEIER Everyone values things differently. In other words, they place their own value on everything that af... SIDNEY MADWED You can be extremely bright and still have dyslexia. You just have to understand how you learn and h... TIM TEBOW I have done so many love scenes in the past that I have learned how to pull off a sexy smoulder on t... CHERIE LUNGHI The older you get, things like this become special. You value every moment and memory you have. When... BOB HORNER Life knows what you want, and gives you exactly the same thing, at the moment. You attract exactly w... ROSHAN SHARMA , The Hidden Power of the Heart Each moment is a doorway to time travel. Being in this very moment ... SARA PADDISON It was frustrating to still be in the dark about something and be given only so little light. LAUREN LOLA Most of us have learned the hard way that there are very few things you can absolutely count on in l... GRAYDON CARTER Mindfulness is not entering into another planet. It is making you good at what you do. It is restori... AMIT RAY It's an absolute honor to be taking part in the pageant for the Diamond Jubilee. This is a once-... STEVE MCFADDEN Sometimes you have to wake up a child in you and let yourself to enjoy the moment! VIKTORIJA GRUMBLYTė I learned a lot of things from Robinson last year, and one of the biggest things I learned was his l... ANTHONY MORELLI We fall back into the past, we jump ahead into the future, and in this we lose our entire lives. THICH NHAT HANH An emotionally locked person refuses to let go of their sad memories and live in the now. KILROY J. OLDSTER The moment you feel you have to prove your worth to someone is the moment to absolutely and utterly ... ALYSIA HARRIS Each character brings in new danger, new comedy and new musical variety. The music becomes intoxicat... CHUCK HUDSON When you waste a moment, you have killed it in a sense, squandering an irreplaceable opportunity. Bu... MENACHEM MENDEL SCHNEERSON I just can think of no other woman in this state who performs at such an extremely high level in so ... ELLEN MILLER Easing back in her seat, Grace watched the children in the playground opposite, coats off, faces flu... KATHLEEN TESSARO Tears and complaints - the means which I have called water power - can be an extremely useful weapon... ALFRED ADLER It's strange how can lose things that are still right there. How a barrier can go up at any moment, ... ROBYN SCHNEIDER An irrelevant and poignant sensation of pleasure rose in him, like a tree that grew up and flowered ... URSULA K. LE GUIN Circumstances can have a motive force by which they bring about events without aid of human imaginat... KAREN BLIXEN My father was extremely loving to me and funny and wise and understanding, and at other times extrem... ANJELICA HUSTON I think pain is a very - it's an extremely hard thing to empathize moment to moment. And you oft... HUGH LAURIE From this moment I declare myself on a hunger strike until I have been absolutely cleared of the acc... JOSE IMPERATORI This first year will need to be lean and mean ? we will be on an extremely streamlined budget and wo... ERIK OLSON So I learned two things that night, and the next day, from him: the perfection of a moment, and the ... MARGARET GEORGE You are a book being read every moment, By someone or the other, Though only in parts! <... LUKHMAN PAMBRA [?] Probably the most bittersweet moment of my life right now, ... Has to be one of the best goals I... JASON KREIS The value of a moment is immeasurable. The power of just ONE moment can propel you to success and ha... STEVE MARABOLI I learned so many different things while studying for the quiz. I focused on art and learned a lot o... DANNA MAYLATH (What she meant was fencing is relevant) because of the moment-to-moment interaction of two actors t... ERIC BRYANT I think I've learned the difference between the things I can control and the things I can't ... MANTI TE'O I'm extremely happy that I could win the gold medal. It's a special moment in my career. MA LONG I have learned the difference between a cactus and a caucus. On a cactus, the pricks are on the outs... MO UDALL Obviously they (Ferrari) are extremely strong at the moment and if we get them in our sights I'll be... DAVID RICHARDS
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WENDELL PIERCE We always see abhorrent behavior and say why, but then we get mad when somebody tries to answer. WENDELL PIERCE It was really great to also see the response that people were having to 'Treme' 'cause y... WENDELL PIERCE Gregory Hines was the most talented man I've ever met or seen. Gregory Hines is one of those peo... WENDELL PIERCE One of the real worries I had before the first season of 'Treme' aired was that, man, people... WENDELL PIERCE New Orleans, more than many places I know, actually tangibly lives its culture. It's not just a ... WENDELL PIERCE At Julliard we had some voice classes. It was really just so you could carry a tune. It always just ... WENDELL PIERCE I played trumpet for about two weeks. Sixth grade. And I didn't practice. Maybe a little longer ... WENDELL PIERCE 'The Wire' really is an American classic, and I think that's something to be very proud ... WENDELL PIERCE A lot of cats in New Orleans, very soulful, very soulful musicians and they assume that they're ... WENDELL PIERCE The power of a sports team in a community it's almost indescribable. WENDELL PIERCE What thoughts are to the individual, art is to the community as a whole. That's where you reflec... WENDELL PIERCE The role of culture is that it's the form through which we as a society reflect on who we are, w... WENDELL PIERCE And that's what art is, a form in which people can reflect on who we are as human beings and com... WENDELL PIERCE The NFL is such a large, multibillion dollar enterprise with fan loyalty because they have provided ... WENDELL PIERCE Be your true self. Because if you're not, there are consequences to be paid. WENDELL PIERCE With the Union my best and dearest earthly hopes are entwined. FRANKLIN PIERCE I have some wonderful suits in my closet, a lovely car, some refined watches. PIERCE BROSNAN Oh, humiliation is poisonous. It's one of the deepest pains of being human. PIERCE BROSNAN Daniel Craig is brilliant as Bond: there is no question about that. But it's a different Bond. I... PIERCE BROSNAN You always bump into politics in life, and as a man, I'm party to a number of environmental issu... PIERCE BROSNAN There are few colonial nations anymore. Instead, we are colonized by financial institutions beyond o... CHARLIE PIERCE Movies are somewhat diminished by blockbusters, which are great, but there's not enough choice. PIERCE BROSNAN Daja: "He and Rosethorn work together? They hate each other." Lark: "I didn't say they liked i... TAMORA PIERCE Curiosity killed the cat,” Fesgao remarked, his dark eyes unreadable. Aly rolled her eyes. Wh... TAMORA PIERCE Alan, you seem to think we won't like you unless you do things just like everyone else. Have you eve... TAMORA PIERCE I--buy, and I sell." "You're a thief. TAMORA PIERCE George looked at her for a long moment. Finally he replied, "And why do you find it so hard to think... TAMORA PIERCE Her free hand was clenched in a fist. I held still, waiting for her to say something, to tell me she... TAMORA PIERCE You're more trouble than you're worth." "I'm a girl. That's my job. TAMORA PIERCE This may be my only chance to see humans before these two are made into fertilizer for Moonwind's ro... TAMORA PIERCE I would have lived in peace. But my enemies brought me war. PIERCE BROWN Alanna: All I know is that I'm to jump when I'm told and I have no free time. TAMORA PIERCE The bravest person I know is afraid of the dark. She sleeps with a night lamp always, but if her fri... TAMORA PIERCE You do not follow me because I am the strongest. Pax is. You do not follow me because I am the brigh... PIERCE BROWN