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David P. Mikkelson

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CARLA BUCKLEY No one should let yesterday use up too much of today. Easy to say, hard to live.
ANDREA HAIRSTON Now is the only time we have, and the only time that we have any control over.
RICHARD CARLSON Men honor what lies within the sphere of their knowledge, but do not realize how dependent they are ...
ZHUANGZI Men honor what lies within the sphere of their knowledge, but do not realize how dependent they are ...
CHUANG TZU It is not a question of how well each process works, the question is how well they all work together...
LLOYD DOBENS I have always wished the present to resemble memory: because the present can be flat at times, and b...
LYDIA MILLET The score doesn't reflect how well we played.
JOE GALLEGOS To live in the present, you need to act or accept but never stay stuck.
JOHN KUYPERS What is interesting, as well, is how much power homicide detectives have and how much respect. They ...
THEO JAMES It is appalling the way they deliberately set out to mislead smokers about the toxins in tobacco smo...
AMANDA SANDFORD We fall back into the past, we jump ahead into the future, and in this we lose our entire lives.
THICH NHAT HANH A person who lives truly in present time is dependent on oneself only not on sycophants’ people.
ANUJ SOMANY Tomorrow is tomorrow.
Future cares have future cures,
And we must mind today.
SOPHOCLES To him, even the momentary was momentous.
G.K. CHESTERTON ‎You can clutch the past so tightly to your chest that it leaves your arms too full to embrace the...
JAN GLIDEWELL How many wives have been forced by the death of well-intentioned but too protective husbands to face...
HORTENSE ODLUM How we think shows through in how we act. Attitudes are mirrors of the mind. They reflect thinking.
DR. DAVID SCHWARTZ How we think shows through in how we act. Attitudes are mirrors of the mind. They reflect thinking.
DAVID JOSEPH SCHWARTZ Mindfulness is observing the beauty of every moment unfolding before us.
AMIT RAY Divorce the past to marry the present and be blessed with a lovely child of future.
ANUJ SOMANY There is no greater glory than to die for love.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ Together they had overcome the daily incomprehension, the instantaneous hatred, the reciprocal nasti...
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ She would defend herself, saying that love, no matter what else it might be, was a natural talent. S...
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ The honors come in English, math, science and social studies, which indicate not only how accomplish...
HUGH MCINTOSH At the core of all well-founded belief lies belief that is unfounded.
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN At the core of all well-founded belief, lies belief that is unfounded
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN The real education is the reality of how well you live life.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA His memoir is a splendid artichoke of anecdotes, in which not merely the heart and leaves but the th...
JOHN LEONARD It is appalling the way they deliberately set out to mislead smokers about the toxins in tobacco smo...
AMANDA SANDFORD The secret of the truly successful, I believe, is that they learned very early in life how not to be...
BARBARA EHRENREICH Strange, is it not, my brothers, how often in America those great watchwords of human energy - '...
W. E. B. DU BOIS I couldn't be prouder. They swam as fast as they could and although our score may not reflect how we...
JAIME RUSZALA Letting go doesn’t just mean letting go of the past, but letting go of an unknown future; and embr...
MICHELLE CRUZ-ROSADO Not many teams take their four-by-eight and go place in the four-by-four as well, so I'm proud of ho...
TORI ARTHER Now is the only time we have, and the only time we have any control over.
RICHARD CARLSON You can measure the true strength of a man by how well he controls others, but you measure his true ...
AMARI SOUL A society's competitive advantage will come not from how well its schools teach the multiplication a...
ALBERT EINSTEIN Companies, to date, have often used the excuse that they are only beholden to their shareholders, bu...
SIMON MAINWARING Faculty X is the ability to grasp the reality not simply of other times and places, but of the prese...
COLIN WILSON Avoid the temptation to force a moment so you won’t miss the one with your name on it.
GINA GREENLEE I feel sorry for the guys. I thought this was a very nice team. We worked hard for 12 months and pla...
HENRY MYAR We were surprised by how well prepared the filers were in general, ... They had done their homework....
CHARLES MILLER Their keeper kept them in the game. He made at least four huge saves, or it could've been worse. The...
CHAD BEADELL THE PRESENTATION OF CHRIST IN THE TEMPLE Persons that are well affected to religion, that receive ...
WILLIAM LAW The mark of great sportsmen is not how good they are at their best, but how good they are their wors...
MARTINA NAVRATILOVA The essence of the Liberal outlook lies not in what opinions are held, but in how they are held: ins...
BERTRAND RUSSELL People can have the best of intentions when they tell their loved ones how they should be living the...
JAEDA DEWALT We can leave a place behind, or we can stay in that place and leave our selfishness (often expressed...
JOHN H. GROBERG Abiding does not mean sitting idly by. It means resting in the work, resting in the moment, resting ...
ROBIN BERTRAM Pursuit of contentment is not the pursuit of an elusive tomorrow; it is the celebration of today. In...
MAJID KAZMI We had to keep changing our defense because of how much they have improved since the last game. But ...
JOE NOON Millions of people acknowledge today that they do not know the meaning of life.
JAMES C. DOBSON When you grow up there are things that you would love to do make your father proud is one and have f...
GARY F EVANS... Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but...
ERIC HOFFER Beautify your breath – beautify your life.
AMIT RAY Those who succeed in an outstanding way seldom do so before the age of 40. More often, they do not s...
NAPOLEON HILL It may be the kind where, at the age of thirty, you sit in some bar hating everybody who comes in lo...
J.D. SALINGER There was a house at the foot of the tower, close to the thunder of the waves breaking against the c...
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ Members of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir are not superhuman. They are ordinary people with ordinary fr...
RUSSELL M. NELSON For the analyst it is a source of never-ending astonishment how comparatively well a person can func...
KAREN HORNEY Life begins somewhere and ends somewhere with time but to get somewhere with the life you have depen...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH It is wonderful to think how men of very large estates not only spend their yearly income, but are o...
SAMUEL JOHNSON An emotionally locked person refuses to let go of their sad memories and live in the now.
KILROY J. OLDSTER The real evidence is not practically speaking in scholarship but in how Jesus and the Christianity b...
LIONEL BLUE They know what they want, but aren't sure how to find it.
JAMES C. DOBSON When you live in the present, the past is forgotten & the future takes care of itself.
MANDY HALE People always joke that "dog" spells "god" backwards. They should consider that it might be the high...
LINDA BLAIR Recall how often in human history the saint and the rebel have be the same person. (p. 35)
ROLLO MAY If you reflect often on how His Atonement has changed you, and if you give thanks often, you will fi...
HENRY B. EYRING Ladies let me give you some advice: Men will treat you the way you let them. There is no such thing ...
TUCKER MAX She was intimidating and all I could do was sit back on the couch as she paced back and forth, slowl...
IN THE MAKING The doubt has the mysterious power to bring out the hidden reality of life.
ANUJ SOMANY Hey you the "Supreme Power Within Myself" uplift my soul that I make no more mistakes and patiently ...
NEHA KOTHARI If you look at a stream or river and close your eyes it will be amazing the flow of ideas that will ...
GARY F EVANS... The power of man;Man does not only have the power to accomplish great & unbelievable things in life,...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Acknowledge and express your mistakes so you can prove to yourself and others that you can learn and...
SERGIO ORTIZ To get over the past, you first have to accept that the past is over. No matter how many times you r...
MANDY HALE I wanted to tell the story about air power, but I didn't want to lecture people. Let the story come ...
GENERAL CHUCK HORNER When you are loved well, you want more of it. The only reason I believe anyone would not desire to b...
SANDRA M. MICHELLE The first thing they were told was how to hone their talent. Then they were told how to market their...
ESTHER B. FEIN We know that polls are just a collection of statistics that reflect what people are thinking in 'rea...
STEPHEN COLBERT The profound ability to use aural and written language has enabled our species to collectively explo...
KATHERINE VUCICEVIC The essence of the independent mind lies not in what it thinks, but in how it thinks.
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS The Latino media played it more as how will this affect you, how will it affect your job, how will i...
FELIX GUTIERREZ People forget how fast you did a job, but they remember how well you did it.
HOWARD W. NEWTON People forget how fast you did a job-but they remember how well you did it.
HOWARD W NEWTON People forget how fast you did a job - but they remember how well you did it.
HOWARD NEWTON People forget how fast you did a job- but they remember how well you did it.
UNKNOWN People forget how fast you did a job -- but they remember how well you did it.
HOWARD W. NEWTON I don't mind their having a lot of money, and I don't care how they employ it, but I do think that t...
OGDEN NASH The egoic mind imagines a problem, and then it imagines a solution. When we get caught up in these t...
GINA LAKE The beauty of this day doesn't depend on its lasting forever.
MARTY RUBIN In any weather, at any hour of the day or night, I have been anxious to improve the nick of time, an...
HENRY DAVID THOREAU The amount they've collected is breathtaking, and it shows how scared they are and how much trouble ...
ANTHONY WRIGHT By what criteria can one decide which of a person's countless beliefs are primitive? The essential f...
MILTON ROKEACH If they (the audience) are Jewish, they can express their identity without going to church or prayin...
HANKUS NETSKY The kids played well. They had a lot of effort and executed well. I'm very pleased with how we playe...
BRAD BLEW There's an assumption in many of these cultures that these children are mentally retarded, when ...
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P. L. TRAVERS I've had quite a lot to conquer in myself apart from writing. Not that I've been a pure ange...
P. L. TRAVERS My father died when I was 7. I was his favorite child, and he was my beloved father. I brought him a...
P. L. TRAVERS I was brought up Irish, where there was room for my own private world.
P. L. TRAVERS I never wrote my books especially for children.
P. L. TRAVERS My family didn't like me going on the stage, and they didn't much like my being a writer, ei...
P. L. TRAVERS You can ask me anything you like about my work, but I'll never talk about myself.
P. L. TRAVERS Sorrow lies like a heartbeat behind everything I have written.
P. L. TRAVERS For me, there are no answers, only questions, and I am grateful that the questions go on and on. I d...
P. L. TRAVERS I cannot summon up inspiration; I myself am summoned.
P. L. TRAVERS You do not chop off a section of your imaginative substance and make a book specifically for childre...
P. L. TRAVERS I think the idea of 'Mary Poppins' has been blowing in and out of me, like a curtain at a wi...
P. L. TRAVERS 'Friend Monkey' is really my favorite of all my books because the Hindu myth on which it is ...
P. L. TRAVERS Every child needs to have for itself not only its loving parents and siblings and friends of its own...
P. L. TRAVERS My mom is a sculptress.
P. J. HARVEY I'm not an autobiographical writer, but I am a writer who deals with human emotion on all levels...
P. J. HARVEY I've always felt that I'm affected by the world, by the way we treat each other, by the way ...
P. J. HARVEY There's also a level of discipline I use as a writer, designed to get better at what I'm doi...
P. J. HARVEY I'm probably much more influenced by film-makers and painters than I am by other songwriters or ...
P. J. HARVEY I did photography, painting, and drawing, but I prefer sculpture. I like it because it's very ph...
P. J. HARVEY I'm a very private person, so obviously I don't enjoy talking about more personal matters.
P. J. HARVEY My father is actually a quarry man - he deals in stone. He also at one point had a lot of sheep, he ...
P. J. HARVEY With songs I almost see the images, see the action, and then all I have to do is describe it. It'...
P. J. HARVEY I decide immediately if I like a person and if I do, then I'm myself, and if I don't, then I...
P. J. HARVEY I'm a Libra. That means that I can make a decision, but only after much thought.
P. J. HARVEY There's so much you can do with laying words on a bed of music. You can completely change their ...
P. J. HARVEY People have a tendency to see country life through rose-colored glasses.
P. J. HARVEY