The Moment Quotes

It is this research into pure painting that is the problem at the present moment. I do not know any painters in Paris who are really searching for this ideal world.

Acceptance is the magic that makes change possible. It is not forever, it is for the present moment

I find that whoever you are as a person is how you're gonna fight, and every basic instinct kind of comes out at that moment.

A mind in the present moment is meditation.

No image, however accomplished, could have captured the agonizing poignancy of that moment. It was a moment to be lived, not framed, analysed or reduced in any way.

Frequently a big advantage can be gained by knowing how to give in at the right moment.

Sometimes you just wish you could make a film and then have it on DVD so you can see your mom. But, no, I've never really had that moment. Not really. Not seriously.

The future is only a thought form. Work with the present moment. Be with what is.

My last defense / Is the present tense.

Being comedic is a skill, because there is a fine line where the context is important. And being dramatic is just being honest and real in that moment.

The present moment is where eternity exists.

Awards mean nothing to comedians. What matters is the audience, how you're doing - artistically, for the most part - at that moment.

Work to recognize the primary importance of the present moment.

I'm photographing all the time. I'm such a visual person and I don't want to miss that moment.

That moment when the person actually dictates the way I do the portrait is when the intimacy arrives.

For me, the great joy is to watch an audience watching what I've made. To hear not a peep from the audience at the right moment, and then to hear the laughs and the cheers.

Nothing sucks more than that moment during an argument when you realize you're wrong. -T-Shirt

[Documentary photography] is unwittingly literary, because it is nothing other than an observation of contemporary life apprehended at the right moment by an artist capable of seizing it. (1928)

Being must be felt. It can't be thought.

The success or failure of a life, as far as posterity goes, seems to lie in the more or less luck of seizing the right moment of escape

NOW is All There is & the Future is Just Another Present Moment to Live when it Arrives

Life is so fluid that one can only hope to capture the living moment, to capture it alive and fresh ... without destroying that moment.

The best way to say, "I love you, God," is to live your life doing your best. The best way to say, "Thank you, God," is by letting go of the past and living in the present moment, right here and now.

This is the sleep: being absent, being not present to the present moment, being somewhere else.

I try to live the moment and not obey laws, rules, conventions, or norms; to react to a sensation, a feeling, or an emotion. You can't program emotion.

We would willingly, and without remorse, sacrifice not only the present moment, but all the interval (no matter how long) that separates us from any favorite object.

I like visiting LA, but I wouldn't want to live there.

There is one respect in which beasts show real wisdom... their quiet, placid enjoyment of the present moment.

Every conflict reflects what each person most needs to learn in that moment.

When I fully enter time’s swift current, enter into the current moment with the weight of all my attention, I slow the torrent with the weight of me all here.

The greatest gift you can give (yourself or anyone else) is just being present

The Moment is an album that contains the best music I have ever produced.

You have absorb'd me. I have a sensation at the present moment as though I was dissolving.

Everyone has that moment where they just rebel.

After surviving the tsunami in Sri Lanka and facing that moment where I was not sure if I would live to see the next, I learned all that matters is now.

Music is my time capsule. Each album reflects what I'm going through or what's going on in my life at that moment.

Seize the moment and dont squander it. Cause you never know when it all could be over.

I just wanna live the moment and just take every moment and embrace it because life is short.

With me, a story usually begins with a single idea or mental picture. The writing of the story is simply a matter of working up to that moment, to explain why it happened or what caused it to follow.

If you allow yourself to fully feel the life you're in - not conceptually, but viscerally in the present moment - then that is inherently meaningful.

Peace comes from being aligned with the present moment. Wherever you are, you feel that you are home—because you are home.

I wonder-maybe the key is balance. Maybe it's about living in the moment while still keeping your eye on the big picture-on all the pictures.

It is essential for the oppressed to realize that when they accept the struggle for humanization they also accept, from that moment, their total responsibility for the struggle.

a life is measured by moments like these

I thought, briefly, that I would never feel as intensely connected to the world, to another human being, as I did at that moment.

To experience anything fully and see it clearly there must be a moment of presence where conceptual thinking is not interfering with your experience of that moment.

There is always a right moment to stop something.

Mothers are legendary for being able to read the thoughts of their children at just the right moment.

To live for the moment: it sounds so right and so beautiful. But the more I want to, the less I understand what it means.

Seize the moment – don’t wait for anyone to give you permission.