Dean Acheson Quotes

We all spend so much time worrying about the future that the present moment slips right out of our hands. And so all we have left is retrospection and anticipation, retrospection and anticipation. In which case what's left to recall but past anticipation? What's left to anticipate but future retrospection?

Nothing to be gained by worrying between now and then.

I plan for the future, but the only day I really worry about is the day I'm living right now.

Quit worrying about how everything is going to turn out. Live one day at a time; better yet, make the most of this moment. It’s good to have a big – picture outlook, to set goals, to establish budgets and make plans, but if you’re always living in the future, you’re never really enjoying the present in the way God wants you to.

The source of anxiety lies in the future. If you can keep the future out of mind, you can forget your worries.

Forget the past - the future will give you plenty to worry about.

The future comes one day at a time.

I feel like I've mastered what nervousness is, and simply, nervousness is, fearing the future. Or, I like to put it as, thinking about things that you don't want in the future. Normally, artists may think, 'What if my show doesn't go well?' Boom. That's going to cause nervousness.

Do not ruin today with mourning tomorrow.

Today is the tomorrow we worried about yesterday.

Fear wants us to become obsessed with some event or person in the future, a year, a month, even a day. It also wants us to look backwards not at our successes, but our short-comings and our failures. Fear losses it's grip when we stay in the now.

The present moment is the substance with which the future is made. Therefore, the best way to take care of the future is to take care of the present moment. What else can you do?

Overcoming fear and worry can be accomplished by living a day at a time or even a moment at a time. Your worries will be cut down to.

Don't worry about the past and don't try to solve the future.

Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.

How often are you worrying about the present moment? The present moment is usually all right. If you're worrying, you're either agonizing over the past which you should have forgotten long ago, or else you're apprehensive over the future which hasn't even come yet. We tend to skip over the present moment which is the only moment God gives any of us to live.

If we spend our time with regrets over yesterday, and worries over what might happen tomorrow, we have no today in which to live.

Plan all you want for the future. Prepare for it. But don't worry about how you will react tomorrow, or even five minutes from now. Your creative mechanism will react appropriately in the 'now' if you pay attention to what is happening now.

Let's save tomorrow's troubles for tomorrow.

Sometimes I do have something in my head. But, for me, I think it usually ends up being about considering all of the elements, and trying to understand the distance from where we are to where we want to go.

The best way to take care of the future is to take care of the present moment.

First things first; take care of what can be done now before worrying too long over what might never be.

Seek not to inquire what the morrow will bring with it.

Don't try to solve the entire problem on day one.

I feel I have proved myself just as much as everybody else does. I usually don't think about the past too much. I just try to perform the routines I have been practicing.