William Vickrey Quotes

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

Right now, though, I wanted not to think forward or backward, but only to lose myself in the words.

Few of us ever live in the present. We are forever anticipating what is to come or remembering what has gone.

I'm always pre-occupied with what it is that I'm doing at the moment.

When you start worrying about form, then you're not in the moment.

Hackman is able to live in the moment which means there is nothing for him at that split second than what is occurring in the scene.

I've always been someone who's really tried to live in the here and now. My memory isn't very good so maybe that's why, but it just seems like I've been living this life, my current chapter, for a really long time and I don't really remember what it was like before. It's just been sort of ingrained in me. What I deal with day to day.

Anytime you put your mind on the results, you lose something in the moment.

I'm not really the sort to reflect or look forward. I prefer concentrating on the now.

Past and future have no power over you. Just the present - and even that can be minimized.

I don’t live in either my past or my future. I’m interested only in the present. If you can concentrate always on the present, you’ll be a happy man. Life will be a party for you, a grand festival, because life is the moment we’re living now.

Balance lives in the present. The surest way to lose your footing is to focus on what dreadful things might happen.

To live in the present, we must deeply believe that what is most important is in the here and now.

If you have one foot in yesterday and one foot in tomorrow, you're pissing all over today.

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

Bring awareness to each act. Walking on the road, walk fully alert; eating, eat with awareness. Whatsoever you are doing, don't let the past and the future interfere. Be in the present. That's what awareness is all about.

Dwelling in the past prevents doing something in the present.

If you look for a meaning, you'll miss everything that happens.

Engage yourself in the living present. The future will take care of itself.

I'm trying to be present, not thinking and worrying about the past or the future. That's such a waste of time, you know?

We're so busy watching out for what's just ahead of us that we don't take time to enjoy where we are.

I am living here and now. The blessing of my life is that I am totally concentrating on the present moment. And I want to be because there is nothing but the present moment.

You can wish for things in the future to be different, but in this moment you have to accept things as they are.

The only thing that is ultimately real about your journey is the step that you are taking at this moment. That's all there ever is.

Act in the moment, live in the present, slowly slowly don't allow the past to interfere And you will be surprised that life is such an eternal wonder, such a mysterious phenomenon and such a great gift that one simply feels constantly in gratitude. So this is my message for you: live in the moment, herenow. That's why I call it divine purity