George Balanchine Quotes

What's your hurry?" Because now is the only time there ever is to do a thing in," said Miss Ophelia.

The only time you'll ever have is now.

The right time is always right now.

There is only one time that is important -- NOW! It is the most important time because it is the only time hat we have any power.

It sometimes seems that we live as if we wonder when life is going to begin. It isn't always clear just what we are waiting for, but some of us sometimes persist in waiting so long that life slips by - finding us still waiting for something that has been going on all the time. . . . This is the life in which the work of this life is to be done. Today is as much a part of eternity as any day a thousand years ago or as will be any day a thousand years hence. This is it, whether we are thrilled or disappointed, busy or bored! This is life, and it is passing.

What are you waiting for? What are you saving for? Now is all there is.

Live today. Not yesterday. Not tomorrow. Just today. Inhabit your moments. Don’t rent them out to tomorrow. Do you know what you’re doing when you spend a moment wondering how things are going to turn out with Perry? You’re cheating yourself out of today. Today is calling to you, trying to get your attention, but you’re stuck on tomorrow, and today trickles away like water down a drain. You wake up the next morning and that today you wasted is gone forever. It’s now yesterday. Some of those moments may have had wonderful things in store for you , but now you’ll never know.

life is the moment we're living right now.

Every man's life lies within the present; for the past is spent and done with, and the future is uncertain.

You can't live at all unless you can live fully now.

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

No matter how much time you've wasted in the past, you still have an entire today.

Joy and life exist nowhere but the present.

Now is the only time. How we relate to it creates the future.

I tire so of hearing people say, Let things take their course. Tomorrow is another day. I do not need my freedom when I'm dead. I cannot live on tomorrow's bread.

Right now a moment of time is passing by!... We must become that moment.

Every moment is enormous and it is all we have.

Laziness acknowledges the relation of the present to the past but ignores its relation to the future; impatience acknowledge its relation to the future but ignores its relation to the past; neither the lazy nor the impatient man, that is, accepts the present instant in its full reality and so cannot love his neighbour completely.

The passing moment is all we can be sure of; it is only common sense to extract its utmost value from it.

I never wear a watch, because I always know it's now - and now is when you should do it.

The most important time is Now

We need to learn to live in the here and now; this moment is the best moment. Live it fully.

Well, the past is gone, I know that. The future isn't here yet, whatever it's going to be. So, all there is, is this. The present. That's it.

One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.

People say to me, 'What are you going to be doing in five years?' The thing is, I don't care! It's what I'm doing today that matters.