Present Tense Quotes

• With Instagram, the focus is on the present tense.

  Kevin Systrom

  Focus, Instagram, Tense

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• People tend to vote the present tense - not the subjective.

  Diane Sawyer

  People, Literature, Subjectivity

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• Winners live in the present tense. People who come up short are consumed with future or past. I want to be living in the now.

  Alex Rodriguez

  Sports, Winning, Past

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• Existence really is an imperfect tense that never becomes a present.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Imperfect, Tense, Existence

  Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

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• Rewrite your major goals every day, in the present tense, exactly as if they already existed

  Brian Tracy

  Goal, Tense, Majors

  FaceBook post by Brian Tracy from Nov 22, 2013

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• Memory is dramatic present tense. You create it as you remember it.

  Allen Wier

  Memories, Remember, Dramatic

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• Confidence is the present tense of hope.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Tense

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• Appeasement is a vote to live in the present tense, to hold the comforts of the moment.

  Mark Steyn

  Comfort, Vote, Moments

  Mark Steyn (2006). “America Alone: The End of the World As We Know It”, p.37, Regnery Publishing

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• Politics is history in the present tense.

  John Avlon

  Tense

  "John Avlon and Margaret Hoover, Political pundits". Landon Lecture, www.k-state.edu. April 15, 2016.

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• In the past, people have looked at photos as a record of memory. The focus has been on the past tense. With Instagram, the focus is on the present tense.

  Kevin Systrom

  Memories, Past, People

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• A money-lender--he serves you in the present tense; he lends you in the conditional mood; keeps you in the conjunctive; and ruins you in the future.

  Joseph Addison

  Ruins, Mood, Tense

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• Try to find the real tense of the report you are reading: Was it done, is it being done, or is something to be done? Reports are now written in four tenses: past tense, present tense, future tense, and pretense. Watch for novel uses of CONGRAM (CONtractor GRAMmer), defined by the past imperfect, the present insufficient, and the future absolutely perfect.

  Amrom Harry Katz

  Real, Future, Reading

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• Almost by definition, secularism cannot be a future: it's a present-tense culture that over time disconnects a society from cross-generational purpose. Which is why there are no examples of sustained atheist civilizations. "Atheistic humanism" became inhumanism in the hands of the Fascists and Communists and, in its less malign form in today's European Union, a kind of dehumamism in which a present-tense culture amuses itself to extinction. Post-Christian European culture is already post-cultural and, with its surging Muslim populations, will soon be post-European.

  Mark Steyn

  Christian, Atheist, Hands

  "America Alone: The End of the World as We Know It". Book by Mark Steyn, 2006.

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• Paintings exist in the present tense, yet somehow, because of how it's structured, it can move backwards through time as well.

  Joe Bradley

  Moving, Painting, Rough Times

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The past is something for you to learn from and the future is something that you hope is going to happen, but I'm always speaking to my actual fans in present tense.

  Katt Williams

  Past, Fans, Tense

  "Katt Williams: Scary, Crazy or Genius?". Interview with Kelley L. Carter, www.ebony.com. April 11, 2013.

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• The condition of the theater is always an accurate measure of the cultural health of a nation. A play always exists in the present tense (if it is a valuable one), and its music -- its special noise -- is always contemporary. The most valuable function of the theater as an art form is to tell us who we are, and the health of the theater is determined by how much of that we want to know.

  Edward Albee

  Art, Play, Special

  Edward Albee (2009). “Stretching My Mind: The Collected Essays of Edward Albee”, p.63, Da Capo Press

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• A natural New Yorker is a native of the present tense.

  V. S. Pritchett

  Natural, Tense, New Yorkers

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• And the first till last alshemist wrote over every square inch of the only foolscap available, his own body, till by its corrosive sublimation one continuous present tense integument slowly unfolded all marryvoising moodmoulded cyclewheeling history.

  James Joyce

  Squares, Body, Lasts

  James Joyce (2016). “FINNEGANS WAKE & EXILES (Complete Edition): Experimental Novel and Play from the Author of Ulysses, Dubliners, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man & Chamber Music”, p.162, e-artnow

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• Past tense offers authority, distance, and present tense offers emotional immediacy.

  Tim Winton

  Distance, Past, Emotional

  Source: www.compulsivereader.com

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• There's a desire for me in the work, even when I'm looking at the past, to be looking from the present. It's to be here now. It's looking in the present tense.

  Zoe Leonard

  Past, Desire, Be Here Now

  Interview with Molly Prentiss, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 13, 2016.

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• I think everybody came into it with the understanding that they would go through an experience that is literally not by the book, that is not executing the script and then going home, but living and breathing these characters and being in the moment with each other, and improvising and creating a lot of present-tense intensity between characters.

  Oren Moverman

  Book, Home, Character

  "Rampart Director, Oren Moverman Interview". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• We can't handle violence in women characters but we CAN handle what's done to women in our present tense every second of the day worldwide? Or next door? Or in political or medical discourse? Please. That idea just makes me want to crap on a table at a very fancy restaurant.

  Lidia Yuknavitch

  Character, Doors, Ideas

  Source: therumpus.net

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• To be honest, we live in an exciting time where form is concerned. My sincerest hope is that more people will notice this and agree to play and invent - the only way to not succumb to the complacency and market-driven schlock of the present tense is to continually interrogate it from the inside out.

  Lidia Yuknavitch

  Play, People, Complacency

  Source: therumpus.net

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• A good affirmation has five basic ingredients: it's personal, it's positive, it's present tense, it's visual, and it's emotional.

  Stephen Covey

  Emotional, Ingredients, Affirmation

  Stephen R. Covey (2004). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change”, p.133, Simon and Schuster

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• From a craft standpoint, telling a story in the first-person present tense over the course of 500 pages is a daunting challenge.

  Joseph Boyden

  Challenges, Stories, Crafts

  Source: therumpus.net

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