Treasuring The Moment Quotes & Sayings

Would it not be strange if a universe without purpose accidentally created humans who are so obsessed with purpose? — John Templeton

Anyone knowing how to live for the moment, to live in the present as she did, treasuring every little wayside flower with loving care and deriving value from every playful little instant, had nothing to fear from life. — Hermann Hesse

I don't really party. — Seann William Scott

For anyone approaching any one of the cast albums, if they don't like what they hear, it's not the performer's fault. — Stephen Sondheim

We must maintain strong defenses, military and spiritual. — Prescott Bush

We discussed this dire problem with education and illusions of academic contribution, with Ivy League universities becoming in the eyes of the new Asian and U.S. upper class a status luxury good. Harvard is like a Vuitton bag or a Cartier watch. It is a huge drag on the middle-class parents who have been plowing an increased share of their savings into these institutions, transferring their money to administrators, real estate developers, professors, and other agents. In the United States, we have a buildup of student loans that automatically transfer to these rent extractors. In a way it is no different from racketeering: one needs a decent university "name" to get ahead in life; but we know that collectively society doesn't appear to advance with organized education. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

She mourns the stillbirth of anything that craves to be born. It doesn't have to be a child. It can be an artwork, an idea, or a miscarried love. — Tor Udall

Leadership is the art of mobilizing others to want to struggle for shared aspirations. — Steve Farber

And I've already spent too much time Doing things I didn't want to So if I want to drink alone dressed like a pirate Or look like a dyke Or wear high heels and lipstick Or hide in a convent Or try to be mayor Or marry a writer Smoke crack and slash tires Make jokes you don't like Or paint ducks and retire You can bet your black ass that I'm going to. - from An Evening With Neil Gaiman & Amanda Palmer, 2013 — Amanda Palmer

Reduce the layers of management. They put distance between the top of an organization and the customers. — Donald Rumsfeld

I'm not the girl men chose.
I'm the girl who's charming and funny and then drives home wondering what she did wrong. I'm the girl who meets someone halfway decent and then fills in the gaps in his character with my own imagination, only to be shocked when he's not the man I thought he was.
I'm the girl who hides who she really is for fear I'll fall short. — Liza Palmer

It seems to me that unless you or someone very close to you has had a bad head injury, you really can't fathom it. You have no concept of what it is all about. It was so difficult for my whole family, not just me. — Barbara Mandrell

So I'm to duel with a snake-hope I can manage to be a good enough impersonation of a mongoose. — Nick Bantock

On the Brevity of Our Ties
Ties in this world last only for a time. We are husband and wife, parent and child, for a short period only. Once this reality sinks in, we cannot help treasuring each moment of our brief association. — Kentetsu Takamori

Down to Gehenna or up to the throne, / He who travels fastest who travels alone... — Jeffery Deaver