Big Ideas tagged with "The Moment"
- Eric Butterworth: Why Be Average?
- David K. Reynolds: Copernicus & You
- Paulo Coelho: Conspiracy Theories
- Ralph Waldo Emerson: Zigzag Lines
- George Leonard: Getting Energy for Mastery
- Viktor Frankl: The "Why?"
- The Moment of Commitment
- Gay & Katie Hendricks: Power of Re-Commitment
- Joseph Campbell: Love Your Fate
- David Emerald: Rubber Bands & Your Ideals
- Go Straight at Your Problems
- Viktor Frankl: Serve.
- Viktor Frankl: Let It Ensue
- George Leonard: Dabbler, Obsessive & Hacker
- Joseph Campbell: Jump!
- Shawn Phillips: Focus
- Don Miguel Ruiz: Dear God: Thanks & I Love Ya!
- Tony Robbins: Rearview Mirrors
- David Emerald: What do I want?
- Marcus Aurelius: A Surplus of Time
- Ready! Fire! Aim!
- Decide
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Just do it.
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Each today, well-lived, makes yesterday a dream of happiness and each tomorrow a vision of hope. Look, therefore, to this one day, for it and it alone is life.
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Live not as though there were a thousand years ahead of you. Fate is at your elbow; make yourself good while life and power are still yours.
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Were you to live three thousand years, or even thirty thousand, remember that the sole life which a man can lose is that which he is living at the moment; and furthermore, that he can have no other life except the one he loses…
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My friend, the sufi is the friend of the present moment. To say tomorrow is not our way.
~ Mevlana Rumi quotes from Rumi Daylight: A Daybook of Spiritual Guidance
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Eighty percent of success is showing up.
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You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.
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When mortals are alive, they worry about death. When they're full, they worry about hunger. Theirs is the Great Uncertainty. But sages don't consider the past. And they don't worry about the future. Nor do they cling to the present. And from moment to moment they follow the Way.
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Feelings, whether of compassion or irritation, should be welcomed, recognized, and treated on an absolutely equal basis; because both are ourselves. The tangerine I am eating is me. The mustard greens I am planting are me. I plant with all my heart and mind. I clean this teapot with the kind of attention I would have were I giving the baby Buddha or Jesus a bath. Nothing should be treated more carefully than anything else. In mindfulness, compassion, irritation, mustard green plant, and teapot are all sacred.
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I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That's where the fun is.
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The fool, with all his other faults, has this also, he is always getting ready to live.
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Create each day anew.
~ Morihei Ueshiba quotes from The Art of Peace
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There is only one time that is important—NOW!! It is the most important time because it is the only time that we have any power.
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We are at a crossroads in human history. Never before has there been a moment so simultaneously perilous and promising. We are the first species to have taken evolution into our own hands.
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I was made a revolutionary in spite of myself… [A]ll creation presupposes as its origin a sort of appetite that is brought on by the foretaste of discovery. This foretaste of the creative art accompanies the intuitive grasp of an unknown entity that will not take definite shape except by the action of a constantly vigilant technique. This appetite that is aroused in me at the mere thought of putting in order musical elements that have attracted my attention is not at all a fortuitous thing like inspiration, but as habitual and periodic, if not constant, as a natural need... The very act of putting my work on paper, of, as we say, kneading the dough, is for me inseperable from the pleasure of creation. So far as I am concerned, I cannot seperate the spiritual effort from the psychological and physical effort; they confront me on the same level and do not present a hierarchy...What concerns us here is not imagination itself, but rather creative imagination: the facultyy that helps us to pass from the level of conception to the level of realization. In the course of my labors I suddenly stumble upon something unexpected. this unexpected element strikes me. I make note of it. At the proper time I put it to profitable use... The faculty of creating is never given to us all by itself. It always goes hand in hand with the gift of observation. And the true creator may be recognized by his ability always to find about him, in the commonest and humblest thing, items worthy of note... The least accident holds his interest and guides his operations. If his finger slips, he will notice it; on occasion, he may draw profit from something unforeseen that a momentary lapse reveals to him. One does not contrive an accident: one observes it to draw inspiration therefrom.
~ Igor Stravinsky quotes from Creators on Creating
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There comes a moment when you have to stop revving up the car and shove it into gear.
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After climbing a great hill, one finds that there are many more hills to climb. I have taken a moment here to rest, to steal a view of the glorious vista that surrounds me, to look back on the distance I have come. But I can only rest for a moment, for with freedom comes responsibilities, and I dare not linger, for my long walk has not yet ended.
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I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least… | I see something of God each hour of the twenty-four, and each moment then, | In the faces of men and women I see God, and in my own face in the glass; | I find letters from God dropt in he street, and every one is signed by God's name, | And I leave them where they are, for I know | that whereso'er I go | Others will punctually come forever and ever.
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Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness concerning all acts of initiative and creation. There is one elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans; that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred. A whole stream of events issues from the decision raising in one's favor all manner of unforeseen events, meetings and material assistance which no one could have dreamed would have come their way. I have learned a deep respect for one of Goethe's couplets: “Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Begin it now!”
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The best players in any high-stakes field - business, entertainment, law, surgery, as well as sport - recognize that pressure occurs at the moments when meaningful accomplishment is possible. In fact, that is the reason why performers perform: for the opportunity to tackle challenges head on, to do something significant, to demonstrate what their hard work and talent can produce.
~ John Eliot, Ph.D. quotes from Overachievement: The New Model for Exceptional Performance
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