Where you come from now is much less important than where you're going. More and more of us are rooted in the future or the present tense as much as in the past. And home, we know, is not just the place where you happen to be born. It's the place where you become yourself.
Pico Iyer
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The object of our prayers should not be to present a wish list or a series of requests but to secure for ourselves and for others blessings that God is eager to bestow, according to His will and timing.
David A. Bednar
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Pressure cookers are relatively inexpensive, they're in every kitchen store, your grandma probably had one, but a lot of people don't. A pressure cooker is interesting because by pressurizing the vessel, you're able to cook much hotter than the boiling point of water, and still have water be present.
Nathan Myhrvold
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When I'm writing, I can always play around with tense. I can always make past present. I can always kind of manipulate, and I can always be delusional in a way that's completely self-serving. With film, it's like, the camera can't really lie. It can manipulate to a certain extent.
Jose Antonio Vargas
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If we can't face our losses, we can't be present either fully to everything that is. When people have cut off or not made peace with some part of themselves, they miss out on other aspects of life.
Krista Tippett
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The world is moving, and a company that contents itself with present accomplishments soon falls behind.
George Eastman
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If you don't agree, present what you think is a better way.
Steve Scalise
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When it comes to tackling your financial goals, whatever they might be, there's no time like the present.
Suze Orman
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When I turned 16, I got my driver's license like the rest of my classmates, but I also got an extra present: a two-day practice session in a Formula Ford: my first open-wheel racing car and the first step on the ladder toward becoming a professional driver.
Charlie Kimball
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Yoga is really all about process, acceptance, and becoming more present, and I really want to show that it can expand off the mat.
Mandy Ingber
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It was all that stuff about taking your parents' car when you're 13, sneaking booze into rock shows and ditching school with your friends. I could relate to that as a former teenager, rather than as a present parent.
Donal Logue
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If you write a lovely story about India, you're criticized for selling an exotic version of India. And if you write critically about India, you're seen as portraying it in a negative light - it also seems to be a popular way to present India, sort of mangoes and beggars.
Kiran Desai
LightNegativeStoryPresentYou
In fashion, you need to present something new every six months, but it takes time to study things. Development is very important.
Issey Miyake
TimeFashionPresentYouNewNeed
How it came to pass that man, originally taught, as we doubt not he was, to know and to worship the true Jehovah, is found, at so early a period of his history, a worshiper of baser objects, it is foreign to our present purpose to inquire.
Simon Greenleaf
HistoryManPurposePresentEarly
The complexity of the world is so overwhelming and so present to everyone.
Susan Choi
WorldPresentEveryoneComplexity
I don't want to be a princess who sits on the sidelines; I want to be present and actively involved. It's a life with a purpose.
Charlene, Princess of Monaco
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How you choose to present yourself to the world shows what's meaningful to you - and what you want others to think is meaningful to you.
Mackenzie Davis
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At Sequoia, upwards of a hundred entrepreneurs a week present, and if we're lucky, maybe a dozen of them are focusing on the enterprise.
Jim Goetz
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My father was a very warm, gregarious, sociable person who had many interests. He lived his life very much in the present, full of activities and the next project. He had many hobbies. He was not given to retrospection.
Diana Quick
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I think, as human beings, we try to hide our flaws and try to present this perfect person, this person we wish we were, to our spouse when that causes so many troubles.
Jurnee Smollett-Bell
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It's very healing to me to be a very present mother. I hope that it's also good for her. But it's definitely good for me.
Helen Hunt
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Major forces that have contributed to the evolution of philanthropy in India in the pre-modern era have mainly been driven by religion, family, and society. The Hindu teaching of 'daan' or 'giving' is present in different ways in almost every celebration or ritual.
Shiv Nadar
FamilyReligionSocietyPresent
For 'Frost/Nixon,' I had eight people who were present at those interviews - they were all in the room - and when I interviewed each of them, they had a totally different narrative of events, to the degree where you thought, 'Were you all really in the same room?'
Peter Morgan
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When I was a kid, my sisters and I used to get a little present in our stocking each day of December, usually an ornament, some sweets, or a little toy.
Birgitte Hjort Sorensen
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