The most reliable way to forecast the future is to try to understand the present.
John Naisbitt

If the present world go astray, the cause is in you, in you it is to be sought.
Dante Alighieri

The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.
Zora Neale Hurston

Listening is such a simple act. It requires us to be present, and that takes practice, but we don't have to do anything else. We don't have to advise, or coach, or sound wise. We just have to be willing to sit there and listen.
Margaret J. Wheatley

In this present culture, we need to find the means to work and live together with less aggression if we are to resolve the serious problems that afflict and impede us.
Margaret J. Wheatley

Planning is bringing the future into the present so that you can do something about it now.
Alan Lakein

The credit which the apparent conformity with recognized scientific standards can gain for seemingly simple but false theories may, as the present instance shows, have grave consequences.
Friedrich August von Hayek

We can chart our future clearly and wisely only when we know the path which has led to the present.
Adlai E. Stevenson

English is necessary as at present original works of science are in English. I believe that in two decades times original works of science will start coming out in our languages. Then we can move over like the Japanese.
Abdul Kalam

The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the present.
Barbara de Angelis

Happiness in the present is only shattered by comparison with the past.
Douglas Horton

Man is an artifact designed for space travel. He is not designed to remain in his present biologic state any more than a tadpole is designed to remain a tadpole.
William S. Burroughs

Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
Roger Babson

There is a very remarkable inclination in human nature to bestow on external objects the same emotions which it observes in itself, and to find every where those ideas which are most present to it.
David Hume

This wealth of experiences, personal and professional, have helped me appreciate the variety of perspectives that present themselves in every case that I hear.
Sonia Sotomayor

Most people are prisoners, thinking only about the future or living in the past. They are not in the present, and the present is where everything begins.
Carlos Santana

Man is God's highest present development. He is the latest thing in God.
Samuel Butler

The art of life is to live in the present moment, and to make that moment as perfect as we can by the realization that we are the instruments and expression of God Himself.
Emmet Fox

Every time you tear a leaf off a calendar, you present a new place for new ideas and progress.
Charles Kettering

I don't really think about anything too much. I live in the present. I move on. I don't think about what happened yesterday. If I think too much, it kind of freaks me out.
Pamela Anderson