Live For Today Quotes - Page 10

• If we had pursued the war on cancer which President Nixon declared in 1970, Jack Kemp might be alive today.

  Arlen Specter

  War, Cancer, President

  "Meet the Press", www.nbcnews.com. May 3, 2009.

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• I think its pretty clear that film is the pre-eminent art form of our age. If Michaelangelo or Leonardo Da Vinci were alive today they’d be making Avatar, not painting a chapel. Film is incredibly democratic and accessible, it’s probably the best option if you actually want to change the world, not just re-decorate it.

  Banksy

  Art, Thinking, Age

  "Banksy (Yes, Banksy) on Thierry, EXIT Skepticism & Documentary Filmmaking as Punk". Interview with AJ Schnack, edendale.typepad.com. December 21, 2010.

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• Your life is meant to be an epic story. How you think, perform and live today is part of that script.

  Robin Sharma

  Epic, Thinking, Stories

  FaceBook post by Robin Sharma from Dec 29, 2014

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• Very simply, the Spirit of Elijah is the Holy Ghost. The Spirit of Elijah will influence anyone who is involved in this work. That, for a young person in the wickedness in the world in which we live today, is one of the greatest safeguards against the temptations of the adversary. The Spirit of Elijah will not only bless you, it will protect you.

  David A. Bednar

  Temptation, Wickedness, World

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• As a child lives today, he will live tomorrow.

  John Dewey

  Children, Learning, Tomorrow

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• We've had numerous people diagnosed with Alzheimer's who got better; they just come out of it; they are leading normal lives today. And then, of course, what the doctors say is it's not Alzheimer's. You run into that Catch-22 all the time. They say, well, it was probably just a temporary premature dementia, and they write-off the recovery to preserve their ignorance.

  Richard M. Schulze

  Running, Writing, Recovery

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• If Michaelangelo or Leonardo Da Vinci were alive today they’d be making Avatar, not painting a chapel.

  Banksy

  Alive, Painting, Chapel

  "Banksy (Yes, Banksy) on Thierry, EXIT Skepticism & Documentary Filmmaking as Punk". Interview with AJ Schnack, edendale.typepad.com. December 21, 2010.

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• I hope and dream the time will come when serious artists will make marvelous pictures that will love and live in life-like manner and be far more interesting and wonderful than pictures you now see on canvas. I think if Michelangelo was alive today he would immediately see the wonders...The artist can make his scenes and characters live instead of stand still on canvas in art museums.

  Winsor McCay

  Dream, Art, Character

  Winsor McCay (2007*). “Winsor McCay's Little Nemo in Slumberland”

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• I'm alive today, I'm well, I'm working, I'm still creative. What more can I say, really?

  Marianne Faithfull

  Creative, Alive, Wells

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• It might be helpful to realize, that very probably the parents of the first native born Martians are alive today.

  Harrison Schmitt

  Parent, Mars, Alive

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• But if we begin thinking about the world being over 100 million years old, then it's absolutely by chance that you and I are sitting here alive today, while all the others are dead or have never been born.

  Thor Heyerdahl

  Thinking, Years, Sitting

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• This thing you carry inside you, I don't know what it is. I don't know where you got it. But Harry, the past is the past. You are alive today. That is all that matters. You must remember, because it is who you are, but as it is who you are, you must never, ever regret. To regret your past is to regret your soul.

  Catherine Webb

  Regret, Inspiration, Past

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• Admittedly, it is really our duty, as artists, to hold up a mirror to our own era; but, on the other hand, these works have lives of their own, and they're still alive today.

  Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

  Artist, Mirrors, Hands

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• But, on the other hand, if Schubert were alive today, he would find even richer fields to plow.

  Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

  Hands, Alive, Fields

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• In the business of politics, emotions and productive dissatisfaction with the world in which we live today are gradually being covered up by the minutiae of ordinary life.

  Sigmar Gabriel

  Covered Up, Ordinary, World

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• The only certainty is that we never know what tomorrow holds. We live for today, life is short, so let's enjoy it together while we can.

  Jinxx

  Life Is Short, Today Life, Bvb

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• I'm certainly thankful for what the Cubs did for me. I respect their organization. It's the same way with the Atlanta Braves, an awfully fine organization. I respect everybody who's down there, and that's still where I live today. But the Cardinals represent the best years of my career.

  Bruce Sutter

  Atlanta, Years, Careers

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• We never had it so good: Every person alive today derives great benefit from comforts and pleasures that were not available in the past. All of the latest technological advances serve us to a remarkable degree. For all this we should be full of appreciation and gratitude.

  Zelig Pliskin

  Gratitude, Appreciation, Past

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• Go to the people
  Live among them
  Learn from them
  Love them
  Serve them
  Plan with them
  Start with what they know
  Build on what they have.

  Y. C. James Yen

  Niece, People, Plans

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• Go to the people and live among them in order to know them and learn from them.

  Y. C. James Yen

  Order, People, Racist

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• Leuconoe, close the book of fate, For troubles are in store, . . . . Live today, tomorrow is not.

  Horace

  Book, Fate, Tomorrow

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• The most pernicious aspect of procrastination is that it can become a habit. We don't just put off our lives today; we put them off till our deathbed.

  Steven Pressfield

  Procrastination, Today, Habit

  Steven Pressfield (2002). “The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles”, p.22, Black Irish Entertainment LLC

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• Imagine there's no heaven, it's easy if you try. No hell below us, above us only sky. Imagine all the people living for today...

  John Lennon

  Atheist, Sky, People

  "Imagine" (song) (1971)

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• No one alive today has a single ancestor in his or her past who died in infancy. We are the champions, my friend!

  Daniel Levitin

  Past, Winning, Champion

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• Science is the most exciting and sustained enterprise of discovery in the history of our species. It is the great adventure of our time. We live today in an era of discovery that far outshadows the discoveries of the New World five hundred years ago.

  Michael Crichton

  Adventure, Discovery, Years

  "Ritual Abuse, Hot Air, and Missed Opportunities: Science Views Media". Speech to the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Anaheim, California, January 25, 1999.

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