Quotation Explorer - 'Current'

One of the major obstacles impeding any positive future change in our lives is that we are too busy with our current work or activity. Levi quit his tax-work, Peter stopped fishing at lake, Paul ceased being a priest. They all left their jobs because they thought it was necessary. - John Ruskin
The current climate change is an outer mirror of our inner consciousness. It is an outer mirror of our attitude to try to conquer nature, instead of being in harmony with nature, but in the end the part can never conquer the whole. - Swami Dhyan Giten
People that you meet, are pebbles in your river, but those that you hold true shall follow your current, like a leaf atop a stream. The boulder that blocks your path however, you just have to be willing to climb, or break it down with time. - Hieu
You know you’re successful when your wants and needs are in harmony with your current situation. - Debasish Mridha
Education means nourishing the mind and make it develop in order to see beyond the limitations of current social perception. - Abhijit Naskar
Current utility and historical origin are different subjects. - Stephen Jay Gould
Formal education and current position can define your worthiness. What makes you extraordinary is defined by your attitude towards others. - Ashish Patel
The atmosphere sets the tone for what is to take place in that space at that time. Your attitude impacts the atmosphere. How is your current attitude affecting the atmosphere and your desired outcome? - Bobby F. Kimbrough Jr.
It means the third rail has seven hundred volts of direct current running through it. Touch it and you're human popcorn - James Patterson
I never said you had to like it. You have to accept it. No regret." - Clare Harding From the current book in writing BUMPKIN by . - Lani Brown
The arts especially address the idea of aesthetic experience. An aesthetic experience is one in which your senses are operating at their peak; when you’re present in the current moment; when you’re resonating with the excitement of this thing that you’re experiencing; when you are fully alive. - Ken Robinson
The Chilcot report is a revelation of injustice under the cloak of Aid. The Chilcot report is a sorry report on the current state of humanity. So the ultimate question here is what are we going to achieve out of the sorry reports when sorry has no meaning in action? - Nilantha Ilangamuwa
In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock. - Thomas Jefferson
I am choosing to flow with the current of life rather than lying in a tide pool experiencing the same things again and again. - Marilyn Barnicke Belleghem
The practice of mindfulness is nothing more than focusing on the current moment. - Debasish Mridha
I sail on the ocean of possibilities with the wind of hope and the current of desires moving me to the shore of uncertainty. - Debasish Mridha
Your current body is the only body that can take you to your new body—so be kind to it. - Elaine Moran
If we cannot be contented with our current lives and possessions, then we are feeding an appetite that no amount of money will ever satiate. - Breanna Sampson
I like to think of innovation as upgrading your current self. This upgrade helps you to more effectively deal with changes happening around you and to be able to think in a more complex manner than before. - Daniel Willey
Life has let me down several times, that I have learnt to cope with my pain in different situations while at the same time, learning through comparing my past problems and the current obstacles am facing. - Auliq Ice
The size of your dreams must always exceed your current capacity to achieve them. If your dreams do not scare you, they are not big enough. - Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
You'll never get to the happily ever after if you don't move past the current chapter... - Carmen DeSousa
Live with the current day, otherwise someday you'll wake up and realise that all remarkable and gorgeous moments have passed towards your eyes, while you're waiting for the best shot to reveal yourself - Alexander Zalan
She was born of space. And starlight. But she bled wrath. And vengeance.."[From Current Work In Progress] - Jenna Streety
The test of an author is not to be found merely in the number of his phrases that pass current in the corner of newspapers...but in the number of passages that have really taken root in younger minds.
I always stay hungry, never satisfied with current accomplishments. - Arnold Schwarzenegger
I needed to do my current job well, keep preparing, and wait on God’s timing. I needed to trust His leadership rather than try to force an outcome I wanted. - Tony Dungy
The long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead. Economists set themselves too easy, too useless a task if in tempestuous seasons they can only tell us that when the storm is past the ocean is flat again. - John Maynard Keynes
What might be your current goal can motivate you in some situations. For like when you priority something and you have loose ends on it, it will make your back itch. - Alberto D. Bautista
Stretch your mind and you will reach beyond your current reality. - TemitOpe Ibrahim
Never allow your current circumstances dictate your level of happiness! Remember that this too shall pass! Rejoice always! - Mignon' Talise Padilla
While we are floating against the current toward the future, our minds stay behind with the anchoring memories of the past. - Debasish Mridha
Your current situation = the life expectations you have accepted as completed, unless you change your comfort zone to create a better life. - Shannon L. Alder
The best historical stories capture the modern imagination because they are, in many senses, still current - part of a continuum. - Sara Sheridan
Prospective research looks forward in time to see how a group of individual change over time while retrospective research looks backward in time and attempts to reconstruct the conditions that led to the current situation. - Shelley E. Taylor
So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.
You can not avoid life or your thoughts you can only make the best of your current situation and move on with a positive mental attitude. - Matthew Donnelly
The one surefire way to get me not to hire you is to send me your resume, especially if you've already got a good job. I won't be interested, because in a couple years, you'll be doing the same thing to me that you're doing to your current boss: looking for a better deal. - Bo Schembechler
Science has given us a great lie. It is this lie that ends the current age of faith in God. - Compton Gage
Sometimes ideas flow from my mind in a raging river of stringed sentences; I can scarcely scribble on the page fast enough to keep up with the mental current. Sometimes, however, beavers move in and dam the whole thing up. - Richelle E. Goodrich
Wisdom is creating connections between the current perceptual realities with future imaginative possibilities. - Debasish Mridha
Ego is this this higher conscious concept that we have of ourselves and we feel that we must live by it with a closed mind. We can be Self Aware of this concept or purely just blinded. I think the answer to this problem is being Self Aware and changing our current perception for the better. - Matthew Donnelly
You have everything inside you, though you sometimes only recognise certain bits relating to the current stage of your path. - Jay Woodman
Don't ... depend on current fashion or ... popular opinion. - John F. Nash
The actual God of many Americans... is simply the current of American life.
As I see it, life is an effort to grip before they slip through one's fingers and slide into oblivion, the startling, the ghastly or the blindingly exquisite fish of the imagination before they whip away on the endless current and are lost for ever in oblivion's black ocean. - Mervyn Peake
Fifty years of isolating Cuba has failed to promote democracy" Barack Obama, 44th and current President of the USA. "Let's move ahead!" - Captain Hank Bracker
I have a cat named Trash. In the current political climate it would seem that if I were trying to sell him (at least to a Computer Scientist), I would not stress that he is gentle to humans and is self-sufficient, living mostly on field mice. Rather, I would argue that he is object-oriented.
When your mind cannot find its way out of its current spectrum of reality, your heart will always guide you along the the path you are seeking. Trust it. - L.J. Vanier
In fact the trick good shooters deploy is change of focus from long to short and vice versa. And that should happen fast.The modus operandi is an alignment of long Focus (long term vision) with due validation with respect to current status (short term goals). - Priyavrat Thareja
Sitting makes us think of standingOur current stance keeps on demanding We wish to fly without the wings Puppets move before pulling the strings - Munia Khan
Your current circumstances are part of your redemption story He is writing. - Evinda Lepins
Proverbs are in the world of thought what gold coin is in the world of business - great value in small compass, and equally current among all people. Sometimes the proverb may be false, the coin counterfeit, but in both cases the false proves the value of the true.
When all seems to be against you, remember, a ship sometimes has to sail against the current, not with it. - Matshona Dhliwayo
While watching the current state of America, I have concluded we should welcome the truth no matter how it arrives and justice no matter who or what it affects. When we don't, we become a vessel of mendacity and hypocrisy. - Bobby F. Kimbrough Jr.
Life is like a rushing river. If we fight the current we are drawn under and drown in emotion. - Ambika Devi
Talent develops in tranquility, character in the full current of human life. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Gut check. Is your current fear a stumbling block or a stepping stone? - Richie Norton
Life is like crossing a river. If you take a huge step-aim for too bigger dreams-then the current will knock you off your feet and carry you away. The way to do it is small steps, you will take hold of life. You will get there in the end. - Louis Sachar
Describing current human mindsets reflecting our ignorance and cowardice and non action-oriented mentality:"I'm going to do nothing but escapist drugs and hop from one party or festival to another. I will dance my way out of the harsh realities of Planet Earth. - Mark Passio
Writing means being a fascinated slave to current events. - Allan Gurganus
Man must learn that his current path is not suitable for Earth, and soon, Earth won't be suitable for Man. - Donald L. Hicks
Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks of everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation. - Brian Tracy
To understand women who look both ways requires hearing their stories, not just noting the sex of their current partner. And when you listen closely, it's apparent these women have learned something crucial in these relationships. - Jennifer Baumgardner
Our current bittersweet relationship with our sleep hasn’t had a long history. - Pawan Mishra
With the current technology, I now agree with non-believers. We should no longer say the Bible is life's road-map, the Bible is life's GPS! - Ibrahim Emile
Until you see fear as an opportunity for growth, you won’t grow beyond your current self. - Robert Tew
The promise of a dreamer’s future will always remain greater than their present ability. God will always give them dreams that are further along than their current level of maturity. - Wayne Cordeiro
We incessantly vacillate between what’s behind us and what’s before us depending on the current barometer of our courage and the ambivalent nature of our vision. - Craig D. Lounsbrough
Your biggest opportunity probably lies under your own feet, in your current job, industry, education, experience or interests. - Brian Tracy
In a truly moral society, most of our current laws would not exist. - Michel Templet
Those of little understanding say the world will soon end. It is the current age that is coming to an end. The end of this age is the beginning of the next. - Compton Gage
I hate our current leaders becouse they don't know the value of there people, but like there ideas because it will soon turn against them and any of there kind. - Hamzatribah
Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation. - Brian Tracy
Intellectually, religious emotions are not creative but conservative. They attach themselves readily to the current view of the world and consecrate it. - John Dewey
It's not about the speed of the river, but flow of the current. - Lyle Rubins
A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future. You must break out of your current comfort zone and become comfortable with the unfamiliar and the unknown. - Dennis Waitley
It is necessary to understand that the next person is just as important as you are on this earth. So no one should undermine others based on their current circumstances. - Gugu Mona
No one makes a lock without a key. That's why God won't give you difficulties without a solution!Your current situation may look Horrorful but don't worry your future will be colourful. - Emmanuel Eliason-Armstrong
Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. When we really listen to people there is an alternating current, and this recharges us so that we never get tired of each other. We are constantly being re-created. - Brenda Ueland
...most people unconsciously dream themselves out of their goals. They dream so far past their current reality—or what's currently possible—that they end up abandoning their goals and damaging their own self-esteem. - Lisa Nichols
What is inner peace but a deeply held belief that your current situation is exactly as it should be." - L. R. W. Lee, Andy Smithson: Blast of the Dragon's Fury - L.R.W. Lee
Perhaps the Last light in your current Life is the First Light in the Next one - Look Im A Cat
If you fail to treat the current time you have wisely and with care, it’ll judge you tomorrow harshly since it came to you but you mistreated and abused it. - Assegid Habtewold
I believe the visionaries and true reflections of society will be rewarded after their lives. Those being rewarded now are giving the public what it needs now, usually applauding its current state and clearing consciences. - Hollace M. Metzger
When you focus and accept the current moment with love, faith, and joyfulness, you are practicing mindfulness. That is better than controlling the universe. - Debasish Mridha
My happiness comes from the donation of my life in many ways for the current and for the future generations. - Debasish Mridha
Talent develops in tranquillity, character in the full current of human life. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The same current that drifts your boat may sink mine. No two persons walking this earth are the same, not even twins. Keep this in mind when dealing with others. - Peprah Boasiako
The process of leniency involves accepting the reality of the current situation and finding a satisfying meaning therein, as opposed to misconstruing or denying the facts of the situation. - Sandra L. Schneider
Everyone is operating and running their lives at their current level of conscious awareness. - Carlos Marin
To change someone's mind, requires only that you speak a more compelling narrative about their situation than their current one. - L.R.W. Lee
The best current evidence is that media are mere vehicles that deliver instruction but do not influence student achievement any more than the truck that delivers groceries causes change in our nutrition.
There cannot be greater rudeness than to interrupt another in the current of his discourse. - John Locke
The host took care to produce one or another of these whenever the current subjects seemed about used up, so that the conversation gathered new life and at the same time steered clear of political arguments, which are hindersome to both ingestion and digestion. - Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
The key to happy living is that Mind should be at rest and body must be exercised and active, but in the disillusioned pursuit of happiness during current times we reverse the mantra and ignorantly fly away from it. - Hiyamedia
Before one may scare the plain people one must first have a firm understanding of the bugaboos that most facilely alarm them. One must study the schemes that have served to do it in the past, and one must study very carefully the technic of the chief current professionals. - H.L. Mencken
If we believe we have no control, we acquiesce our real power, become subject to the decisions of others, and become like a leaf floating helplessly down a current of other people's decisions.
man cannot control the current of events. he can only float with them and steer - Otto von Bismarck
Threatening a current or former partner isn't passion, or love, or heartache. It's violence, it's abuse and it's a crime. - Miya Yamanouchi
success is a conscious effort to make a change in your current situation and sticking to it ,your current position is a result of how much change you made yesterday, your future depends on what you are willing to change today. - KV Findthings
Lex Rex has become Rex Lex. Arbitrary judgment concerning current sociological good is king - Francis A. Schaeffer
...because of the foulness of her mother's emotional river, a current which ran swift, changing its path without warning... - Tamara Rose Blodgett
Current "literature" [is] well-written books in which disgusting people do disgusting things to other disgusting people for no apparent reason and with no apparent resolution. - Roberta Gellis
This has been my greatest challenge: because the current reality now seems so unreal, it's hard to make nonfiction seem believable. But you, my friend [Michael Moore], are able to do that. - Kurt Vonnegut
Just let go of the oars. Whenyou‘re no longer paddling against the Current, when you release your oars and relax into your ownnatural Well-Being, the Current, which is ever moving in the direction of that which you havebecome and all that you want, will carry you toward your desires. - Let Your Feelings Be Your Guide by Esther and Jerry Hicks
People talk about escapism as if it's a bad thing... Once you've escaped, once you come back, the world is not the same as when you left it. You come back to it with skills, weapons, knowledge you didn't have before. Then you are better equipped to deal with your current reality. - Neil Gaiman
All censorships exist to prevent any one from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions. All progress is initiated by challenging current conceptions, and executed by supplanting existing institutions. Consequently the first condition of progress is the removal of censorships. - George Bernard Shaw
ADVICE, n. The smallest current coin. "The man was in such deep distress," Said Tom, "that I could do no less Than give him good advice." Said Jim: "If less could have been done for him I know you well enough, my son, To know that's what you would have done." Jebel Jocordy - Ambrose Bierce
Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody can read."[As quoted in Literary Censorship in England (in Current Opinion, Vol. 55, No. 5, November 1913)] - George Bernard Shaw
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