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Children are natural Zen masters; their world is brand new in each and every moment.
Every time I have some moment on a seashore, or in the mountains, or sometimes in a quiet forest, I think this is why the environment has to be preserved.
The 'looking forward' so prevalent in the late 1990s was bound to end once the new millennium began. Like some others of that era, I predicted a new focus on the moment, on real experience, and on what things are actually worth right now. Then 9/11 magnified this sensibility, forcing America as a nation to contend with its own impermanence.
Like the diminishing beauty returns for a facially paralyzed Botox addict, the more forcefully we attempt to stop the passage of time, the less available we are to the very moment we seek to preserve.
I find myself unable to let go of the sense that human beings are somehow special, and that moment-to-moment human experience contains a certain unquantifiable essence. I still suspect there is something too quirky, too paradoxical, or too interpersonal to be imitated or re-created by machine life.
I do remember the moment when, as a child, I realized that the things we call 'TV shows' are really just the stuff that gets put between commercials. Later, I came to see that the kinds of things that get on 'free' TV are shows that help sell products.
A currency designed for long-term storage and investment doesn't do so well at encouraging transactions and exchange in the moment.
You can keep going on and on about the interactions of people, which makes it a great drama and great event ,and you'll always hold that special, but if you're looking at a baseball moment, the feeling you get when you win the World Series by far exceeds anything else in the game that you're able to do.
By far, the best moment of my big league career was when I caught the last out at the World Series.
I have this theory that your first film is always your best film in some way. I always try to get back to that moment when you're not relying on things you've done before.
The really interesting moment will be when you have a critical mass of people engaging through the networks, more than through the press and TV. When that happens, the culture of politics has to change, moving away from controlled one-way messages towards a political culture that is more questioning.
Many moments in religion seem attractive to me even though I can't believe in any of it.
God isn't present in the past or future. The great 'I Am' is in the present moment. When I claim that presence, I can get through anything today.
No one really has a bad life. Not even a bad day. Just bad moments.
There are many Broadway songs that apply to moments on 'Mad Men,' and I sing them on set all the time.
A win is a win, which is about that particular moment.
In any match, there are few critical moments where there's no second best decision. The rest of the moves are intuitive.
In a film you only get two hours to do this big arc and so you have to pick and choose your moments carefully, but with television you get to take your time and just take it episode by episode and discover new things.
In history, the moments during which reason and reconciliation prevail are short and fleeting.
In history as in human life, regret does not bring back a lost moment and a thousand years will not recover something lost in a single hour.
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