There’s a huge part of me that’s thinking about perfection. I have to fight that urge, to try to live in the moment, reach for something that I might be hearing, and not second-guess myself. – Aaron Diehl
It’s those moments when everything is on the line, and someone needs to show up in a big moment. I prepare my mind and I prepare my body to be ready for those moments. And I think it’s just what I do. I live for those moments. – Carli Lloyd
This music is forever for me. It’s the stage thing, that rush moment that you live for. It never lasts, but that’s what you live for. – Bruce Springsteen
The moment the doctor said he wanted to do a biopsy, in my heart I thought I’d probably got it. But I also know a lot of people who have also had prostate cancer, so I had a reasonably good idea what to expect. – Andrew Lloyd Webber
I always have a moment when I know I’m designing the last costume that gets made for a movie, and it’s always been floating up there, but it’s kind of the last one. That’s always probably the hardest one for me. – Colleen Atwood
The great music for so many artists – the Beatles, the Rolling Stones – was always at the moment when they were closest to pop. It would be easy for U2 to go off and have a concept album, but I want us to stay in the pop fray. – Bono
With my government, we engaged in bringing our help to fights for national freedom. At that precise moment, several countries were still colonised or had barely overcome colonisation. This was the case in practically all of Africa. We supported them. – Ahmed Ben Bella
When President Teddy Roosevelt posed for the cameras astride a massive steam shovel during construction of the Panama Canal in 1906, it was more than a simple photo op. Though the scene was clearly staged, it symbolized a crucial moment in American history. – Alan Huffman
This is the moment when we must build on the wealth that open markets have created, and share its benefits more equitably. Trade has been a cornerstone of our growth and global development. But we will not be able to sustain this growth if it favors the few, and not the many. – Barack Obama
Here we have been sitting down for a brief moment and you are already asking me if there are pictures of me in my drawers. – Anthony Weiner
I think in a way, you’re doomed, once you can envision something. You’re sort of doomed to make it happen. I’ve found that the moment I can envision leaving a relationship, that’s usually the moment that the relationship starts to fall apart. – Chuck Palahniuk
I have friends among the Christians, whom I love, and never for a moment have I thought of attacking their Christianity. – Bjornstjerne Bjornson
Think about it for a brief moment. Suspend disbelief. Wind the clock forward 100 years. Do you think, as a species, we will still be struggling with the things that vex us today? Will we still be arguing about the same stuff? We will still be eating Cocoa Puffs? We are at the end of the beginning. – Brad Feld
‘Amores Perros’ is three stories that interconnect in one moment, which is the car accident. – Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
The energy of live theater is indescribable. You are just in the moment for an hour and a half. – Adrianne Palicki
And Oliver North was really a good soldier, up to the last moment, shoving memos into the shredder and defending the policy to the end. – Bobby Ray Inman
The moment we put up the PayPal button, some guy donated $300. That’s when we realized that if you give somebody a chance to support something on the Internet, they’ll do it. – Burnie Burns
His heart was like a sensitive plant, that opens for a moment in the sunshine, but curls up and shrinks into itself at the slightest touch of the finger, or the lightest breath of wind. – Anne Bronte
The moment in between what you once were, and who you are now becoming, is where the dance of life really takes place. – Barbara De Angelis
I know some people who never have any difficulties to speak of. The moment I understood your premisses, I felt sure you had a real foundation to hold on. – Asa Gray
You read things, and they come to you, and if they speak to you at the moment and there’s a voice in you that says, ‘I don’t know, that’s risky,’ or ‘That’s challenging,’ then do it. Run at it and tackle it. And if it’s bad, it’s bad. You’re gonna get over it. – Corey Hawkins
I think it’s very important to live in the present. One of the great things that improvising teaches you is the magic of the moment that you’re in because, when you improvise, you’re in right now. You’re not in yesterday or tomorrow – you’re right in the moment. – Charlie Haden
Active management leads to lots of poor investor behavior. It sends people chasing after whoever has the hot hand at the moment. – Barry Ritholtz
The biggest moment of flexibility in our shopping habits is when we have a child, because all of your old routines go out the window, and suddenly a marketer can come in and sell you new things. – Charles Duhigg
There was never a moment when I was like, ‘I’m going to enter the public conversation on the importance of female nudity.’ – Chelsea Handler
But whatever the ramifications, whatever turns the path takes, the beginning is always there, in a particular moment, a particular point of access. – Barry Unsworth
God is creating at every moment of the world’s existence in and through the perpetually endowed creativity of the very stuff of the world. – Arthur Peacocke
