If you have one foot in yesterday and one foot in tomorrow, you're pissing all over today.
Interpretation
This quote emphasizes the importance of living in the present rather than being distracted by the past or future.
Michael J. Fox's quote highlights how being preoccupied with what has happened or what might happen can prevent us from fully experiencing and appreciating the present moment. It serves as a reminder that focusing on today is crucial for our happiness and fulfillment.
In practice
During a motivational speech about mindfulness and being present in life.
I find as long as I acknowledge the truth of something, then that's it. I know what it is and then I can operate. But if I overestimate the downside of something or the challenge of something and I get too obsessed about the difficulty of it, then I don't leave enough room to be open to the upside, the possibility.
My whole life, meeting people is like a blind date, because I feel like they've already seen the video on me.
There are no moments you have frozen in amber. It's moving, it's changing, so appreciate what's good about right now and be ready for what's next.
There's always failure. And there's always disappointment. And there's always loss. But the secret is learning from the loss, and realizing that none of those holes are vacuums.
Certainly people have a lot tougher situations than I've had to deal with. But I will say we are all dying from the moment we are born. This is not just rehearsal.
I'm a dad, I'm a husband, I'm an activist, I'm a writer and I'm just a student of the world.
A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you are looking down, you cannot see something that is above you.
A wise man's questions contain half the answer.
Rich, 'the Old Man said dreamily, 'is not baying after what you can't have. Rich is having the time to do what you want to do. Rich is a little whiskey to drink and some food to eat and a roof over your head and a fish pole and a boat and a gun and a dollar for a box of shells. Rich is not owing any money to anybody, and not spending what you haven't got.
Often any decision, even the wrong decision, is better than no decision.
The result of this bestial lust is an indiscriminate and promiscuous splaying of all of my energies- wanting all, I accomplish nothing; desiring everything, I satisfy nothing and am satisfied by nothing.
This is a fact: Strength in the pursuit of peace is no vice; isolation in the pursuit of security is no virtue.
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