The Notorious B.I.G.
Rapper, songwriter
"Excellence is my presence. Never tense, never hesitant."
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Tense
36 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Soren Kierkegaard
Philosopher, Theologian
"Confidence is the present tense of hope."
James Russell Lowell
Poet, Essayist
"Who's not sat tense before his own heart's curtain."
Katt Williams
Comedian, Actor
"The past is something for you to learn from and the future is something that you hope is going to happen, but I'm always speaking to my actual fans in present tense."
Brian Tracy
Author, Speaker
"Rewrite your major goals every day, in the present tense, exactly as if they already existed"
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"Existence really is an imperfect tense that never becomes a present."
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"I love you present tense."
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"There must be justice, sensed and shared by all peoples, for, without justice the world can know only a tense and unstable truce."
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"I never think of what it's going to be like later. I only think in the present tense. The only time I think backwards is when I have to reissue something."
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"Human existence basically is──a never to be completed imperfect tense."
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