A Quote by Joseph Addison
A money-lender--he serves you in the present tense; he lends you in the conditional mood; keeps you in the conjunctive; and ruins you in the future.
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When you're in a good mood, bring up the past. When you're in a bad mood, stick to the present. And when you're not feeling emotional at all, it's time to talk about the future.
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And imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present.
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It's difficult to get an audience to want to keep up with you, stay present tense. But there's never been a big lag in my career between product. I've constantly tried to pull my audience up into what I'm doing present tense, and they've been usually happy to go there with me.
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Winners live in the present tense. People who come up short are consumed with future or past. I want to be living in the now.
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