“Time perspective is one of the most powerful influences on all of human behavior. We're trying to show how people become biased to being exclusively past-, present- or future-oriented.”

“How can the past and future be, when the past no longer is, and the future is not yet? As for the present, if it were always present and never moved on to become the past, it would not be time, but eternity.”

“I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That's were the fun is.”

“Through it [literature] we know the past, govern the present, and influence the future.”

“[They] talked mostly of their memories, for the past was all they had - the present being such a changable, odd thing, and the future too far away.”

“The future is foretold from the past and the future is only possible because of the past. Without past and future, the present is partial. All time is eternally present and so all time is ours. There is no sense in forgetting and every sense in dreaming. Thus the present is made rich.”