M. H. Abrams (1912–2015) American literary theorist
Cornell Chronicle interview (1999)
“Seize the day, whatever's in it to seize, before something comes along and seizes you.”
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“Carpe diem. Seize the day, boys.
Make your lives extraordinary”
Tom Schulman (1950) American film director, screenwriter
“As we speak cruel time is fleeing. Seize the day, believing as little as possible in the morrow.”
Dum loquimur, fugerit invida
Aetas: carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero.
Book I, ode xi, line 7
John Conington's translation:
:In the moment of our talking, envious time has ebbed away,
Seize the present, trust tomorrow e'en as little as you may.
Odes (c. 23 BC and 13 BC)
Steve Maraboli (1975)
Source: Life, the Truth, and Being Free (2010), p. 42
Context: How would your life be different if … You stopped worrying about things you can't control and started focusing on the things you can? Let today be the day … You free yourself from fruitless worry, seize the day and take effective action on things you can change.
“Prayed for so oft, the dawn of fight is come.
No more entreat the gods: with sword in hand
Seize on our fates; and Caesar in your deeds
This day is great or little.”
Nil opus est uotis, iam fatum accersite ferro.
in manibus uestris, quantus sit Caesar, habetis.
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus book Pharsalia
Book VII, line 252 (tr. E. Ridley).
Pharsalia
Alexej von Jawlensky (1864–1941) Russian painter
Quote of Jawlensky from a letter to his brother Dimitri, circa 1917/18; as cited in Clemens Weiler, op. cit., 1971, p. 12
1900 - 1935
Amir Taheri (1942) Iranian journalist
Opinion: The Syrian Orphan and a Club of Cynics http://english.aawsat.com/2015/09/article55345155/opinion-the-syrian-orphan-and-a-club-of-cynics, Ashraq Al-Awsat (18 Sep, 2015).
