Yesterday Quotes - Page 19

• My emotional investment is in finding truth. If string theory is wrong, I'd like to have known that yesterday. But if we can show it today or tomorrow, fantastic.

  Brian Greene

  Emotional, Today, Tomorrow

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• I live a half mile from the San Andreas fault - a fact that bubbles up into my consciousness every time some other part of the world experiences an earthquake. I sometimes wonder whether this subterranean sense of impending disaster is at least partly responsible for Silicon Valley's feverish, get-it-done-yesterday work norms.

  Gary Hamel

  Earthquakes, Valleys, Done

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• If I have not read a book before, it is, for all intents and purposes, new to me whether it was printed yesterday or three hundred years ago.

  William Hazlitt

  Book, Reading, Years

  William Hazlitt (1839). “Sketches and Essays”, p.1

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• I was informed yesterday that there's a Twitter account for my laugh. Very hard to get used to things like that. Pretty amazing.

  Tom Hiddleston

  Laughing, Used, Accounts

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• I realised that you couldn't use the tools of yesterday to communicate today's world. Basically, that was the big light that went on in my head.

  Damien Hirst

  Light, Tools, Use

  "Damien Hirst: 'I still believe art is more powerful than money'". Interview with Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. March 10, 2012.

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• I was bargaining for time away from Hollywood, and Columbia was bargaining for money. I got what I wanted and they got what they wanted. They knew I was so anxious to do Born Yesterday that I'd have done it for a dollar. They gave me the next best thing.

  Judy Holliday

  Hollywood, Dollars, Done

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• If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven't done anything today.

  Lou Holtz

  Inspirational, Sports, Football

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• Yesterday I was thinking about the whole idea of genius and creative people, and the notion that if you create some magical art, somehow that exempts you from having to pay attention to the small things.

  Bell Hooks

  Art, Thinking, Ideas

  "Bell Hooks and John Perry Barlow talk “prana in cyberspace”". Interview with John Perry Barlow, www.lionsroar.com. 1995.

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• Never regret yesterday. Life is in you today and you make your tomorrow.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Letting Go, Heartbroken, Regret

  "The Creation Of Human Ability". Book by L. Ron Hubbard, 1954.

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• Yesterday the flame of the Olympic torch was carried through our great state on its way to Salt Lake City.

  Jane D. Hull

  Lakes, Flames, Cities

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• Jordan has a strange, haunting beauty and a sense of timelessness. Dotted with the ruins of empires once great, it is the last resort of yesterday in the world of tomorrow. I love every inch of it.

  King Hussein I

  Beauty, Country, Middle East

  "The Arab World", Arab Information Center, p. 30, 1965.

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• Today's mighty oak is just yesterday's nut, that held its ground.

  David Icke

  Nuts, Today, Mighty Oaks

  David Icke (1998). “The Biggest Secret”, David Icke Books

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• I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.

  James Joyce

  Inspirational, Work, Passion

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• I gather from a lawyer that there was a rehearsal yesterday. We haven't a hope. I know the presiding judge too: I've had the misfortune to sleep with his wife. He was specially picked.

  Alphonse Karr

  Sleep, Wife, Judging

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• The world goes up and the world goes down, the sunshine follows the rain; and yesterday's sneer and yesterday's frown can never come over again.

  Charles Kingsley

  Change, Nature, Travel

  Charles Kingsley (2008). “Andromeda and Other Poems: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition”, p.111, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, 'I'd like some fries.' The girl at the counter said, 'Would you like some fries with that?'

  Jay Leno

  Girl, Food, Mcdonalds

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• Yesterday Senator John Kerry changed his mind and now supports the ban on gay marriages. I'm telling you this guy has more positions than Paris Hilton.

  David Letterman

  Change, Gay, Paris

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• I was called a terrorist yesterday, but when I came out of jail, many people embraced me, including my enemies, and that is what I normally tell other people who say those who are struggling for liberation in their country are terrorists.

  Nelson Mandela

  Country, Struggle, Jail

  "President Nelson Mandela One-on-One". "The Larry King Live Show", transcripts.cnn.com. May 16, 2000.

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• Our Age of Anxiety is, in great part, the result of trying to do today's job with yesterday's tools and yesterday's concepts.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Birthday, Jobs, Anxiety

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• The regrets of yesterday and the fear of tomorrow can kill you.

  Liza Minnelli

  Regret, Tomorrow

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• What you've done becomes the judge of what you're going to do - especially in other people's minds. When you're traveling, you are what you are right there and then. People don't have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road.

  William Least Heat-Moon

  Travel, Carpe Diem, Past

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• For me, writing a novel is like having a dream. Writing a novel lets me intentionally dream while I'm still awake. I can continue yesterday's dream today, something you can't normally do in everyday life.

  Haruki Murakami

  Dream, Writing, Everyday

  "Kafka on the Shore, readers at sea" by Sam Jordison, www.theguardian.com. August 20, 2015.

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• As a novelist, you could say that I am dreaming while I am awake, and every day I can continue with yesterday's dream. Because it is a dream, there are so many contradictions and I have to adjust them to make the story work. But, in principle, the original dream does not change.

  Haruki Murakami

  Dream, Novelists, Principles

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• Study strategy over the years and achieve the spirit of the warrior. Today is victory over yourself of yesterday; tomorrow is your victory over lesser men.

  Miyamoto Musashi

  Meaningful, Warrior, Men

  Miyamoto Musashi (2013). “The Book of Five Rings - The Bestselling, Classic Samurai Guide to Strategy”, p.52, Lulu Press, Inc

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• We can easily manage if we will only take, each day, the burden appointed to it. But the load will be too heavy for us if we carry yesterday's burden over again today, and then add the burden of the morrow before we are required to bear it.

  John Newton

  Life, Attitude, Past

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