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“So today, let's write a program simply. But let's also realize that tomorrow, we're going to make it more complex, because tomorrow it's going to do more. So we'll take that simplicity and we'll lose some of it. But tomorrow, hopefully tomorrow's program is as simple as possible for tomorrow's needs. Hopefully we'll preserve simplicity as the program grows.”
Ward Cunningham (born 1949) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“To worry about tomorrow is to detract from your work today. Time you spend thinking about tomorrow is time you're not spending thinking about what to do today. The place you leave in the code because you think you'll need it tomorrow, is actually a waste of time today — and a liability tomorrow. It does more harm than good.”
Ward Cunningham (born 1949) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Anyone can fight the battles of just one day. It is only when you and I add the battles of those two awful eternities, yesterday and tomorrow, that we break down. It is not the experience of today that drives us mad. It is the remorse or bitterness for something that happened yesterday or the dread of what tomorrow may bring. Let us therefore do our best to live but one day at a time.”
Richmond Walker wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I was training six months prior to the shoots, and six hours a day I did two hours of gym work, two hours of fight choreography, and one and half hours-two hours horseback riding, which is super hard…It was a lot more intense [than the army]. By far.”
Gal Gadot (born 1985) first seen 2017 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Live with Kelly and Ryan", (05/26/2017).
“Yesterday is safe, Tomorrow's full of danger, Yesterday's a face I know, Tomorrow is a stranger.”
Hal Summers (1911–2005) said by 2005 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There are three periods in the life of a people or in the life of a country. The three periods are yesterday, today and tomorrow. Yesterday belongs to the dead and to chroniclers; today belongs to current functionaries and operatives; tomorrow belongs to visionaries and idealists.”
Anthony Enahoro (1923–2010) said by 2010 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Walking is always for tomorrow; yesterday’s walk, today’s walk, tomorrow’s walk – all for tomorrow. That is what this world is.”
Neamat Imam (born 1971) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It was good to be alive. Black Girl gathered herself under him and thundered down the Pike towards Lancaster. Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow—was the tune her hoofs now seemed to be drumming on the road away from yesterday.”
Hervey Allen (1889–1949) said by 1949 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I will act now. For now is all I have. Tomorrow is the day reserved for the labor of the lazy. I am not lazy. Tomorrow is the day when the evil become good. I am not evil. Tomorrow is the day when the weak become strong. I am not weak. Tomorrow is the day when the failure will succeed. I am not a failure. I will act now.”
Og Mandino (1923–1996) said by 1996 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Eight hours of work, eight hours of play, eight hours of sleep - eight hours a day! (From the Haymarket era eight-hour campaign)”
Bill Haywood (1869–1928) said by 1928 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Roughneck, The Life and Times of Big Bill Haywood, Peter Carlson, 1983, page 147.
“They made two thousand years ago seem like yesterday, and yesterday look like today, just as today would, in time, look like tomorrow. (p. 128).”
Geoff Dyer (born 1958) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The tasks are done and the tears are shed. Yesterday’s errors let yesterday cover; Yesterday’s wounds, which smarted and bled, Are healed with the healing that night has shed.”
Sarah Chauncey Woolsey (1835–1905) said by 1905 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I don't have any romanticism about any part of my past. I think of it only inasmuch as it gave me pleasure or helped me grow psychologically. That is the only thing that interests me about yesterday. I don't believe in yesterday, by the way. You know I don't believe in yesterday. I am only interested in what I am doing now.”
John Lennon (1940–1980) said by 1980 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“[W]hat we call yesterday is self-contained and has its experience of being yesterday, and today has memories of yesterday; and therefor I say that it's later... but each is completely self-contained, and there's no reason why you should put one... here, and another one there...”
Julian Barbour (born 1937) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Yesterday, yesterday, yesterday—tapped the feet of the mare.”
Hervey Allen (1889–1949) said by 1949 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Culture is dynamic and it keeps evolving. When they were talking about tortoise yesterday and tortoise meant an animal that was clever yesterday, today the tortoise will be referring to the fraudster. Because the tortoise of today will come in suit, he will carry a briefcase and drive a good car. The tortoise of yesterday didn’t.”
Sam Ukala (1948–2021) said by 2021 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Yesterday is yesterday. If we try to recapture it, we will only lose tomorrow.”
Bill Clinton (born 1946) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If you wake up and don't want to smile, If it takes just a little while, Open your eyes and look at the day. You'll see things in a different way.Don't stop, thinking about tomorrow, Don't stop, it'll soon be here. It'll be, better than before. Yesterday's gone, yesterday's gone.”
Christine McVie (1943–2022) said by 2022 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I have copies of most of the films I did, people have been sending those to me, but I don’t want to look at yesterday. I’m looking at tomorrow, although I’m very glad that yesterday was there. That philosophy works for me. I have a gift of contentment. I am blessed to have the opportunities that I’ve had. My golden years were platinum years.”
Ann Rutherford (1917–2012) first seen 2003 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Ann while in beverly hills, california speak about her years in 2003.
“A month passes by and brings another month. Easy to guess what lies ahead: all of yesterday’s boredom. And tomorrow ends up no longer like tomorrow.”
Constantine P. Cavafy (1863–1933) said by 1933 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Past is gone , present is going and tomorrow is day after tomorrow's yesterday . So why worry about anything ? God is in all this .”
R. K. Narayan (1906–2001) first seen 1977 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Painter Of Signs(1977)
“24 HOURS UNTIL WE UNLEASH HELL. At this time tomorrow, Crooked Kamala’s worst nightmares come true. Tomorrow I step on stage and deliver Open Border Czar Kamala Harris the WORST defeat of her failed political career.”
Donald Trump (born 1946) first seen 2024 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 2 August 2024 campaign e-mail from Trump, cited in "Trump vows to ‘unleash hell’ on Harris at Atlanta rally", The Hill
“Over and over, people try to design systems that make tomorrow's work easy. But when tomorrow comes it turns out they didn't quite understand tomorrow's work, and they actually made it harder.”
Ward Cunningham (born 1949) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Really, honestly, the hours in network television are insane, it’s like sixteen hours a day, fifteen hours a day. Sometimes six days a week. And it’s been like three and a half months of doing that. That’s why I get very protective of my weekends because I have so much dialog to learn and have very little time to sleep and be a normal human.”
Isabel Lucas (born 1985) first seen 2017 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Isabel Lucas talks ‘The Osiris Child’ and being no stranger to special effects. (November 14, 2017)
“So I have chosen to allow myself the next few hours as hours of weakness. I will cry, I will be needy. I will ask him to bring me my favourite treats on the way home. Tomorrow, it will be business as usual. Its OK not to be OK”
Lusanda Mbane (born 1979) first seen 2020 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Scandal!' actress Lusanda Mbane : Allow yourself to cry,04 February 2020,by Masego Seemela
“Bad times, hard times, this is what people keep saying; but let us live well, and times shall be good. We are the times: Such as we are, such are the times.”
Augustine of Hippo (354–430) said by 430 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“All kings, and all their favourites, All glory of honors, beauties, wits The sun itself, which makes times, as they pass, Is elder by a year, now, than it was When thou and I first one another saw: All other things, to their destruction draw, Only our love hath no decay; This, no tomorrow hath, nor yesterday, Running, it never runs from us away, But truly keeps his first, last, everlasting day.”
John Donne (1572–1631) said by 1631 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In [the early 1980s], making electronic music was a big job, particularly the way that I was doing it. To get the sounds I wanted, I might have 24 synthesizers playing one synth line, all programmed, all analogue and all drifting out of tune. It used to take hours and hours and hours. I don't know how we ever got through it.”
Martin Rushent (1948–2011) said by 2011 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I almost got no sleep, shooting eight hours in one film, followed by eight hours in another and eight hours in a third film. But whenever we were done at the end of the day, I never thought of packing up. I always couldn’t bear to go home.”
Brigitte Lin (born 1954) first seen 2018 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in "Brigitte Lin, a timeless national treasure" in Taipei Times (15 May 2018)
“Before we extend the hours or make a centre to operate for 24 hours, we start by monitoring various issues, including the state of the area and where it is located. In Bushbuckridge there are three zones; north, midland and mid-south. In these areas there are 24-hour clinics and they have hospitals. Some of these areas have two clinics operating for 24 hours.”
Sasekani Manzini (born 1979) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There'a a nice thing about 1/2 hour because an adult life expectancy is 55 to 60 years... is actually a million 1/2 hours. A million 1/2 hours is 57 years. So you have got, not all of you... some of you have got a million 1/2 hours to fritter away.”
David Spiegelhalter (born 1953) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It takes 10-14 hours, sometimes 20 hours. The longest operation I’ve done is 22 hours. That individual had over 2,000 tumors”
Andrea Hayes-Jordan (born 1965) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“However else the world out there regards the last 12 months, whether in terms of tumultuous times, trying times, running out of time, overdue time, a roller coaster of a time, a hell of a time, or just about time—well, we do it differently, because we know time is always on our side.”
David Miscavige (born 1960) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“That's why it helps to just take things one day at at time. Plan today, be present today, and look back at yesterday and think I did a better job today than I did yesterday. I guess that's the most basic advice I can give on how to cope with loss and grief.”
Tippy Dos Santos (born 1994) first seen 2024 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Tippy dos Santos opens up about coping with grief and loss ABSCBN, 04 December 2024.
“Every musician here has played these pieces many times, sometimes hundreds of times. Yesterday we looked at this music as if we had seen it for the first time. We never accept that the next note will played the same way it was played before. Thinking anew is our daily activity. I hope all the people of this region can take note of that.”
Daniel Barenboim (born 1942) first seen 2011 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Daniel Barenboim brings 'solace and pleasure' to Gaza with Mozart concert", The Guardian (3 May 2011)
“Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.”
Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) first seen 1887 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Canterville Ghost (1887)
“Mark how fleeting and paltry is the estate of man - yesterday in embryo, tomorrow a mummy or ashes. So for the hairsbreadth of time assigned to thee, live rationally, and part with life cheerfully, as drops the ripe olive, extolling the season that bore it and the tree that matured it.”
Marcus Aurelius (121–180) said by 180 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The timeless moment. — The "moment" has no yesterday or tomorrow. It is not the result of thought and therefore has no time.”
Bruce Lee (1940–1973) said by 1973 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“He knows he’s aged a lot: he sees it, feels it. Yet it seems he was young just yesterday. So brief an interval, so very brief. And he thinks of Prudence, how it fooled him, how he always believed — what madness — that cheat who said: “Tomorrow. You have plenty of time.”
Constantine P. Cavafy (1863–1933) said by 1933 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Simple motion strikes us as banal. The time element must be eliminated. Yesterday and tomorrow as simultaneous. In music, polyphony helped to some extent to satisfy this need. A quintet as in 'Don Giovanni' is closer to us than the epic motion in [[w:Tristan und Isolde|'Tristan [und Isolde]']]. Mozart and Bach are more modern than the [music of the] nineteenth century.”
Paul Klee (1879–1940) first seen 1081 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quote (July 1917), # 1081, in The Diaries of Paul Klee, translation: Pierre B. Schneider, R. Y. Zachary and Max Knight; publisher, University of California Press, 1964
“But for today, yesterday, tomorrow, it is not important. Time goes on without any of us. Only a belief, a state of mind, endures, and even that changes constantly, but underneath there are two main kinds—the one that says, Here you must stop knowing, and the other which says, Learn. Right or wrong, the fruit was eaten, and there can’t ever be a going back. I have made my choice.”
Leigh Brackett (1915–1978) said by 1978 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Getting up at odd hours to catch flights. I hate the long hours of waiting. There are times when one is continuously travelling, from one city to another, hopping from one studio to another or changing from one costume to another. It is annoying, but after a point, one learns to be immune to one’s surroundings.”
Rani Mukerji (born 1978) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“For the average American, it’s three hours and fifteen minutes. We touch our phones 2,617 times every twenty- four hours.”
Johann Hari (born 1979) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Where's he that died o' yesterday? What better chance hath he To clink the can and toss the pot When this night's junkets be? For the lad that died o' yesterday Is just as dead — ho! ho! — As the whoreson knave men laid away A thousand years ago.”
Edmund Clarence Stedman (1833–1908) said by 1908 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Yesterday's songs Don't stay around long, Not much anymore. Yesterday's words Don't make themselves heard Like they did before.”
Neil Diamond (born 1941) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I go to restaurants and the groups always play "Yesterday." I even signed a guy's violin in Spain after he played us "Yesterday." He couldn't understand that I didn't write the song. But I guess he couldn't have gone from table to table playing "I Am The Walrus.”
John Lennon (1940–1980) said by 1980 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The world goes up and the world goes down, And the sunshine follows the rain; And yesterday's sneer and yesterday's frown Can never come over again.”
Charles Kingsley (1819–1875) said by 1875 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Yesterday, all my troubles seemed so far away Now it looks as though they're here to stay. Oh, I believe in yesterday.”
Paul McCartney (born 1942) first seen 1965 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Yesterday", from Help! (1965)
“Yesterday, love was such an easy game to play Now I need a place to hide away. Oh, I believe in yesterday.”
Paul McCartney (born 1942) first seen 1965 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Yesterday", from Help! (1965)
“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. I tell them that I was also a terrorist yesterday, but, today, I am admired by the very people who said I was one.”
Nelson Mandela (1918–2013) first seen 2000 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: During his interview at Larry King Live, (16 May 2000). Available Transcript at CNN.com: President Nelson Mandela One-on-One