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Yesterday Quotes - Page 12

Captain Clarke who had gone out yesterday with eighteen men to bring in the meat we had killed the day before, and to continue the hunt, came in at twelve o'clock.

Meriwether Lewis, William Clark (1842). “History of the Expedition Under the Command of Captains Lewis and Clarke, to the Sources of the Missouri: Thence Across the Rockey Mountains, and Down the River Columbia to the Pacific Ocean ; Performed During the Years 1804, 1805, 1806, by Order of the Government of the United States”, p.143

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

Yesterday's success formula is often today's obsolete dogma ... We must continually challenge the past so that we can renew ourselves each day.

Christopher A. Bartlett, Sumantra Ghoshal (2002). “Managing Across Borders: The Transnational Solution”, p.277, Harvard Business Press

It is our duty to try to be perfect, … to improve each day, and look upon our course last week and do things better this week; do things better today than we did them yesterday

Lorenzo Snow (1984). “The Teachings of Lorenzo Snow: Fifth President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints”, Bookcraft Pubs

Say goodbye to golden yesterdays: or your heart will never learn to love the present.

Anthony De Mello (2013). “Wellsprings: A Book of Spiritual Exercises”, p.227, Image

Today's game is always different from yesterday's game.

Red Smith (1983). “The Red Smith reader”, Vintage

The meaningful question is never what we did yesterday, but what we have learned from it and are doing today.

Marianne Williamson (1992). “A return to love: reflections on the principles of "A course in miracles"”

The deplorable thing is that the people who were tortured yesterday, torture today.

B. Traven (1980). “The treasures of B. Traven”, Jonathan Cape