“People who say that yesterday was better than today are ultimately devaluing their own existence.”
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Karl Lagerfeld57
German fashion designer 1933–2019Related quotes
John C. Maxwell (1947) American author, speaker and pastor
Book Sometimes you win Sometimes you Learn
“I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.”
Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) 16th President of the United States
Included in Portrait-Life of Lincoln (1910) by Francis T Miller
Posthumous attributions
Nelson Mandela (1918–2013) President of South Africa, anti-apartheid activist
During his interview at Larry King Live, (16 May 2000). Available Transcript at CNN.com: President Nelson Mandela One-on-One http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0005/16/lkl.00.html <br class="br">2000s
Yevgeny Zamyatin (1884–1937) Russian author
On Literature, Revolution, Entropy and Other Matters (1923)
Context: A new form is not intelligible to everyone; many find it difficult. Perhaps. The ordinary, the banal is, of course, simpler, more pleasant, more comfortable. Euclid's world is very simple, and Einstein's world is very difficult — but it is no longer possible to return to Euclid. No revolution, no heresy is comfortable or easy. For it is a leap, it is a break in the smooth evolutionary curve, and a break is a wound, a pain. But the wound is necessary: most of mankind suffers from hereditary sleeping sickness, and victims of this sickness (entropy) must not be allowed to sleep, or it will be their final sleep, death.
The same disease often afflicts artists and writers: they sink into satiated slumber in forms once invented and twice perfected. And they lack the strength to wound themselves, to cease loving what they once loved, to leave their old, familiar apartments filled with the scent of laurel leaves and walk away into the open field, to start anew.
Of course, to wound oneself is difficult, even dangerous. But for those who are alive, living today as yesterday and yesterday as today is still more difficult.
“Never look back on something bad, yesterday is gone, today is now, tomorrow doesn't exist.”
Shannon Leto (1970) American musician and songwriter
“I reserve the right to be smarter today than I was yesterday.”
Konrad Adenauer (1876–1967) German statesman, Federal Chancellor of Germany, politician (CDU)
As quoted in Loggers' Handbook Vol. 36 (1976), p. 72; also in North Western Reporter, Second series (1992) https://books.google.com/books?id=I1KaAAAAIAAJ; similar remarks have been attributed to others, including more recent attributions to Adlai Stevenson and Abraham Lincoln. <br class="br">Variant: <br class="br">I insist on being smarter today than I was yesterday. <br class="br">As quoted in How to Win the Meeting (1979) by Frank Snell, p. 3
“No yesterdays are ever wasted for those who give themselves to today.”
Brendan Behan (1923–1964) Irish poet, short story writer, novelist, and playwright
Eric Stanley on CBS News https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksYrWGivy5A <br class="br">2011
