Quotes About Adaptation

If you dwell on yesterday, man, you're never gonna see tomorrow clearly.

We must not be hampered by yesterday's myths in concentrating on today's needs.

What is cool today is not going to be cool tomorrow, and what wasn't cool yesterday is going to be cool tomorrow.

Everything must change and you do what you can with the changes that are made. You can't stop it. You can't fight it. Everybody tries to go back to yesterday, but you can't go back to yesterday. The only time there is, is now.

Free speech is not to be regulated like diseased cattle and impure butter. The audience that hissed yesterday may applaud today, even for the same performance.

Judicial judgment must take deep account of the day before yesterday in order that yesterday may not paralyze today.

There will always be a replacement coming along very soon - a newer version, a crazier version, a louder version. So if you haven't got a long-term plan, then you are merely a passing phase, the latest trend, yesterday's event.

Business models that are relevant today are not relevant tomorrow and were not in existence yesterday.

What is normal? Normal was yesterday. If you lose a leg, one day you're hopping around on one leg, so you know the difference.

I don't expect to get yesterday's medicine. If I can help it, I'd like to get tomorrow's medicine.

If I am the same Adama as yesterday, then it is one day I have lost.

Today's practicality is often no more than the accepted form of yesterday's theory.

I had been told from school onwards that the best definition of a human being was man the tool-maker - yet I had just watched a chimp tool-maker in action. I remember that day as vividly as if it was yesterday.

I never stop making sure that what I say is the best of what could be said about a particular thing. It's a constant evolution. If I planted a tree one way yesterday, and somebody tells me of a better way to plant a tree, I think, 'You know, they're right, that's better.' Then I change my way to accommodate the new way of planting trees.

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.

Tradition means nothing. It's about what you do tomorrow as a football club, not what you did yesterday.

It was Jack's and Tom Watson's day yesterday. But today, it's another day.

If you have reason to think that yesterday's forecast went wrong, there is no glory in sticking to it.

Either you push forward with the things that you were doing yesterday or you start dying.

I used to wake up and look at our analytics and think, 'What if yesterday was the last day anyone used Pinterest?' Like, everyone collectively decided, 'We're done!' Over time I got more confidence.

One of the great things about the 'Arrow' crew is that no one is settling for what they did yesterday. They're always thinking about what they can do tomorrow.

I find it quite unsettling if I'm doing the same thing that I did yesterday.

You can never rest on what you did yesterday; it's old.

I admire people who re-create themselves. And it seems to me that what gives us all the opportunity to be heroic in our own lives is that we work to heal ourselves and be better than we were yesterday.