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Time & Perspective Quote by Sherry Stringfield

"I love having no sense of tomorrow or yesterday"

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“I love having no sense of tomorrow or yesterday” lands like a confession that’s also a flex: a deliberate commitment to the present tense, not as wellness-poster wisdom but as a survival skill. Coming from an actress, it reads less like philosophy and more like craft. Performance is built on the ability to step into a moment so completely that the outside world - what happened before the scene, what comes after the take - loses authority. Stringfield’s line romanticizes that state, but the romance has teeth.

The specific intent feels protective. “No sense” isn’t “I try not to think about” or “I’m learning to let go.” It’s sharper, almost mischievous: a chosen amnesia that blocks both nostalgia and anxiety. Yesterday can become a trap (regret, old narratives, the roles you’re expected to keep playing). Tomorrow can be just as tyrannical (career panic, aging, the industry’s appetite for the new). Loving the absence of both suggests relief from judgment - and from the timeline that measures a woman’s value in deadlines, youth, and “what’s next.”

The subtext is that time consciousness is a kind of social leash. In celebrity culture especially, people are asked to constantly account for themselves: past work, future projects, personal milestones. Rejecting that accounting reads as quiet rebellion. It also hints at volatility: if there’s truly no yesterday, there’s no archive; if there’s no tomorrow, there’s no debt. That can be freeing, or it can be how you keep the hard stuff from catching up. Either way, it’s a seductive statement because it frames presence not as virtue, but as escape.

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APA Style (7th ed.)
Stringfield, Sherry. (2026, January 16). I love having no sense of tomorrow or yesterday. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-love-having-no-sense-of-tomorrow-or-yesterday-116410/

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Stringfield, Sherry. "I love having no sense of tomorrow or yesterday." FixQuotes. January 16, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-love-having-no-sense-of-tomorrow-or-yesterday-116410/.

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"I love having no sense of tomorrow or yesterday." FixQuotes, 16 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-love-having-no-sense-of-tomorrow-or-yesterday-116410/. Accessed 12 Feb. 2026.

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Sherry Stringfield (born June 24, 1967) is a Actress from USA.

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