Julia Holter Quotes

The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.

If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.

I live in the present with an eye on the future.

I have an ocean of opportunities awaiting me and once I am back from Miss World, I want to explore whatever life has to offer.

You can determine what your future holds based on how much time and energy you spend working on yourself now. Find out what it is you want, and go after it as if your life depends on it. Why? Because it does.

I always looked ahead.

Even while in school - initially, Vineberg Allen in Mussourie, and later, a number of schools in Ludhiana - I aspired to achieve great things in life. Admittedly, I wasn't quite sure about what these great things would be.

I tell kids to pursue their basketball dreams, but I tell them to not let that be their only dream.

I didn't really know I wanted to act when I was a child. I have a lot of interests, and I really wanted to finish my education - go to college - and didn't really want to have a career as an adolescent.

I plan on doing as much in my life as I possibly can.

I was never meant to sit at home.

I had no idea what I wanted to be when I was 17. I just knew I wanted to be something larger than myself.

What do you want? What do you want your life to be? What do you want your testimony to be? Go for it!

Being in this fine mood, I spoke to a little boy, whom I saw playing alone in the road, asking him what he was going to be when he grew up. Of course I expected to hear him say a sailor, a soldier, a hunter, or something else that seems heroic to childhood, and I was very much surprised when he answered innocently, 'A man.'

I've always wanted better for myself; I just didn't know what route I was going to take.

I'd announced when I was 13 that I wanted to go to New York instead of college - that was quite a disaster, but it gave my parents plenty of time to get conditioned that after finishing school I really was determined.

You figure out what you value in this life, and then you go for it. For me, it was freedom.

You always look ahead to what you'll do next.

Once you have seen and felt your ideal future, you will be ready and able to pay any price to get there.

I don't sit back and count up what I've done. There's just always something else to do. There's always a challenge ahead.

You can be whoever you want to be, you just have to want it bad enough.

I woke up. I was like, "Look, you can do anything you want - and you want a lot of things, so you should get to work."

Desire is the factor that determines what your definite purpose in life shall be.

I might have simply settled down into an armchair literary life. I really don't know exactly why I didn't.

And also, I know I have this responsibility or mission to show people, to encourage them to live their dream, too.