Imogen Heap Quotes

I'm not really the sort to reflect or look forward. I prefer concentrating on the now.

I have never had time for the idea of searching. Whenever I wanted to express something, I did so without thinking of the past or the future.

I'm not good at future planning. I don't plan at all. I don't know what I'm doing tomorrow. I don't have a day planner and I don't have a diary. I completely live in the now, not in the past, not in the future.

I hope I have a long career, but I really don't think about the future like that. I live, like, for right now, honestly. I take it however it comes.

I don't look too far ahead, to be honest.

I don't worry about long-term history. I won't be around to read it.

I don't think that life happens by sitting back and waiting. People hold their cards so tight to their chest. Life is short. Tell people you love them. What's the worst that's going to happen?

Some people observe life naturally and sometimes you just have to let things out and think about it later.

My life philosophy and personality has been driven by the fact that I am incapable of really understanding the future, on some level. I am in this moment. I take risks because I really don't think that far ahead.

A lot of people – and I’m just not one of them – believe that you should live for the now. I think what you do is think about the great expanse of time ahead of you and try to make sure that you’re planning for that in a way that’s going to leave you ultimately satisfied. This is the way it works for me.

I'm one of those people who lives for the moment. If you concern yourself with what's going to happen a year from now, or five years from now, you defuse the moment. Whatever comes, comes. For this time I enjoy the ascent. I don't worry about anything except getting thinner thighs.

When people think of the outcomes of their decisions, they think much more short term than that. They think in terms of gains and losses.

I don't make plans. I live my life on a daily basis.

I never imagine myself as anything. I've never had a goal or any future vision at all. I just do what's in front of me.

I never try to imagine the future. I kinda think it's a waste of time. I live in the now.

If I have any attribute that serves me well, it's I don't have a long-range plan in life. I have no idea. I just don't look ahead, I really don't. You know when people get out of college and they're talking about their five-year plan. Five-year plan? I got a plan to get to Friday.

I really think that if you live for today, tomorrow takes care of itself.

People are still living in the moment, and they feel the passion of now.

If you start planning too far ahead, the next thing you know you forget you're living today

What makes people and companies and artistic directors and choreographers interested in working with dancers is the ability to kind of let go of everything you think you know and be a blank canvas.

Maybe it's good to put things in perspective, but sometimes, I think that the only perspective is to really be there.

I think I missed all of the wonderful things ... I missed the control that you have in film, and I missed getting it right, really getting it right, the way you hope people will see it. All of the things that people love about theater - the fact that it changes every night and that it's so spontaneous - all of those things just frighten me.

There is almost no such thing as ready. There is only now.

One of the kind of unexpectedly liberating things of becoming this global fugitive is the fact that you don't worry so much about tomorrow. You think more about today. And unexpectedly, I like that very much.

My interest in acting was overwhelming, but I wasn't thinking, "I'm going to California and I'm going to become a movie star." Things were different then. I lived just for the moment, and whatever happened, happened.