Whit Stillman Quotes

The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

The future isn't just a place you'll go. It's a place you will invent.

The best way to predict the future is to create it.

Infuse your life with action. Don't wait for it to happen. Make it happen. Make your own future. Make your own hope. Make your own love. And whatever your beliefs, honor your creator, not by passively waiting for grace to come down from upon high, but by doing what you can to make grace happen... yourself, right now, right down here on Earth.

Take hold of your future or the future will take hold of you

The future belongs to those who change it.

It's our own ability to have an idea and go after the idea and make it happen. That's what at the end of the day defines us.

You have to make your own destiny.

We must create our own world.

You have to invent the future you want.

What I wanted to hear didn't exist, so it was necessary for me to go out and create it.

We do not have to accept our current circumstances. We will change them. We are Americans. That's what we do.

Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

Run to meet the future or it's going to run you down.

Do not let circumstances control you. You change your circumstances.

To enjoy enduring success we should travel a little in advance of the world.

If we really want liberty - if we really want liberty - then we need to go out and get it, we need to take it, because nobody is going to give it to us. And we need to do it now.

Sometimes if you want to see a change for the better, you have to take things into your own hands.

Life can be a lot broader... when you realize one simple thing: And that is that everything around us that we call life was made up by people who were no smarter than you. And you can build your own life that other people can live in. So build a life. Don't live one. Build one. Find your opportunity, and always be sexy.

I don't believe in pitfalls. I believe in taking risks and not doing the same thing twice.

I can't change history, I don't want to change history. I can only change the future. I'm working on that.

One problem with Washington is that we are all historians and not futurists.

Leaders must go ahead even when moving ahead is controversial. You must be ahead of time, because if you want to represent the status quo, what do you need leaders for?

We've had great successes, but our future is not about our past success. It's going to be about whether we will invent things that are really going to drive our future.

People like to blame others. I think a person should just look at their own situation, look around them, find out what they wish to do, and seek and go and do that. And that's it.