Future Self Quotes

That which you think today becomes that which you are tomorrow.

I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.

I don't like to photograph children as children. I like to see them as adults, as who they really are. I'm always looking for the side of who they might become.

Back before 'Brick,' I wrote a short film that I never ended up shooting: hit men in the present who work for a mob in the future who send their victims back in time. A guy is sent his future self, he lets him run, and the whole short was them chasing each other across the city. That sat in a drawer for 10 years until after I made 'Brothers Bloom.

The dead are merely the countrymen of my future.

Every decision you make, from what you eat to what you do with your time tonight, turns you into who you are tomorrow and the day after that.

If I want back in time and said 'Hey, 10-year-old Jagmeet, you're gonna grow up and in 30 years you're gonna be the leader of a national party.' I'd be like 'What are you talking about?'

Shh! Listen! Someone’s coming! I think — I think it might be us!

Now is the best time to start becoming the person we eventually want to be—not only 20 years from now but also for all eternity.

How much to learn if we could spend one hour, spend twenty minutes, with the us we will become! How much could we say to the us we were.

You see, I'm also a futurist. I dream about the world 50, 100, maybe even 1,000 years in the future. But I also realize I'm probably not going to see it. However, I wouldn't mind having at least a copy of myself see the future, maybe 50, 100, 1,000 years into the future. It would be a fantastic ride.

He (God) loves what I shall be.

I believe in the person I want to become.

When I was in elementary school, I used to write letters to myself. I'd write letters and go 'Dear Kristen-at-16-years-old, happy birthday. I hope you're doing something.'

It is not the question, what am I going to be when I grow up; you should ask the question, who am I going to be when I grow up.

I had this vivid image of myself at the age of 60 looking back on my life and truly regretting the fact that I hadn't tried to be an actor

You know who it is? It's me in 10 years. So I turned 25. Ten years later, that same person comes to me and says, 'So, are you a hero?' And I was like, 'not even close. No, no, no.' She said, 'Why?' I said, 'Because my hero's me at 35.' So you see every day, every week, every month and every year of my life, my hero's always 10 years away. I'm never gonna be my hero. I'm not gonna attain that. I know I'm not, and that's just fine with me because that keeps me with somebody to keep on chasing.

What if I left my memory in the future and I have to catch up to it?

I used to picture myself as the old guy eating the Early Bird Specials in the mall.

Remember, the choices we make today shape the people we become tomorrow.

The greatest of all insights is that we cannot be tomorrow what we do not do today.

I don't know what I'll be like when I'm 60. I already have the traits of a retired gentleman.

For in every adult there dwells the child that was, and in every child there lies the adult that will be.

Let's face it: the present self is present. It's in control. It's in power right now. It has these strong, heroic arms that can lift doughnuts into your mouth. And the future self is not even around. It's off in the future. It's weak. It doesn't even have a lawyer present.

I look deep into her rich brown eyes and she look into mine. Law, she got old-soul eyes, like she done lived a thousand years. And I swear I see, down inside, the woman she gone grow up to be. She is tall and straight. She is proud. She got a better haircut. And she is remembering the words I put in her head. Remembering as a full-grown woman.