Casey Neistat Quotes
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I consider myself to be a very good skateboarder, but the difficulty when you're being pulled behind any car, when there's only a 20-ft. line, is that you can't see the potholes.
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Overthinking the process will kill any career in the creative space. You just have to do, not think.
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The biggest risk is to take no risk at all.
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Do more.
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If you type 'Salt Flats' into YouTube, you'll find 100 amazing videos that were shot out there, but you won't find any that were shot in the rain.
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The only time I get depressed is when I am not being productive, it’s when I am not accomplishing or doing or contributing in any way. Nothing makes me less happy than relaxation and sitting around with nothing to do.
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I don't drink much soda; I don't buy Big Gulps, and my body mass index is right where it should be.
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I'm not able to make amazingly perfect, precious pieces of content, but I get to make awesome spontaneous content that's frequently ephemeral.
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Always the stairs. Never the escalator.
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Almost everything looks the same at art fairs - very hygienic, very white, lots of right angles.
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I washed dishes so I could make movies. it was never a way for me to make money.
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When you get bullied, success is the best revenge. Always remember: the kids who bully you are losers and will remain losers.
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Ideas are cheap. Ideas are easy. Ideas are common. Everybody has ideas. Ideas are highly, highly overvalued. Execution is all that matters.
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As a viewer, I care about people, I care about characters, I care about perspective.
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There are always good reasons not to do things, but if you really believe that there’s something you have to do, the universe has a way of making it okay.
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You can get whatever you want, but you can’t want whatever you want.
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I made a living for 10 years making very typical TV commercials. But I always wanted to reach beyond that and do stuff that people might relate to in the way they relate to my non-branded content.
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I have 60-plus videos on YouTube and over 30 million views. Of those 60, only three or four are branded videos. I built that audience by telling stories the way I like to tell them.
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I don't like to run, train, in groups. But racing, it's the groups that are most inspiring to me. I love racing with 52,000 people. I don't like training with any more than one person. Ever.
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Don’t worry about pursuing others, worry about getting others to pursue you.