Casey Neistat Quotes
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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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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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Story is king. Everything else is a slave to the story.
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Experience does for the soul, what education does for the mind.
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Persistence and endurance will make you omnipotent.
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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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Keep yourself extremely busy. As long as you’re doing something you will find your path.
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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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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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Overthinking the process will kill any career in the creative space. You just have to do, not think.
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Always the stairs. Never the escalator.
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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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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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More often than not I find myself in situations where I have no idea what I’m doing, and I feel no shame in revealing that.
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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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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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The biggest risk is to take no risk at all.
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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 think you should dress nicely for airports. You’re surrounded by people coming from all walks of life. You should look your best.
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If you’re doing what everyone else is doing, you’re doing it wrong.
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One of my first questions when I interview prospective employees is, ‘Do you know how big a sheet of plywood is?’ Most people don’t, and say they are different sizes, but it’s 4′ x 8′. Anyway, working with your hands is a very American thing that we kinda lost here, but it’s an important skill to have.
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Don’t worry about pursuing others, worry about getting others to pursue you.
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Just trying to live our lives and figuring out how to turn that into art. It’s tough to say that the art was premeditated. Instead you just focused on living. ‘How do I want to live? What do I want to do?’ Then you figured out how to make that into art.
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Someday I won’t be able to do this. The right time is now.