Casey Neistat Quotes
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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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Someday I won’t be able to do this. The right time is now.
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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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Work harder.
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Sometimes we need to let go of the old to make room for the new.
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Look back at your life. It’s always the hardest times that made you who you are.
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The right time is always right now.
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I love seeing the way in which young people embrace video, and the YouTube vlogger is a fantastic phenomenon.
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You can get whatever you want, but you can’t want whatever you want.
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Challenge everything in life. Never accept the norm.
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Ideas are easy. Execution is all that matters.
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Work hard, be brave.
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You can always be the hardest working person in the room, and I think the hardest working person will always win.
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It’s a lot easier to be mean than to be nice. So mean people, on top of being jerks, are also lazy and uninventive.
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Every time I took these bigger risks, the opportunity for a bigger payout was always there.
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Truth is so much more interesting than the fiction we’re used to.
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Retirement is what people do when they wait to die.
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Always ask yourself: Am I living the life the I want?" Constantly evaluate where you are in life to make sure you are heading towards the direction you want.
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The most dangerous thing you can do in life is play it safe.
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I don't know of a more noble, a bigger deal as a filmmaker than to be a YouTube filmmaker.
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You either act on ideas or you set them free. You don’t dwell on ideas.
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Without a goal, you can’t score.
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I have a rule. Ignore praise, embrace criticism. I never seek compliment, its generally a dead-end.
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As a director, I have the greatest job in the world, but if I don’t push the boundaries, then what’s the point of having it?