Casey Neistat Quotes
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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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Someday I won’t be able to do this. The right time is now.
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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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You can get whatever you want, but you can’t want whatever you want.
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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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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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Challenge everything in life. Never accept the norm.
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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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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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Without a goal, you can’t score.
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To sit around and say, I’m not motivated so I can’t do anything, to me is the same thing as being like, I’m so hungry I can’t eat. The only way you’re going to alleviate your hunger is to eat some food, the only way to fix your motivational problem is to do something.
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Sometimes we need to let go of the old to make room for the new.
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The only way you can have a job and sleep at work whenever you want is when you own the company.
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The right time is always right now.
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Every time I took these bigger risks, the opportunity for a bigger payout was always there.
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Retirement is what people do when they wait to die.
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Work harder.
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The most dangerous thing you can do in life is play it safe.
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I am so disappointed in Apple. I don't even use an iPhone anymore. Their marketing sucks. It's embarrassing. It's just garbage.
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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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I have a rule. Ignore praise, embrace criticism. I never seek compliment, its generally a dead-end.
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You either act on ideas or you set them free. You don’t dwell on ideas.
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Truth is so much more interesting than the fiction we’re used to.
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Ideas are easy. Execution is all that matters.