Quotes from Casey Neistat

Persistence and endurance will make you omnipotent.

I think you should dress nicely for airports. You're surrounded by people coming from all walks of life. You should look your best.

I've always been an incredibly physically capable human being. I've always had good control of my body, walk a hundred feet on my hands, jump off rock wall and do a back flip into the sand. That's always been who I am.

I was in New York City for September 11th, and I was there for the 2003 blackout. I think in hindsight, you get a real perspective as to how unique those moments of crisis are in a place like New York City.

Pablo Picasso would paint a painting and hang it on the wall, and you would go and see the painting exactly how he wanted it to be made. But if you have an idea for a TV show, for example, you're beholden to studios to produce it and distributors to distribute it.

I washed dishes so I could make movies. it was never a way for me to make money.

Experience does for the soul what education does for the mind.

The reason why people wear pajamas to the airport in the first place is so that they'll be comfortable during their flight. But you know, typically, air travel is 50 to 75 percent of the time you spend traveling. The rest of the time you spend in public places like airports and around other people. That's when looking good trumps comfort.

I run 50-70 miles a week and lift five or six days. It's my time.

I'm not an exhibitionist; I don't have a compulsion to share the ins and outs of my daily life with a public audience.

Look back at your life. It's always the hardest times that made you who you are.

The most dangerous thing you can do in life is play it safe.

As a guiding principle, life shrinks and life expands in direct proportion to your willingness to assume risk.

A shared life is a great life.

If New Yorkers reduced portion size to 16 ounces from 20 ounces for one sugary drink every two weeks, it would collectively save approximately 2.3 million pounds over one year.

The reason why I'm sending my super-intellectual 12-year old kid to tech school is because I don't believe he would succeed in this world unless he first learned to work with his hands.

My son is about ninety nine percent of my life.

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.

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?

I was always the guy who jumped off the roof of the garage, who could climb up the facade of a building.

Free time is the enemy of progress

The right time is always right now.

Every time I took these bigger risks, the opportunity for a bigger payout was always there.

I was raised on Nirvana and flannel shirts and Rage Against the Machine, and I sort of describe my youth as rebellious and always fighting the system.