Quotes About Transition

Most poets in their youth begin in adolescent sadness. I find it more rewarding to end in gladness.

At the end. First start off and do your youth thing In Hollywood and then go to New York later. But it wound up being later, later than I thought it was going to be.

If youth is a defect, it is one we outgrow too soon.

However light-hearted you try to be about it, the loss of youth, and everything that goes with it, is quite a trauma.

My mother was right when she said that turning pro would take away my youth.

I'm not quite as buoyant as I was in my youth.

The 1970s, the decade of my teenage years, was a transitional period in American youth culture.

I'm not a big crime reader, but I'm reading Michael Connelly's 'The Reversal.' I'm going back to his novels. I'm also reading Keith Richards' 'Life.' I'm always fascinated by the transition from the innocent late '60s and early '70s and the youth culture becoming an industry.

I like books that explore identity and youth culture or rites of passage.

Hip-hop certainly is in sync with the youth, and every day that passes, I grow less youthful, as much as I have tried to hold onto it.

I just feel like I haven't grown up yet. I live on my own and I do grown-up things, but there is something about me that is very youthful.

I used to just write about my own apathy, but that youthful, apathetic way of looking at things grew thin as I got older.

I've watched people quit YouTube to become doctors.

When it gets to that time to tell your mum that you're not going to university, which has been her grand plan for you for the last 18 years, all of a sudden 700,000 YouTube views mean absolutely nothing.

I would sit in class, and I would just cry. Like I don't even know why. It wasn't my school's fault. It wasn't anyone's fault. I just didn't like the environment. I totally had too much on my plate. At this point I wasn't even doing YouTube yet, mind you.

I think seeing someone go from a YouTube series to a Hollywood film spurs people on.

With everything that I've done with YouTube and podcasts for so many years, it's been: you can record it, edit, and then upload that day. With the book and documentary, it's been such a longer process.

I think YouTube used to have a negative connotation, like it was the place where the rejects went and made careers, but I'm proud to be YouTuber. I wanted to be in that first generation of YouTube stars who transitioned into the 'real world.' It was a really good way to build my business.

I moved to L.A. I wasn't really sure what I wanted to do, but I really like the entertainment industry. I started to make videos on YouTube to get more comfortable being in front of the camera. The first video I filmed was with my sister.

But yeah, YouTube started for me straight out of high school, so 2009, because everyone was going to college except me.

I was doing nuclear med I didn't like it. My first semester I switched to film major. YouTube helped make that decision for me.

Before starting my YouTube career, I used to play music at a restaurant. YouTube was never a part of my plan.

A lot of influencers who have made the pivot to publishing, they tend to be ghostwritten, they tend to be younger. It's a little bit of an uphill battle by nature of coming from YouTube.

When I graduated college, I didn't get a job. I started making YouTube videos. I used to spend my days making art, and I love that. And, if I'm being honest, what's the hardest thing? I think it's just becoming a CEO from this path of being a YouTuber.