Casey Neistat Quotes

I really believe waiting tables, and service industry jobs in general, make you a better person.

Work is one of the best educators of practical character.

At the end of the program, I tried to talk to the kids a little bit about life skills.

I believe that children have to grow up as all-round personalities, but it cannot be at the cost of academics.

Highly educated young people are tutored, taught and monitored in all aspects of their lives, except the most important, which is character building. When it comes to this, most universities leave them alone.

I firmly believe that everyone should have to work in the food service industry at least once in their lives.

Knowledge has outstripped character development, and the young today are given an education rather than an upbringing.

In the amenities of life our hoydenish young people are pitifully lacking. Nothing but discipline can give poise, firmness, self-confidence, steadiness, control; nothing can be more beneficial to the youth than to be taught promptness, self-mastery, erect carriage, alertness, cleanliness, obedience, respect, loyalty. Our practice of turning out our young people, raw, uncouth, penniless — into a competitive world to scramble fiercely for a living — cannot give them the real discipline in morals and manners which they need. Nothing can atone for this early lack.

I am a great believer in jobs for teens. They teach important life lessons, build character, and inflict just the right amount of humiliation necessary for future success in the working world.

Education must not simply teach work - it must teach Life.

Parenting makes us better in so many regards.

Become a good all-around human being.

If you can help someone become a good young woman or a good young man, they have a better chance of surviving in this business.

The process of maturing is an art to be learned, an effort to be sustained.

It is the University's function to turn out well-balanced persons with an understanding of themselves and of their place in life.

The ability to find solutions to life's challenges is what makes us grow as a person.

Happiness is a skill, emotional balance is a skill, compassion and altruism are skills, and like any skill they need to be developed. That's what education is about.

That is why success and fruitfulness depend as much upon focusing on the "who" you are as much as the "what" of the work you do. Invest in your character, and it will give you the returns that you are looking for by only investing in the work itself. You can't do the latter without the former.

We expect him to take up a lot of space in his gangly experiments with life, and we teach him, through task, work, game, activity, and experience how to use that space. Above all, we give him mentoring and supervision that respects and teaches his gifts, his visions, even his shadowy inner demons

A coach's primary function should be not to make better players, but to make better people

Everything important I learned, I learned as a dishwasher.

It's like people always say, Well, does sport teach you anything in life? It teaches you certain things, but it doesn't teach you other things. It doesn't teach, as I say, very much about marriage, very much about how to make a living, any of those things.

What could be more important than equipping the next generation with the character and competence they need to become successful

Confidence is essential, but ego is not.

I felt as though I was partly unlearning what i had never learned and yet knew so well: I mean, how to live.