Casey Neistat Quotes

The one lesson I've learned from technology and food is the only time you know you're doing the wrong thing is when you're doing what everyone else is doing.

Originality is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of.

We live in world that wants to burnish the rough edges and straighten the crooked line, but conformity doesn't beget greatness.

Imitation is for shirkers, like-minded-ness for the comfort lovers, unifying for the creators.

Posterity weaves no garlands for imitators.

No one can be profoundly original who does not avoid eccentricity.

Tradition is the great misleader because it's too easy to follow what has already been done - even though you may think you're giving it a kick. I was really trying to invent, instead of merely expressing myself.

You want to stand out and be unique and do something different. I always try to zig when they zag - I guess it's a football term, but it applies to a lot of different areas of life.

We've all forgotten how to be original.

Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it's from Neptune.

It's fun to be a little bit different in the world, to make a few new trails of your own.

Every part that I do has to be different from the last part that I did so I don't become a stereotype.

I hate anything that seems like something that has been done.

What's the fun in doing conventional things? I would rather be known as someone who is unconventional. I like being unconventional. I like doing things which are different. That's what I like... It gives me a boost as an actor.

You can't expect to be better than everybody else if you're doing the same thing as everybody else.

I followed my own self and individuality so much that it automatically made me a game changer or set me apart from others. I did not think it was necessary to do things the way others are doing it.

If I did what has already been done, I would be a plagiarist and would consider myself unworthy; so I do something different and people call me a scoundrel. I'd rather be a scoundrel than a plagiarist!

The human spirit lives on creativity and dies in conformity and routine.

If you want to be different, do something different.

There's a large opportunity for Bon Iver to be a special thing, even from a business standpoint - just trying to do cooler things. Every band sells t-shirts and plays certain auditoriums, but I'm sick of being like everyone else, because I'm not.

I get a kick out of being an outsider constantly. It allows me to be creative.

Always do something different from the others.

I'm always looking at how I can be atypical.

I think most people don't like others who, without a voice of their own, emulate the other. I certainly don't want anybody just to pick up my thoughts and hand them back to me.

I've seen stand up comedy, and after a while you start to notice that a lot of people are doing things that are like a lot of other people. There can be a bit of a herd mentality, and that's obviously less interesting because there's less going on. I'm just being totally frank with you.