Brandon Stanton Quotes

• There are so many people that use 'following your dreams' as an excuse to not work. When in reality, following your dreams, successfully, is nothing but work.

  Brandon Stanton

  Motivational, Dream, Work

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• So what I am always looking for is, I'm always looking for something that that person has told me that nobody else has told me. It is normally not an opinion, and it is normally not a philosophy. It's almost always a story. Because we all share similar philosophies, we all share similar opinions on a lot of different issues, but all of our stories are our own.

  Brandon Stanton

  Philosophy, Issues, Different

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• Don't wait for perfect. Don't wait for something to be fully formed in your head to start on it. Just start, and then work it out as you go.

  Brandon Stanton

  Perfect, Waiting, Working It

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• The camera adds a certain sheen to things. Something about being frozen in time really makes things sparkle.

  Brandon Stanton

  Photography, Frozen In Time, Cameras

  "Humans of New York". Interview with Brian Morris, glasschord.com.

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• Just work. Don't wait. Everybody's waiting until they have the perfect idea to start working. Even if you have an inkling of what you want to do, start moving towards it. And it's going to flesh itself out through the process of moving towards the goal. And by the time you get to where you're going to be, it's not going to look anything like it did when you sat on the couch thinking about it. And if you wait until it's perfect in your head before you get of the couch and start working on it, that's never going to happen.

  Brandon Stanton

  Moving, Thinking, Ideas

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• Just because you're an adult doesn't mean you're grown up. Growing up means being patient, holding your temper, cutting out the self-pity, and quitting with the righteous indignation.'
  
  'Why do so many people seem to love righteous indignation?'
  
  'Because if you can prove you're a victim, all rules are off. You can lash out at people. You don't have to be accountable for anything.

  Brandon Stanton

  Growing Up, Mean, Cutting

  Brandon Stanton (2013). “Humans of New York”, p.290, St. Martin's Press

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• People always say be true to yourself. But that’s misleading, because there are two selves. There’s your short term self, and there’s your long term self. And if you’re only true to your short term self, your long term self slowly decays.

  Brandon Stanton

  Self, Two, Long

  Brandon Stanton (2015). “Humans of New York: Stories”, p.120, Pan Macmillan

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• Jealousy. Depression. Love. They pretty much demonstrate the whole range of human emotion.

  Brandon Stanton

  Emotion, Range, Humans

  Brandon Stanton (2013). “Humans of New York”, p.188, Macmillan

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• HONY is one of the only things keeping people from getting lost in the matrix.

  Brandon Stanton

  People, Getting Lost, Lost

  Brandon Stanton (2015). “Humans of New York”, p.63, Pan Macmillan

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• Main thing is just to remember that hard work got me here and only hard work will keep me here.

  Brandon Stanton

  Photography, Hard Work, Photographer

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• It’s a good poem if I’m a different person when I’m finished reading it.

  Brandon Stanton

  Reading, Different, Persons

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• I get way too sensitive when I get attached to someone. I can detect the slightest change in the tone of their voice, and suddenly I’m spending all day trying to figure out what I did wrong.

  Brandon Stanton

  Voice, Trying, Way

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• In an age of iPhones and Playstations, it's great to see that somebody's still rocking the bus-on-a-string.

  Brandon Stanton

  Iphone, Age, Strings

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• Recently we received an invitation that proved just that.

  Brandon Stanton

  Invitations

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