Brandon Stanton famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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

#Dream #Reality #People
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
Recently we received an invitation that proved just that.
-- Brandon Stanton

#Invitations
HONY is one of the only things keeping people from getting lost in the matrix.
-- Brandon Stanton

#People #Getting Lost #Lost
Itâ€™s a good poem if Iâ€™m a different person when Iâ€™m finished reading it.
-- Brandon Stanton

#Reading #Different #Persons
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
People always say be true to yourself. But thatâ€™s misleading, because there are two selves. Thereâ€™s your short term self, and thereâ€™s your long term self. And if youâ€™re only true to your short term self, your long term self slowly decays.
-- Brandon Stanton

#Self #Two #Long
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
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 Iâ€™m spending all day trying to figure out what I did wrong.
-- Brandon Stanton

#Voice #Trying #Way
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 #Remember
Jealousy. Depression. Love. They pretty much demonstrate the whole range of human emotion.
-- Brandon Stanton

#Emotion #Range #Humans
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
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
The camera adds a certain sheen to things. Something about being frozen in time really makes things sparkle.
-- Brandon Stanton

#Photography #Cameras #Add

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