Brandon Stanton Quotes

It's quite rare to find a person who enjoys being rude. Rudeness is almost always a reaction to stress. It's a means of protection. It's a shield.

It takes a lot of disquiet to achieve this sort of quiet comfort

The great thing about New York is that if you sit in one place long enough, the whole world comes to you.

Anyone who has a two hundred-plus IQ runs the risk of just hanging out because you get too involved in your own thoughts and you just want to sit there and think about them.

I wish I’d partied a little less. 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.

Sometimes you need to allow life to save you from getting what you want.

It might be a cultural thing, but I was always scolded for showing emotion. Sadness was always met with anger.

I'm having a hard time trusting in The Process.'
'What process?'
'The process that says if I do my part, everything will turn out right.

There’s an old cliche that “everyone has a story,” but there’s a reason it’s a cliche. Every person has a story because everyone has a struggle.

The fact that people are so willing to disclose (deeply personal issues in their lives) shows you how much we avoid talking about these very serious issues in our everyday lives,

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.

She had the most beautiful awkwardness

I’m homosexual and I’m afraid about what my future will be and that people won’t like me.

"Sometimes, when I'm going home to see her, I think: "Nobody should be this happy on a Tuesday.

The amplitudes of life get smaller as you age. There are less and less things to experience for the first time. And each time you experience something, you don't get quite as excited. But you don't get quite as hurt, either. I wonder what it will feel like when I'm seventy...