Top 141 Quotes & Sayings by Hank Green - Page 2

Teaching is probably the most difficult of all current jobs for an AI to manage. If you don't believe that, then you have never truly taught.

I know that cursing isn't for everybody, but it is definitely for me.

Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, and other economic and social platforms are not trying to build businesses, they are trying to build countries. Countries with laws, law enforcement, borders, and economic policy.

The complexity and nuance of YouTube's culture, creators, drama, genres, styles, and memes is what makes it wonderful for people on the inside, but it is also a wall that keeps people on the outside.

I want to feel good about paying taxes.

I've always wanted to write a book. And it turned out that it was more about finding a story that I felt I was necessary for, that no-one else could write.

Teachers have such hard jobs and they don't get paid well. And in order to be a teacher you need a lot of education, so people aren't teachers for any other reason than they want to be, and they want to help educate the next generation of people.

I think that we rightly spend more time thinking about and criticising the stuff that is really successful, because we want to make sure that we understand all the ways that it is both a positive and negative influence. It isn't always a bad thing.

I have made lots of mistakes. I have had many bad days. I have hurt people and myself.

I have gone long stretches of working 60 to 80 hours per week.

You're going to make decisions that are not in your best financial interest because they make you happier or more fulfilled or because of your values. You're going to do that because you're a good, smart person.

I love online video. I've been obsessed with it since day one.

I want paying taxes to feel like the accomplishment of a civic duty.

I have always really enjoyed building great teams that execute a great vision.

There's nothing more dangerous than a powerful person who is imagining themselves as being powerless.

One of the wonderful things about the Internet is that it allows us to create lots of different kinds of content for lots of different kinds of people.

People are curious and want to know about stuff.

Hiring and retaining talent in the tech industry is expensive and vital. Those people have real power over their bosses, especially because it is often fairly easy for them to find work elsewhere, and employee walkouts are terrible PR for these leaders who are often obsessed with their public image.

As the economy grows, as I employ more people, make more money... the income of my country should increase as well.

Conventions are expensive to run and attend.

I am not fragile.

The problem is, education in America is sub-optimal because it is an impossible thing to optimize. It necessarily has to be local because different schools face different problems. There are no one-size-fits-all solutions.

It's really interesting to bring an Internet community into the real world.

I was 27 when I uploaded my first YouTube video. I had a master's degree and was running a small business. I had had good jobs and bad jobs and was fairly secure in my identity and understood who I was. When my audience or the algorithm wanted me to be something, I knew with a fair amount of certainty whether I wanted to be that thing or not.

Ultimately, the Internet is made of people and we need to do a good job at being citizens of that space.

Let's be honest with ourselves, YouTubers click on the trending tab for one single reason... to analyze what is on the trending tab and then complain that it isn't what we think it should be.

You can be empathetic to a character in a book in a way that you can't with a real person, which is weird, because you know everything there is to know about them.

I spent my youth reading books in which corporations became governments, it's an old idea in science fiction.

I am hopeful about the future of humanity.

I have not come to having a healthy ego through being complimented by Internet strangers, I was born that way.

I think trusting people is a problem for anyone with an existing audience who wants to do another thing.

I really strongly believe that we should be judged not by how we acted when we were ignorant, but how we responded when we were informed.

I've watched people quit YouTube to become doctors.

Creators of content on the Internet are very commonly creators of community. Often times, this community is the most interesting and the most valuable part of making stuff, and many creators require that relationship to inspire them to make stuff.

Hosting and surfacing legacy media content isn't all about YouTube trying to abandon its core, it's about inviting a broader variety of viewers to the platform.

I think it's vital that we be critical of the things that we love.

Large podcasts have a successful and sustainable business model in live show touring.

The process of seeking fame is a process of seeking dehumanization. You are looking for it. You want it. But you only want the good parts of it. You want the part where people see you as just a collection of positive things and nothing else.

I started to have notoriety in my late 20s or early 30s - like the first time someone recognized me in public was probably when I was 29 years old.

When I was watching 19 and 20-year-olds go through this, dropping out of college to become famous on the Internet, I saw that it can go well but it can also go poorly, and usually it'll be a mix of those two things.

It's almost as if our society values opinion over knowledge.

Stop listening to people telling us we need to hate each other

We are all differently broken, semi-functional, rusted out love machines

Some days, it seems to me like the purpose of life is to convert energy into beauty.

We are the superhero, none of us individually, but all of us together.

Think of people as people, not problems that need to be solved.

You sense and feel something different than I do, even if we lick the same kitten.

Making an un-perfect decision is far, far better than not making a decision, which is the worst possible decision you could make.

?Sometimes I feel like when someone asks me if I believe in God, it's like a blind person asking if I'm black, so that they can put me in the right category.

We often just accept the things that we like, and complain a lot about the things that we don't like. But if we could, like, intensely dwell on the really great things in life the way we intensely dwell on the negative things in life; I think that would be fantastic.

You are always a little bit wrong

I deal with stress in two ways because there are two kinds of stress. There's stress that you can take care of and there's stress that you can't. The first one, I take care of it as fast as possible, because putting it off always makes it worse. Things that I can't fix? I think about the fact that I can't fix them. I think about why I can't fix them and I come to terms with the fact that this is a problem that I'm not going to overcome and that the world is not a wish granting factory.

Humanity is good. Some people are terrible and broken, but humanity is good. I believe that.

I honestly don't know how you live without having a cat inside your house. It's like having a little living piece of art that is also very warm and soft.

When I think of the value that i appreciate and the value that I create, what matters to me most is how much I love people, and how much the people that I love love me.

There were sirens and the cops were there and they took me to the police station and I got arrested, it was really embarrassing. They actually just- they impeached me over the whole thing, they tried, well, they did impeach me, but I didn't have to actually stop being president, so it was okay. The police weren't actually that involved, it was mostly Congress.

If you were a crayon, what color would you most like to make out with?

But the truth of the matter is, to live a good life, as a good person, it doesn't matter how you got there. It just matters that you do.

Read books. Care about things. Get excited. Try not to be too down on youself. Enjoy the ever present game of knowing.

Being silly is still allowed, not excluded by adulthood. What's excluded by adulthood is thoughtlessness, so be thoughtful and silly