Hank Green > Quotes

“Humanity is good. Some people are terrible and broken, but humanity is good. I believe that.”
― Hank Green

“Being silly is still allowed, not excluded by adulthood. What's excluded by adulthood is thoughtlessness, so be thoughtful and silly”
― Hank Green

“You will always struggle with not feeling productive until you accept that your own joy can be something you produce. It is not the only thing you will make, nor should it be, but it is something valuable and beautiful.”
― Hank Green, A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor

“You are always a little bit wrong”
― Hank Green

“I had a very happy childhood; I just wasn’t a very happy child.”
― Hank Green, An Absolutely Remarkable Thing

“Just because someone has power over you doesn’t mean they’re going to use it to hurt you. People who believe that tend to either be:

People who have been victims of that sort of behavior, or . . .

People who, if given power, will use it to hurt you.”
― Hank Green, An Absolutely Remarkable Thing

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

“Even on this most terrible days, even when the worst of us are all we can think of, I am proud to be a human.”
― Hank Green, An Absolutely Remarkable Thing

“The most impactful thing you can do with power is almost always to give it away.”
― Hank Green, A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor

“We are all differently broken, semi-functional, rusted out love machines”
― Hank Green

“You can only do so much pretending before you become the thing you're pretending to be.”
― Hank Green, An Absolutely Remarkable Thing

“Just because you can't imagine something doesn't mean you can't do it.”
― Hank Green, An Absolutely Remarkable Thing

“It turns out, somehow, there are a tremendous number of things to be optimistic about.”
― Hank Green

“The power that each of us has over complete strangers to make them feel terrible and and frightened and weak is amazing.”
― Hank Green, An Absolutely Remarkable Thing

“Think of people as people, not problems that need to be solved.”
― Hank Green

“You are a story that you tell yourself, and even if it is not always accurate, it is who you are, and that is very important to you.”
― Hank Green, A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor

“At LeakyCon, a young lady asked me how I dealt with bullying. I wasn’t able to give her a very good answer, which troubles me. Well, there were lots of shouts of “It gets better” and “Stay strong” and “We love you”. But when I put myself back in time to when I was being bullied, none of those things would’ve helped me. Yes, absolutely it does get better. But when you are being physically and psychologically tortured, it is difficult to remove yourself from the pressingness of the moment at hand. Here’s how I dealt with bullying: I cried, I hated myself, I hated my life. I didn’t deal with it, I survived it, but I never dealt with it. So here are two tips from someone with lots of experience. 1: It’s not about you, it has nothing to do with you, it’s about the assholes doing it to you. 2: Your job is not to deal with it, your job is to survive it, which you CAN do because it WILL end. And then yes, it will get better.”
― Hank Green

“It's important to remember that we all change each other's minds all the time. Any good story is a mind-altering substance.”
― Hank Green, A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor

“I’d heard all this before, but I also knew that this line of argument worked. If you tell people that they’re being attacked for their beliefs, then suddenly they want to defend their beliefs, even if they didn’t really believe them before. It’s pretty amazing, really.”
― Hank Green, An Absolutely Remarkable Thing

“I live in the present due to the constraints of the time-space continuum.”
― Hank Green

“What is reality except for the things that people universally experience the same way?”
― Hank Green, An Absolutely Remarkable Thing

“John Green is a very handsome, intelligent, and wise man. He smells really weird though.”
― Hank Green

“Knowing something is a bad idea does not always decrease the odds that you will do it.”
― Hank Green, An Absolutely Remarkable Thing

“People will just share the things that confirm their ideology, and those things will always exist. Our reality isn't about what's real, it's about what we pay attention to.”
― Hank Green, A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor

“You're radically collaborative, profoundly empathetic, and deeply communal. Everyone who tells you anything different is selling the fear that is the only thing that can break that nature.”
― Hank Green, A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor

“People who "don't consider race or gender" sure seem to end up hiring almost all white guys, almost as if they're absolutely considering race and gender.”
― Hank Green, A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor

“As is often the case, it was the easier choice to make and the more difficult choice to live with.”
― Hank Green, An Absolutely Remarkable Thing

“When you’re faced with something you don’t understand, I think the most natural thing but also the least interesting thing you can be is afraid,”
― Hank Green, An Absolutely Remarkable Thing

“Don't worry about looking cool. Do you because you are awesome.”
― Hank Green

“If you want to be happy, let go of your wants. If you want to be effective, harness them.”
― Hank Green, A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor