Hank Green Quotes

“[When there's an event you don't really want to go to] there is this not unlikely circumstance that you will have a memory of an evening that was like ugh. But if you don't go you won't have any memory of that evening. It would just be another one where nothing happened.”

Source: An Absolutely Remarkable Thing

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“I don't think any of us are blameless when we all, more and more often, see ourselves not as members of a culture but as weapons in a war.”

“Bring People together and promote a simple change and a better world.”

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“I saw myself as a leader of the community, not a member. I had no idea what a messed-up perspective that was at the time.”

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“We are irrational beings, easy to manipulate if you're willing to do whatever it takes. That's exactly how terrorists convince themselves that murder is worthwhile. And the wound it left, it was larger than those lives lost; it was a wound we would all have to live with forever. The purity of my feeling for Carl was gone and I would never get it back.”

Source: An Absolutely Remarkable Thing

“It's weird to talk about these things as if they are fact since they were in a dream, but the fact that everyone experienced it in precisely the same way made it feel concrete. What is reality except for the things that people universally experience the same way? The Dream, in that sense, was very, very real.”

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“Just working through what other people had done gave me a feeling that this was all actually worth it. When you get stuck fighting small battles, it makes you small. Hopping from cable news show to cable news show to discuss controversy after controversy had made me small. I thought only about the fight, not why I was fighting.”

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“The clattering of humanity mixed in all its randomness was as relaxing to me as crickets chirping beside a rushing brook.”

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“But when you walked out of that building, you created a new history that we have to live in now." She did not say this as something I should be proud of, more something that I had to live with. The dart hit its mark.”

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“You can only pretend to be something so long before you become it.”

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Appropriation

“This book felt, at times, entirely impossible, but a lot of people made it possible. I'll start with my son, Orin, who reminded me to take frequent breaks by pointing to my computer and saying, "Close it.”

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“You are so... human. You still think it has to be someone. It wasn't anyone, it was all of you.”

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“I was mad because this moment was supposed to be simple, and it was not.”

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“One of the best things about having money is paying people to do good work.”

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“The satisfaction? The joy? That comes from solving problems and making things.”

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“The most sophisticated software in existence is tasked with figuring out how to keep you from leaving a website.”

Attention Economy

“You grant companies access to your attention so that they can alter your choices in exchange for entertainment. You identify with groups and grant them the ability to choose for you which problems you will be most concerned about. You listen to a friend when they care about something, and then you care about it too. One of the most powerful traits of your system is how ardently you believe in your individuality while simultaneously operating almost entirely as a collective.”

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Attention Economy

“I know I've got self-worth issues. I just found out I was chosen as an emissary by an alien envoy to represent and protect the human race, and still I spent the afternoon searching for validation on Twitter.”

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“You are always a little bit wrong”

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Life Wrong Always Vlogbrothers

Author:Hank Green

“It's such a cool story that Paul Newman was like, "I like making salad dressing, but I'm good [financially]." It just shows that working hard doesn't have to be about getting rich or more rich or whatever. It's about adding value to the world.”

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Author:Hank Green

“If you're wondering what the difference is, well fine art is like art that exists for its own sake. The Thing that fine art does is itself. Design is art that does something else. It's more like visual engineering.”

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“This is a thing I learned about dreams: We can really only dream the things we've seen before. We want to go down the paths our idols walked down, but the thing that we forget is that they didn't walk down paths because those paths weren't there yet. They created them.”

Source: An Absolutely Remarkable Thing

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“You say that, but have you played Cherry Blossom Fairy Five, April May? Have you?”

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“Stop thinking about my poop”

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“They tell you power corrupts. They never tell you how quickly.”

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“A friend of mine once told me that, no matter how much you proofread, the first time you open the final version of your book, you will find a typo on the very first page you look at. Ugh.”

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Truth Humours

“It was telling that he had taken responsibility for the thing that he did...but he did not mention the things done in his name. This was always the way of these strongmen. They would craft the fear so carefully and then toss it into the world for everyone to use. And when someone took that fear and destroyed with it, they were just "unstable" or "mentally ill".”

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“Hank Green's Secrets of Productivity: 1.) I have convinced myself that if I am not using all of the tools I have in my disposal to do the maximum amount of good [...] then I am less of a good person than I could otherwise could be. [...] 2.) I intentionally put myself in situations where people who I care about and who I respect rely on me to do things, which is very motivating. [...] 3.) I don't get caught up in doing everything perfectly. [...] I just want to try stuff and if it explodes... it exploded! And I learned! 4.) I love giving other people responsibility. I love putting them in difficult situations and saying: "Figure this out. Help me do this." And if they do it wrong or if they do it differently than how I would have done it, I don't get mad as long as they're learning, because there's no way to get good at stuff except to do it and fail and learn. [...] 5.) I follow and cultivate my own curiosity. I think curiosity is one of the top two or three human characteristics. It's something that I really like about myself. [...] I want to understand stuff! I want to understand people! Following my curiosity so frequently leads me to better life decisions and better business decisions but also - just feeling better! You're never going to feel bad about your whole life if you loved people and you were curious. I mean, that's kind of all I want!”

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“We can blame those people, but the only thing a mass murder 'means' is that we've made it too easy to kill.”

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“We are creatures who need meaning, but we're abandoned in a universe full of meaninglessness. So we cry into the wilderness and get no response. But we keep crying anyway.”

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Existentialism Quote

Author:Hank Green

“I don't even know what it would be like to not be attracted to a person because of their gender.”

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“You want stories that make sense, and this might not make sense to you. We build narratives of genius and exceptionality among the people who have power, and they are often exceptional, but no more exceptional than hundreds of thousands of others. In your system, power concentrates naturally. And so the thing that is most exceptional about a powerful person is almost always their power.”

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“It’s a huge burden to live in a world where we don’t know how we’ve been physically changed and psychologically manipulated by an outside intelligence. p55”

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“You're never happy if [your main focus in life is that] you want to be happy. Then you're always thinking about whether you're happy. You have to find some other thing that isn't happiness that makes you happy that you focus on.”

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Author:Hank Green

“You'd think that being on planes 150 days a year would free up lots of time for writing, but instead it freed up time for listening to Reinhold Niebuhr audiobooks, watching leftist YouTube videos, and going through every single episode of Star Trek, from the original series through Discovery.”

Heaven Life Goals

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

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Inspirational

Author:Hank Green

“Just because you can't imagine something doesn't mean you can't do it.”

Inspirational

“What is reality except for the things that people universally experience the same way?”

Source: An Absolutely Remarkable Thing

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“There's that period in there, generally six to nine hours, in which you just aren't anymore. Excuse me for having thought about this a lot, but how does it not terrify us that we spend a third of every day in a conscious unconsciousness, living inside a virtual reality created by our own minds but that somehow we don't control? Like...what?!”

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“Call me a pessimist, but I think if bigotry could be solved by access to more information, it would have been solved by now. Hate isn't about lack of understanding: it's about hate.”

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