“Treat other people the way you want to be treated. Most people won't do that because it makes them vulnerable.” Quote by Jim "Dandy" Mangrum
“I'm a conversationalist. I came out of a town with only 300 people. I didn't have anybody to talk to. I didn't want to talk about farming. So when I came out in the world, I started talking. Never stopped.” PeopleWorldWantTalkingTownsFarming Author:Jim "Dandy" Mangrum
“Don't lie to anyone, but particularly don't lie to millennials. They just know. They can smell it. Be yourself: if you're old, be old. If you don't know anything about pop culture, don't pretend to know anything about pop culture. When you credit teenagers with intelligence and emotional sophistication, they respond intelligently and with emotional sophistication.” IfsKnowsLyingCultureEmotionalPopsCreditSmellTeenagerBeing YourselfPop CultureSophisticationMillennialsDon't Lie Author:John Green
“The internet is necessarily public. It can be filtered-public or censored-public, but it necessarily has to be open and available.” InternetAvailableCensored Author:John Green
“You can't actually have a romance between friends. That sort of defeats the definition of the word "romance." The word you're looking for is "love." It's a love between friends, just as there's also love between lovers, or possible lovers, or even ex-lovers. Same holds true for "bromance" - it's just a clever word used to avoid the word love, for straight boys who don't want that old-fashioned taint of gayness. Dudes, you love each other. Deal with it.” WantRomanceUsedLove IsDealsBoysLoversDefeatDefinitionsCleverOld FashionedExesLove Each OtherWords LoveBromanceGaynessEx Lover Author:David Levithan
“I don't see a future where we're all taught by robots. The real life, physical experience of being in a classroom and having conversations with knowledgeable people is immeasurably valuable and irreplaceable.” PeopleRealTaughtConversationValuableReal LifeClassroomRobotsKnowledgeableIrreplaceable Author:John Green
“The ideas of directing attention outward, trying to imagine other people complexly, trying not to see myself as the center of the universe - these concepts have become important to me, and I hope they're at work in my life on a minute-by-minute basis.” PeopleTryingImportantIdeasUniverseAttentionImagineMinutesConceptsBasesCenter Of The Universe Author:John Green
“I'm not from Indianapolis, but I like living in Indianapolis. If I were to explain it, I'd tell someone to imagine a city that perfectly captures the best and the worst of America. Imagine the truly American city, because that's what it is.” IfsAmericaCitiesImagineWorstCaptureAmerican CitiesIndianapolis Author:John Green
“The challenge is the same whether or not I'm collaborating: to empathize with your reader and to tell a story that will matter to him or her. But the mechanics of going about that challenge change when you're collaborating, because you have someone to help refine your thinking and expand your vision of what might happen.” ThinkingMatterHelpingStoriesMightHappensChallengesVisionReaderMechanicCollaborating Author:John Green
“Critics who attack my wife bug me. It makes me want to pay 'em a visit so I could give 'em a good punch in the nose.” WantGivingPayWifeCriticsMy WifeNosesEmsBugs Author:Tim McGraw
“I try not to worry about other people's music. But if there's one thing that I hear these days, it's that people try and put [music] down so tight that they take all the color out of it.” PeopleIfsTryingWorryOne ThingColorThese Days Author:Tim McGraw