Greg Graffin Quotes

If you want to edify, you have to entertain.

It's not even my job to educate, but what I do is try to facilitate by creating a book that works on different levels. I do want to entertain and bring some joy to the reading experience. If it holds a little kernel of knowledge that readers choose to explore, well, that's great.

You've got to work. You've got to want an audience to sit forward in their chairs sometimes, rather than sit back and be bombarded with images.

I'm motivated by entertaining people.

I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.

I did not study science at school until I was 13, when I was totally turned on by a seemingly dreary old teacher who suddenly, unannounced, manufactured a huge explosion in the middle of a totally boring monologue. From then on, all of his class wanted to make explosions.

Something about teaching is curiously attractive, actually. I don't know what it is.

My goal is to make people feel passionately, if it's negative or positive, I did my job.

For me, the driving force is the audience, and the day that stops, I will stop doing films. The day a part of me stops feeling like putting a smile on someone else's face or if I feel like I don't want to entertain anymore, then I will pack up and leave.

I value teaching. It's one of the places I get inspiration, engagement.

If a film can't excite me and teach me something about life, then it is not worth pursuing.

'Thou shalt not bore' is a commandment that should be at the centre of our ambitions.

Teaching is a creative profession, not a delivery system. Great teachers do [pass on information], but what great teachers also do is mentor, stimulate, provoke, engage.

They inspire you, they entertain you, and you end up learning a ton even when you don't know it

If somebody can act out one of the books as a play, if they can see a play, film, or television show that's related, that can be so stimulating for them. Anything that makes children engage and think - and love what the story is about - can only bring the most enormous rewards.

I will continue to try and be innovative to keep it fresh for my fans.

Fun gets people going; fun gets people excited.

I love school, and I love learning, and school really does inspire me for a lot of my writing - just being in public school with people and watching things happen.

We do want to be diverted and be interested and be provoked by popular culture - by art, if we're lucky. And it's amazing how often people have lost sight of this.

It is so easy now to never get bored because we have our phones with us all the time and we are always looking at stuff. I think when we get bored we are the most creative.

Bill Nye the Science Guy' was awesome.

My main contribution has been that I have educated and entertained people at the same time.

The way Salman connects with his audience, I love it! I am trying to learn that from him.

It's one of the reasons I want to do 'Dancing with the Stars': it's a platform to educate.

What has been so great out of all of the success is that I inspired so many people to take up ventriloquism, especially little kids.