Ransom Riggs Quotes

I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would be an affront to your intelligence.

The important thing is having genuine regard for your audience.

Everybody doesn't have to get every joke. People really appreciate not being condescended to.

When I hear Obama speak he just seems really sincere and he just seems like somebody who actually has his heart and his motivation in the right place. Forget about color or race or gender or whatever, he's got his heart in the right place.

Humility is truth.

I don't particularly dislike any kind of person that might be reading my stuff. They like it and that's cool, but I don't do the work for any kind of group in particular, except for hobos, who just plain kick ass and light up my life.

I think Raymond is very honest about human relationships.

It's never what you say, but how you make it sound sincere.

I don't feel like I need to preach to the world or nothing like that. I just feel like I share what I say, and if listeners get it, they get it. And I never underestimate the audience's ability to feel me.

I would love to see no more ghettos, but the things is, there's no diplomacy in the ghetto. They want to tell you something, they tell you straight! An upper class, more educated person - they find a diplomatic way to tell you the thing. I love it when you just come heart to heart. That's the way I knew it coming up, so that's the way I like it.

[Referring to Margaret Thatcher:] She is democratic enough to talk down to anyone.

I realized that there's this fine line between being personal and being general and being alienating.

I'm not against making new fans, but I'm not going to go out of my way to pander to someone and try to make them like me; that's not who we are. It's not as if we're fighting to find an audience - we have our audience, and anybody else is definitely welcome.

In order for us to appreciate this world, we have to be a bit more honest, and I hope I do that.

I've always felt like I had a personal relationship with fans. I'm not afraid to be emotional or vulnerable or humble.

If someone says, 'I love that lipstick,' I will always try to answer, honestly, if I know what color it is. It's a connective tissue.

Christina Grimie was one of my favorite people, not only because she was caring, she was humble, and she always felt like people mattered... but because the first thing she said when she met me was, 'Oh em gee - your videos are really gross, but for some reason, I love you.'

If you listen to what I'm saying, there's always a reason for it. Always. And it always comes from my heart, a place of love.

Love people enough to tell them the truth and respect them enough to trust that they can handle it.

Just because you’ve only been alive for fifteen years doesn’t mean you’re less anything except old. That’s all it means. It doesn’t mean you’re less experienced. It doesn’t mean you’re less intelligent. It doesn’t mean you’re less sensitive. It doesn’t mean you take things less seriously. It’s like, these are younger human beings, meaning don’t, because they’re only ten, start thinking that they don’t know what you’re talking about -because they do. Don’t leave people out in the cold, and don’t talk down to people -don’t. It never works out.

You simply cannot tell other people they are stupid, even if they really are stupid.

The greatest communication skill is paying value to others.

Make the other person feel important - and do it sincerely.

I always say that teenagers are the first to know if you're pandering to them.

If you treat every person you meet as if he or she were the most important person in the world, you'll communicate that he or she is somebody - to you.