Bob Greene Quotes

I haven't been silent. I teach, I lecture at universities, I write, I'm not silent.

I want to go to colleges and give seminars. I want to sit down with kids in classrooms and have them challenge me.

There are a lot of technical studio things I've learned or figured out, and I feel like I could use those things to help other people with what they're doing.

I'm both challenged and excited. My excitement is: I get a chance to give something back. My challenge is: The shortest seminar I usually do is 50 hours.

I've got a lot of other people who do a lot of things for me, so I've gotten to a part in my career where I'm doing a lot of talks because I want to get kids turned on. I want to see these kids, these geeky nerdy kids, go out there and do something.

I like getting older and being the person who people ask for help.

Proximity is power. If you can get proximity with people that are the best in the world, things can happen because all of the people they know, the insights they have and the life experience they have. They can save you a decade of time by one insight.

If people will listen, I will go anywhere in the world!

The real joy in life comes from giving. It comes from service. It comes from doing things for other people. That is what is so powerful about this. Nothing will make you happier than giving.

My parents are still together. I have two sisters. I travel the world and they are the people I speak to.

I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money.

I've had to learn kind of sense when the questions would be coming and be ready to handle them. There's a lot of education and reiteration that happens on these online channels and sometimes it's tempting to just say, "Well, just go and read the documentation," but you know, people appreciate being led along and taught and mentored.

I think that, if we do anything in a positive sense for the world, is provide one little bit of context, that's very specifically focused, and hopefully people can add to their entire puzzle that gives them a larger picture of what it is that they see.

Certain people just go home and veg out, certain people go travel the world and certain people are like, "Screw this, I'm going to work the entire time."

If there's any way that I can be of service to people who are going through something painful in their lives, even though the witch world is heightened, then that's great.

I see things differently when I'm focused on opening doors for other people, and more often than not, my doors are opened as well.

Most people think of success in terms of getting; success, however, begins in terms of giving.

Once upon a time the world was round, and you could go on it around and around.

All the exciting contests and travel and sponsorships are cool, but I like to be able to have influence on people and on youngsters.

I must say that the more you give, the more you get. Being able to find solutions, to help other people is extremely gratifying.

Helping another person gives one the deepest pleasure in the world.

If you're in a position where you can help other people, there is nothing better in life than helping other people. Happy Thanksgiving, everybody!

Michelle Obama gives a speech, and everyone loves it. It's fantastic. They think she's absolutely great. My wife, Melania, gives the exact same speech... And people get on her case.

Some experience of popular lecturing had convinced me that the necessity of making things plain to uninstructed people, was one of the very best means of clearing up the obscure corners in one's own mind.

It is not the genius at the top giving directions that makes people great. It is great people that make the guy at the top look like a genius.