Hank Green Quotes

I feel like kids in general, not just African-American kids, are influenced by what they see, both positive and negative.

Seeing someone else perform and letting me be the critic for once... that's not a bad thing.

I think that reality TV is so bad. It is a tool by the media to not make people think.

How do you rate works of genius? Partly by personal inclination, partly by accepted wisdom, partly by popularity.

'The Cosby Show' changed America's opinion on so many different topics and opened so many people's eyes, and so you really learned immediately the power of what you were doing, that there was a power in portraying a role, and you were made aware of the effect that it could have on people, so it does raise the bar.

The cultural value of 'Gossip Girl' was this interesting question. Sure, it seemed to have been a worldwide, cultural phenomenon for some time. And, yes, anywhere I go, I do get recognized. At the same time, it also lacked the kind of importance that people might anticipate.

For I am nothing if not critical.

Readers forget that one can critique yet still admire.

But what is criticism? Criticism is purely destructive; anyone can destroy, but not everyone can build up.

Criticism is not construction, it is observation.

The practice of "reviewing"... in general has nothing in common with the art of criticism.

A one-sided analysis of anything always leads you into the wrong direction.

When I think about what part of my college experience came back in my work experience, I feel like it was learning how to read deeper, learning how to keep filling the movie up with more and more resonance.

I don't watch TV. I think that tends to polarize us and diminish important issues.

Sometimes I listen to the radio and I can't believe some of the stuff that I'm hearing that everyone is loving. So it's a task that we've got to conquer and we have to make sure that we pass the test.

People have become so literal because they're used to reality-based television.

Critiquing relieves you of the responsibility of doing integrative thinking.

I looked at enough of American Idol in the first weeks, and they're all about humiliation. I listen to Rush Limbaugh because I find it so repulsive. There are people with a little less sophistication who watch a lot of it, because we allow things to appeal to our baser instincts. But at the same moment, give me a little choice, and I'll make a better decision, because I have that ability too. And so does everybody else.

Constantly seek criticism. A well thought out critique of what you're doing is as valuable as gold

To ask the 'right' question is far more important than to receive the answer. The solution of a problem lies in the understanding of the problem; the answer is not outside the problem, it is in the problem.

You read something and you know it's not there yet. There's a little section here that... this part's good but that is a little not, it doesn't quite work. That doesn't quite work. That's easy. To say, "OK, now, this is what I think will fix it." That's harder. And most people can tell you what's wrong with something. Very few people can say what they would do to fix it.

Criticism is as often a trade as a science, requiring, as it does, more health than wit, more labour than capacity, more practice than genius.

I think that from the very beginning it wasn't simply, what made Playboy so popular was not simply the naked ladies, what made the magazine so popular was, there was a point of view in the magazine, that you couldn't run nude pictures without some kind of rational that they were art.

When we listen to the radio, look at television and read the newspapers we wonder whether universal education has been the great boon that its supporters have always claimed it would be.

Art is art. Television has elevated itself, in certain ways, but it's always pushed people's consciousness.