Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
It has been my experience that maximizing income is a helluva lot less important than maximizing passion and fulfillment in your both professionally and personally.
John Green
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
John Green
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: August 24
Author
Businessperson
Critic
Editor
Film Producer
Journalist
Literary Critic
Novelist
Podcaster
Singer
Indianapolis
Indiana
John Michael Green
Education
Passion
Less
Helluva
Experience
Maximizing
Important
Professionally
Fulfillment
Personally
Income
More quotes by John Green
But I had to kill you, because the only other possible ending was us doing it, which I wasn't really emotionally ready to write about at ten.' 'Fair enough,' I say. 'But in the revision, I want to get some action.
John Green
We're invisible. I've never been here with someone else. It's different being invisible with someone.
John Green
I thought of the one thing about home that I missed, my dad's study with its built-in, floor-to-ceiling shelves sagging with thick biographies and the black leather chair that kept me just uncomfortable enough to keep from feeling sleepy as I read.
John Green
We didn't talk much. But we didn't need to.
John Green
Lies are attempts to hide the truth by willfully denying facts. Fiction, on the other hand, is an attempt to reveal the truth by ignoring facts.
John Green
And yes, again, that was it exactly. A retyper and not a writer. A prodigy and not a genius.
John Green
Great news for someone is always bad news for someone else
John Green
I just want the pleasure of noticing these things at a safe distance.
John Green
Ma'am, Augustus said, nodding toward her, Your daughter's car has just been deservingly egged by a blind man. Please close the door and go back inside or we'll be forced to call the police.
John Green
It looked like an old painting, but real - everything achingly idyllic in the morning light - and I thought about how wonderfully strange it would be to live in a place where almost everything had been built by the dead.
John Green
depression is not a side effect of cancer. Depression is a side effect of dying.
John Green
Me: If you want me to be a teenager, don't send me to Support Group. Buy me a fake ID so I can go to clubs, drink vodka, and take pot. Mom: You don't take pot, for starters. Me: See, that's the kind of thing I'd know if you got me a fake ID.
John Green
Traveling, I am finding, teaches you a lot of things about yourself. For instance, I never thought myself to be the kind of person who pees into a mostly empty bottle of Bluefin energy drink while driving through South Carolina at seventy-seven miles per hour - but in face I am that kind of person.
John Green
I was a fairly shy person - not the hand raising type.
John Green
This squirrel is inadequately afraid of humans! Squirrel, I am a threat to you! We are enemies! Please get off my bench! Oh, god! Oh, god! Don't touch me—oh, god!
John Green
I think people who are religious are more likely to want one around, but it's a very secular position.
John Green
We were just looking at ideas of each other.
John Green
The nature of the love between a parent and child really is literally stronger than death. As long as either person in that relationship is alive, that relationship is still alive.
John Green
I'm so proud of you that it makes me proud of me. I hope you know that.
John Green
At the end, we brought her to New York, where I was living, for a series of experimental tortures that increased the misery of her days without increasing the number of them.
John Green
