“What does it mean that social structures among young people are so often predicated upon trying really, really hard to appear to not-be-trying?”

—  Hank Green

Hank Has Questions http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPjFnQRgDDE
Youtube

Adopted from Wikiquote. Last update June 3, 2021. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "What does it mean that social structures among young people are so often predicated upon trying really, really hard to …" by Hank Green?
Hank Green photo
Hank Green 16
American vlogger 1980

Related quotes

Erik Naggum photo

“Structure is nothing if it is all you got. Skeletons spook people if they try to walk around on their own. I really wonder why XML does not.”

Erik Naggum (1965–2009) Norwegian computer programmer

Re: The horror that is XML http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.lisp/msg/7d410e0ae791d1cb (Usenet article).
Usenet articles, Miscellaneous

“It is so hard trying to say what you mean.”

Elizabeth Wein book Rose Under Fire

Source: Rose Under Fire

Kate Bush photo

“I think musicians have a responsibility to try and do something that is good. It's so hard. It's very difficult to pull something out of the hat creatively. Although I say it’s their responsibility, it's really just people trying to do the best that they can.”

Kate Bush (1958) British recording artist; singer, songwriter, musician and record producer

As quoted in "Kate Bush Speaks" by Owen Myers in Fader (23 November 2016) https://www.thefader.com/2016/11/23/kate-bush-interview-before-the-dawn

Yo-Yo Ma photo

“I figured out that my passion is not really for music. My passion is actually for people. So the exploration into different musics of different times has to do with trying to figure out who these people are, what this music represents and what context do we want to give it and what does it mean to us right now.”

Yo-Yo Ma (1955) American cellist

National Public Radio's Weekend Edition Sunday Jan. 14, 2007, NPR, 2009-02-03 http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6835078,

Eugene Rotberg photo

“Figure out what we are really trying to do....”

Eugene Rotberg (1930)
Caryl Phillips photo

“I never really see a book in the context of what went before because when I finish a book I try to press the delete button so that it’s wiped off the hard drive…”

Caryl Phillips (1958) Kittian-British writer

On pushing a book that he’s published out of his mind so that he may start a new one in “YORKSHIRE CALLING: AN INTERVIEW WITH CARYL PHILLIPS” https://www.publicbooks.org/yorkshire-calling-an-interviewwith-caryl-phillips/ in Public Books (2015 May 1)

Clive Staples Lewis photo

“The trouble about trying to make yourself stupider than you really are is that you very often succeed.”

Clive Staples Lewis The Chronicles of Narnia

The Magician's Nephew (1955), Ch. 10: The First Joke and Other Matters
The Chronicles of Narnia (1950–1956)

Cornel West photo

“Empathy is not simply a matter of trying to imagine what others are going through, but having the will to muster enough courage to do something about it. In a way, empathy is predicated upon hope.”

Cornel West (1953) African-American philosopher and political/civil rights activist
Eoin Colfer photo

“Really, I'm trying to care, Artemis, really. But I thought it was all supposed to be over when the fat lady sings. Well, she's singing, but it doesn't appear to be over”

Eoin Colfer (1965) Irish author of children's books
Bert McCracken photo

“No matter how many times people try to pick my lyrics apart … nobody will really understand what these songs truly mean to me because I would rather not get into it.”

Bert McCracken (1982) American musician

Jonathon Moran, Lawrie Masterson, Brett Debritz (May 13, 2007) "Inside Entertainment", Sunday Mail, News Limited, p. 2.

Related topics