Michael Skolnik famous quotes

I believe that it is my job to fight for the rights of others to have the same rights that I take for granted. As a white, American male, I have had it quite good. I recognize that and fight every day for everyone to have the same opportunities that I have had.
-- Michael Skolnik

#Jobs #Believe #Fighting

I think leading by example is important, as I know the next generation is watching us.
-- Michael Skolnik

#Thinking #Important #Example

We must change the culture of politics first.
-- Michael Skolnik

#Culture #Firsts

I am certainly vulnerable when I sit down with parents who have lost their children to gun violence. The emotion that they experience is so foreign to me that I find it very hard to say the right things.
-- Michael Skolnik

#Children #Gun #Parent

I know our kids will be OK, as long as they listen more to their mother than to me!
-- Michael Skolnik

#Mother #Kids #Long

My grandmother taught me two very important lessons before she passed: hold the door for everyone and always say "thank you." That means to treat everyone the same, no matter if it is the President or a homeless mother begging for food. And never forget to thank those who have helped you, whether it is the person serving you food at a restaurant or your third-grade teacher who taught you the multiplication tables.
-- Michael Skolnik

#Mother #Teacher #Mean

Do ballet and play football. Sing and dance. Laugh and cry.
-- Michael Skolnik

#Football #Play #Laughing

Go to countries where you don't speak the language. Eat food that looks like you may not like it. Read all of the holy books.
-- Michael Skolnik

#Country #Book #Looks

I will go to my grave wishing that I did more. Wishing that I didn't sleep as much. Wishing that I didn't waste so much time. Wishing that I fought harder.
-- Michael Skolnik

#Sleep #Wish #Waste

I just try to walk the walk. I try to live every day with the utmost honesty and integrity to myself and the people around me.
-- Michael Skolnik

#Honesty #Integrity #People

I am deeply inspired by the courage and achievements of young people who didn't have the safety nets I had growing up.
-- Michael Skolnik

#Growing Up #People #Safety

Let us not aspire to four-year goals but rather forty-year goals.
-- Michael Skolnik

#Years #Goal #Four

I think we have the potential to connect the world in a way that can save hundred of millions of lives. That should be our goal.
-- Michael Skolnik

#Thinking #Goal #World

We can live nuanced, complicated, exciting lives with no reason for limitation.
-- Michael Skolnik

#Complicated #Reason #Exciting

Stop the bullsh*t. Stop drawing lines in the sand like previous generations [have done].
-- Michael Skolnik

#Drawing #Generations #Done

I wanted to tell stories about people who didn't have the chance to tell their own.
-- Michael Skolnik

#People #Stories #Chance

Fighting for social justice is not about leaving the mainstream. It is about being right in the middle of it.
-- Michael Skolnik

#Fighting #Justice #Leaving

I have been so damn lucky to be able to do what I love my entire life. I never take that for granted.
-- Michael Skolnik

#Lucky #Able #Granted

When a young person is not eating three meals a day but still getting perfect grades at school, or when a young person deals with trauma at a young age yet still makes it to college, these are the things that inspire me.
-- Michael Skolnik

#School #College #Perfect

I don't focus on the results. Put my head down, put my hoodie up, and do the work.
-- Michael Skolnik

#Focus #Results