Top 10 Most Famous Neil Strauss Quotes (BEST)
Without commitment, you cannot have depth in anything, whether it’s a relationship, a business or a hobby.
— Neil Strauss
It’s not enough to just be yourself. You must be your best self.
— Neil Strauss
If there was anything I’d learned, it’s that the man never chooses the woman. All he can do is give her an opportunity to choose him.
— Neil Strauss
In life, people tend to wait for good things to come to them. And by waiting, they miss out. Usually, what you wish for doesn’t fall in your lap; it falls somewhere nearby, and you have to recognize it, stand up, and put in the time and work it takes to get to it. This isn’t because the universe is cruel. It’s because the universe is smart. It has its own cat-string theory and knows we don’t appreciate things that fall into our laps.
— Neil Strauss
They say that love is blind, but it’s trauma that’s blind. Love sees what is.
— Neil Strauss
We have this idea that love is supposed to last forever. But love isn’t like that. It’s a free-flowing energy that comes and goes when it pleases. Sometimes, it stays for life; other times it stays for a second, a day, a month or a year. So don’t fear love when it comes simply because it makes you vulnerable. But don’t be surprised when it leaves either. Just be glad you had the opportunity to experience it.
— Neil Strauss
True endurance, I think, comes from the inside. It comes from motivation and belief in what you’re doing.
— Neil Strauss
One of the things I’d learned… was how to take a compliment. Just say, ‘Thank you.’ It’s the only response a confident person can make.
— Neil Strauss
You have to build systems to protect against your lesser self.
— Neil Strauss
Attraction is not an option.
— Neil Strauss
Inspirational Neil Strauss Quotes About Life
Because, all too often, the things that we’re the most resistant to are precisely what we need. And the things we’re most scared to let go of are exactly the ones we most need to relinquish.
— Neil Strauss
Fame won’t make you feel any better about yourself.
— Neil Strauss
A rich man doesn’t need to tell you he’s rich.
— Neil Strauss
One of the reasons I became a writer is that, unlike starting a band, directing movies, or acting in a theatrical production, you can do it alone. Your success and failure depend entirely on yourself.
— Neil Strauss
A couple of kind words can not only make a person’s day, but earn you a friend and supporter for life. For the rest of the week, whenever you see someone you want to judge negatively, pay them a compliment instead. See what happens.
— Neil Strauss
In life, people tend to wait for good things to come to them. And by waiting, they miss out.
— Neil Strauss
How you do anything is how you do everything.
— Neil Strauss
The strong live off the weak and the clever live off the strong.
— Neil Strauss
Beauty is common but what’s rare is a great energy and outlook on life.
— Neil Strauss
Life is more fun when you open your mouth.
— Neil Strauss
Wise Neil Strauss Quotes for Men
To get a woman, you have to be willing to risk losing her.
— Neil Strauss
While I am impulsive in many areas of my life, marriage is not one of them.
— Neil Strauss
There are only so many ways to get rejected or ignored. It doesn’t hurt at all anymore because why should someone who’s a complete stranger have any control over your sense of selfworth?
— Neil Strauss
Fear makes you docile.
— Neil Strauss
To win the game was to leave it.
— Neil Strauss
A pick-up artist gave me a good piece of advice: the three most important things in a relationship are honesty, trust and respect, and if you don’t have those, you don’t have love.
— Neil Strauss
Never ask a woman if you may kiss her. Instead, learn to read body language.
— Neil Strauss
Men are not dogs. We merely think we are and, on occasion, act as if we are. But, by believing in our nobler nature, women have the amazing power to inspire us to live up to it.
— Neil Strauss
Intimacy is sharing your reality with someone else and knowing you’re safe, and them being able to share their reality with you and also be safe.
— Neil Strauss
A lot of guys are very intimidated by an attractive woman, and they dehumanise her because our culture perceives beautiful women as commodities. But I think if you’re able walk up to a person and get to know them, and you see their flaws and their impurities, and realise that they’re like you, then you can humanise them again.
— Neil Strauss
I know that I need honesty from the people I interview. I also know that the truth is more interesting than made up stuff, and also, people don’t connect with you if you’re not honest.
— Neil Strauss
The person who is too smart to love is truly an idiot.
— Neil Strauss
After all, everyone’s favorite subject is themselves.
— Neil Strauss
More Best Neil Strauss Quotes (Inspirational)
A good organizer is key to anyone with a busy social life.
— Neil Strauss
Because it’s so easy to medicate our need for self-worth by pandering to win followers, ‘likes’ and view counts, social media have become the metier of choice for many people who might otherwise channel that energy into books, music or art – or even into their own Web ventures.
— Neil Strauss
I’ve seen rock stars agonize over the fact that another artist has far more Facebook ‘likes’ and Twitter followers than they do.
— Neil Strauss
You need to be careful with a Bluetooth headset. Because some guys look crazy with them.
— Neil Strauss
I always wanted to interview Michael Jackson, because I just wanted to humanize him.
— Neil Strauss
There can be people who are feminist, and people who hold the completely opposite view but are still feminists. It seems to me from the outside that there’s a lot of people busy fighting each other rather than working toward their goals. It’s a shame.
— Neil Strauss
I think my love is storytelling. No matter what it is, it’s storytelling. And so whatever the medium is, what’s right for the story, I enjoy doing it.
— Neil Strauss
The trick, when you’re flirting, is figuring how to keep a balance between being engaging enough to retain someone’s attention and not seeming overly available. So you tease a person a little.
— Neil Strauss
Your intention for a book is never the same as the reception.
— Neil Strauss
Many people we consider legends, such as Jerry Lee Lewis and Chuck Berry, remain so scarred by scandals, injustices and regrets from decades earlier that they’re barely able to appreciate their accomplishments.
— Neil Strauss
Since I was 18, I’ve been under orders from magazines and newspapers – chiefly The New York Times and Rolling Stone – to step into the lives of musicians, actors, and artists, and somehow find out who they really are underneath the mask they present to the public. But I didn’t always succeed.
— Neil Strauss
Men are a hundred times worse than you can imagine. We are thinking the worst, shallowest thoughts, all the time.
— Neil Strauss
Anyone who hates something feels threatened by it. A guy who says he hates feminism (a) doesn’t understand or know feminism, and (b) is scared of powerful women. Most attacks come from fear.
— Neil Strauss
When I was in college, my whole goal was to write for the ‘Village Voice,’ and I think I was doing that by the time I was twenty-one or twenty, so everything else has kind of been gravy, you know?
— Neil Strauss
Growing up, I was watched by my parents and strongly critiqued. Instead of saying they loved me or showing physical attention, they would joke that I had a Roman nose – that it was roamin’ all over my face. Teasing was their way of showing love, but then you are young, sometimes you can’t tell the difference.
— Neil Strauss
I’ve begun to look at the world through apocalypse eyes. Our society, which seems so sturdily built out of concrete and custom, is just a temporary resting place, a hotel our civilization checked into a couple hundred years ago and must one day check out of.
— Neil Strauss
When the Internet first came into public use, it was hailed as a liberation from conformity, a floating world ruled by passion, creativity, innovation and freedom of information. When it was hijacked first by advertising and then by commerce, it seemed like it had been fully co-opted and brought into line with human greed and ambition.
— Neil Strauss
To me, I think it’s awesome to meet your heroes and find out who they are and where they came from and what made them choose to communicate in the form that connected with you.
— Neil Strauss
The good thing is that women have such high expectations of men that it inspires us to live up to them. That’s what I learned about male-female relationships.
— Neil Strauss
When I look down at my pale, skinny body, I wonder why any woman would want to sleep next to it, let alone embrace it.
— Neil Strauss
A lot of women – not all of them, a lot of them – feel insecure about men being men.
— Neil Strauss
Almost everyone who reaches a plateau where he or she is happy and comfortable says it’s because of finding balance between work, relaxation, exercise, socialising and family – plus some alone time to do something contemplative, creative, or educational.
— Neil Strauss
I think there are just a million interviews in anthologies with famous musicians that are about the music, and they’re really boring to read.
— Neil Strauss
Dating is for tools.
— Neil Strauss
People don’t come out for book events. They want to feel an emotion and be entertained.
— Neil Strauss
I feel like rock stars feel a sense of entitlement, whereas I just feel a sense of good fortune.
— Neil Strauss
When it comes to meeting and attracting women, many men are resigned and complacent. We figure some guys were born with that particular power and other guys weren’t. I wasn’t.
— Neil Strauss
I’ve noticed a pattern in stars that start acting out in public. Every one of them felt like they grew up without love.
— Neil Strauss
