Neil Strauss Quotes
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.
Quotes to Explore
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My view is that life is too short. I'm not being melodramatic or anything, but when your mother dies in your arms - just you and her, and it's one o'clock in the morning, and you're waiting for her to exhale - you just think, life's too bloody short to argue about the little things.
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I love to sit and watch people. I love to sit and listen to people.
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I'm glad I went through all the normal teenage dramas that a lot of people go through. I can really relate to 'Secret Life' because I witnessed those similar struggles.
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The Catholic Church was the church of the colonial fascist regime.
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I worked with the Neville Brothers for 40-some years on the highway, and up and down since I can remember - funk from New Orleans.
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Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.
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Modern surgery has been like a miracle to those who thought the pain was going to go on forever.
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I have got prostate cancer, and I have to keep monitoring that. It's no problem, it's under control and I'm very cool about it, but other people are dying from it.
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A system that was originally designed to support the poorest in society is now trapping them in the very condition it was supposed to alleviate.
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Once your IQ is 150 or over, it stops beings ability and becomes a disability.
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I love wearing men's clothing and underwear.
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Whither goest thou, America, in thy shiny car in the night?
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If we do a little bit of insight into history, how many times have there been people doing hate discourse, blaming everything on a certain group of people. That really is the genesis of genocide, where it kind of sparks.
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There are so many different camps about what being gay means. The danger comes when each one is so rigid that it sees itself as the true picture.
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I grew up on the edge of a national park in Canada - timberwolves, creeks, snow drifts.
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We do a lot of outbound work where we're talking about the future. As we get involved with these new products, it helps us have a platform to talk about where the future is going.
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I don't know how anyone could stop working.
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A modern health and social care system has to be completely focussed on the needs of its users.
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The kids that are different and out there and expressive and are bold with those choices, those are the people that grow up to be people we all want to hang out with, that become celebrities or become really successful in what they do because they believe in who they are.
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That proverbial saying, 'Ill news goes quick and far.'
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The great fun for me is these collaborators. I'm nothing by myself. Being with these people, whether it's the 'Homeland' cast or stage collaborators, they make you everything you are. They make you come to work. They make you be alive.
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One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.
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Terrorism was too tame for the Scots: they used lawyers.
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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.
