Neil Strauss Quotes
In order to excel at anything, there are always hurdles, obstacles, or challenges one must get past. It's what bodybuilders call the pain period. Those who push themselves, and are willing to face pain, exhaustion, humiliation, rejection, or worse, are the ones who become champions. The rest are left on the sidelines.
Quotes to Explore
-
The thing about travelling is that you work hard and play hard, but you can do all those things without your parents knowing.
-
I'd been ready too, because before Olympic Games, I wasn't compete in big competition like, World Championship, like European Championship. I just competed in national competition.
-
For the record, I have long suspected that my favorite book is actually 'Charlotte's Web.'
-
Reading is power. Reading is life.
-
I'm kind of a sucker for the retro-diagnoses.
-
Southern Appalachians have been ridiculed since the country began. In fiction, they're usually depicted in a cartoonish manner. The region is poor, and very suspicious of outsiders, so there's a sort of 'us versus them' situation. They're easy to poke fun at.
-
'Made in Italy' is from the tycoons of the '80s, not me. It is people who represent an Italy which I don't belong to and I don't feel a part of.
-
Effective preaching starts with loving the people we're preaching to.
-
My humour has always come from anger, but I have to make sure I don't just get angry and jump on a soapbox.
-
My choosing Islam was not a political statement; it was a spiritual statement.
-
All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.
-
In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
-
I don't know if I have a brand. I just see myself as an athlete and a competitor, someone who just works really hard at trying to get better at golf. I guess I'm kind of the feel-good story who's seen every level of professional golf.
-
My grandma would say if someone else calls you a hillbilly, you might need to punch them in the nose. But if we call ourselves hillbillies, it's a sort of a term of endearment, something that we have co-opted.
-
I do take this insane pleasure in world-building. I get the world in my head, but I have to make sure everyone else gets it.
-
Brooklyn's good. Brooklyn's funky. Brooklyn's happening.
-
When you're CEO, you have to have two conditions: first, shareholders need to trust you and want you to head your company. The second is that you need to feel the motivation to do the job. So, as long as both are reunited, you continue to do the job.
-
One-sided national economic triumphs cannot be achieved in the increasingly interwoven global economy without precipitating calamitous consequences for everyone.
-
I think the past need not be the dead past. If we get it right, with new books, the past can be a beacon for the future.
-
Victory breeds hatred; the defeated live in pain. The peaceful live happily, giving up victory and defeat.
-
I have a friend that has five kids and she went through a trial separation with her husband, and she didn't have time to be upset. Every now and then, she'd call me on the cell phone and just cry.
-
In the large cities that received new Americans, there flowered a golden age of restaurants, manned by the available talent from abroad and fueled by the restless wealth of the newly rich.
-
In order to excel at anything, there are always hurdles, obstacles, or challenges one must get past. It's what bodybuilders call the pain period. Those who push themselves, and are willing to face pain, exhaustion, humiliation, rejection, or worse, are the ones who become champions. The rest are left on the sidelines.
