Neil Strauss Quotes

They say love is blind, but it’s trauma that’s blind. Love sees what is.

Neil Strauss

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• The personal ego already has a strong element of dysfunction, but the collective ego is, frequently, even more dysfunctional, to the point of absolute insanity.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Strong
  • Ego
  • Insanity

• With couture, you feel obligated to design something modern each season, but with Theyskens Theory, I don't question anything. I'm thinking of what I'd like to wear.

  

  Olivier Theyskens
  • Thinking
  • Question
  • Design

• For the most part, I do a lot of my own stunts. On 'The Final Destination,' they kept pulling my stunt woman in, and I'd shoo her away. I'm a black belt in tae kwon do, so I was adamant about doing stuff myself.

  

  Haley Webb
  • Black
  • Myself
  • Woman

• The great thing about writing is that it has to work without that invisible layer of the reader's added knowledge.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Work
  • Great
  • Writing

• Her body calculated to a millimeter to suggest a bud yet guarantee a flower.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Body
  • Flower
  • Guarantee

• I like power and I like to use it.

  

  Sam Rayburn
  • Power
  • Like
  • Use

• I do like being busy. I'm not the kind of person who just sits around and goes to a spa when I'm not working.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Kind
  • Working
  • Busy

• Hockey is a unique sport in the sense that you need each and every guy helping each other and pulling in the same direction to be successful.

  

  Wayne Gretzky
  • Guy
  • Unique
  • Same

• To me, adventure has always been to me the connections and bounds you create with people when you're there. And you can have that anywhere.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • People
  • Me
  • Adventure

• All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.

  

  Edmund Wilson
  • Hollywood
  • Corrupts

• The first sentence of a book is a promise.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • Book
  • Promise
  • First

• When I was younger, I liked money - the feel of it. I would sit with my dad and count his coins and be like, 'Yeah.' I'd saved £700 by the age of 10. I thought: 'What the hell am I hoarding this for?' So I bought a drum kit.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • Money
  • Age
  • Dad

• I have won 85 caps and have had a great career with Wales and have enjoyed every minute of it.

  

  Gary Speed
  • Great
  • Career
  • Minute

• What led me to be an actor is that I have a strange something in me that can drastically change the way I appear to the world. Growing up, I couldn't understand why people would always have different ideas of me - but because of that I became aware of how you can manipulate your own ability to change. And then I learned to make a career of it.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• Most of my ideas come from drawing patterns across conversations I have with different types of people - technology investors, young fashion design students, a CEO. This variety is stimulating and offers many different perspectives on the things I am thinking about.

  

  Imran Amed
  • People
  • Different
  • Thinking

• Even before I auditioned for 'X Factor' the second time, I was doing a lot of dance music.

  

  Fleur East
  • Time
  • Music
  • Dance

• The ultimate mystery is one's own self.

  

  Sammy Davis, Jr.
  • Self
  • Mystery
  • Ultimate

• My great-grandfather came here as a refugee from the pogrom in Ukraine.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Great
  • Here
  • Refugee

• Christianity...made, for nearly 1,500 years, persecution, religious wars, massacres, theological feuds and bloodshed, heresy huntings and heretic burnings, prisons, dungeons, anathemas, curses, opposition to science, hatred of liberty, spiritual bondage, the life without love or laughter.

  

  M. M. Mangasarian
  • Life
  • Science
  • Religious

• I think the kind of unexpected I really love is when you open books and the actual way of writing is different and interesting. Like reading Virginia Woolf for the first time or Lawrence Durrell for the first time.

  

  Lalla Ward
  • Time
  • Different
  • Writing

• There is no remedy but love for the great superiority of others.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Love
  • For Her
  • Remedy

• We can never escape who we are. Instead of wasting time worrying about it, why don't you cut to he chase and love yourself?

  

  Bisco Hatori
  • Love
  • Escape
  • Worrying

• Bliss can only come through gratitude, only through enlarging your heart with gratitude. Bliss is the reward of gratitude - the gratitude which is not just wordly or just spoken lip service, but is from the heart - the gratitude of the heart.

  

  Nirmala Srivastava
  • Love
  • Wisdom
  • Gratitude

• They say love is blind, but it’s trauma that’s blind. Love sees what is.

  

  Neil Strauss
  • Love
  • Blind
  • Sees