Neil Strauss Quotes

If you possess the ability to learn from your mistakes, then failure is literally impossible, because each rejection brings you closer to perfection.

Neil Strauss

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• I cannot determine what people or nations should do, but I do think that extremism gives birth to following and subsequent extremism.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • People
  • Think
  • Birth

• And in the Second World War, you didn't just read about it in the newspapers because you weren't allowed to read it in the newspapers. It was all censored, you know? So nobody knew what we were doing.

  

  Patrick Macnee
  • World
  • War
  • Doing

• I want to stay alive. Yeah, I want to stay alive. I think that's the main thing. If there's a chance I can live longer, I want to do it.

  

  Jack Ramsay
  • Live
  • Want
  • Chance

• As I have not worried to be born, I do not worry to die.

  

  Federico Garcia Lorca
  • Die
  • Worry
  • Born

• Israeli citizens deserve full-time ministers.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Time
  • Deserve
  • Citizens

• American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • Up
  • Business
  • American

• I prefer more to kind of show people different things than tell them 'oh, here's what you should believe' and, over time, you can build up a rapport with your audience.

  

  Nate Silver
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• I love finding new creative partnerships but then continuing the partnerships I'm already in.

  

  Damon Lindelof
  • Love
  • Creative
  • Partnerships

• People think that there is so much money in tennis, but the reality is unless you're ranked in about the top 50 you don't earn much at all. It is hard to support yourself travelling the world, to be away from home most of the year and to pay for a coach to help you become a better player.

  

  Samantha Stosur
  • People
  • World
  • Money

• I think things will come once I get the respect that I deserve. Keeping my belt for a long time... Things will happen like normal. I can't force those things.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Time
  • Long
  • Respect

• There are people who are born deaf and grow up deaf who don't speak at all, and some of them have told me that they resent a little bit that I do speak. But, you know, I have to be myself. I have to do what I'm comfortable doing.

  

  I. King Jordan
  • People
  • Up
  • Myself

• Hate is a very strong and heavy emotion, probably as strong as love. I don't think I can live with hatred. If something bad happens, you feel bad about it; you forgive and move on. There's no hatred.

  

  Karan Singh Grover
  • Love
  • Hate
  • Feel

• There's a consequence for everything, and that goes back to the Bible for me.

  

  Taya Kyle
  • Me
  • Bible
  • Everything

• What compromises women - babies, domesticity, mediocrity - compromises writing even more.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Writing
  • Women
  • Mediocrity

• The luster of an experience can actually go up with time. So, learning to play a new instrument, learning a new language - those sorts of things will pay dividends for years or decades to come.

  

  Dan Buettner
  • Up
  • Time
  • Experience

• The Anger Management Tour was another beautiful thing. I loved that tour.

  

  Obie Trice
  • Beautiful
  • Management
  • Anger

• Some people are better at maths than others: no one thinks you can be 'taught' to be a mathematical genius. And no one thinks of teaching, in that context, as a kind of forcing of the will. But there seems to be an idea of writing as an intuitive pastime which is being dishonestly subjected to counterintuitive methods.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • People
  • Writing
  • Genius

• The advice I would give to girls from Eastern backgrounds who are interested in the arts is that it is always beneficial to get your academic studies out of the way before going into the competitive world of the arts.

  

  Nadia Ali
  • World
  • Always
  • Advice

• I wish more of us could understand that our increasing isolation, no matter how much it seems to express pride and self-affirmation, is not the answer to our problems. Rather, the answer is a revival of our ancient commitment to God, who rules over all the peoples of the world and exalts no one over any other, and to the moral and spiritual values which were once legendary in America. We must reach out our hand in friendship both to those who would befriend us and those who would be our enemy.

  

  Arthur Ashe
  • World
  • God
  • America

• You guys ready to do this?

  

  Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
  • Guy
  • Vision
  • Ready

• I used to think romantic love was a neurosis shared by two, a supreme foolishness. I no longer think that. There's nothing foolish in loving anyone. Thinking you'll be loved in return is what's foolish.

  

  Rita Mae Brown
  • Thinking
  • Love
  • Romantic

• My dad left when I was a little boy and I grew up with my mother's family. There were foundations in the U.S. where Jewish people got together and sent money to Cuba, so we got some of that. We were a poor family, but I was always a happy kid.

  

  William Levy
  • People
  • Kids
  • Together

• One of the reasons people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.

  

  John W. Gardner
  • People
  • Stop
  • Learning

• If you possess the ability to learn from your mistakes, then failure is literally impossible, because each rejection brings you closer to perfection.

  

  Neil Strauss
  • Failure
  • Rejection