Neil Strauss Quotes
Without commitment, you cannot have depth in anything, whether it's a relationship, a business or a hobby.
In life, people tend to wait for good things to come to them. And by waiting, they miss out.
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.
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.
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?
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.
We're just fragile machines programmed with a false sense of our own importance. And every now and then the universe sends a reminder that we don't really matter to it.
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.
Men are a hundred times worse than you can imagine. We are thinking the worst, shallowest thoughts, all the time.
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.
That's how hatred is created: two different groups, each insisting they're on the moral high ground
True endurance, I think, comes from the inside. It comes from motivation and belief in what you're doing.
I've noticed a pattern in stars that start acting out in public. Every one of them felt like they grew up without love.
You need to be careful with a Bluetooth headset. Because some guys look crazy with them.
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.
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.
I feel like rock stars feel a sense of entitlement, whereas I just feel a sense of good fortune.
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.
Alcohol has never caused anyone to do something they didn't want to do. It only enables them to do what they've always wanted but have instead repressed.
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.
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.
People don't come out for book events. They want to feel an emotion and be entertained.
I want to learn martial arts," he said docilely, "so when I want to kill someone, I can do something about it.
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.
I've seen rock stars agonize over the fact that another artist has far more Facebook 'likes' and Twitter followers than they do.
They say that a man is as faithful as his options, and in this moment I know it to be true. So I switched the phone off. It's too much. Even Jesus only had three temptations.