Neil Strauss Quotes
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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.
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I feel like rock stars feel a sense of entitlement, whereas I just feel a sense of good fortune.
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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.
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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.
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Growing up, I was watched by my parents and strongly critiqued. Instead of saying they loved me or showing physical attention, they would joke that I had a Roman nose - that it was roamin' all over my face. Teasing was their way of showing love, but then you are young, sometimes you can't tell the difference.
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Never underestimate your own capacity to care.
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One of the reasons I became a writer is that, unlike starting a band, directing movies, or acting in a theatrical production, you can do it alone. Your success and failure depend entirely on yourself.
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That's how hatred is created: two different groups, each insisting they're on the moral high ground
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While I am impulsive in many areas of my life, marriage is not one of them.
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It’s not lying, it’s flirting.
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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.
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Fear makes you docile.
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You have to build systems to protect against your lesser self.
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It's not enough to just be yourself. You must be your best self
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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.
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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.
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Instead of putting others down, try improving yourself instead. The only person you have a right to compete with is you. In the meantime, treat others how you'd like to be treated. One trait that some of the best (communicators) share is empathy. A couple of kind words can not only make a person's day, but earn you a friend and supporter for life. For the rest of the week, whenever you see someone you want to judge negatively, pay them a compliment instead. See what happens.
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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.
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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.
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Attraction is not an option.
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I've never trusted collaborations, because most people in this world are not closers. They don't finish what they start; they don't live what they dream; they sabotage their own progress because they're afraid they won't find what they seek.
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After all, everyone's favorite subject is themselves.
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I've begun to look at the world through apocalypse eyes. Our society, which seems so sturdily built out of concrete and custom, is just a temporary resting place, a hotel our civilization checked into a couple hundred years ago and must one day check out of.
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Those who ask for help are often those who have failed to do something for themselves.
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We get stuck in old thought and behavior patterns that may have been effective when we were twelve months or twelve years old, but now only serve to hold us back. And, while those around us may have no problem correcting our minor flaws, they let the big ones slide, because it would mean attacking who we are.
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The strong live off the weak and the clever live off the strong.
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A lot of guys are very intimidated by an attractive woman, and they dehumanise her because our culture perceives beautiful women as commodities. But I think if you're able walk up to a person and get to know them, and you see their flaws and their impurities, and realise that they're like you, then you can humanise them again.
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Never ask a woman if you may kiss her. Instead, learn to read body language.
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A lot of women - not all of them, a lot of them - feel insecure about men being men.
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He was telling the students about the hypnotic technique of using quotes in a conversation. An idea is more palatable ... if it comes from someone else. The unconscious thinks in terms of content and structure. If you introduce a pattern with the words, 'My friend was telling me,' the critical part of her mind shuts off.
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