Neil Strauss Thinking Quotations

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.

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.

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.

True endurance, I think, comes from the inside. It comes from motivation and belief in what you're doing.

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.