Neil Strauss Quotes

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• It's not enough to just be yourself. You must be your best self

  Neil Strauss

  Being Yourself, Best Self, Just Be Yourself

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• In life, people tend to wait for good things to come to them. And by waiting, they miss out. Usually, what you wish for doesn't fall in your lap; it falls somewhere nearby, and you have to recognize it, stand up, and put in the time and work it takes to get to it. This isn't because the universe is cruel. It's because the universe is smart. It has its own cat-string theory and knows we don't appreciate things that fall into our laps.

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  Life, Appreciation, Time

  Neil Strauss (2011). “The Game”, p.108, Canongate Books

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• We have this idea that love is supposed to last forever. But love isn't like that. It's a free-flowing energy that comes and goes when it pleases. Sometimes, it stays for life; other times it stays for a second, a day, a month or a year. So don't fear love when it comes simply because it makes you vulnerable. But don't be surprised when it leaves either. Just be glad you had the opportunity to experience it.

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  Love, Life, Opportunity

  Neil Strauss (2011). “The Game”, p.185, Canongate Books

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• Without commitment, you cannot have depth in anything, whether it's a relationship, a business or a hobby.

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  Inspirational, Commitment, Depth

  Twitter post from Jan 25, 2014

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• In life, people tend to wait for good things to come to them. And by waiting, they miss out.

  Neil Strauss

  People, Waiting, Missing

  Neil Strauss (2011). “The Game”, p.108, Canongate Books

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• To get a woman, you have to be willing to risk losing her.

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  Risk, Losing, Losing Her

  Neil Strauss (2011). “The Game”, p.90, Canongate Books

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• You have to build systems to protect against your lesser self.

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  Self, Protect

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• 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.

  Neil Strauss

  Couple, Judging, Want

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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.

  Neil Strauss

  Opportunity, Men, Giving

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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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  Beautiful, Thinking, Guy

  "Pick-up techniques - interview with Neil Strauss". Interview with Kirstin Innes, www.list.co.uk. January 31, 2008.

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• 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?

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  Hurt, Way, Ignored

  Neil Strauss (2011). “The Game”, p.282, Canongate Books

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• 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.

  Neil Strauss

  Men, Expectations, Inspire

  "All the right moves". Interview with Emma Forrest, www.theguardian.com. September 10, 2005.

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• Life is more fun when you open your mouth.

  Neil Strauss

  Fun, Mouths, Life Is

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• The strong live off the weak and the clever live off the strong.

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  Strong, Clever, Weak

  Neil Strauss (2011). “The Game”, p.224, Canongate Books

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• 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.

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  Alcohol, Want, Wanted

  Neil Strauss (2011). “The Game”, p.87, Canongate Books

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• After all, everyone's favorite subject is themselves.

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  Favorite Subject, Subjects

  Neil Strauss (2011). “The Game and Rules of the Game”, p.55, Canongate Books

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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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  Compliment, Saying Thank You, Response

  Neil Strauss (2011). “The Game”, p.310, Canongate Books

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• In fact, every woman I met seemed disposable and replaceable. I was experiencing seducer's paradox: The better a seducer I became, the less I loved women. Success was no longer defined by getting laid or finding a girlfriend, but by how well I performed.

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  Girlfriend, Facts, Paradox

  Neil Strauss (2011). “The Game”, p.154, Canongate Books

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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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  Couple, Judging, Empathy

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• Never underestimate your own capacity to care.

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  Care, Underestimate, Capacity

  Neil Strauss (2011). “The Game”, p.317, Canongate Books

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• Fear makes you docile.

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  Docile

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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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  Mean, Years, Twelve

  Neil Strauss (2011). “The Game”, p.166, Canongate Books

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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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  Machines, Matter, Now And Then

  Neil Strauss (2011). “Emergency: One man's story of a dangerous world, and how to stay alive in it”, p.398, Canongate Books

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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.

  Neil Strauss

  Honesty, Artist, Advice

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

  Neil Strauss

  Motivation, Thinking, Endurance

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