Neil Strauss Quotes

Growth is painful. Change is painful. But, nothing is as painful as staying stuck where you do not belong.

I meet people in my daily life, people who seem to experience some change and some growth on a personal level, and that gives me hope.

You change your life by changing your heart.

It's my deepest interest as an actor: I love discovering how human beings work, how their flaws reveal themselves - how to learn and grow from that - and how characters teach me things as a woman and as a parent.

We are our own worst enemies and as a coach you can help people recognise that, raise their self-awareness and then see if they change or do anything about it.

With time, you do get mature.

Recognizing the structure of your psychology doesn't mean that you can easily rebuild it.

You make New Year's resolutions. And you make them into the teeth of old resolutions which were different. Then you don't keep your new resolutions and you tell yourself you are weak-willed. You aren't weak-willed, you are simply obeying yourself as of yesterday.

As you practice things, you get better. I mean I've worked very hard on changing my life and taking what is good about it and trying to jettison the things I think were not good about it. I think the key word is "discipline," focus. I'm always working at it, but I'm not always successful.

Personal growth is not a matter of learning new information but of unlearning old limits.

Today, you've got a decision to make. You're gonna get better or you're gonna get worse, but you're not gonna stay the same. Which will it be?

Wasting time just going mindless, watching your charades. When you were younger, did it occur to you 10 years from then you'd act the same age?

Life is about growth and change. When you are no longer doing that — that is your whisper; that is your whisper that you are supposed to do something else.

There is no knowledge so hard to acquire as the knowledge of how to live this life well and naturally.

There are moments where you stop living, if you stop changing, and if you stop seeking growth of some sort.

Write down five things you love to do. Next, write down five things that you're really good at. Then just try to match them up! Revisit your list once a year to make sure you're on the right track.

When we are constantly recreating our basic patterns of behavior and thought, we never have to leap into fresh air or onto fresh grass. Instead, we wrap ourselves in our own dark environment, where our only companion is the smell of our own sweat. In the cocoon, there is no dance, no walking or breathing. It is comfortable and sleepy, an intense and very familiar home.

I definitely hope that I'm improving. If I'm not, there's a problem - I'm just coasting.

Become the kind of person the kind of person you would like to marry would like to marry.

It's amazing - you may not realize it, but so much of what you are not is because you are literally standing in your own way of becoming. And what I'm pleading with you about is, get the hell out of your own way.

Remedy your deficiencies,and your merits will take care of themselves.

Don’t let the learning from your own experiences take too long. If you have been doing it wrong for the last ten years, I would suggest that’s long enough!

Everything that I talk about, pretty much, are things that I learned or understood over the years.

It's a real luxury to be able to develop with your character.

Each of you is perfect the way you are ... and you can use a little improvement.