Neal Shusterman Quotes

You can have the best of intentions and think you're doing the right thing but you fall down when you're going against your own instinct.

We may listen to our inner self-and still not know which ocean we hear roaring.

When you have a dark side, nothing is ever as good as it seems.

O reason, reason, abstract phantom of the waking state, I had already expelled you from my dreams, now I have reached a point where those dreams are about to become fused with apparent realities: now there is only room here for myself.

I feel there are two people inside me - me and my intuition. If I go against her, she'll screw me every time, and if I follow her, we get along quite nicely.

When I get logical, and I don't trust my instincts - that's when I get in trouble.

It's good to say, 'Look, I can't always be right, but my gut tells me this' - and then you confirm with your gut.

I'm driven more by my heart more than anything else, and my head, and sometimes those things are counterintuitive.

I've got to start listening to those quiet, nagging doubts.

I guess we guess our way through life. How many times do we really know for sure?

Every moment in life can be interpreted as a risk, depending on our outlook - and level of obsessive- compulsive disorder! I do my best to depend on my gut. If you sit with a decision long enough, your gut/soul will tell you what path to take.

Sometimes I'm wrong, sometimes not. But I'm an instinctual player.

One thing that I've learned about myself is I have to trust what I see. And that maybe sounds silly, but there's things that I feel or see during a game that, you know, I used to explain it as I have an angel on one shoulder that's telling me to run the play and the devil on the other shoulder that's telling me really what I should do.

If you're even on the fence about hiring someone, that person is a no. You have to feel it in your gut.

... we have so many voices in us, how do we know which ones to obey?

My gut and intuition told me it wasn't time to do this.

You are good when you are one with yourself. Yet when you are not one with yourself you are not evil. For a divided house is not a den of thieves; it is only a divided house. And a ship without rudder may wander aimlessly among perilous isles yet sink not to the bottom.

Everyone doubts themselves. It's just a matter of admitting it or not.

When you always know what is right, where is freedom? No one chooses the wrong, Jacen Solo. Uncertainty sets you free." -Vergere

And that is how we are. By strength of will we cut off our inner intuitive knowledge from admitted consciousness. This causes a state of dread, or apprehension, which makes the blow ten times worse when it does fall.

But suppose one doesn't quite know which one wants to put first. Suppose," said Harriet, falling back on words which were not her own, "suppose one is cursed with both a heart and a brain?" "You can usually tell," said Miss de Vine, "by seeing what kind of mistakes you make. I'm quite sure that one never makes fundamental mistakes about the thing one really wants to do. Fundamental mistakes arise out of lack of genuine interest. In my opinion, that is.

Have I been wrong? Have I been wise to shut my eyes?

A demon was asking me what I wanted. My eyes flicked to Al, and he shrugged. “What do you want?” he said softly.

Besides, do any of us understand what we are doing? If we did, would we ever do it?