Neal Shusterman Quotes

I think, when you get to know somebody on a personal level were you truly understand what makes them tick, what they play for, things they like to do in their spare time, you're around their families, I think you're kind of able to kind of coexist more when you have a relationship.

Humans are fascinated with communication. I was always drawn to words and stories, staying in touch with your feelings and being open to what's around you.

He who sees without loving is only straining his eyes in the darkness.

Love and trust, in the space between what’s said and what’s heard in our life, can make all the difference in the world.

I get to meet a lot of people, and I really like people.

I think you can be the greatest orator of all time, the greatest motivator of all times, but if those players know that you don't care about them, and you don't try to understand them, then they're never going to hear what you have to say.

I know what actors fear, what they like; I know how to get things out of them and I listen to them better, since I've been there.

I have found that no exertion of the legs can bring two minds much nearer to one another.

I think what makes us human - is our interconnectedness among people. It's our ability to form and maintain relationships. It's the barometer by which we call ourselves human.

The great thing about a song is that no one has to know your story. But if you tell it in a way that has clarity and means something to somebody else, then it can apply to their story.

Connection is very important. It's extremely important for me to be connected and sharing with other people, giving them what I feel is important.

The ear is the avenue to the heart.

It's human desire to be understood. And we always feel we're not understood.

Love without conversation is impossible.

We daily share emotions, our personal and shared needs and hope.

A man is already halfway in love with any woman who listens to him.

I wanted to communicate what I had seen, so that others could see it.

To love a person is to know and love the person. But we can pick up an enormous amount about another human being just by exchanging a couple of sentences. It's not yet knowledge; it's an intuition that motivates you to want to find out more.

We all struggle with our failure to communicate and our failure to reach beyond fear to love people.

Relationships, it seems to me, are timeless. What works between two people always works; what doesn't is always troublesome. Over time, people learn - or not - how to negotiate what's difficult, but that doesn't mean the misfit has gone away entirely.

There is as much wisdom in listening as there is in speaking - and that goes for all relationships, not just romantic ones.

It's weird to try to write lyrics for somebody else. They can't really get behind what you're saying or what you want them to say because they didn't experience it.

I love sharing my stories and experiences with people and connecting to them on both a humorous and emotional level.

Truth comes to us mediated by human love.

We must put ourselves in the place of those who are to hear us