Neal Shusterman Quotes

We cannot alter facts, but we can alter our ways of looking at them.

Man can never stand still. He must find solutions to this contradiction, and ever better solutions to the extent to which reality enables him.

Perhaps someday you can have one city as easy to see as Illusions and as hard to forget as Reality.

It's what you do and not what you say. If you're not part of the future, then get out of the way!

We fret about how to keep going the same old way when we should be casting around for another way that’s better.

It is impossible, after a certain point, to go back to a previous way of life, a previous way of thinking.

The future is unwritten. there are best case scenarios. There are worst-case scenarios. both of them are great fun to write about if you' re a science fiction novelist, but neither of them ever happens in the real world. What happens in the real world is always a sideways-case scenario. World-changing marvels to us, are only wallpaper to our children.

Old ways will always remain unless some one invents a new way and then lives and dies for it

If you do things the same way you've always done them, you'll get the same outcomes you've always gotten. In order to change your outcomes, you've got to do things differently.

New ways of seeing can disclose new things… But turn the question around. Do new things make for new ways of seeing?

For new ideas to be translated into new realities requires not only clarity of vision but also the opportunity to change old realities.

The greatest difficulty in the world is not for people to accept new ideas, but to make them forget old ideas.

Things don't change. You change your way of looking, that's all

Things change that's the way it is.

Successful innovations become conventions.

The progress of history is to take the impossible and turn it into the possible.

Ask yourself: What did I eat for breakfast today? What did I eat for dinner last night? You see how fast reality fades away?

The best way to confront, or deal with, technological innovation is to keep moving technologically.

But things change, of course, and so do the ways in which people see themselves.

For time flows on, and if it did not, it would be a bad prospect for those who do not sit at golden tables. Methods become exhausted; stimuli no longer work. New problems appear and demand new methods. Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must also change. Nothing comes from nothing; the new comes from the old, but that is why it is new.

Perceptions change with time and you can't rush it, in my judgment.

There is a better way to do it - Find it!

I don't like to go beyond modernity because you think girls might be like that in five years, but in five years what I see now is going to be old; we are always going to go somewhere else. You have to bring a few novelties within what will remain.

The one good thing about failure is that it makes you consider doing things a different way.

I think what I'm trying to build is a reputation for evolving and for change. Because of the rate of information that we have access to at this point, it's almost hard not to be ever-growing.