Neal Shusterman Quotes

The world is what you think of it. So think of it differently, and your life will change.

Begin challenging your assumptions. Your assumptions are the windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in awhile or the light won't come in.

There are times when the greatest change needed is a change of my viewpoint.

Put your choices in perspective.

Traveling through the world produces a marvelous clarity in the judgment of men. We are all of us confined and enclosed within ourselves, and see no farther than the end of our nose. This great world is a mirror where we must see ourselves in order to know ourselves. There are so many different tempers, so many different points of view, judgments, opinions, laws and customs to teach us to judge wisely on our own, and to teach our judgment to recognize its imperfection and natural weakness.

As you grow older, you learn to understand life a little better.

With science and reason throughout history, what people believed turned out to be false. So I like to keep an open mind to all perspectives and learn and become more fully realised as a person. I just feel we're never going to know what the full picture is.

The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.

If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.

True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.

As a writer, you owe it to yourself not to get stuck in a rut of looking at the world in a certain way.

Wisdom may best arise from a humbling reality.

Writing is how I find out what I believe and what I care most deeply about. It's how I sort through the mess of daily experience and try to make sense of it - by stepping out of it for a while. Writing is how I train a searchlight into the darker corners of my self and the world, as I'm sure I'd never do otherwise.

Certain things give you another perspective in life.

I'm open to comments. I'm open to objective points of view, because I've been very narrow and very subjective.

When you have a fresh point of view that comes from the right side of the heart, it's just so valuable. You can take it or not take it, but just that perspective can give you a lot of strength or make you reflect on a lot of things.

There's so much I love about home, but then there's a lot that I can acknowledge that I dislike about home. And acknowledging that to myself helps me see that place more clearly and to bring readers to that place.

My job is to look out on that world that I write about and be as honest as I possibly can about that world. If that's optimistic and uplifting, OK. If it's not, OK.

I used to think that if I did my very best work, then everyone would love it, but I've realised that not everybody thinks the same things are good. It took me 30 years even to begin to see that.

I've grown into a woman and formed my own opinions about the world around me.

At some point you have to take responsibility for who you are and where you are and being able to listen to other points of view, whichever side of the tracks you're on.

The more mature you get and the more you understand about life, your picture gets clearer, the focus gets clear.

People give me a better understanding on things that I said, or a different way to look at it.

The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life.

I change my opinions often, but not my way of thinking.