If you tell the story emotionally in a truthful way, then you start naturally looking at the landscape and thinking "Wow, we have to watch out. "
Only thin, weak thinkers despise fairy stories. Each one has a true, strange fact hidden in it, you know, which you can find if you look.
I've never invested myself properly in trying to write stories. When I write lyrics, mostly I write each sentence separately on an index card and then I lay them out and I just mix them up.
Moments are history. If you have enough of them, they become a story.
Either you’re going to tell stories that spread, or you will become irrelevant.
We also wanted to change the story - change the approach to the 21st century on energy, on education, on transportation, on infrastructure, generally, and it laid the groundwork for that. And one of the reasons I'm doing this trip is not only to say what we did worked, but to say we should do more of this.
Honor the community you come from. Tell their stories.
We affirm that the true story of capitalism is now beginning, because capitalism is not a system of oppression only, but is also a selection of values, a coordination of hierarchies, a more amply developed sense of individual responsibility.
As a woman, a lot of stories haven't been told and we've got a lot of catching up to do.
That's always disappointing when you find a good story and you realize the person has died, because then it's difficult to report.
Must I tell the story of my life again?
When you are in the present moment, you break the continuity of your story, of past and future. Then true intelligence arises, and also love.
Good telling of human stories is the best way to keep the Internet and World Wide Web from becoming a waste vastland.
It's still the same old story, A fight for love and glory, A case of do or die! The world will always welcome lovers As time goes by.
Over the years I have become convinced that we learn best - and change - from hearing stories that strike a chord within us. . . Those in leadership positions who fail to grasp or use the power of stories risk failure for their companies and for themselves.
When we believe in our thoughts, when we tell ourselves a story, we suffer. 'My husband doesn't respect me. ' 'I should be thinner. ' Those are stories. When there's no story, there's no suffering.
a good writer should draw the reader in by starting in the middle of the story with a hook, then go back and fill in what happened before the hook. Once you have the reader hooked, you can write whatever you want as you slowly reel them in.
You don't reach points in life at which everything is sorted out for us. I believe in endings that should suggest our stories always continue.
Have a short story feature two situations, and then let them solve each other.
Remakes are awesome, especially when it honors yet adds a new component or dimension to the original. But truthfully, we have so many stories, lives and subjects to explore that I'd love to keep pushing towards new knowledge.