Stories Quotes - Page 41

Nothing terrible has ever happened except in our thinking. Reality is always good, even in situations that seem like nightmares. The story we tell is the only nightmare that we have lived.

People still love a good story, and I don't think that will change.

I love sharing my story. It's endlessly healing.

I emphasize to C.E.O.s, you have to have a story in the minds of the employees. It's hard to memorize objectives, but it's easy to remember a story.

Perserverance. . .that's been the story of my family.

Faith thanks God in the middle of the story.

The best stories infuse wonder.

What would there be in a story of happiness? Only what prepares it, only what destroys it can be told.

I don't listen to a lot of new stuff. I just like the old stuff. It's all quite dramatic and atmospheric. You'd have an entire story in song. I never listen to, like, white music - I couldn't sing you a Zeppelin or Floyd song.

You have to live your story before being able to write your story.

I like stories with lots of psychology.

My family was always very supportive. Whether you're an actor or not, everybody hears the horror stories of people going to L.A. and trying to be an actor, and their dreams are crushed, and they end up working for the IRS. So they were always protective to the point that they wanted me to have a backup plan, which is understandable, but there was always something inside of me that knew: backup plan, schmackup plan.

As an actress, you go where the stories are. I don't really care where it's seen, at this point. I just want to tell good stories and do good roles that I haven't done before.

We live in stories. What we are is stories. We do things because of what is called character, and our character is formed by the stories we learn to live in.

Every work [of literature] has both a situation and a story. The situation is the context or circumstance, sometimes the plot; the story is the emotional experience that preoccupies the writer: the insight, the wisdom, the thing one has come to say

But, you know there's a lot of westerns - not that they were bad - it's just that they can be remade because they're great stories that aren't indelible in an audience's mind when it comes to both the cast and the story

Be wary of listening to stories secondhand.

If you don't turn your life into a story, you just become a part of someone else's story.

That's the mistake I made, one of the mistakes, to have wanted a story for myself, whereas life alone is enough.

The unfolding of a story is both as exciting and as difficult for each and every novel I've written, regardless of time and place.

So we tell the same story, over and over. Just the details are different

Every picture tells a story, don't it?

We do have tendency, now in biology especially to make up stories, to make theoretical biology a kind of game, in fact we have game theory in biology which is meant to use the theory of games to make predictions or explain things.

Use all the willpower at your disposal to make yourself happy. Construct the right stories about yourself - and believe them!

Our children's children will hear a good story.