Quotes About Narrative

STORIES ARE JUST DATA WITH A SOUL

Seven principles that drive Steve Jobs - 1. Career - Do what you love 2. Vision - Put a dent in the Universe 3. Thoughts - Kick start your brain 4. Customers - Sell dreams, not products 5. Design - Say no to 1,000 things 6. Experience - Create insanely great experiences 7. Story - Master the message

According to Tufte, "By leaving out the narrative between the points, the bullet outline ignores and conceals the causal assumptions and analytic structure of the reasoning." A list of bullet points is a presenter's way of compressing language into brief phrases. Bulleted outlines "might be useful now and then," Tufte writes, "but sentences with subjects and verbs are usually better.

If you don't buy into your story, nobody else will.

The simple act of telling a woman's story from a woman's point of view is a revolutionary act: it never has been done before.

It was as if the story had been added to, so as not to disgust people too much.

The language of the Soul is right-brain, metaphorical, narrative, and paradoxical, very unlike the left-brain, logical, discursive, dualistic language of the Ego.

If you are not aware of the story pattern you are living, the story plays you.

But we must also be careful which memories we select to justify our lives, because we will have to live by them.

Memories create our stories, but our stories also create our memories.

Ultimately what remains is a story. In the end, it's the only thing any of us really owns.

A story too many times told is a dish with-out salt. ---Rose Wilder Lane

Often, if you want to write about women in history," the novelist Hilary Mantel has said, "you have to distort history to do it, or substitute fantasy for facts; you have to pretend that individual women were more important than they were or that we know more about them than we do."8 But when it comes to Wilder, we don't have to pretend.

A photo essay (otherwise known as a fucking slide show)...

She is such a writer that she puts words in my mouth while I'm standing right here, rewriting life in real time, and no, she can't do this to me, to us.

Power consists to a large extent in deciding what stories will be told.

Your only job is creating a life that contains a story worth telling.

Every word a woman writes changes the story of the world, revises the official version.

Handwriting is autobiography.

That's the strange thing about a good story. No pleasure if you can't share it.

Everyone in our town has a story--but it's not the one he tells himself. Its author has a thousand eyes, a thousand ears, and five hundred pens that never stop scribbling.

That's the strange thing about a good story. No pleasure if you can't share it." ? We, the Drowned

There's more to the story you don't know because you did not live it."

But I still don't have knowledge, interpreting the surprises that others don't know about, that will drive a new narrative. You have to work and think and stress and fret to surmise the surprises by first fathoming the pulse.