Quotes About Narrative

Non fidatevi mai dell'artista. Fidatevi del racconto.

Walsh was too full of his own—how shall I put it?—posthumous importance; too convinced that he should be seen almost as much a victim as his daughter, to confine himself to the truth. He would embellish things to put himself in the best possible light.

Life is made up of patterns. Patterns of eating, thirst, sleep, and fight-or-flight are crucial to our individual survival; patterns of courtship, sex, attachment, conflict, play, creativity, family life, and collaboration are crucial to our collective survival. Wisdom is our ability to perceive these patterns and to shape them into coherent chapters within the longer narrative of our lives.

People remember. And when a message is a mission, they will tell your story to anyone who will hear it—even a stranger at an airport.

Reader, be assured this narrative is no fiction.

Only there's two sides to every story, you know. You just remember that.

The World is a very old place, so you'll never be able to tell a completely original story

Writing about themselves] gives them wings, so that they can rise above the confounding maze of their lives and, from that perspective, begin to see the patterns and dead ends of their pasts, and a way out. That's the funny thing about mazes; what's baffling on the ground begins to make sense when you can begin to rise above it, the better to understand your history and fix yourself.

What are our stories if not the mirrors we hold up to our fears?

The real war will never get in the books.

As long as there is still one beggar around, there will still be myth.

From this story it may be seen what the nature of true storytelling is. The value of information does not survive the moment in which it was new. It lives only at that moment; it has to surrender to it completely and explain itself to it without losing any time. A story is different. It does not expend itself. It preserves and concentrates its strength and is capable of releasing it even after a long time.

The storyteller: he is the man who could let the wick of his life be consumed completely by the gentle flame of his story

History is made up of fragments and absences. What is left out is as significant as what is included.

The storyteller: he is the man who could let the wick of his life be consumed completely by the gentle flame that is his story.

Articolare storicamente il passato non significa conoscerlo <>. Significa impadronirsi di un ricordo come esso balena nell'istante di un pericolo.

When you see a filmmaker getting too fancy... you can bet he's worried either about his story or his ability to tell it.

You shouldn't whitewash it. He's good at spin, but he also has a remarkable story, and I'd like to see that it's all told truthfully.

We all—in the end—die in medias res. In the middle of a story. Of many stories.

Leonardo fue pionero en un nuevo estilo que trataba los cuadros narrativos, e incluso los retratos, como explicaciones psicológicas.

Alex Haley once said that the best way to begin a speech is "Let me tell you a story." Nobody is eager for a lecture, but everybody loves a story.

It's also a narrative of how they collaborated and why their ability to work as teams made them even more creative.

each moment is not distinct but instead contains connections to a narrative.

Good telling of human stories is the best way to keep the Internet and the World Wide Web from becoming a waste vastland.