Quotes About Narratives

The African continent has so many stories to tell, it's about time they are told, by them - not us.

Brain Rule #6 We don't pay attention to boring things. • The brain's attentional "spotlight" can focus on only one thing at a time: no multitasking. • We are better at seeing patterns and abstracting the meaning of an event than we are at recording detail. • Emotional arousal helps the brain learn. • Audiences check out after 10 minutes, but you can keep grabbing them back by telling narratives or creating events rich in emotion.

The simplistic nature of Islamism means that it thrives on victim narratives and clearly identifiable enemies. When there is no such simple, immediate outside threat against which sentiment can be rallied, and when peaceful coexistence is self-evidently in people's day-to-day interest, it finds it much less easy to gain traction.

tales in search of an excuse for their telling.

Might it also be that creating narratives around murder allows a measure of comfort? Murder in the abstract is terrifying; in the details, you realise it has nothing to do with you.

Happiness has no history and the story tellers of all lands have understood this so well that the words "they are happy" are the end pf every love tale.

Everything is held together with stories. That is all that is holding us together, stories and compassion.

We keep each other alive with our stories. We need to share them, as much as we need to share food. We also require for our health the presence of good companions. One of the most extraordinary things about the land is that it knows this—and it compels language from some of us so that as a community we may converse about this or that place, and speak of the need.

Back then, as now, narratives shaped outcomes in courtrooms.

Pop culture does not frequently depict women of color realizing their happy ending.

I've been trying to immerse myself in the narratives of other people. I try to not isolate myself as much. It is really hard. People that are sensitive, you just feel too porous sometimes. There's this inertia that sets in, and it's hard to get out of bed. I think knowing that other people go through it is really reassuring.

When you get a bunch of Latinxs together, we get to handle our stories. A cultural shorthand happens.

It is frustrating that people have a hard time telling other female stories besides, 'Is she going to get the guy?'

I think as a kid I always liked to listen to people. I loved hearing stories.

We can't constantly tell stories of heroes. We have to hear the other stories, too, about people in dire straits who make bad choices.

In most of my stories, I give a lot of importance to heroines. My heroines are not just glamour dolls.

If both Church and fairy-tale belong to humanity, they may occasionally cross circles, without injury to either.

Las narraciones son ensayos para la muerte.

We may also conceive of certain explicative techniques as dramatized myths or mythologies of intelligibility, as fables of understanding. . . Narratives and myths are poetic genres. They are not theories.

There are a lot of communities within the Asian Pacific Islander umbrella that are predominantly more working-class or lower class, and those stories haven't been told yet, so my hope is that we see the gamut of perspectives.

When narratives fracture, when words fail, I take consolation from the part of my life that always works: the stationery order. The mail-order stationery people supply every need from royal blue Quink to a dazzling variety of portable hard drives.

You may have heard the world is made up of atoms and molecules, but it's really made up of stories. When you sit with an individual that's been here, you can give quantitative data a qualitative overlay.

I think we could benefit from world history that is specifically taught in a multi-faceted fashion that allows for an understanding that perspectives on truth can be very different.

I think that there are all these amazing figures in our history - the Bowies, the Tina Turners, the Chers, the people who are, in many ways, genderless or represent 'the other' - and I want pop music, and other queer artists - Kehlani, Perfume Genius - these people are bringing queer narratives into people's minds.