Quotes About Narratives

The things that influenced my conduct as a Negro did not have to happen to me directly; I needed but to hear about them to feel their full effects in the deepest layers of my consciousness.

One may learn a great deal of a people by the stories they tell of others.

One may learn a great deal about a people by the stories they tell of others.

We've always lived in the past in Selma, and we still do. But the past has changed on us. It included a lot of stories it didn't used to.

We listen to the stories that people believe have shaped their lives. We listen to the stories people choose to tell, and the meaning they make of those stories.

Two points are pertinent to the Great Reset in this: 1) our human actions and reactions are not rooted in statistical data but are determined instead by emotions and sentiments – narratives drive our behaviour; and 2) as our human condition improves, our standards of living increase and so do our expectations for a better and fairer life.

Successful organizations and companies share the stage with their best storytellers. Brands are a collection of narratives. Unleash your best stories.

I'm talking about narratives of tragedy and pathos so painful, so compelling, that they seem to catch inside you on a tiny hook you didn't even know you'd hung.

Stories wait, my little lord, and when you come back to them, why, there they are

Sve pri?e koje su se dogodile nalik su jedna na drugu, svaka pri?a koja se nije dogodila, nije se dogodila na svoj na?in.

The universe is made up of stories, not of atoms.

These are the stories that never, never die, that are carried like seed into a new country, are told to you and me and make in us new and lasting strengths.

Heirlooms we don't have in our family. But stories we've got.

Bygone troubles are good to tell.

Conflict is the microscope of a book. When it's trained on a character, you see what's underneath the narratives of physical description. You see whether someone is strong or weak, principled or apathetic, heroic or villainous. (J.R. on writing the BDB series)

There are certain types of slightly hysterical human characters who, rather than creating, walk around with a sense of their own potential - it's as if they themselves were art objects. They feel as if their lives are written narratives, or pieces of music.

There are two types of stories: public and private.

My Ukrainian grandmother would tell amazing stories. She lost her father, and as children, we would always listen to her stories.

All wars are full of stories that sound like fiction.

If history only remembers one in a thousand of us, then that future will be filled with stories of who we were and what we did.

All of us are made up of the stories that we listen to, the ones we disagree with and the ones that we agree with.

My father used to say that stories are part of the most precious heritage of mankind.

Dozens and dozens of people, they just keep coming, and every single one of their heads is crammed with stories they believe and stories they want to believe and stories someone else has made them believe, and every story is battering against the thin walls of the person's skull, drilling and gnawing for its chance to escape and attack someone else, bore its way in and feed off that mind too.

it is by living these tales that we receive their lessons.