Quotes About Story

I don't know that I have all the answers," I said. "But I have a story to tell.

Vampires loath witches, whether they're rich or poor. Anyone who reads the story of Merrick Mayfair can see why.

Vampires loathe witches, whether they're rich or poor. Anyone who reads the story of Merrick Mayfair can see why.

To my earlier self I would like to say, "Relax. The story will come in due time. Trust your characters. Let them tell you what happens next.

But what I hope for in a book - either one that I write or one that I read - is transparency. I want the story to shine through. I don't want to think of the writer.

He drew the brush along the wood with dreamy strokes. Wasn't it interesting how the grain of the wood told a story, almost—how you could follow the threads and be surprised at how far they traveled, or where they unexpectedly broke off.

The interior life expands and fills; it approaches the edge of skin; it thickens with its own vivid story; it even begins to hear rumors, from beyond the horizon skin's rim, of nations and wars. You wake one day and discover your grandmother; you wake another day and notice, like any curious naturalist, the boys.

The range of rhythms in prose is larger and grander than it is in poetry, and it can handle discursive ideas and plain information as well as character and story. It can do everything. I felt as though I had switched from a single reed instrument to a full orchestra.

Mitch: "I heard a story from Lindsey about you bunch doing bogus cheques in steak houses." Stevie: "Lindsey and his friend Tom used to go into every coffee shop in Hollywood and write hot cheques and never go back again . . . The Copper Penny, Big Boy's . . ." Mitch: "Boy, you two really fell into the American Dream, huh?" Stevie: "Yeah, We actually fell into it out of nowhere. We were just nowhere.

Anatomy of a Movement Senator Bill Bradley defines a movement as having three elements: (1) A narrative that tells a story about who we are and the future we're trying to build. (2) A connection between and among the leader and the tribe. (3) Something to do - the fewer limits the better. Too often organizations fail to do anything but the third.

Marketing is the name we use to describe the promise a company makes, the story it tells, the authentic way it delivers on that promise.

Service to the change they seek to make. Willing to tell a story that resonates with a group that they care enough to serve. There could be an overlap. It's possible that it's the way you feel right this minute, but it might not be. The version of you on offer might run many layers deep, but it can't possibly be all of you, all the time.

Your story is a symphony, not a note.

Your tactics can make a difference, but your strategy—your commitment to a way of being and a story to be told and a promise to be made—can change everything.

When the offering you bring matches the story we tell ourselves, the way we tell it, the pace we're used to, the expense and the risk . . . it's an easy choice to add you to the mix.

Senator Bill Bradley defines a movement as having three elements: 1. A narrative that tells a story about who we are and the future we're trying to build 2. A connection between and among the leader and the tribe 3. Something to do—the fewer limits, the better Too often organizations fail to do anything but the third.

Each person has a story in his or her head, a narrative used to navigate the world. The extraordinary thing is that every person's narrative is different.

Senator Bill Bradley defines a movement as having three elements: 1. A narrative that tells a story about who we are and the future we're trying to build 2. A connection between and among the leader and the tribe 3. Something to do—the fewer limits, the better

When we believe a wounding story, our whole world is diminished.

The breath is the first tool for opening the space between the story you tell yourself about love.

Mindfulness allows us to shift the angle on our story and to remember that we have the capacity to learn and change in ways that are productive, not self-defeating.

We cultivate mindfulness to help us distinguish the actual experience from the story we tell ourselves.

It takes a special courage to challenge the rigid confines of our accustomed story. It's not easy to radically alter our views about where happiness comes from but it's eminently possible.

We are made of the stuff of stars, given our lives by a living world, given our selves by time. We are brother to the trees and sister to the sun. We are of such glorious stuff we need not carry pain around like a label. Our duty, as living things, to be sure that pain is not our whole story, for we can choose to be otherwise. As Ellin says, we can choose to dance.