In life, every ending is just the start of another story.
I have a way of making narrative sculpture, where first you make a text and out of that text you make objects. I start with a story and then I make sculpture from that story, it’s just that the stories become more and more elaborate.
No profession, trade, or calling, is overcrowded in the upper story.
Think of the funniest story from your life. Chances are, it was something awful at the time.
The story of your life is not your life; it’s your story.
News is important information that may influence your investments. Noise is talk or buzz or some headline that prevents you from seeing a story clearly. News is useful. Noise is a distraction. Calling what’s noise and news after the fact is easy.
There are movies that I did and I know what I did and I know the story, and I don’t want to see that.
It’s more than just saying lines and turning the light on. You have to drive the story – there’s a technical aspect.
I like the nice guys. I like when they show the stories, the human element behind it all.
The human species thinks in metaphors and learns through stories.
Ah. My story. Are you certain you wish to hear it? It is long, unlikely, and remarkably unedifying – shameful, even, to come from a minister’s lips. Blasphemous, too, properly regarded.
My teeth became sour as I listened to his story. It was then that I understood why he was quiet all the time.
Because I don’t work with an outline, writing a story is like crossing a stream, now I’m on this rock, now I’m on this rock, now I’m on this rock.
You have to figure out who the right person is to tell the story. And often, people who are very self-aware will only sound as if they are pontificating if they tell the story.
I’m not interested in breaking news. I’m interested in telling the story of what’s going on and then trying to figure it out.
Humans only really learn from each other by storytelling. We didn’t evolve to memorize things. We evolved to hear each other’s stories and feel them in our heart. Your life is the most powerful story you can tell.
The past doesn’t exist except as a memory, a mental story, and though past events aren’t changeable, your stories about them are. You can act now to transform the way you tell the story of your past, ultimately making it a stalwart protector of your future.
An autobiography is not about pictures; it’s about the stories; it’s about honesty and as much truth as you can tell without coming too close to other people’s privacy.
John say’s it’s James who started first, James tells the story in reverse. I drag my belt from off me waist, you should have heard dem screaming round de place.
Being a pastor for 20 years I realized that the labels, agnostic, atheist, believer, everybody’s human and everybody wants to know what kind of universe we’re living in, and everybody’s living according to a story.