#stories

For four years, I listened to stories of intelligence failures, and it wasn't due to incompetence of anyone in the system, but that the system is so arcane. ↗

— Charles F. Bass

#arcane #due #failures #four #i

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. ↗

— Boris Becker

#autobiography #close #coming #honesty #much

I write about five thousand words a day, when working on a book, about three thousand a day if I'm writing a short story. I take long periods off between projects, when I read a lot, garden, and think about the next book or stories. ↗

— Eric Brown

#between #book #day #five #garden

There are just so many stories that are buried on family trees. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#family #just #many #stories #trees

Well, religion has been passed down through the years by stories people tell around the campfire. Stories about God, stories about love. Stories about good spirits and evil spirits. ↗

— Andrew Greeley

#around #been #campfire #down #evil

We all know that Social Security is one of this country's greatest success stories in the 20th century. ↗

— Mitch McConnell

#century #country #greatest #know #security

The best leaders... almost without exception and at every level, are master users of stories and symbols. ↗

— Tom Peters

#best #every #exception #leaders #level

I try to just talk about human stories and what I think about religion or teapots or whatever. ↗

— Eddie Izzard

#human #i #i think #just #religion

I love stories about two people who are doing illegal things, who we really enjoy watching despite the fact that we know they are doomed in some way. ↗

— Famke Janssen

#despite #doing #doomed #enjoy #fact

The main thing I do now is I coach kids, and all of these stories along the way are based in reality. ↗

— Craig Johnston

#based #coach #i #i do #kids