#story

I don't compete with other discus throwers. I compete with my own history. ↗

— Al Oerter

#history #i #my own #other #own

I grew up never seeing myself on-screen, and it's really important to me to give people who look like me a chance to see themselves. I want to see myself as the hero of any story. I want to see myself save the world from the bomb. ↗

— Sandra Oh

#bomb #chance #give #grew #hero

The fact of storytelling hints at a fundamental human unease, hints at human imperfection. Where there is perfection there is no story to tell. ↗

— Ben Okri

#fundamental #hints #human #imperfection #perfection

How are fears born? They are born because of differences in tradition and history; they are born because of differences in emotional, political and national circumstances. Because of such differences, people fear they cannot live together. ↗

— Ehud Olmert

#born #cannot #circumstances #differences #emotional

It's great if a pilot starts off great and if it doesn't start off so great it's not that big a deal: everybody's baby is born ugly. But you want to know, if given the opportunity: Where are we going? What's the story we're trying to tell? ↗

— Timothy Olyphant

#big #born #deal #everybody #given

We can learn from IBM's successful history that you don't have to have the best product to become number one. You don't even have to have a good product. ↗

— Adam Osborne

#best #even #good #history #ibm

The odds are always against you no matter what your previous history is. You have to overcome the tendency to relax. ↗

— Tom Osborne

#always #history #matter #odds #overcome

I believe that history has shape, order, and meaning; that exceptional men, as much as economic forces, produce change; and that passe abstractions like beauty, nobility, and greatness have a shifting but continuing validity. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#believe #change #continuing #economic #economic forces

My generation of bossy, confident, baby-boom women were something brand new in history. Our energy and assertiveness weren't created by Betty Friedan, unknown before her 1963 book, or by Gloria Steinem, whose political activism, as even the Lifetime profile admitted, did not begin until 1969. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#admitted #assertiveness #before #begin #betty

Minimalism seems closest to the sophisticated storytelling of movies. Movies have really educated contemporary audiences to be the most intelligent, sophisticated audiences in history. We don't any longer need to have the relationship between one scene and the next explained. We will figure it out ourselves. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#audiences #between #closest #contemporary #educated