#telling

Because they feel that without them telling you to do this, you wouldn't have had the characters that you have, you wouldn't have the book that you have. ↗

— Dan DeCarlo

#book #characters #feel #had #telling

My training of cold-calling and everyone under the sun telling me no, and my keeping going, was a huge part of the first two years of Spanx. ↗

— Sara Blakely

#first #going #huge #keeping #me

My acting coach I've got here, Richard Lawson, he's been doing good, just telling me to calm down sometimes and just be me. ↗

— Kevin Durant

#been #calm #calm down #coach #doing

Things in life have no real beginning, though our stories about them always do. ↗

— Colum McCann

#life

We all have our own stories. The story you tell about yourself, even if you only tell it to yourself, drives your actions and has a significant impact on your focus. ↗

— Mani S. Sivasubramanian

#motivating-story #stories #story-teller #story-telling #motivational

Of course that is not the whole story, but that is the way with stories; we make them what we will. It’s a way of explaining the universe while leaving the universe unexplained, it’s a way of keeping it all alive, not boxing it into time. Everyone who tells a story tells it differently, just to remind us that everybody sees it differently. Some people say there are true things to be found, some people say all kinds of things can be proved. I don’t believe them. The only thing for certain is how complicated it all is, like string full of knots. It’s all there but hard to find the beginning and impossible to fathom the end. The best you can do is admire the cat’s cradle, and maybe knot it up a bit more. History should be a hammock for swinging and a game for playing, the way cats play. Claw it, chew it, rearrange it and at bedtime it’s still a ball of string full of knots. Nobody should mind. Some people make a lot of money out of it. Publishers do well, children, when bright, can come top. It’s an all-purpose rainy day pursuit, this reducing of stories called history. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

#money

There is a folk-tale about a shoemaker and his wife who were so poor that they had to send their many children out into the world to make a living. The lads went through many a perilous adventure but came home in the end, unscathed, to help their mother. They had always remembered their mother's advice and wise words; they often quoted them when they were in trouble, and in fact they recognized one another by them in foreign lands. The countless peoples of the world may be looked upon as so many children sent out into the world. They have gone through many adventures and hardships. They have drifted apart and fallen out with one another, on many occasions. They have failed to realize soon enough that they are brothers. But now it seems that they are beginning to realize this -- at least to the extent that they are able to get acquainted with each other's fundamental natures -- through their stories and songs. ↗

— Gyula Illyés

#folk-tales #hungarian #music #story-telling #music

You'll see some bad things, but if you didn't see them, they'd still be happening. ↗

— Paula Fox

#realism #slavery #truth #truth-telling #slavery

It would seem that the more irresponsible and crafty one is, the more likely one is to have a talent for storytelling. ↗

— Osamu Dazai

#japanese #storytelling #japan

In a myriad of ways you tell one truth. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#god #literature #literature-quotes #myriad #poems