Quotes about Telling Our Stories

The same basic tools we've used for thousands of years to connect with people, to draw them in and to hold their attention will always work, even if we're telling our stories 140 characters at a time. Votes: 4

The healing that can grow out of the simple act of telling our stories is often quite remarkable. Votes: 3

In constructing our narratives, we identify which particular events or experiences were formative or transformative. In telling our stories, we also claim some authority over our own experiences and their meanings. Votes: 3

I don't think everyone wants to create the great American novel, but we all have a dream of telling our stories-of realizing what we think, feel, and see before we die. Writing is a path to meet ourselves and become intimate. Votes: 3

Our stories arise from our hearts and our souls. In this sense, telling our stories becomes a sacred gesture, opening a clear way to that deep, ecstatic center where we are most uniquely our selves, individual and unique, and yet are ourselves, joined together at the heart. Votes: 3

Essentially, the life of expression is the ongoing journey of how we heal each other... for by telling our stories and listening to the stories of others, we let out who we are and find ourselves in each other, and find that we are more together than alone. Votes: 3

Swimming has been a very effective medium for telling a story about the state of our planet. Votes: 2

We need art. We've been telling stories since the beginning. As human beings, we need it for our survival. Votes: 2

The unutterable violence of the Holocaust shook our confidence in the possibility of telling any story of faith at all. Votes: 2

Memory is the way we keep telling ourselves our stories - and telling other people a somewhat different version of our stories. Votes: 2

I still have nightmares of dead comrades, a long time ago, talking to me. 'Emmanuel, don't forget about us, don't give up, keep telling our story.' Votes: 2

Telling Alan Turing's story in a two-hour film was a tremendous challenge. It felt in some small way like our filmmaking version of breaking the enigma code. Votes: 2

We are essentially in the business of telling stories. We would like to think that most of our stories are basically human stories with sports as a backdrop. Votes: 2

Women don't have to be defined by others. We have the power to define ourselves: by telling our own stories, in our own words, with our own voices. Votes: 2

I work with gold that holds our past and diamonds that see the future and rubies that long for love. It's just a way of telling a story. Votes: 2

Maybe our telling of the story wasn't as clear as it should have been, but I don't think that's true. In terms of understanding the story, it comes across. Votes: 2

We do long-form-style improv. Our focus was characters and telling a long arc story over about an hour and a half. It was closer to a one-act play than one-off sketches. Votes: 2

I'm great at telling stories with the kids. I do all my different accents. We make our own stories up all the time, the four of us, me and Hannah and the kids. Votes: 2

Crime stories are our version of sitting round a camp fire and telling tales. We enjoy being scared under safe circumstances. That's why there's no tradition of crime writing in countries that have wars. Votes: 2

Marvel does a fantastic job about bringing human stories - because you're telling big stories with a heart at the centre of it - and that's what connects all of the characters to our audience members. Votes: 2

I need to keep my story count high. I'm trying to get as many stories in my hour as is humanly possible. We're telling more stories in our hour than any national newscast has in the history of this business, I think. Votes: 2

Michelle and I don't want anyone telling us who our family's doctor should be - and no one should decide that for you either. Under our proposals, if you like your doctor, you keep your doctor. If you like your current insurance, you keep that insurance. Period, end of story. Votes: 2

I think, in the grand epic, Jesus is the hero of our stories. And our stories, as they were, are subplots in a grand epic and our job is not to be the hero of any story. Our job is to be a saint in a story that he is telling. Votes: 2

I'm a New Zealand actor, and I really want to be doing our stuff here, and our stuff includes plays from overseas. In terms of survival, maybe I should have taken a shot elsewhere at some point, but it gets back to the same theme - we should have our own people telling our own stories. Votes: 2

I grew up in Sierra Leone, in a small village where as a boy my imagination was sparked by the oral tradition of storytelling. At a very young age I learned the importance of telling stories - I saw that stories are the most potent way of seeing anything we encounter in our lives, and how we can deal with living. Votes: 2

We are our stories. We tell them to stay alive or keep alive those who only live now in the telling. Votes: 0

I had been writing since I was pretty small, and I've always been telling these stories about doors and finding other worlds within our own. Votes: 0

The telling and hearing of stories is a bonding ritual that breaks through illusions of separateness and activates a deep sense of our collective interdependence. Votes: 0

Telling our stories is what saves us. The story is enough... The very act of storytelling, of arranging memory and invention according to the structure of narrative is, by definition, holy. Votes: 0