Quotes of: Personal-story Keyword

The more details, depth and thought you put into your ideas the more valuable they become.

We All Need Heroes: Stories of the Brave and Foolish

Your heart is known in Heaven,” the angel said. “And all that you are.

Wilde Stories 2012: The Year’s Best Gay Speculative Fiction

...if you plan everything out completely from beginning to end, you destroy your chance for adventure.

The Wild Truth: The Untold Story of Sibling Survival

Thanksgiving was nothing more than a pilgrim-created obstacle in the way of Christmas; a dead bird in the street that forced a brief detour.

You Better Not Cry: Stories for Christmas

Our secrets, odd or not, are the pins that keep our inner life in place: the inform our psyche with meaning.

Zombification: Stories from National Public Radio

We learn best to listen to our own voices if we are listening at the same time to other women - whose stories, for all our differences, turn out, if we listen well, to be our stories also.

Barbara Deming

Sometimes I can tackle an issue -homelessness, tobacco litigation, insurance fraud, the death penalty - and wrap a good story around it. These are the best books, the ones with a story and a message.

John Grisham

I suppose that I was a kind of consultant for taste. Is it good taste? Or bad taste? I had an attention to detail, to what would tell best the story. Because many people get excited about the work and drift off from the story.

John Hench

On TV, stories and events are finalized in 30 or 60 minutes, or neatly tied up after a season or two. The best stories are the ones that force us to come to our own conclusions and to explain why we believe in our conclusions.

Lurlene McDaniel

Berg was proud of his storytelling to the point where he collected stories about telling stories.

The Catcher Was a Spy: The Mysterious Life of Moe Berg

Leadership is communicating to people their worth and potential so clearly that they are inspired to see it in themselves.

Turn the Ship Around!: A True Story of Turning Followers into Leaders

Technology makes people equal, it gives them a fair advantage.

The Feel Doctor: The Uncovered Story of the World's Most Dangerous Mind

He may really have been enjoying an embryonic composition of his own stimulated by mere hints in the book.

On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature

For one wild, glad moment we snapped the chain that binds us to earth, and joining hands with the winds we felt ourselves divine.

The Story of My Life

The key to cultivating confidence in ourselves is understanding our right to make the truth our own.

A Heart as Wide as the World: Stories on the Path of Lovingkindness

In order to do anything about the suffering of the world we must have the strength to face it without turning away.

A Heart as Wide as the World: Stories on the Path of Lovingkindness

While happiness is an end in itself, it is also the state of mind we can have right now.

A Heart as Wide as the World: Stories on the Path of Lovingkindness

Our practice rather than being about killing the ego is about simply discovering our true nature.

A Heart as Wide as the World: Stories on the Path of Lovingkindness

Vulnerability in the face of constant change is what we share, whatever our present condition.

A Heart as Wide as the World: Stories on the Path of Lovingkindness

Our path, our sense of spirituality demands great earnestness, dedication, sincerity & continuity.

A Heart as Wide as the World: Stories on the Path of Lovingkindness

Thinking we are only supposed to have loving & compassionate feelings can be a terrible obstacle to spiritual practice.

A Heart as Wide as the World: Stories on the Path of Lovingkindness