Quotes of: Personal-story Keyword

Stories are epically important to how we view and interact in the world around us. We define ourselves, our abilities and even our goals by the stories we believe and share. These stories become part of our personal view of our world.

Lyssa Danehy deHart

A person’s tragedy does not make up their entire life. A story carves deep grooves into our brains each time we tell it. But we aren't one story. We can change our stories. We can write our own.

Amy Poehler

Theirs was a long, complicated story with a monster and a knight. What made their story unique was that these two players were the same person.

Convicted

They had only ever discussed books but what, in this life, is more personal than books?

The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry

There is no past. Past is present when you carry it with you.

Sybil: The Classic True Story of a Woman Possessed by Sixteen Personalities

The American story is a story of immigration. I would be the last person who would say immigrants are not important to America.

Phil Gramm

I just heard a very funny story about somebody who died yesterday, I'm sorry to say so but it was so absurd that you can't help laughing. And the person that was concerned about that story was laughing too.

Sophie Marceau

The story of Willie Stark fascinated me because it was tackling the story of a man who outwardly has all the success one could possibly want and who is destroyed by his personal demons.

Carlisle Floyd

I think that all stories - if you make movies about zombies and aliens - it has always to do with your personal story. If not directly, it is about your fears, your obsessions, things like that.

Marjane Satrapi

I think we do have our true, original stories that work. I can tell you that 'The King's Speech,' which we did, became a worldwide smash because people loved the personal story.

Harvey Weinstein

I have an idea for a story, and if the idea is going to work, then one of the characters steps forward, and I hear her voice telling the story. This is what has happened with all the books I've written in the first person.

Laurie Graham

Saved or searching, we all need to be reminded of God’s interest in us individually and His love for us personally.

Get Personal: The Importance of Sharing Your Faith Story

It is your personal story that makes you relatable. Not assigning judgment, or pressing blame. Your story, wrapped in God, around his Word, and what he has done in your life will safely lead women home.

When a Woman Finds Her Voice: Overcoming Life's Hurts & Using Your Story to Make a Difference

Jung Chang was the first person to tell a grand historical, political story through a personal narrative.

Aminatta Forna

It is my own personal opinion that for someone to state that an autistic person 'lacks empathy' is to declare ignorance of the reality of autism.

Autism and the World According to Matt: A collection of 50 inspirational short stories on raising a moderate / severe mostly non-verbal autistic child from diagnosis to independence

People should never surprise you. Humans have basic animal drives that are going to make people predictable. Don’t let them shock you. A person is too easily predicted. Now, Shirley listen closely. There are wolves and there are sheep. Most people ...

The Untold Story of Shirley Holmes

I'm never really upset when a person lies because I don't place much value in truths. When you look at the grand design, you realize that there are no truths, only stories. In other words, the only truth is that we are all stories. Lies are just part...

Lionel Suggs

What a stupid attitude we have in this country to personal stories.

Amanda Burton

The Odyssey is the story of someone who, in the course of diverse experiences, acquires a personality or affirms and recovers his personality.

Raymond Queneau

Mine is just a simple old human story - of one person trying, with great rigor and discipline, to comprehend her personal relationship with divinity.

Elizabeth Gilbert

Someday, you may think of marrying. Pick someone who thinks you're the only person in the room.

The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry