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Yo I'm seventeen, already sniffin blow. I tell my friends its asthmary time I itch my throat, I got a new show for MTV, Pimp My Boat. — Tyler, The Creator

We tell stories. We talk about statistics. And in 1978, we added an element of the show that gave it its heartbeat: the long distance dedication. — Casey Kasem

If you tell me, I will listen. If you show me, I will see. If you let me experience, I will learn! — Laozi

Show me what a people admire, and I will tell you everything about them that matters. — Jack McDevitt

It is the business of economists, not to tell us what to do, but show why what we are doing anyway is in accord with proper principles. — Joan Robinson

You don't need anybody to tell you what is right or wrong. What you need, perhaps, is someone to show you how to come to those understandings. — Frederick Lenz

Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are. — Alfred Austin

Google is the enemy. I would tell that to anyone who enjoys any TV show like 'Game of Thrones' to avoid it; it spoils so many storylines. — Richard Madden

I was afraid of the dead, as was everyone I knew. We were afraid of the dead because we never could tell when they might show up again. — Jamaica Kincaid

The basic rule of storytelling is 'show, don't tell.' — Julianna Baggott

Who invented the human heart, I wonder? Tell me, and then show me the place where he was hanged. — Lawrence Durrell

Four Rules For Life Show up. Pay attention. Tell the truth. Don't be attached to the results. — Angeles Arrien

The Four Rules of Life:
1. Show Up 2. Pay Attention 3.Tell the Truth 4. Don't be upset at the results. — Bill Vaughan

Good writing is supposed to evoke sensation in the reader - not the fact that it is raining, but the feeling of being rained upon. — E.L. Doctorow

I try not to tell people how to live their lives. I try to show them.
-Tate — Tate Volino

When you're writing for a show, you're writing part of the script. You have to tell the story. — Adam Schlesinger

Our job is only to hold up the mirror - to tell and show the public what has happened. — Walter Cronkite

I don't want to tell people what to think. I just want to show people what I think. — Thu Tran

So tell me about you. The real you. Not the you that you show to people online. — Jodie Andrefski

I've read way too much on the overused/misunderstood buzzwords "Show, don't tell!" that I'm convinced all novels should now be picture books — Michael Kroft

Show the readers everything, tell them nothing. — Ernest Hemingway,

Don't tell 'em - SHOW 'em! — George M. Cohan

I would never tell myself, you have to write 20 pages today or something. But I do try to show up. Read what I wrote, fix things. — Celeste Ng

Tell me I can't so I can show you I CAN! — Ledisi

show, don't tell — Anonymous

I actually don't watch TV at all. If you asked me what my favorite TV show is, I couldn't tell you because I don't watch TV. — Jimmy Bennett

You know you made it, when people you know, tell people they know, that you know them. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

After you've been away, people's expectations are like, "Well, you better have something to show for it. Tell us why you've been away so long!" — Jazmine Sullivan

People may not tell you how they feel about you, but they always show you. Pay attention. — Keri Hilson

Show up. Pay attention. Tell the truth. Let go. — Sue Morter

The people who truly care about you won't have to tell you they care; they'll show you. — Steve Maraboli

Small movie, small role, giant movie, giant role. Work is work. You've got to tell the truth and show up. — Michael Keaton

Tell few about your dreams and show the rest in the way you make a life with it. — Nikki Rowe

Before you tell me what you teach and preach, show me how you live and give. — Cory Booker

Tears of my own begin to mix in with the raindrops, but I tell myself that the sky cries to show us that we can too. — Amanda Steele

I just wanted to be in show biz. I wanted to make music and sing and dance, tell jokes and stories, make ya smile, make ya cry - and charge you $ 8.50 — David Lee Roth

I hope you know I love you, not just because I tell you so at every opportunity, but because I show you so as often as the sun sets. — Richelle E. Goodrich

We don't really need reviewers, just first-night reporters who will tell us faithfully whether or not the audience liked the show. — Carroll O'Connor

You can show me some stick ice cream and I can tell you if it's good or not just looking at it. — O. Winston Link

I tried more than once to tell you, to communicate what I know. You did not or could not listen. You can not show to anyone what he has not seen. — William S. Burroughs

That as far as I can tell," Jenkins said, "it's not actually a very good show. — John Scalzi

Good fathers not only tell us how to live, they show us. — Mark Twain

It's not about what you tell your children, but how you show them how to live life. — Jada Pinkett Smith

To show don't tell and all that other writery crap. (Adopted-orphan smile, I mean, that's not bad, come on.) — Gillian Flynn

Not sure why you have to show me now, but okay. I'll just tell my penis to take a few hours off, go get a beer or something. -Rob Colter — Toni Blake

TELL THE WORLD WHAT YOU INTEND TO DO, BUT FIRST SHOW IT.This is the equivalent of saying deeds, and not words, are what count most. — Napoleon Hill

Show me what you can do; don't tell me what you can do. — John Wooden

I didn't think before that I'd done enough to justify publishing an autobiography but after 40 years in show business I'm now ready to tell my story. — Cilla Black

We do not tell - we show. We do not claim - we prove. — Ayn Rand

A woman scoffs at evidence. Show her the sun, tell her it is daylight, at once she will close her eyes and say to you, No, it is night. — Emile Gaboriau

'Big Bang Theory' is not my kind of show. It's not my humor. I don't like multicam comedies. I don't want an audience to tell me when to laugh. — Zachary Knighton

When people tell me nothing has changed, I say come walk in my shoes and I will show you change. — John Lewis

Anything over eight is strictly for show-and-tell — Linda Howard

We write not just to show off, not just to tell, or only to have written. We write to know ourselves. — Jane Yolen

Janine smiles. Strike the second sentence. Reader will know. Show, don't tell. — Gabrielle Zevin

If you wouldn't show or tell your mom, boss, and ex-boyfriend, then don't put it on Facebook. — Kelly Williams Brown

I say fuck the old advice 'show, don't tell.' It's called story TELLING for a reason, and I'll stick to it! — Ashly Lorenzana

Philosophers tell you what they think. Artists show you. — Marty Rubin

They call it coaching but it is teaching. You do not just tell them ... you show them the reasons. — Vince Lombardi

Don't tell me about your god with your words. Show me about your god with your actions. — Steve Maraboli

show me your friend and i'll tell you who you are — Mariam

You know you made it, when your friends tell their friends that you are their friend. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

One of the things I've always tried to do in filmmaking is that you don't tell the story, you try to show it. — Rick Heinrichs

If you tell a person about paradise,
It becomes a dream.
If you show a person paradise,
It becomes a goal! — Gabriel Madison

Show as much interest in what your children tell you as they have in telling you. — Wes Fesler

Boy, does that give you street cred for years after, if you tell people you were on 'The Larry Sanders Show!' — Janeane Garofalo

Show me proof there is a God, you say. I say use your telescopes to look to the heavens, and tell me how there could not be s God! — Dan Brown

She's running the show. Maybe she's just biding her time. So you talk to her. You tell her to take all the time she needs, but to come back. — Gayle Forman

No, you can't tell people anything, you've got to show 'em. — Bruce Springsteen

It's uh known fact ... you got tuh go there tuh know there. Yo' papa and yo' mama and nobody else can't tell yuh and show yuh. — Zora Neale Hurston