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We compose our life in stories we tell ourselves — John Geddes

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

We wanted - no, we needed - to tell our stories, and more importantly, we needed our stories to be heard. — Candace Fleming

Who are we but the stories we tell ourselves, about ourselves, and believe? — Scott Turow

I don't think we'll ever lose the desire for people to tell stories or to hear stories or to be entrapped in a beautiful story. — Kim Edwards

We, as producers, want to tell the best stories. We want to tell the stories that people will talk about. — Todd Lieberman

We don't only tell stories when we set out to tell stories, our memory tells us stories. That is, what we get to keep from our experiences is a story. — Daniel Kahneman

We choose perfumes for ourselves so we can tell the stories inside of us - the ones that we can't possibly put into words. — C. JoyBell C.

We all tell our stories the way we want to. And sometimes those stories have nothing to do with reality. — Danielle Ganek

Sometimes the stories we tell ourselves obscure our truths. — Ken Liu

Keep your Eyes on All that's Good and Beautiful and Possible in the World. Because "The Stories We Tell Create the People We Become. — Jacqueline Lewis

We all tell stories
to ourselves and to each other. Some of learn to tell only the most interesting bits. — Shannon Donnelly

Throughout our lives, after all, we look for a story of our origins, to tell us why we were born and why we have lived. — Umberto Eco

Scars tell stories of who we are and what we did. A person without marks hasn't done anything. — Kevin J. Anderson

I'm going to tell stories to the world. I think there's time for me to grow. We'll see. — Sasha Alexander

In the stories we tell ourselves, we tell ourselves. — Michael Martone

We are the only ones who can tell our stories because we are the only ones who have lived them. — Susan Wittig Albert

We tell the real truth of our life by the stories we repeatedly tell. — Mary Anne Radmacher

Reality never meets our wants, and adjusting both is why we tell stories. — Rabih Alameddine

Writing nonfiction means I tell people's stories for them, not because they're special but because we all are. — Jo Deurbrouck

We [people] are a species that's wired to tell stories. We need stories. It's how we make sense of things. It's how we learn. — Steven Soderbergh

If we were all as wise as we should be, we would have no stories to tell — Freeman Wills Croft

That's all beliefs are; stories we tell ourselves to stop being afraid. Beliefs have very little to do with the truth. — Adrian Walker

The best of fiction, as we know, of course, doesn't tell the truth; it tales the truth. — Criss Jami

We tell ourselves there are reasons for the things that happen, but we are just telling ourselves stories. We make them up. They don't mean anything — Nicola Yoon

The American formula things are out there but they don't have any stories to tell - we have all the stories to tell - but they're all formula. — Yahoo Serious

We tell each other stories to muffle the surprise of disappointment. — Kevin Moffett

We're definitely going to hell. But we'll have all the best stories to tell — Frank Turner

Everything we see in a Catholic church is there for a single purpose: to tell a love story. — Donald Wuerl

We are defined by the stories we tell ourselves. — Tony Robbins

Stories help shape the way we see ourselves in the world. They help tell us who we can be and what we can achieve. — Nicola Yoon

Maybe there are only three kinds of stories: those we live, those we tell, and those that help our souls fly upwards to a greater life. — Ben Okri

Lydia shrugged. "At least we'll have some stories to tell after graduation."
"These aren't the kind of stories I want to tell. — C.K. Walker

The biggest battle in life is to change the negative stories we tell ourselves — Melanie Greenberg

How impossible it is to forget the stories we tell ourselves, even when the truth should super-cede them. — Stephanie Danler

New technology is changing the way we can film. It's enabling us to get fresh new images and tell brand new stories. — Karen Bass

History is the stories we tell about the past. — Thomas King

If we don't tell strange stories, when something strange happens we won't believe it. — Shannon Hale

What are the lessons intended in the stories we tell to our children today? — Gloria D. Gonsalves

I believe we owe it to each other to tell stories. It's as close to a credo as I have or will, I suspect, ever get. — Neil Gaiman

The world we build tomorrow is born in the stories we tell our children today. Politics moves the pieces. Education changes the game. — Jonathan Sacks

Our lives are stories we tell ourselves. — Nancy Mairs

we become the stories we tell ourselves — Michael Cunningham

So certainly, if we can tell evil stories to make people sick, we can also tell good myths that make them well. — Rainer Werner Fassbinder

We all need mantras, I guess - stories we tell ourselves to keep us going. — Lauren Oliver

I think we need to tell stories that reflect our world. — Justin Theroux

Tests are stories we tell the next generation of programmers on a project. — Roy Osherove

A little self-doubt is a good thing," said Jia, "but not excessive doubt. Sometimes we live up to the stories others tell about us. — Ken Liu

The problem is, we're all using social networks as distribution instead of native platforms to actually tell stories. — Gary Vaynerchuk

That's what we do: tell made-up stories to fend off the night, to put off telling the truth. — Bernie Mcgill

I'm not a lawyer, but I do know this: we need to protect our ability to tell controversial stories. — Robert Redford

We need to continue to strive to tell these different stories. — Arwa Damon

Sometimes we tell our stories and sometimes our stories tell us. — Patti Callahan Henry

You're trying to bring a character to an audience, and tell stories. That's what we're all trying do. — Jonny Lee Miller

If we have people with the power to tell a story, there will always be readers. — Isaac Bashevis Singer

We tell each other stories in order to live. — Joan Didion

It sounds corny, but I think people need stories to process the world. That's our business. That's the job we're in. We tell stories. — Frank Spotnitz

I find that unless we are very, very careful there can be a difference between who we are and the stories we tell ourselves about who we are. I — Daniel Abraham

Real life is never so neat as the stories we choose to tell about it — Ken Dornstein

How complex, untrustworthy, and important our stories are. We will never tell you the true story of our lives. — Andy Quan

If we don't tell our own stories, no one else will. — Mira Nair

Perhaps we are on an insula ex machina, an artificial place not in the real world at all
a backdrop for the stories we must tell. — Kate Atkinson

Life is about Jesus. We are not here to tell our story, but His. — Francis Chan

Imagination only fails us in the end, when the stories we tell ourselves have to stop. — Joy Williams

The time is just right to take risks and tell stories the way we want to tell them. — Afia Nathaniel

Unless we learn how to humbly tell each other our giving stories, our churches will not learn to give. — Randy Alcorn

Entertainment is one of America's greatest exports. And the stories that we tell about people inform the world about how to think about people. — Kelly McCreary

Our lives follow the stories we tell ourselves. — Gina Greenlee

Stories are the untested, uninvestigated theories that tell us what all these things mean. We don't even realize that they're just theories. — Byron Katie

We tell rags-to-riches stories because we find something captivating in the idea of a lone hero battling overwhelming odds. — Malcolm Gladwell

Women tell stories; men want answers. Guys get impatient when we drone on forever; we get frustrated when they tune out. — Jenna McCarthy

When we, any of us who have been transformed by Christ, tell our own stories, we're telling the story of who God is. — Shauna Niequist

[Charles] Darwin, for example, is the one who made us face the fact that the primary way we tell the Christ story doesn't work anymore. — John Shelby Spong

History belongs to she who holds the pen ... If we don't tell our stories, they won't be told. — Julianne Malveaux

When we get jealous, we tell stories to ourselves about other people. Jealousy makes you look for intensity rather than accuracy. — Parul Sehgal

We are storytelling creatures, and as children we acquire language to tell those stories that we have inside us. — Jerome Bruner

We are story animals. And we need to tell our stories in as direct, as unmediated, and as emotionally resonant a way as possible. — Stephen Apkon

I'm sorry to burden you,' she said. She felt like a crybaby.
'What can we do with our stories,' he said, 'but tell them? — Sena Jeter Naslund

I think it's very improtant and healthy to tell differnt stories than the corporatist narratives we are being asked to swallow hook, line and sinker. — John Cusack

Actors tell stories and we play different characters, and not all of them are healthy. — Andrea Roth

We have to trust that our stories deserve to be told. We may discover that the better we tell our stories the better we will want to live them. — Henri Nouwen

To me and my kind life itself is a story and we have to tell it in stories - that is the way it falls. — Rumer Godden

And the stories we tell ourselves are not the only stories. — Erica Lorraine Scheidt

No, the thing is, we all love storytelling, and as a writer you get to tell stories all the time. — Joyce Carol Oates

Sex is important to guys. We need stories to tell our friends. — Adam Ferrara

Women know things that men will never know. We keep the best secrets. We tell the best stories. — Alice Hoffman

Heritage is a matter of the stories we choose to tell about our past, as well as the stories we overlook. — Steve Inskeep

I can tell you a dozen different stories. This is what we are: a collection of stories that we share, in common. This is what we are to each other. — Graham Joyce

If we had time and no money, living by our wits, what story would you tell? — Adrienne Rich

We tell stories to live, to love, to prosper and to fail. — Bill Willingham

it's the stories we tell ourselves that cause all the problems. If you look reality straight in the eye, you end up a lot less confused. — Nell Zink

Too often we tell kids pleasant stories devoid of truth, and stories without truth are not good stories. Our audience deserves more from us. — Mac Barnett

We started gearing our content more to what makes us laugh and stories we wanted to tell, and we had to decide, early on, to not be precious about it. — Mitchell Hurwitz

These are the stories that we tell ourselves and only ourselves, and they are better left unshared. — Jim Crace

We are the only animals that tell stories to understand the world we live in. — Salman Rushdie

Film is our literature, so we should tell stories that are apropos of our culture, in that we can learn something about ourselves. — David Strathairn

I think we all have a responsibility to tell good stories. — John Krasinski

The way we tell our life story is the way we begin to live our life. — Maureen Murdock

We are our stories. We tell them to stay alive or keep alive those who only live now in the telling. — Niall Williams

I'm quite interested in the absolute roots of narrative, why we tell stories at all: where the monsters come from. — Anne Enright