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Quotes about Story

Poetry is the story of your life set to verse.

Mr. Prophet
Source: Mr. Prophet speaks
Contributed by: Mr. Prophet. More quotes added by Mr. from all sources
More quotes about: poetry, story, life, verse
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There is not one big cosmic meaning for all, there is only the meaning we each give to our life, an individual meaning, an individual plot, like an individual novel, a book for each person.

Anais Nin (1903 - 1977)
 
Contributed by: Janet. More quotes added by Janet from all sources
More quotes about: womenswisdom, living, individuality, story, meaning
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"I believe that there is only one story in the world...Humans are caught--in their lives, in their thoughts, in their hungers and ambitions, in their avarice and cruelty, and in their kindness and generosity too--in a net of good and evil...A man, after he has brushed off the dust and chips of his life, will have left only the hard, clean question: Was it good or was it evil? Have I done well--or ill?"

John Ernst Steinbeck : American novelist
John Steinbeck (1902 - 1968)
Source: East of Eden
Contributed by: Hannah Choe. More quotes added by hannah from all sources
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every story has an end,but in life every end is just a new begining.

unknown : Gaia Explorer
unknown
 
Contributed by: Jade. More quotes added by Jade from all sources
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I think that while markets are conversations, marketing is a story. Starbucks creates conversations among customers, so does Apple. The NYSE makes a fortune permitting people to interact with each other. But great marketing is storytelling, and if you’ve been to a Broadway show lately, you’ll notice that audience participation is discouraged. That doesn’t mean that great playwrights don’t listen! They do. They, like great marketers, listen relentlessly. They engage in offline conversations constantly. They poll and they do censuses and most important, they have true conversations with small groups of real people. But THEN, they tell a story.

Seth Godin : Gaia Explorer
Seth Godin
Source: Ten Questions with Seth Godin: http://blog.guykawasaki.com/2006/08/ten_questions_w.html
Contributed by: ~C4Chaos. More quotes added by ~C4Chaos from all sources
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Over the course of the millennia, all these ancestors in your tree, generation upon generation, have come down to this moment in time-to give birth to you. There has never been, nor will ever be, another like you. You have been given a tremendous responsibility. You carry the hopes and dreams of all those who have gone before. Hopes and dreams for a better world. What will you do with your time on this Earth? How will you contribute to the ongoing story of humankind?

Laurence Overmire
Source: Poet, Playwright, Actor, Educator, Genealogist
Contributed by: WideAwake. More quotes added by WideAwake from all sources
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No story is devoid of meaning ... If you know how to look for it.

Daniel Quinn : Gaia Child
Daniel Quinn
Source: My Ishmael
Contributed by: Tanya K Noegel. More quotes added by Tanya from this | all sources
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Often one of the stumbling blocks to living a simpler life is our inability or unwillingness to change how we play some of the games that got us into these complicated lives in the first place.

Elaine St. James
 
Contributed by: Mary. More quotes added by Mary_C from all sources
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Telling a story without an obstacle for your hero to overcome is like watching paint dry. It's boring.

Director Tom : Corporate 'Consciousness' Filmmaker
Thomas Clifford
 
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Your Story = Your Brand!

Director Tom : Corporate 'Consciousness' Filmmaker
Thomas Clifford
 
Contributed by: Thomas Clifford. More quotes added by Director Tom from all sources
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"In few people is discretion stronger than the desire to tell a good story."

Murasaki Shikibu
 
Contributed by: Eleigh. More quotes added by Eleigh from all sources
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Milarepa had searched everywhere for enlightenment, but could find no answer - until one day, he saw an old man walking slowly down a mountain path, carrying a heavy sack. Immediately, Milarepa sensed that this old man knew the secret he had been desperately seeking for many years.

'Old man, please tell me what you know. What is enlightenment?'

The old man smiled at hime for a moment, and swung the heavy burden off his shoulders, and stood straight.

'Yes, I see!' cried Milarepa. 'My everlasting gratitude. But please, one question more. What is after enlightenment?'

Smiling again, the old man picked up the sack once again, lunged it over his shoulders, steadied his burden, and continued on his way.

Dan : One World Guy
Dan Millman
Contributed by: Gaia Team. More quotes added by Gaia Team from this | all sources
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What shames us, what we most fear to tell, does not set us apart from others; it binds us together if only we can take the risk to speak it.

Starhawk
Contributed by: Welcome Wagon. More quotes added by welcome wagon from this | all sources
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The quick and easy way to stop people from repeating themselves in any situation, especially in the workplace is to simply say You’ve told me that story before, and it’s an excellent story, and repeat the lesson or point you took from that story the first time you heard it.

Mitch : Gatsby
Mitch Thrower
Source: "The Attention Deficit Workplace" by Mitch Thrower
Contributed by: Mitch Thrower. More quotes added by Mitch from all sources
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"Stories are medicine.
They have such power; they do not require that we do, be, act anything -
we need only listen"

Clarisa Pinkola Estes
Source: Clarisa Pinkola Estes
Contributed by: Samme "Prince Samwise" Samareta. More quotes added by Samme from all sources
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