Top 1200 Success Story Quotes & Sayings - Page 14

I don't care whether the story is real or fantastical. I tell the story that needs to be told.

People love a good story, even if it's a story that has very little truth to it.

Every movie has three things you have to do - you have to have a compelling story that keeps people on the edge of their seats; you have to populate that story with memorable and appealing characters; and you have to put that story and those characters in a believable world. Those three things are so vitally important.

Any story that you tell about yourself causes suffering. There is no authentic story.

The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.

One of my standard - and fairly true - responses to the question as to how story ideas come to me is that story ideas only come to me for short stories. With longer fiction, it is a character (or characters) coming to visit, and I am then obliged to collaborate with him/her/it/them in creating the story.

The story of your life is really the story of the relations between yourself and God.

When you choose to write using yourself as the source of the story, you are choosing to confront all the silences in which your story has been protectively wrapped. Your job as a writer is to respectfully, determinedly, free the story from the silences and free yourself from both.

What writer wants to make compromises with story? Story is the only reason you're in it.

I choose this story above all others because it's a story I'm struggling to end.

I think a story should take as long to tell as it is appropriate to that particular story.

Plot is what happens in your story. Every story needs structure, just as every body needs a skeleton. It is how you 'flesh out and clothe' your structure that makes each story unique.

The story fails but your faith in the importance of doing the story doesn't fail.

I think it is vanity to want to put into a story anything but the story itself.

The story of humans is the story of ideas that shine light into dark corners.

As actors, we are selfish. When listening to a story, we think of the significance of our character in that story.

The Resurrection is the eucatastrophe of the story of the Incarnation - This story begins and ends in joy.

Trust me, I'm telling you stories. ... I can change the story. I am the story.

A story only matters, I suspect, to the extent that the people in the story change.

A romance is a courtship story. In the 19th century, the definition of the romance genre was an escape from daily life that included adventure and love and battle. But in the 20th century, that term changed, and now it's deemed only a love story, specifically a courtship story.

I know people heal by being able to tell the story - the whole story.

No matter what happens with technology or whether you're in traditional animation or stop-motion or CG, the biggest challenge always is story. The flow of making the movie is usually determined by how your story is coming together, and when your story is straining and you can't quite get your hands around it, your entire production is straining.

The creation story unfurling within the scientific enterprise provides the fundamental context, the fundamental arena of meaning, for all the peoples of the Earth. For the first time in human history, we can agree on the basic story of the galaxies, the stars, the planets, minerals, life forms, and human cultures. This story does not diminish the spiritual traditions of the classical or tribal periods of human history. Rather, the story provides the proper setting for the teachings of all traditions, showing the true magnitude of their central truths.

I'm telling the story, and if I can't tell the story, I'm not going to sing it. And if I don't agree with the story, and if I got to sing something that portrays me as something I'm not, then I'm not going to sing it either. I didn't even want to sing Aretha Franklin's 'Chain of Fools.'

And the moral of the story is that you don't remember what happened. What you remember becomes what happened. And the second moral of the story, if a story can have multiple morals, is that Dumpers are not inherently worse than Dumpees - breaking up isn't something that gets done to you; it's something that happens with you.

I would be lying if I'd say success and failure doesn't matter because they do. For now, my biggest joy is that I am able to bring you so much work, which I think is also a success.

One of the secrets of 'A Christmas Story' is that it's a relatable story. They feel like our family.

A story is open-ended. A story invites you into it to make your own meaning.

A story can be new and yet tell about olden times. The past comes into existence with the story.

And the Bible is not primarily a book of history. It is "His story," the story of God.

Sometimes if you can tell one personal story with a lot of sincerity, it can become a universal story.

But life is not a legend or a story. Reality is far more precious than a story.

Every story I do is about people. It's my survival instinct - one person, one story.

When you write you tell yourself a story. When you rewrite you take out everything that is NOT the story.

I don't think in terms of optimism and pessimism when writing a story. I am telling a story.

The bones of the story of 'War Horse' is a love story. That's what makes it universal.

I knew there was a story; once you find a dog with a fork through it, you know there's a story there.

Experimental novels are sometimes terribly clever and very seldom read. But the story that appeals to the child sitting on your knee is the one that satisfies the curiosity we all have about what happened then, and then, and then. This is the final restriction put on the technique of telling a story. A basic thing called story is built into the human condition. It's what we are; it's something to which we react.

I'm not at all sure dialogue is meant to advance the story; I know that sometimes it is the story.

I am a story teller and I take each story very seriously.

In fact, I don't even know myself. That is the big secret of the story. That there is no story.

You don't always have to have the most amazing story. It's learning to share the story you have that counts.

Everyone is treating it like a Hollywood story. In Madison, it's a neighborhood story.

The autobiographer looks at life through the lens of his or her own life and really uses herself or himself as the jumping-off place to examine the social mores and the economic and political climates. In a way, the autobiography becomes history as well as the story of one person, for it becomes the story of a family or the story of the state or nation.

He said to me I was a tree in a story about a forest, and that it was arrogant of me to believe any differently. And he told me the story of the forest is better than the story of the tree.

If you find a story that everybody likes and everybody relates to in some way, then you know you have a good story. But if you're telling a story and all the women are going, 'I'm checked out of this, I just don't really care,' then you're going to have some problems.

Pay and the story rolls. Steal and the story folds. No stealing from the blind newsboy.

A story must be told or there'll be no story, yet it is the untold stories that are most moving.

Behind every beautiful fur, there is a story. It is a bloody, barbaric story.

I would say a good leader brings results. A great leader writes a new story, it's different. Obviously a new story has to incorporate a lot of results. But a story is a chapter in the life of a company that people want to write and want to remember.

People are less focused on the story, and more on how the story is told.

A story really isn't truly a story until it reaches its climax and conclusion.

Moviemaking is about telling a story. And you need to know what story you are going to tell.

There's only so many ways to tell a story before the story gets boring.

My favorite roles usually have to do with the story, if it's a good story I usually enjoy doing the character.

I tasted huge success with my first album, and when it's happening it feels like a roller coaster you can't get off. You should be very careful about wishing for success on that scale.

Phunny Business is a breezy, vivid, funny, star-studded and delightful valentine to comedy, entrepreneurship and the All-American impulse to make something out of nothing. The story of comedy club owner/inveterate dreamer Raymond Lambert and his heroic quest to create a safe, productive place for black stand-up comedians to hone their craft and find their voices isn't just a great Chicago story and a great comedy story: it's a flat-out great story, lovingly and engagingly told.

I have always wanted to tell my story - or, more to the point, my side of the story.

If I had to choose between a relative and a good story, I would take the story.

The story of getting better can be just as compelling as the story of falling apart.