Telling other people our life story changes us in a startling and profound way. The act of telling demands selection, prioritization, evaluation, and synthesis, which intellectual activities increase understanding, make us more sensitive to key distinctions in principles, and expand our empathy for other people.
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Related Memory is the way we keep telling ourselves our stories - and telling other people a somewhat differ... ALICE MUNRO I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES Storytellers, by the very act of telling, communicate a radical learning that changes lives and the ... CHRIS CAVANAUGH People from outside the neighborhood really have no place coming in and telling us what's good for o... LUKAS HERBERT I don't ever remember them telling us or teaching us that the only way we could be more successf... MARCO RUBIO Neuroscience makes us connect with each other at an emotional level. It makes us make friends. It ma... ABHIJIT NASKAR Recounting the narrative of our personal story in a methodical and chronological manner helps us see... KILROY J. OLDSTER Cinema is my religion. It is a way to make people sensitive, through emotions. To make them feel, ex... 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BURT BACHARACH As we grow and expand our retail and direct sales presence, so has our need to expand our distributi... DAVE PRESLEY It appeared to Harriet that she was always the one who remembered having seen other people. They nev... ELIZABETH TAYLOR The best way to teach people is by telling a story. KEN BLANCHARD Opinion is really the lowest form of human knowledge. It requires no accountability, no understandin... BILL BULLARD Animation offers a medium of story telling and visual entertainment which can bring pleasure and inf... WALT DISNEY Change begins with understanding and understanding begins by identifying oneself with another person... RICHARD EYRE No shortcomings of other people cause us to be more intolerant than those which are caricatures of o... FRANZ GRILLPARZER I think when people begin to tell their stories, everything changes, because not only are you legiti... EVE ENSLER A state of shock is what results when a gap opens up between events and our initial ability to expla... NAOMI KLEIN For most people, using the Internet broadens their sense of who 'we' is and actually ends up... ALEX STEFFEN Similar to a how a flower grows incrementally, people also blossom in stages. As we age, we expand o... KILROY J. OLDSTER I believe in one that all people are dreaming. This now, past and future is just a long dream, some ... DEYTH BANGER But in the past, US companies have been able to increase their profits through downsizing in the US,... DAVID KORTEN The people that were watching us for 10 years telling us why it wouldn't work and they wouldn't i... GEOFF SMITH What dooms our best efforts to cultivate empathy and compassion is always, of course, other people. TIM KREIDER Happiness is not a goal, it is a by-product. Paradoxically, the one sure way not to be happy is deli... ELEANOR ROOSEVELT For me, it's writing a book and telling people about this story. REBECCA SKLOOT A lot of people just kept coming to us and telling us they would like to learn Spanish. ESTHER HERRERA Struggles not only make us into stronger, better and wiser people, they also let us learn more about... OSCAR AULIQ-ICE The tsunami is a critical component in the telling of this story. It's a sensitive storytelling issu... JOHN DYKSTRA Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey 'people.' People say different things: so do... C.S. LEWIS Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey "people." People say different things: so do ... C. S. LEWIS Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey "people." People say different things: so do... C.S. LEWIS Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey "people." People say different things: so do ... C.S. LEWIS Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey 'people.' People say different things: so do ... C.S. LEWIS We must be able to love other people or forever endure the stain of disgraceful loneliness. By recog... KILROY J. OLDSTER The understanding of your position in Christ is the key to having power over finances, which for us ... SUNDAY ADELAJA There are so many lenses through which we look at life. There are so many lenses through which we pe... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH For me, the act of telling the story and showing it to somebody is almost gravy. JOSS WHEDON From a financial point of view, this is a healthy development for the communities we serve and our s... FRED POSTLEWAIT The act of putting pen to paper encourages pause for thought, this in turn makes us think more deepl... NORBET PLATT Our intonations contain our philosophy of life, what each of us is constantly telling himself about ... MARCEL PROUST The literary depiction of life and its moral dilemmas compel us to use our conscience, to make those... F. SIONIL JOSE We're living in a world where technology is a huge part of our lives, but it can be a blessing and a... JACQUELINE WHITMORE We all wish something or other in our life in our own way, but God have other plans and they are bes... PRAVIN AGARWAL The most human thing we have to do in life is is to learn to speak our honest convictions and feelin... LEO F. BUSCAGLIA Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey 'people.' People say different things... C. S. LEWIS We use (narration) as he's just telling us a story. He could be in a bar somewhere telling the story... GREG GARCIA Well, I think for those of us that are in it, as we make our profession this way, we're not probably... ALAN CULPEPPER Menders of all times and places have taught that silencing the thoughts in our heads and opening to ... MARTHA N. BECK If we wish to know about a man, we ask 'what is his story--his real, inmost story?'--for each of us ... OLIVER SACKS It is awareness of both our shared pain and our longing for happiness that links us to other people ... SHARON SALZBERG We already had a single serve size in our 187 ml glass bottles and believed that adding PET would on... WENDY NYBERG Don't tell people to act their age. It's like telling a baby to move out, and if they're older you'r... DEVIN J. MONROE Every social justice movement that I know of has come out of people sitting in small groups, telling... GLORIA STEINEM Autobiography is an unrivaled vehicle for telling the truth about other people. PHILIP GUEDALLA Autobiography is an unrivalled vehicle for telling the truth about other people. PHILIP GUEDALLA A story is based on what people think is important, so when we live a story, we are telling people a... DONALD MILLER Story telling or teachable moments, provides us with a vast reference base of real life antidotes fo... DREXEL DEAL We have to face the unpleasant as well as the affirmative side of the human story, including our own... BILL MOYERS Birthdays are God’s way of telling us to eat more chocolate cake. FEMALE IMAGINATION Empathy is the ability to step outside of your own bubble and into the bubbles of other people. Empa... C. JOYBELL C. A healthy human environment is one in which we try to make sense of our limits, of the accidents tha... ROWAN WILLIAMS It's not violent. It doesn't show the act of putting people onto the trains. But we know what happen... MARC ASH The Torah is the foundational text for Jewish law, but the Haggadah is our book of living memory. We... JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER Beating Judson at their place, when a lot of people were telling us that was the best team around, g... JEFF MARLOW The more stories I study, the more I begin to suspect that there is only one story, and that ... J. ALEKSANDR WOOTTON Don't you ever wonder why we say we're giving someone our heart and not our liver or some other orga... JOY MANISCALCO ... each of us describes our existence by means of objects which are indifferent to us, which surviv... ANDREW MOTION Ever since I can remember I was telling stories and had a huge interest in other people and what mad... CANDACE BUSHNELL Life is neither a glorious highlight reel nor a monstrous tragedy. Every day is a good day to live a... KILROY J. OLDSTER All of us, at certain moments of our lives, need to take advice and to receive help from other peopl... ALEXIS CARREL Our key to greatness lies not in our ability to project ourselves to others as if we are putting our... C. JOYBELL C. People are always telling women to lose weight, and then when they do, other women attack them for i... CANDACE BUSHNELL It is up to each one of us to immunize ourselves from any disabling bolts of anger and defend oursel... KILROY J. OLDSTER It was more daunting taking on the characters of Baby and Johnny, and making people believe we were ... KYM VALENTINE When other people reject positive changes you make for yourself, there is always some nerve to get t... , I GOT THIS: HOW I CHANGED MY WAYS AND LOST WHAT WEIGHED ME DOWN, 2012 Our research was telling us viewers in our market are getting plenty of local news, local, local, if... RANDY SMITH It's not something that's unique to McGill; it is out there. And in order for us to ensure that we h... JENNIFER ROBINSON Writers use both their blood and their brains to explore the darkest recesses of their pooling self.... KILROY J. OLDSTER My views in my early 20’s and kept me separate from those around me. Those views were all about ma... CORIN Our Spitzer data, combined with data obtained by other telescopes, will allow us to determine which ... DR. SUSAN STOLOVY Self-slaughter is an extravagant enactment of feeling sorry for oneself. Suicide is stingy act, beca... KILROY J. OLDSTER We see a major increase in organizations that use the MAC OS and Linux platforms and are seeking to ... SHLOMI YANAI When we, any of us who have been transformed by Christ, tell our own stories, we’re telling the st... SHAUNA NIEQUIST I took it as an insult. I mean, they come in and they tell us that. Some people didn't have us in th... TYLER HANSBROUGH Labour-saving devices just make us try to cram more pointless activities into each day, rather than ... TOM HODGKINSON People kept telling us that everything is going to Mississippi and Louisiana and they feel forgotten... KAREN VANHYFTE Coach is always telling us a story about the past teams. GARY ROBINSON The continued decrease in prices and increase in capacity of the hard disk storage space as well as ... LIM BOON CHUAN Our life is what our thoughts make it. A man will find that as he alters his thoughts toward things ... JAMES ALLEN Acting on our interests refines our understanding of what we are good at and what we value. The expe... MARIAN DEEGAN I get enraged when people start telling other people how to live their lives. BRAD PITT
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Each day we witness the plenteous gifts of nature. Even following the most bitter... KILROY J. OLDSTER Stored personal memories along with handed down collective memories of stories, legends, and history... KILROY J. OLDSTER A person must never live a lie. We free ourselves to live a full life by discovering the courage to ... KILROY J. OLDSTER Because survival and love are the immortal truths of humankind, no generation is a total stranger to... KILROY J. OLDSTER How to earn a viable standard of living while giving vent to their desire to perform creative activi... KILROY J. OLDSTER A person of large dreams does not allow other people’s opinion to damper his or her zestfulness. O... KILROY J. OLDSTER Large families are communities unto their own. KILROY J. OLDSTER We learn to love by basking in the love of other people. We learn how to express our love and our wa... KILROY J. 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OLDSTER A person must face the root cause of their relentless personal pain. Irrespective of whatever bricks... KILROY J. OLDSTER The dimension of space and time, represented by what is transpiring in the here and now, is all that... KILROY J. OLDSTER The impeccable watchmaker geared the noble self to suffer. The ineluctable part of being human is pe... KILROY J. OLDSTER No person can escape the germs of their eventual deterioration and destruction. A round-table of phy... KILROY J. OLDSTER Every unpleasant worldly experience in life exposes our sensitive nervous systems to painful phenome... KILROY J. OLDSTER A shaman and a writer each serve as their communities’ seers by engaging in extraordinary acts of ... KILROY J. OLDSTER Families share relationships based not only blood, but also the unique affiliation of a terribly lon... KILROY J. OLDSTER Every person struggles with the self to find and kindle their special radiance, which comes from cul... KILROY J. OLDSTER The mysteries of life include the external and the internal conundrums that each person encounters i... KILROY J. OLDSTER We are what comes to us and by what we choose to fulfill. We learn love by experiencing other people... KILROY J. OLDSTER Inside each of us is a deep well of translucent water. A fluidity of thoughts and luminous feelings ... KILROY J. OLDSTER Human history is the ancient story of the umbilical conflict between a lone individual versus a caba... KILROY J. OLDSTER Dissimilar from acquiring riches and fame, which are largely products of providence, we self-manufac... KILROY J. OLDSTER A person whom works exclusively for money places a price tag on his or her soul. A person whom labor... KILROY J. OLDSTER Original sin is a self-initiating act because it evidences human free will. If humanity were devoid ... KILROY J. OLDSTER Our personal experiences and mental reasoning skills establish the range of our perception of realit... KILROY J. OLDSTER People exercise the freedom to present themselves from a vast array of precepts. The modern human mi... KILROY J. OLDSTER Original sin and conscious awareness of human fallibility is the perpetual agent of transformation i... KILROY J. OLDSTER Many aspects of the human condition are beautiful and many others are vile. Betrayal and personal ag... KILROY J. OLDSTER No one wants to occupy a black hole of sadness and despair or slip on the tight rope that separates ... KILROY J. OLDSTER An inexhaustible capacity to engage in sin is what makes human beings capable of living a virtuous l... KILROY J. OLDSTER A person whom is dissatisfied with the existing constitution of the self might wish to eradicate the... KILROY J. OLDSTER The ego is the culmination of our preferences and dislikes. Our ego represents the firm edges of how... KILROY J. OLDSTER Aristotle declared that, ‘It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought wit... KILROY J. OLDSTER We live mindfully by harvesting evocative scenes to pay attention to including the mountains and oce... KILROY J. OLDSTER A person tied to the world of sorrows can return to nature for inspiration. Nature provides solace t... KILROY J. OLDSTER All overt and covert emotions would shrivel without the beam of contrast and comparison to supply co... KILROY J. OLDSTER Writing is mental exercise and the preeminent method to train the mind to achieve a desirable state ... KILROY J. OLDSTER Life flows at ease whenever a person ceases complaining about the past, worrying about the future, l... KILROY J. OLDSTER The goal of all principled people is to recognize truth. Simple or complex thoughts and feelings sta... KILROY J. OLDSTER We write our personal story as intermittent authors; the narrator is always searching for a unitive ... KILROY J. OLDSTER The foremost calling of the human brain is to script a safe, secure, and joyous future for a person. KILROY J. OLDSTER