We all have our own stories. The story you tell about yourself, even if you only tell it to yourself, drives your actions and has a significant impact on your focus.
Mani S. Sivasubramanian
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JONES Sometimes you have to let others tell their story about you...even if most of it is fabricated. Your... SANJOY DASGUPTA JENDAYI Sometimes you have to let others tell their story about you...even if most of it is fabricated. Your... SANJO JENDAYI It's great to go on your own and discover new things just for yourself, to meet new people and a... DIDO ARMSTRONG Your thoughts only tell you what you want, but your actions tell you what you get. TROY FONTANA You are a confabulatory creature by nature. You are always explaining to yourself the motivations fo... DAVID MCRANEY Your joys and sorrows. You can never tell them. You cheapen the inside of yourself if you do tell th... GRETA GARBO If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people. VIRGINIA WOOLF You’re nobody’s doorway but your own, and the only one who gets to tell you how your story ends ... SEANAN MCGUIRE There are many things in your heart you can never tell to another person. They are you, your private... GRETA GARBO If your life is a blank page, that only means you have room to write your story. You have the power ... THEA HARRISON Once you allow yourself to identify with the people in a story, then you might begin to see yourself... CHINUA ACHEBE You wanted things and you couldn't help it, because there was only your life, only yourself to wake ... EMMA CLINE If you have to tell a story without speaking, it's sort of like - I come from a dance background... SAMI GAYLE It is important to tell good stories. You can tell stories even if they are not huge, epic, and wond... AJAY NAIDU I categorically resist this idea that films are supposed to be autobiographical and the only stories... STEPHEN DALDRY You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly abo... ANNE LAMOTT If I tell you that I have seen the alien, you won't believe me, or at least you will ask for my expl... TOBA BETA If it's a story I'm telling, then I have control over the ending... But if it's a story, even i... MARGARET ATWOOD Read whatever book you lay your hands on if you can, for every writer has a story to tell BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA I wish I could just go tell all the young women I work with, all these fabulous women, 'Believe ... SHERYL SANDBERG How you look at yourself sets the standard for all current and future relationships. If you can’t ... AVINA CELESTE We're all going to keep telling love stories, we're all going to tell hero stories. It's... ANDREW STANTON You don't have to tell me what your limits are when the decisions you make, your actions and body la... MARLAN RICO LEE Tell me about yourself your struggles, your dreams, your telephone number. PETER ARNO Tell me about yourself - your struggles, your dreams, your telephone number. PETER ARNO Tell me about yourself your struggles, your dreams, your telephone number. PETER ARNO A good way to make children tell the truth is to tell it yourself. Keep your word with your child th... ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL Just tell yourself a story that'll satisfy you and pretend he told it. CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE I am aware that everyone that exists has a story, and we all exist because that story is important f... ARZELL I tell my clients to feel powerful - you and only you own your power. You are the one who can make y... JESSIE PAVELKA I've read that if an avalanche buries you and you're lying there underneath all that snow, you can't... KHALED HOSSEINI You should tell yourself frequently 'I will only react to constructive suggestions.' This gi... JANE ROBERTS If you change the way you tell your own story, you can change the colour and create a life in techni... ISABEL ALLENDE In the journal of life, you can only read and understand your past and live in the present. But your... RODEL NATIVIDAD CASIO I call it ?album-making? because all you have to do is put the pictures on and tell your story. DANA SHIELDS It's great to go on your own and discover new things just for yourself, to meet new people and all t... DIDO ARMSTRONG Tell your story to the universe and Let your actions speak LOVE.' No matter what it is. NAPZ CHERUB PELLAZO Know that any and all thoughts that you have regarding your own skills, interests, and inclinations ... WAYNE DYER You are the only best friend of yourself. Because you are the only one who knows about yourself as n... NISHI DE SILVA Take full responsibility of yourself, of your actions and of your inaction. It is only when you can ... AKIROQ BROST If somebody gave you several thousand dollars and nothin' to do but write, would you be a writer... DOROTHY ALLISON If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet ... RAINER MARIA RILKE If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet ... RAINER MARIA RILKE Your self-image tells about what you think about yourself and how you appear to yourself in your own... ISRAELMORE AYIVOR My life has been such a blur since I was 18, 19 years old. I haven't even had time to contemplat... GRANT ACHATZ Start with familiar fairy tales or Bible stories or old folk tales or ancient myths and legends. You... PRISCILLA HOWE Believe in yourself, even if other people tell you, you're crazy. LILY CHATTERJEE It takes a hell of a lot of courage to walk into your own story, but to be the hero of your own life... SHANNON L. ALDER Practically speaking, your religion is the story you tell about your life. ANDREW GREELEY If you make your best friend and your significant other the same person, you don't have to disco... NIECY NASH Practice being kinder to yourself. Practice celebrating your accomplishments. Practice complimenting... AKIROQ BROST By telling stories, you objectify your own experience. You separate it from yourself. You pin down c... TIM O'BRIEN Did your mom ever tell you, ‘If you can’t say something nice, don’t say anything’? She was r... VICTORIA MORAN Tell me about a movie you saw and you tell me nothing about the movie but everything about yourself. MICHAEL GOWELL Everybody comes to film differently; everybody has different backgrounds. Just find whatever your la... F. GARY GRAY If you never tell anyone the truth about yourself, eventually you start to forget. CASSANDRA CLARE I think that all stories - if you make movies about zombies and aliens - it has always to do with yo... MARJANE SATRAPI Only you can hold yourself back, only you can stand in your own way. Only you can help yourself. MIKHAIL STRABO love is when you cant control it. No matter how much your try and tell yourself to stop, your heart ... RACHEL LYNNE Power, Control, Money, Fame, all on which you lose yourself to achieve forgetting all about your own... JEFFREY LEE GIBSON JR. Tell your story. Don't try and tell the stories that other people can tell. Any starting writer star... NEIL GAIMAN It is a miracle if you can find true friends, and it is a miracle if you have enough food to eat, an... LEMONY SNICKET I tell my students based on my experiences in Hollywood, sure, you can always move to L.A. and try t... TANANARIVE DUE When you are angry you will find that you have lost yourself. You have lost yourself to outside forc... AVINA CELESTE You can make yourself feel better about yourself if you project your shadow side, if you project you... JENNIFER BEALS You're back where you swore yourself you wouldn't be The familiar shackles you can't tell from ... SANHITA BARUAH At the time I thought what I had with you and your mother was better than nothing. But if you can't ... 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JIM GENOVESE If you're a writer, write. You just keep writing. And if you're a filmmaker, you keep doing ... DANA BRUNETTI I think theatre to some extent is always about telling stories, isn't it, and I think what I'... EVE ENSLER The prestige you acquire by being able to tell your friends that you know famous men proves only tha... WILLIAM SOMERSET MAUGHAM You are your own believer in yourself only if you dream big and reach for stronger heights. JEFFREY LEONARD It's OK to joke about yourself and have self-perspective, but, like, when you constantly put you... TOVE LO The only person that can tell you 'you cannot' is yourself, and you do not have to listen. ADVERTISEMENT If you are alone, tell some stories to yourself. This is a different kind of pleasure and it has, in... CHARLES NODIER I think when people begin to tell their stories, everything changes, because not only are you legiti... EVE ENSLER If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, then you will... ROLLO MAY I hear actors complain about being stereotyped, and a lot of the time, you have yourself to blame. J... JOHN C. REILLY You can't believe everything people tell you - not even if those people are your own brain. JEFFERSON SMITH Start today creating a vision for yourself, your life, and your career. Bounce back from adversity a... GERMANY KENT Start today creating a vision for yourself, your life, and your career. Bounce back from adversity a... GERMANY KENT If you are not able to express your own original energy and ideas, if you do not listen to your own ... SUNDAY ADELAJA Self worth is how you perceive yourself, how you talk about yourself, and how you represent yourself... DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA You've got to invest your own time, invest your own resources into creating a better world, not ... AUSTIN SEFERIAN-JENKINS
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RAMACHANDRAN My mother was religious; she was knowledgeable about mythology and scriptures; she could tell the me... VILAYANUR S. RAMACHANDRAN My interests span biology, though sometimes I feel like an anachronism, somebody from the Victorian ... VILAYANUR S. RAMACHANDRAN You need to have tremendous confidence in your work, even a touch of arrogance, chutzpah. Many very ... VILAYANUR S. RAMACHANDRAN If you're a thinking person, the liver is interesting, but nothing is more intriguing than the b... VILAYANUR S. RAMACHANDRAN You can't just take an image and randomly distort it and call it art - although many people in L... VILAYANUR S. RAMACHANDRAN Lofty questions about the mind are fascinating to ask, philosophers have been asking them for three ... VILAYANUR S. RAMACHANDRAN Our ability to perceive the world around us seems so effortless that we tend to take it for granted. VILAYANUR S. RAMACHANDRAN If we knew about the real facts and statistics of mortality, we'd be terrified. VILAYANUR S. RAMACHANDRAN Everyone knows that metaphors are important, yet we have no idea why. VILAYANUR S. RAMACHANDRAN When I speak of artistic universals, I am not denying the enormous role played by culture. Obviously... VILAYANUR S. RAMACHANDRAN The minute you succumb to outside pressure, you cease to be creative. VILAYANUR S. RAMACHANDRAN The brain abhors discrepancies. VILAYANUR S. RAMACHANDRAN People often ask how I got interested in the brain; my rhetorical answer is: 'How can anyone NOT... VILAYANUR S. RAMACHANDRAN I was socially isolated as a kid. I had friends, but I wasn't very good at sports and that sort ... VILAYANUR S. RAMACHANDRAN