Brené Brown
Related Stories are psycho-diagnostic ― they diagnose the condition of our psyches. When we watch, read or... THEA EURYPHAESSA 'Guild Wars 2' is a wider world in that we have a lot of different mechanics available for s... JEFF GRUBB WILL SPECK I went to a seminar early in my career on the craft of storytelling by Robert McKee. It was really l... JANE JENSEN AARON STANFORD Sometimes the fans want it both ways, of course. They want to feel like they're influencing the ... CARLTON CUSE HENRY CLOUD We have the power as individuals to create a different perspective. We can physically rewire our bra... TINA HALLIS The tsunami is a critical component in the telling of this story. It's a sensitive storytelling issu... JOHN DYKSTRA The default activity patterns of the brain may, over many years, augment a metabolic- or activity-de... RANDY BUCKNER In unsettled times like these, when world cultures, countries and religions are facing off in violen... WILLIAM COLLINS STEPHEN LABERGE Ever since viewing screens entered the home, many observers have worried that they put our brains in... HANNA ROSIN LEO ROSTEN CRAIG GROESCHEL KATE KLISE TAMMY DUCKWORTH DORIS LESSING We played well. Our problem has been defense. When we needed to get a stop tonight, we couldn't get ... JAKE GOLDY The story drove the book. That had a very seminal effect on the way I saw writing and storytelling. ... DICK WOLF JAMES CAMERON It's the same story, year in and year out. You've got different factions; managers, advisers or prom... DAN GOOSSEN The name of the game is efficiency; we have to play that game with our toys and our brains. TIM REID We have magnificent brains, but we use a great deal of our brilliance to keep ourselves stuck and ig... PATRICIA SUN Each of us views life through a different lens. What we think is colored by the baggage we carry, an... LAURIE BUCHANAN, PHD GLORIA STEINEM KILROY J. OLDSTER How often do you think we write our own ending before the story is even finished? How often do we gi... RACHEL VAN DYKEN How often do you think we write our own ending before the story is even finished? How often do we gi... RACHEL VAN DYKEN Story is the vehicle we use to make sense of our lives in a world that often defies logic. JIM TRELEASE Our approach to the game was good, but we needed to keep our turnovers down, and we had some breakdo... BOBBY CARTER Our brains are our greatest treasures that we have in our life. But it takes a lifetime to realize t... AVIJEET DAS DOUGLAS RUSHKOFF Sometimes a homeland becomes a tale. We love the story because it is about our homeland and we love ... REFAAT ALAREER ERIK PEVERNAGIE Storytelling captures an aspect of childhood experience when being told a story was a common ritual.... PAUL LANSKY I suggest that the representation of women deserves a much higher consideration in our religious dis... CAROL LYNN PEARSON People fall into patterns at fast speeds, when really, to have a clear musical thought - the kind of... JOHN FRUSCIANTE When reacting with even the most subtle of mannerisms, in a way that does not represent ourselves as... REUBEN LOWE She's our first real butch on the show - a fabulously attractive butch, but nonetheless a real butch... ILENE CHAIKEN . . .because we had survivedLISEL MUELLER We regret that we got any part of our story wrong, and extend our sympathies to victims of the viole... MARK WHITAKER You play like you practice, and we practiced like crud all week. [Central Gwinnett] beat our brains ... WENDELL EARLY ALBERT EINSTEIN If we enter our story in heartache, we will hear the whisper of the name that will one day be ours. DAN B. ALLENDER MARK STRAND JULIAN OF NORWICH CHARLES BUKOWSKI TERRY PRATCHETT GAIL SHEEHY JULIAN BARNES We humans are different - our brains are built not to fix memories in stone but rather to transform ... MIRA BARTOK This structure defines our core. It's just like that chef, Gordon Ramsay. He takes the same ingredie... ULI BEZ SHAUNA NIEQUIST KILROY J. OLDSTER DANIEL C. DENNETT MELANIE JOY I believe in fairy tales. They are the basis of all our performance of storytelling and film-making ... CHARLES STURRIDGE We have chosen to take this concept of flow and make it the centerpiece of our storytelling. TIM THRELFALL Children are like the zombies I once saw in a film at Dad's. We have to do as we're told and obey li... KATE HAMER In those moments of unnaming when we have lost ourselves, we must remember to return to our past red... DAN B. ALLENDER Every story needs some sort of secret that impels it forward. Otherwise why would the reader bother ... DEB LOUGHEAD One of our fundamental human needs is finding our partner that we hope we will stay with for the res... LAUREN WILLIG We all present versions of ourselves. The person you are at work is not the same person you are at h... VAL MCDERMID Basically we have a tiny little gland in the middle of our brains that controls when we sleep and wh... DR. MEIR KRYGER BRIAN GREENE In studying we don't fight, we plead with words to stick to our brains. KIMTO OCHE EMMANUEL KILROY J. OLDSTER ISRAELMORE AYIVOR If we all look at life we think how nice, then we look at death and everybody goes oh you can say th... GARY F EVANS... If you love someone you must set them free like the wind and give them the respect they deserve.If y... GARY F EVANS... A necessary part of our intelligence is on the line as the oral tradition becomes less and less impo... WES JACKSON SHARON SALZBERG PAULO COELHO DAVID EAGLEMAN CHARLIE KAUFMAN Humans like to think of themselves as unusual. We've got big brains that make it possible for us... MARK PAGEL MAX LUCADO We've had 24 hours in a day for an awful long time. People's brains evolved based on a slower experi... CATHY O'KEEFE CHUCK PALAHNIUK We didn't fire in our first game out against South Africa last autumn, and it was the same story aga... MICHAEL OWEN BRAD GORESKI SANDRA TSING LOH MOHSIN HAMID We don't want to duplicate our efforts with the dollars each of our budgets have. We want to expand ... JAMES SANDERS RENEE AHDIEH JEAN DE LA FONTAINE JOHN GREEN When we leave the pen in His hands we will never be disappointed with the story of our lives. ERIC LUDY They just came out on fire. In the first half of the season we would kind of hang our head when we g... RAY ALLEN More often than not, the error is in the customer's favor. We encourage our customers to point out a... SARAH CLARK JOHN LEGEND We all fall into our habits, our routines, our ruts. They're used quite often, consciously or un... ANDREW STANTON There's a fine line between going in there and being emotional and allowing it to have an adverse ef... BILL COWHER When we die our deeds shall be left for humanity to judge & our flesh shall become dust for humanity... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Convinced that we're living the whole time that we're dying.TEGAN QUIN CHARLES STROSS We weren’t that different after all, our souls laden with the same ache of loss, our hearts bursti... RACHEL L. SCHADE ADAM SAVAGE The story of the game was our inability to make shots. I didn't get a feel that we were out of our r... OLIVER PURNELL
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We're really interested in more visual storytelling, figuring out a way to blend our level of ob... 
Actors, we like stories, we like storytelling, we love being a part of the story, and if you give us... 
We change our behavior when the pain of staying the same becomes greater than the pain of changing. ... 
I'd say that we dream primarily the same way that we have consciousness of the world for the sam... 
Happiness comes only when we push our brains and hearts to the farthest reaches of which we are capa... 
Most of all, we remain focused on our Rock that never moves. 
As writers, we must keep throwing problems at our characters. Conflict is the heart of good storytel... 
I'm glad that people know my military service. But, like this nation, we are more than our milit... 
Humanity's legacy of stories and storytelling is the most precious we have. All wisdom is in our... 
Storytelling is storytelling. You still play by the same narrative rules. The technology is complete... 
If you hear a statistic, you will make up a story to go with it, because our brains are organized on... 
Storytelling creates a healing serum. The thematic unguent of our personal story represents a fusion... 
Brains are tricky and adaptable organs. For all the 'neuroplasticity' allowing our brains to... 
When our mind is in shambles and we dare to reflect on the story of our life, we may discover, in th... 
Paper is to write things down that we need to remember. Our brains are used to think. 
Sometimes he did not know if he slept or just thought about sleep. 
And He that made man for love, by the same love He would restore man to the same bliss, and overpass... 
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The anthropologists got it wrong when they named our species Homo sapiens ('wise man'). In any case ... 
Stress overload makes us stupid. Solid research proves it. When we get overstressed, it creates a na... 
How often do we tell our own life story? How often do we adjust, embellish, make sly cuts? And the l... 
We sometimes choose the most locked up, dark versions of the story, but what a good friend does is t... 
Narrative storytelling enables us to derive ideas from the disparate facts, incongruent motives, con... 
Some years ago, there was a lovely philosopher of science and journalist in Italy named Giulio Giore... 
The story of how shit got in our meat is the story of one of the central characteristics of carnism,... 
We can certainly go further than cats, but why should it be that our brains are somehow so suited to... 
The reality is that we will continue to hear negative information from many sources. It lies in our ... 
How we traverse the space between us when conflict arises has a profound effect on the health and lo... 
What is the Other?" they ask.
What we find is that our brains have colossal things happening in them all the time. 
We try to organize the world, which isn't organized the way our brains want to organize it. We t... 
If we think that this life is all there is to life, then there is no interpretation of our problems,... 
It's because we're so trapped in our culture, in the being of being human on this planet with the br... 
I love my dad. There is no doubt about that. He is a wonderful man and a good person. Like many fath... 
The problem is that, partly because we are women, a large measure of our happiness depends on our re... 
We need a self because the complexity of the chemical processes that make up our individual humaniti... 
When I was a boy, my mother would tell me that one of the best things in life is the knowledge that ... 
Often we find our own destiny on the same roads that we have been avoiding. 
He called out to his fellow monks,'Come quickly I am tasting stars. 
I've always had an interest in story-telling and history and just film and art in general, but p... 
We remain convinced that this is the best defensive posture to adopt in order to minimize casualties... 
From earliest times, humans - explorers and thinkers - have wanted to figure out the shape of their ... 
Imperfections are not inadequacies; they are reminders that we're all in this together. 
It's in our biology to trust what we see with our eyes. This makes living in a carefully edited, ove... 
We cultivate love when we allow our most vulnerable and powerful selves to be deeply seen and known,... 
I carry a small sheet of paper in my wallet that has written on it the names of people whose opinion... 
A decent beard has long been the number one must-have fashion item for any fugitive from justice. 
Forgive those who have hurt you. 
Never give up. And most importantly, be true to yourself. Write from your heart, in your own voice, ... 
My life is a monument to procrastination, to the art of putting things off until later, or much late... 
My expectations of other people, I double them on myself. 
A winner never whines. 
What's the greater risk? Letting go of what people think - or letting go of how I feel, what I b... 
Having the right people around you all the time is important. I do take the acting seriously. But th... 
A liberal will cut off your leg so he can hand you a crutch. 
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Forgive yourself for your faults and your mistakes and move on. 
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The courage of very ordinary people is all that stands between us and the dark. 
John Kitzhaber was a visionary leader for Oregon. 
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