Coherent Narrative Quotes

#1. It is the job of the human brain to assemble all the input of our world - sights, sounds, smells - into a coherent narrative. This is what memory is, a carefully calibrated story that we make up about our past.

Noah Hawley

#2. I have to say in premise 'Winter Journal' is really not a memoir. And I don't even think of it as an autobiography. I think of it as a literary composition - similar to music - composed of autobiographical fragments. I'm really not telling the story of my life in a coherent narrative form.

Paul Auster

#3. I do insist on making what I hope is sense so there's always a coherent narrative or argument that the reader can follow.

Howard Nemerov

#4. There are times when silence has the loudest voice.

Leroy Brownlow

#5. Old rules and habits have to be rejected and dismissed so that something new can be created.

Michael Cretu

#6. I believe there's still room for the dream a lot of people in the industry have - to design and build your own cars.

Henrik Fisker

#7. Our truest opinions are not those we never change, but those to which we most often return.

Denis Diderot

#8. A long list of propositions does not necessarily make a coherent argument

Andrew Pettegree

#9. For, after all, we have nothing to lose but our aitches.

George Orwell

#10. There is nothing more negligent than attempting to address a problem one finds on a branch than by censoring the leaves.

Saul Williams

#11. I hate Mondays - I hate that feeling you've got to get yourself up.

Bruce Forsyth

#12. I write very sporadically. I write sometimes three things in a week and then nothing for a year. I make a space for it but I don't push it. They just come and they come.

David Crosby

#13. I'm not quite sure where the sponsorship rumour came from ... probably because I have been a spokesperson for child sponsorship so people just assumed that was the connection.

Brooke Fraser

#14. I discovered that the world frightens you with your shortcomings, but if you do not worry about it, you are liberated.

Anupam Kher

#15. When you plant the seeds, wait patiently to see the ripen fruits.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#16. I never cared about making one coherent masterpiece with a conventional narrative. I always wanted my movies to have images falling from all directions in a vaudevillian way. If you didn't like what was happening in one scene, you could just snooze through it until the next scene.

Harmony Korine

#17. I got dogs. I'm a dog guy.

Marshawn Lynch

#18. The old folk, time's doting chronicles.

William Shakespeare

#19. Are you repeating someone else's narrative, taking it for granted? Talk therapy sessions and 12-step recovery shares help develop the ability to present a coherent life narrative through the safe structure of clear rules of communication that support healthy self-expression and self-awareness.

Alexandra Katehakis

#20. One of the main reasons people are not rich is that they worry too much about things that might never happen.

Robert Kiyosaki

#21. When you get to be as old and as rich as I am, it's hard to meet people.

John Cheever