Personal Stories Quotes

#1. Directors go their whole career without being able to tell personal stories and to work with a cast as talented as they are.

Christian Bale

#2. Sharing our personal stories makes us grateful for experiencing the radiance of being alive. Writing our personal stories documenting our vivid encounters with the larger world and examining our own time-tested ideas shapes the conception of our own being.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#3. Shows like 'Sex and the City' got women involved again in a political way. They were drawn into the personal stories of the four women who together make up one complete cosmopolitan woman. We want to have community, and the show filled that void in our lives: friendship between women.

Kim Cattrall

#4. Our brothers and sisters are there with us from the dawn of our personal stories to the inevitable dusk.

Susan Merrell

#5. I want us to organize, to tell the personal stories that create empathy, which is the most revolutionary emotion.

Gloria Steinem

#6. I told personal stories the way [Bill] Cosby would spin a yarn for ten minutes. I think in hindsight it works better as a long story than as a condensed monologue.

Ed Helms

#7. I am interested in personal stories because that's when people become expressive, spontaneous and heartfelt.

Anna Deavere Smith

#8. Be an advocate for the people and causes important to you, using the most powerful tool only you have - your personal stories.

John Capecci And Timothy Cage

#9. I tell personal stories associated with aspects of the theory, and I hope they are interesting and compelling. I don't feel you're going to change a grownup's mind in one reading. People have to be exposed to scientific ideas over and over again for years. It's also not a textbook.

Bill Nye

#10. Being politicians, they all got to sharing their personal stories. Obama talked about his mother's battle with cancer. Harry Reid talked about a kid with a cleft palate. And John McCain told how he once carried a brain dead woman through an entire campaign.

Bill Maher

#11. Through "posts" and "sharing," by exhibiting one's loves and tastes, personal stories, photos, and more, each "curates" a public image of oneself on the web, to which one then continually strives to conform. Personal identity becomes one's reflection in the others' eyes.

Nicos Hadjicostis

#12. Personal stories are the emotional glue that connects your audience to your message.

Nancy Duarte

#13. When you're writing personal stories, you have to be totally uncompromising - to the extent that you can be - about yourself. I know that if I am uber-uncompromising with myself, that gives me some latitude to write about others.

Rob Lowe

#14. If I look at it, it's about being able to get lost in New York, to explore the city, to have more personal stories about New York, although some could also take place in Paris.

Keren Ann

#15. I feel like 'Beware' is a heartfelt song - it's something that is definitely a story, something that I cultivated from personal stories, some from just other stories in just wanting to make a good song.

Big Sean

#16. It was a very emotional dinner ... Everyone shared personal stories about her and gave her words of encouragement and inspiration. Everyone tried to remain positive.

Lil' Kim

#17. I am sometimes sad when I hear the personal stories of Tibetan refugees who have been tortured or beaten. Some irritation, some anger comes. But it never lasts long. I always try to think at a deeper level, to find ways to console.

Dalai Lama

#18. You see the images that the public is demanding. Why more reality-based TV? You'd think that after the first Survivor it would have gone away, but it hasn't. The public demands it because they get all caught up in the personal stories, and want to see more and more.

Montel Williams

#19. Anecdotes, personal stories, reminiscences, like biblical parables, are the medium through which faith is restored. Stories are a form of poetry, and give us a saving image to personally relate to.

Peter Block

#20. I got into filmmaking in order to tell very personal stories, and in this day and age, the opportunity seems all the more precious.

Ira Sachs

#21. Why more reality-based TV? You'd think that after the first 'Survivor' it would have gone away, but it hasn't. The public demands it because they get all caught up in the personal stories and want to see more and more. Every new 'Survivor' is going to show you more.

Montel Williams

#22. I am so inspired by the people watching my videos and responding to them. I have learned so much from my community over the years and always love reading their feedback and their own personal stories that they share with me.

Michelle Phan

#23. We don't often take time to sit and meditate on what our lives would've been like if the mercy of the Redeemer had not been written into our personal stories.

Paul David Tripp

#24. I'm more interested in writing about the personal stories of people. Sometimes I don't agree with them.

Patterson Hood

#25. What a stupid attitude we have in this country to personal stories.

Amanda Burton

#26. Our personal stories of perseverance contain immense wisdom that can assist others in finding their way to peace and illumination during difficult times.

Molly Friedenfeld

#27. Whenever I go to Germany I find that my readers have T-shirts with my book covers printed on them. They come to all the events, they have gifts and they come with their families. They are always very open to sharing their personal stories.

Cecelia Ahern

#28. Of course, all writers draw upon their personal experiences in describing day-to-day life and human relationships, but I tend to keep my own experiences largely separate from my stories.

Jeffery Deaver

#29. Read a short story every day. By the end of the week you would have read volumes of stories.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#30. Telling a true story about personal experience is not just a matter of being oneself, or even or finding oneself. It is also a matter of choosing oneself.

Harriet Lerner

#31. Stories are epically important to how we view and interact in the world around us. We define ourselves, our abilities and even our goals by the stories we believe and share. These stories become part of our personal view of our world.

Lyssa Danehy DeHart

#32. These are all personal crises, I'm sure, that I manifest in a song format and project into physical situations. You make little stories up about how you feel. It's as simple as that.

David Bowie

#33. I chose to tell a personal story. When you tell a movie like this that's as emotionally charged as this is, it's a risk. As one of my great cinematic heroes, Francis Coppola, would say, "If you aren't taking the highest, greatest risk, then why are you a filmmaker?"

Christian Bale

#34. Personal style isn't simply an exercise in parroting but rather an exhibition for our own stories - from the gait of our walk to the rhythm of our speech to the manner in which the necktie falls from the knot.

LZ Granderson

#35. I think that the best way you can get honesty across in your music to connect and relate to people is to be motivated by personal emotions, stories and feelings.

Christina Aguilera

#36. The more personal you get, the more universal a story you end up telling.

Francesca Gregorini

#37. The stories are not autobiographical, but they're personal in that way. I seem to know only the things that I've learned. Probably some things through observation, but what I feel I know surely is personal.

Alice Munro

#38. God bless my soul, woman, the more personal you are the better! This is a story of human beings - not dummies! Be personal - be prejudiced - be catty - be anything you please! Write the thing your own way. We can always prune out the bits that are libellous afterwards!

Agatha Christie

#39. ONE OF THE GREATEST EXPERIENCES IN LIFE IS ACHIEVING PERSONAL GOALS THAT OTHERS SAID WOULD BE, 'IMPOSSIBLE TO ATTAIN.' BE PROUD OF YOUR SUCCESS AND SHARE YOUR STORY WITH OTHERS.

Robert Cheeke

#40. Agatha Christie holds special personal memories for me because my mum, a television producer called Pat Sandys, had been the first person to persaude the Agatha Christie estate to put one of her stories on T.V.

Samantha Bond

#41. Myths, legends and stories are the signposts previous generations have left us so we don't have to figure out our own personal journey in solitude!
They have to be metaphorical, because their interpretation will be different for each individual life!

Fred Van Lente

#42. I think this is pretty clear, but maybe not to everybody: Despite the fact that the work is personal or taken from life, it's not about me telling my personal story.

Frances Stark

#43. I think that all stories - if you make movies about zombies and aliens - it has always to do with your personal story. If not directly, it is about your fears, your obsessions, things like that.

Marjane Satrapi

#44. My personal feeling is that audiences are crying out for stories they can invest in and feel. I see a lot of big movies that leave me feeling rather numb.

Emily Blunt

#45. There's no more personal issue than gun violence; every one of these stories is a life lost, i'm hoping that over the long term, as I tell these stories, that it will help to open people's eyes.

Chris Murphy

#46. Their culture is narrowly interbred, and some personal relations border on the incestuous, so they float each other's boat and write almost identical muck-raking stories. Everyone in China knows why they are, and their China-bashing is green-lighting all of us to join the onslaught.

Thorsten J. Pattberg

#47. In food, issues that surround purchasing and that whole realm have a very political component and they branch into stories that can be really compelling. Just being on the farm, interacting with all these people in the industry, leads to personal narratives that can be used to make a larger point.

Dan Barber

#48. There is an old, old story about a theologian who was asked to reconcile the Doctrine of Divine Mercy with the doctrine of infant damnation. 'The Almighty,' he explained, 'finds it necessary to do things in His official and public capacity which in His private and personal capacity He deplores.

Robert A. Heinlein

#49. My books are written from personal experience, from memories, and from stories that come to me from all places.

Isabel Allende

#50. The truth is, for however much my stories come out of things that have happened to me, they're not darkly or as deeply personal as someone like Marc Maron or a lot of comedians, but they are essentially my life and my interpretation of it.

Eugene Mirman

#51. Generally speaking, the people who come to work at Snapchat believe in personal growth. It's part of why Snapchat's stories are ephemeral, because you will be a different person tomorrow.

Evan Spiegel

#52. The forms of the short, written poem as they have been developed in English over the past few centuries can be usefully seen as compressed, truncated, or fragmented imitations of other verbal forms, especially the play, story, public oration, and personal essay.

Robert Scholes

#53. Being exposed to the Ryan Murphy machine, it is very much a personal extension of him. So, if I can learn from that and tell longer stories that are quite personal, and balance that out with features, then that would be the ultimate dream.

Alfonso Gomez-Rejon

#54. ...there's seldom one event that makes a person a certain way, it's the numerous bumps and bruises and stories of personal triumph in a life that makes us these beautifully scared creatures.

L.M. Adams

#55. Personal inspection at zero altitude. The stories come from my life - if not my own experiences, then about topics and subjects that interest me.

Gary Paulsen

#56. Playing with different genres and perspectives and ways of telling stories is one of the perks of being a novelist, but at the same time, I want precision. And in order to be precise about stuff, you have to get personal. Symbolism is very boring.

Linn Ullmann

#57. I want to shine a spotlight on a new generation of women, who are creating, funding and managing some of the hottest companies in tech today. But I wanted to do more than share their professional stories. I wanted to share their personal journeys, too.

Willow Bay

#58. I like it to stay very organic, and to remember a personal story behind all my subjects.

Hedi Slimane

#59. I hope to offer the personal as a way to connect to the universal, not a claim for one universal experience of having breasts, but a universal hope for kindness - to each other and our selves and our bodies.

Ruth Daniell

#60. Your life today is, for the most part, a manifestation of the stories you told yourself in the past.

Christopher Babson

#61. Lead with a personal story. Give your audience a way to connect and show you're a real person.

Michael Hyatt

#62. I think we do have our true, original stories that work. I can tell you that 'The King's Speech,' which we did, became a worldwide smash because people loved the personal story.

Harvey Weinstein

#63. Ariel: "Why do such stories always sound so sad? Why can't people part on more amiable terms?"
Danny: "Human nature," he said. "When feelings change and a person is at their most insecure, it's a matter of personal survival, I think. It's not always meant to hurt, but it often does.

Judith-Victoria Douglas

#64. A personal story of the horrors that Poles lived through during World War II. When God Looked the Other Way, above all else, explains why there is still a Poland ... One of the most remarkable World War II sagas I have ever read. It is history with a human face.

Arnold Beichman

#65. I'm generally not a social dramatist or comedy writer. My interests have always been more in psychological stories or personal relations and comic ideas.

Woody Allen

#66. My insides exploded from the brilliance of it all. There was nothing more stunning than a man who not only knew the most classic stories of all time, but also found a way to make his body his own personal bookshelf.

Brittainy C. Cherry

#67. I've always liked telling stories. That probably came from my dad, who definitely had the gift of gab and who wove a kind of personal folklore about his youth - stories full of adventure and ghosts and wild antics.

Cullen Bunn

#68. While every refugee's story is different and their anguish personal, they all share a common thread of uncommon courage - the courage not only to survive, but to persevere and rebuild their shattered lives.

Antonio Guterres

#69. But sometimes the scars go too deep and the stories are too personal to share.

John Northcutt Young

#70. People's stories are the most personal thing they have, and paying attention to those stories is just about the most important thing you can do for them.

William Deresiewicz

#71. Braxton Cosby's stories feel personal and well thought-out. I'm happy to welcome this entertaining writer to the YA science fiction field. I look forward to more of his work!

Tananarive Due

#72. In my father's generation, the product was 80 percent of what you were putting into the world, and your personal life was 20 percent. It now seems that 80 percent of the product I put out is silly, made-up stories and what I'm wearing.

Angelina Jolie

#73. I know that I too could try a story out, rebuild mine, make it live again several minutes before the full of the day, the sun, the city. But I haven't the strength, stupidly. I rise and carry on. One more time.

Danielle Collobert

#74. I'm a 50-year-old guy making music for over 20 years. I've been writing songs since I was 20, so it's really been 30 years, and it's always been personal, but I've always told stories.

Art Alexakis

#75. I guess when you write a personal story, people feel compelled to share their own stories.

Darin Strauss

#76. [My favourite are] the films of Agnes Varda, because of her sense of humor and the intimate, personal way she tells her stories. She is brave in taking creative risks, and her curiosity in others is so contagious. This brings me closer to the subjects in her films.

Maya Goded

#77. [Angels] aid us in our personal mission. We have to learn to listen, for if we block the angels out, they become only the fairy beings of dreams and pleasant stories.

Silver RavenWolf

#78. I'm not the best singer in the world, but the albums have always been personal. They're stories about me and what I'm going through.

Kaskade

#79. (I want to) make good stories that have a redemptive message and allow people to dig into their own lives and personal struggles and go "Am I like this? Do I have these flaws too?" and open up a conversation.

Drew Waters

#80. The jokes now, it's just more stories and personal experiences. And just talking about things that really happened. It's just becoming more comfortable as a performer, sharing my opinions on things, or things that've happened to me. That's where it's really going.

Hannibal Buress

#81. Zig Ziglar may be the master motivator, Mark Victor Hansen and Jack Canfield of Chicken Soup for the Soul, the master story tellers; Anthony Robbins may be the guru of personal development, but Bob Proctor is a master thinker. When it comes to systemizing life, no one can touch him.

Doug Wead

#82. I think the reason Buddhism and Western psychology are so compatible is that Western psychology helps to identify the stories and the patterns in our personal lives, but what Buddhist awareness training does is it actually allows the person to develop skills to stay in what's going on.

Tara Brach

#83. Healing stories are magickal tales born from personal tribulation and victory, which are then shared.

S. Kelley Harrell

#84. In many ways my life has been rather like a record of the lost and found. Perhaps all lives are like that.

Lucy Foley

#85. I get ideas from my own personal experiences, from my imagination, and from my research and from old stories.

Mary Pope Osborne

#86. It's more like can I build a group of characters and can I tell some universal truths that feel real and aren't formulaic in the spirit of filmmakers gone by who've told American stories that were personal and universal as well.

Cameron Crowe

#87. I guess it's a personal preference. Me, personally, I like to be able to tell the stories that I want to tell and do the things that I want to do. It takes a little bit more work, but that's what the production side is.

Mekhi Phifer

#88. Times have changed since 2002 when I won a spot in the group 'Popstars.' Back in the day we would get fan letters in the mail, now you can find anyone and contact people. It's incredible how fans can have a personal connection, share photos, stories.

Josh Henderson

#89. 'Freaks and Geeks' was my favorite show when it was on, by a wide measure. And that's the show I wanted to do. I noodled with the idea of doing a show about teenagers that told small stories, small moments of personal growth.

Rob Thomas

#90. You'll lose your reader if you are vague, not clear, and not present. We love details, personal connections, stories.

Natalie Goldberg

#91. The whole story of human and personal progress is an unmitigated tale of denials today-denials of rest, denials or repose and comfort and ease and pleasure-that tomorrow may be richer.

James Carroll

#92. The trajectory of my writing has moved further and further away from autobiography. My first stories in Confessions of a Falling Woman worked familiar territory - places I had lived, people I knew, my life as an actor in New York - and many were prompted by or grounded in personal experience.

Debra Dean

#93. Corporate & personal branding both require storytelling to be captivating. Stories provide context, meaning & the opportunity for relationship.

Ryan Lilly

#94. I think it's great when stories are dark and strange and weirdly personal.

Robin Williams

#95. We also learned our own history and I was so grateful that such richness comes from our family stories. Now we will forever remember the day that a Russian cellist spoke the heart of Czech people. Rostropovich loved Prague and so he viewed that performance as a personal tragedy.

Kytka Hilmar-Jezek

#96. I would say I try to make my comedy really personal. I try to tell stories that happened to me, experiences from my life.

Kumail Nanjiani

#97. At least I want to be making films that are somehow born out of me that are stories I want to tell. The challenge is figuring out how to do it where you can make them personal, yet still deliver to an audience a film experience that is satisfying and emotional, and that's what I'm trying to do.

Gavin O'Connor

#98. My music is more than me writing a flashy soul song. They're heartfelt songs about my family and true stories. I have also songs that aren't personal, but just painting a picture. I don't like being put under labels, but my music is going to continue to stay classic and timeless forever.

Leon Bridges

#99. All of my books are based in some way on my personal experiences, or the experiences of members of my family, or the stories kids would tell me in school.

Patricia Reilly Giff

#100. The preceding collection of stories about Einstein the young boy demonstrates the remarkable extent to which his most characteristic personal traits were native rather than acquired.

Abraham Pais