Quotes About Narrative Perspective

#1. Narratives are the primary way in which we make sense of our lives, as opposed to, for example schema,cognition, beliefs, constructs. Definition of narrative include the important element of giving meaning to events and experiences over time by connecting them as a developing, continuing story.

Jacqui Stedmon

#2. Matter, though divisible in an extreme degree, is nevertheless not infinitely divisible. That is, there must be some point beyond which we cannot go in the division of matter ... I have chosen the word "atom" to signify these ultimate particles.

John Dalton

#3. The person you are (in total, at that moment in time) is what creates the story you're writing. It's infused in every piece of punctuation, in the plot, in the most minor character who crosses the page. It's all your voice.

Victor LaValle

#4. You can never be lost when you learn to get lost into the blue of the sea..

Munia Khan

#5. The silencing of the Haitian Revolution is only a chapter within a narrative of global domination. It is part of the history of the West and it is likely to persist, even in attenuated form, as long as the history of the West is not retold in ways that bring forward the perspective of the world.

Michel-Rolph Trouillot

#6. Success simple disciplines, practiced every day, while failure a few errors in judgment, repeated every day. Choose to succeed.

Jim Rohn

#7. Taking photographs seems to be a means to express some kind of emotional, abstractive narrative. I look at the images that I'm most proud of like a film about the world the way I see it (or at least saw it at that moment, a perspective that seems to be ever-shifting and filled with self-doubt.)

Anton Yelchin

#8. There is no master narrative nor realist perspective to provide a background of social and historical facts.

Kathy Acker

#9. The politician dispenses wealth which other men have produced, and we say he is "compassionate," while the businessman who produces the wealth is dismissed as "greedy" and "materialistic.

R.W. Grant

#10. There are two kinds of cryptography in this world: cryptography that will stop your kid sister from reading your files, and cryptography that will stop major governments from reading your files.

Bruce Schneier

#11. Death is so preoccupied with life, that is has no time for anything else.

Mikhail Turovsky

#12. I'm a serious Christian. I take my faith seriously. I try to practice it every day of the week, not just on Sunday.

Francis Collins

#13. There's a bit more of a safe distance when you're making a narrative movie, a bit more perspective. Audiences can separate themselves from the harsh reality of the facts a little bit more and think: 'Okay, how do I consider this?'

Tom McCarthy

#14. There's a responsibility as a musician to do the music that you want to hear.

El-P

#15. My mom beat me up, I informed my reflection. It looked back sympathetically.

Richelle Mead

#16. We cannot be effective if we continue to cling to the old ways, the old strategies, the old assumptions.

George Barna