Top 100 Quotes About Tell Your Story
#2. It's important that we share our experiences with other people. Your story will heal you and your story will heal somebody else. When you tell your story, you free yourself and give other people permission to acknowledge their own story
Iyanla Vanzant
#3. I love the grandiosity of Hollywood movies, and even in independents, I love the canvas you can tell your story on. I love fiction filmmaking, you really feel like you're creating something.
George Hickenlooper
#4. They will never stop talking about you! No one can tell your story like you can!
Latasha Wakefield
#5. Tell your story: Yes, tell your story. Show your example. Tell everyone it's possible, and others shall feel the courage, to climb their own mountains.
Paulo Coelho
#6. How well you tell your story determines how well your customers tell your story.
Simon Mainwaring
#7. Make this part of your brand DNA ... Tell Your Story In a Way People Will Care.
Ted Rubin
#8. Everyday in the heat, rain and cold, I ran, alone in the woods ... in the hills near our home. There I felt the gentle touch of God. And I heard His whisper, You're stronger now. It's time to tell the truth of what happened. Tell your story to give someone hope.
Nikki Rosen
#9. A marriage, willy-nilly, requires you to trust that your spouse will tell your story truthfully and lovingly when you are no longer around to tell it yourself.
Kate Braestrup
#10. I've always believed that clothing is a great way to tell your story.
Carson Kressley
#11. I heard John Wells say something really smart, many years ago. He said, "Assume your audience is really intelligent. Assume that they are really smart, and tell your story that way." So, for me, it's about never assuming that they will go away because they're not entertained.
Veena Sud
#12. I don't want to tell your story because you're a insensitive, self-centered moron. I've told a lot of stories about young people, and I always feel there's hope.
Joel Schumacher
#13. Nobody can tell your story the way you can tell your story.
Danielle LaPorte
#14. Don't let anyone tell your story. Pick up a pen and write your own.
Majid Kazmi
#15. You can tell your story any way you damn well please
Jandy Nelson
#16. Your parents don't get to tell your story. Your sisters don't. When he's old enough, even Pat doesn't get to tell your story. I'm your husband and I don't even get to tell it. So I don't care how lovesick this director is, he doesn't tell it. ... No one gets to tell you what your life means!" ~Alvis
Jess Walter
#17. When the remedy you have offered only increases the disease, then leave him who will not be cured, and tell your story to someone who seeks the truth.
Rumi
#18. Tell your story.
That's the secret of immortality. The one true way to live forever.
Brad Meltzer
#19. Tell your story because your story will heal you and it will heal someone else.
Iyanla Vanzant
#20. I really believe that we all have the ability to come out of our story. But you have to tell your story first in order to come out of it.
Mariel Hemingway
#21. Never oversimplify yourself by using a single word or category to describe who you are. Take the time to tell your story.
Derek Webb
#23. Call on literary convention, and it will gladly tell your story for you.
Mason Cooley
#24. I think I've learned that if you want to be successful, you have to tell your story honestly and from your heart - and I think a healthy sense of humor doesn't hurt either.
Dorothea Benton Frank
#25. Social media is a really cool way to tell your story to people who are interested in hearing it. It's not getting put through the filter of a television executive who's decided you're too old to justify the expenditure.
Greg Behrendt
#26. Writing is new, relatively speaking. Story telling is ancient. Tell your story first putting aside all other worries. Leave fretting over homonyms, semicolons, and Oxford commas to editors and friends you can be bribe with baking.
Ada Maria Soto
#27. As a screenwriter, there's so many layers you have to go through in order to tell your story. You have to write the script, get money for the script, shoot it, find distributors, make it into film festivals, all of that just to get to your audience.
Morley
#28. No matter who you are or what kind of company or organization you work for, your number-one job is to tell your story to the consumer wherever they are, and preferably at the moment they are deciding to make a purchase.
Gary Vaynerchuk
#29. As soon as I saw tattoos as a way to tell your story, I thought, 'Oh my gosh, I totally get it.' So I got my first tattoo a couple of years ago, and it's the word 'hope' on my left arm. It has a couple of dots at the end for each of my kids.
Kristian Bush
#30. I think the main thing over time is that you gain confidence and are able to tell your story better and stronger.
Roksanda Ilincic
#31. Tell your story with your whole heart.
Brene Brown
#32. Be true to yourself and to the culture you were born into. Tell your story as only you can.
William Zinsser
#33. I feel like there's no real innovation in having some music. It's more just unique personalities and unique expressions, and you being able to tell your story.
Maynard James Keenan
#34. Don't sell your story, just tell your story.
J.J. Abrams
#35. Everybody has a story that must be told.
Your life is your story.
Tell your story.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#36. Don't get hung up on the hard times, the challenges. Tell your story by highlighting the victories. Because it's your victories that will inspire, motivate, encourage other people to live their stories in grander ways.
Iyanla Vanzant
#38. I've never once thought about the interpretative, the storytelling aspect of life, of my life. I always felt like I was in a story, yes, but not like I was the author of it, or like I had any say in its telling whatsoever. You can tell your story any way you damn well please. It's your solo.
Jandy Nelson
#39. Always follow your dreams. Never give up. If you have a thought in your mind write it down. If you have a desire in your heart to write, then write. Tell your story. Make a difference. Touch someone's heart.
S. Sloan
#40. Be open to suggestions, but don't let anyone dictate how you should tell your story. Who can possibly tell your story better than you?
Giuseppe Bianco
#41. I think theatre to some extent is always about telling stories, isn't it, and I think what I've learned is that freedom comes when you tell your story; freedom comes when you tell the truth.
Eve Ensler
#42. I'll go from world to world until I find a time and place where you can come awake in safety. And I'll tell your story to my people, so that perhaps in time the can forgive you, too. The way that you've forgiven me.
Orson Scott Card
#43. In my opinion, trying to guess what readers want is the wrong approach. You have to tell your story as best you can and as true to yourself as possible. You have to be honest and fair and vulnerable and foolish and brave, and not care what anyone thinks of it.
Jeannette Walls
#44. Just tell your story. Pretty much all memory is fiction and heavily edited. So just keep going.
Iain Reid
#45. Hold those things that tell your history and protect them. During slavery, who was able to read or write or keep anything? The ability to have somebody to tell your story to is so important. It says: 'I was here. I may be sold tomorrow. But you know I was here.'
Maya Angelou
#46. Don't wait around for someone else to tell your story. Do it yourself by whatever means necessary.
Lena Dunham
#47. One of the ways to reincarnate is to tell your story.
Spalding Gray
#48. Everyday in heat, rain or cold, I ran - alone in the woods - in the hills near our home. There I felt the gentle touch of God. I head Him whisper, 'You're stronger now. It's time to tell the truth of what happened. Tell your story to give hope to others.
Nikki Rosen
#49. I always thought it would be classy to not kiss and tell . . . but after a while you just get sick of having other people trying to tell your story for you.
Holly Madison
#50. How crucial for us to rehearse the future, in words.
Never to doubt that you will live to utter them.
Never to doubt that you will tell your story.
Joyce Carol Oates
#52. When I told you I was the last man you'd ever tell your story to, I meant it. I'm not going anywhere.
Christy Pastore
#53. You don't need to be a poet, a performer, a writer, or a journalist to tell your story powerfully. You do, however, need to elevate your language in ways that will bring your story to life clearly and imaginatively for others.
John Capecci And Timothy Cage
#54. I've learned a lot since I was a new mother. My approach to struggle and shame now is to talk to yourself like you'd talk to someone you love and reach out to tell your story.
Brene Brown
#55. No matter what you do, your job is to tell your story.
Gary Vaynerchuk
#56. Tell your story: yes, tell your story! Give your example. Tell everyone that it's possible, and other people will then have the courage to face their own mountains.
Paulo Coelho
#57. Find advocates! Having advocates and people who will tell your story for you will only help you get noticed faster by more people.
Brit Morin
#58. Oh my God, I love UCLA so much. Their film school is great because it's unstructured, so there's a freedom to fail in there and just tell your story, and everybody makes a film. It's so important to have that freedom in film school because that's what you're there for: to learn and make a film.
Gina Prince-Bythewood
#59. The first step is to admit you're powerless. You have an addiction, and you can't stop. The first step is to tell your story, all the worst parts. Your lowest lows.
Chuck Palahniuk
#60. Books are a weird collaboration between author and reader: You trust me to tell a good story, and I trust you to bring it to good life in your mind.
John Green
#61. When anybody starts out with a memoir, you get the impulse to tell your own story with your own voice, and you get all that out in one fell swoop sometimes.
Dave Eggers
#62. The Irish tell the story of a man who arrives at the gates of heaven and asks to be let in St. Peter says, "Of course, just show us your scars." The man says, "I have no scars". St. Peter says, "What a pity was there nothing worth fighting for"?
Martin Sheen
#63. Never tell your reader what your story is about. Reading is a participatory sport. People do it because they are intelligent and enjoy figuring things out for themselves.
(advicetowriters)
George V. Higgins
#64. Then it was you who wounded Aravis?"
"It was I."
"But what for?"
"Child," said the Voice, "I am telling you your story, not hers. I tell no one any story but his own.
C.S. Lewis
#65. Like JJ Abrams, creators just want to tell a story and entertain people. So why only focus in one way of telling it?Give readers another way to connect with your story. Entertainment does not need to be contained in one medium. Think about telling your story in many mediums.
Anne-Rae Vasquez
#66. If you're a writer, write. You just keep writing. And if you're a filmmaker, you keep doing what you can to keep telling your stories; you don't stay on the one. Keep moving forward and doing what you can to tell whatever story you can tell, be it via writing, be it via filming it.
Dana Brunetti
#67. If your life is a blank page, that only means you have room to write your story. You have the power to tell that story the way you want to.
Thea Harrison
#68. I think the business of writing a great deal of it is the business of paying attention to your characters, to the world they live in, to the story you have to tell, but just a kind of deep attention and out of that if you pay attention properly the story will tell you what it needs.
Salman Rushdie
#69. Your life should be a story you are excited to tell.
Adam Braun
#70. You and you alone are the only person that can live the life that writes the story that you were meant to tell. And the world needs your story because the world needs your voice.
Kerry Washington
#71. Real change comes from finding and embracing and connecting and amplifying those that are inclined to like you and believe in you. Ideas spread from person to person, not so much from you to them. So find your biggest fans and give them a story to tell.
Seth Godin
#72. Search your own life for the story only you can tell. The best thing about writing from life is that you can be sure of using original material. And no research is needed beyond the time you spend looking deep inside your own heart.
Elizabeth Held Forsyth
#73. You see, Earthman, they really are particularly clever hyper-intelligent pandimensional beings. Your planet and people have formed the matrix of an organic computer running a ten-million-year research program ... . Let me tell you the whole story. It'll take a little time.
Douglas Adams
#74. When you tell a story you automatically talk about traditions, but they're never separate from the people, the human implications. You're talking about your connections as a human being.
Gayl Jones
#75. Everybody loves a good story, but good storytelling doesn't come easy to everybody. It's a skill that takes a lifetime to master. So study the great stories and then go find some of your own. Your stories will get better the more you tell them.
Austin Kleon
#76. Tom said, "Let me beg you never to tell that story to Will. He'd have you locked up." "But the house wasn't worth what I asked!" "I repeat what I said about Will. What's Adam want with your house?" "He's going to move there. Wants the twins to go to school in Salinas." "What'll
John Steinbeck
#77. It could be seen as narcissistic to have your own museum, but for me, it's such a long time ago - I have perspective. That young man in the funny clothes - he's almost a stranger, so I can tell his story.
Bjorn Ulvaeus
#78. This is not necessarily the answer people want, but ultimately, I think writing is an amoral process. Your ultimate responsibility is to the truth of the story you're trying to tell.
Lynn Coady
#79. I think that's how you have to make films. You can't try to imitate or repeat. You have to make your own thing, tell the story that is in your own heart.
Maryann Brandon
#80. The thing is, as a film director, you're essentially alone: You have to tell a story primarily through pictures, and only you know the film you see in your head.
Mike Nichols
#81. There are those nights where you are just so emotionally present that you crack yourself open. And it works. And on the nights when you don't have it in you because you're tired or you've got no voice, you still are able to do your job and tell the story that people have come to hear.
Staceyann Chin
#82. Don't waste your daydreams on your mind. Tell the world a story.
Giuseppe Bianco
#84. Hello my Country I once came to tell everyone your story Your passion was my poetry And your past my most potent glory Your promise was my prayer Your hypocrisy my nightmare And your problems fill my present Are we both going somewhere?
Harry Chapin
#85. I've enjoyed working on the TV series that I've worked on, in particular something like 'The Wire,' where there was so much time to tell the story and develop a character. I learned from that that it's best not to lay all your cards on the table straight away.
Aidan Gillen
#86. She looked over at him, her eyes warm. "Your face has a story to tell."
Mouth quirking, Roan growled, "It's a top-secret face, Darlin'.
Lindsay McKenna
#87. Every film had its own grammar. And it's your job as a director to basically figure out a language to tell a story.
Darren Aronofsky
#88. If you're gonna tell your life story, you gotta be honest, or don't do it.
R. Kelly
#89. Go to sleep and dream, dreams. Let your dreams fly. let them come to life, and tell a story.
Matt Trevitz
#90. Always, your work is the same: You have to tell a story, you have to make a character. It doesn't matter if there are thousands of dollars, millions behind it, or if there is nothing.
Elena Anaya
#91. Tell me how many songs that I must sing before I can see you in your glory, hear your whole entire story, bathe inside your golden, golden sea?
Trevor Hall
#92. I am one man with a laptop. When I give the world my characters, it's because I don't want to keep them for myself. You don't like what I made them do? Fucking tell me I'm wrong! Rewrite the story. Throw in a new plot twist. Make up your own ending.
J.C. Lillis
#93. If you are writing a story and trying to draw an audience to come and hear you tell it, it's got to in some way relate to them. Who wants to come and hear about your specific problems? It's not therapy - it's supposed to be a communal piece of entertainment.
Matt Damon
#94. Don't live like there's no tomorrow, that's stupid. But live your life like it's a story that you would want to tell someone else. A little fun, a little exciting, a little sexy, and always off key.
Philip DeFranco
#95. You may do this, I tell you, it is permitted. Begin again the story of your life.
Jane Hirshfield
#96. Don't worry about meaning. If a story's any good, it can't help but have meaning. Let the PhDs tell you what your story means.
William Kittredge
#97. If you change the way you tell your own story, you can change the colour and create a life in technicolour.
Isabel Allende
#99. I don't want you to write about what you know, because you don't know anything. I don't want to hear about your boyfriend or your grandma ... I'm getting a little tired of 'my life story as fiction'. Please don't tell me about your little life - is there nothing larger? More important?
Toni Morrison
#100. Never be afraid to share your story. No one can tell it like you can.
Toni Sorenson
