“Exercise your purchasing power as a consumer, volunteer and bring joy to those in need, and share your experiences, tell your stories, and inspire others along the way.” WayNeedsStoriesJoyShareInspireExerciseConsumersVolunteerInspire OthersPurchasingThose In NeedPurchasing Power Author:Blake Mycoskie
“For whatever reason, maybe it's because of my story, but people associate Livestrong with exercise and physical fitness, health and lifestyle choices like that.” PeopleReasonStoriesChoicesExerciseLifestyleAssociatesPhysical FitnessHealth FitnessLifestyle Choices Author:Lance Armstrong
“A deep, wise, and wonderful exploration of the Vedanta path for relationships both with yourself and with others. In this book, Shubhraji provides everything you need to create healthy, fulfilling relationships, using ancient wisdom, beautiful stories, tools, and exercises. This book is a must read for those on a serious spiritual journey.” NeedsBookStoriesBeautifulSpiritualPathWiseWonderfulJourneySeriousExerciseHealthyToolsAncientExplorationFulfillingSpiritual JourneyVedantaAncient Wisdom Author:Arielle Ford
“To me, writing is much freer than dancing. With writing, you could do it whenever you wanted. You didnt have to do little exercises and stay in shape. You could have great moments of inspiration that advanced the story. In dance, unless youre going to choreograph things yourself, youre at the service of someone else.” WritingLittlesMomentsStoriesInspirationWantedExerciseShapesDancingGreat Moments Author:Lorrie Moore
“I think my very earliest stories were all intellectual exercises and I was writing from experiences I had never had about characters who were about an inch deep.” ThinkingWritingCharacterStoriesExerciseIntellectualInches Author:George R. R. Martin
“I always give my students exercises where they really have to open a vein and bleed all over the paper and that's the way you get the important characters. Sooner or later every writer worth reading writes a story his mother wouldn't read and having to get that stuff out is part of one's growth as a writer.” WayGivingWritingImportantCharacterStoriesMotherReadingStuffGrowthStudentsExercisePaperSooner Or LaterVeinsWorth Reading Author:George R. R. Martin
“I can manage my own pain. I can drink. I can go to the doctor and get a prescription. I can exercise. I can write a story about it. I've done it a million times! But I don't want to see the people I love tortured and suffering.” PeopleWantWritingI CanDoneStoriesPainSufferingMy OwnMillionsExerciseDrinkDoctorsManagePrescriptions Author:Chuck Palahniuk
“I feel that I'm a spiritual person in that I feel like telling stories is a spiritual exercise and I think that it's something that we need as a culture and as humans. We need for people to put stories up in front of us that we recognize ourselves so that we can see - you need to be able to see something in a finite form in order to identify with it sometimes because your life sprawls before you in this kind of way that you can't capture.” PeopleThinkingWayNeedsFeelsHumansKindPersonsSometimesStoriesAbleSpiritualFormOrderCultureFrontsExerciseCaptureFiniteTelling Stories Author:Holly Hunter
“Philip is being very vocal about it. For me, I don't think the story isn't at all anti-religious in any way. I think what's it more against is the control and the misuse of power that any organised religion, or any political organisation exercises over the people they're supposed to represent. I think that, for me, is what's important in the movie.” PeopleThinkingWayImportantStoriesPoliticalReligiousExerciseVocalOrganisationWhat's ImportantMisusePhilipOrganisedAnti ReligiousOrganised Religion Author:Daniel Craig
“A lot of time, with stories, I'll start out with a title and try to dream myself into the story that it evokes - a kind of subconscious exercise in which I'm trawling for some kind of entryway into fiction.” TryingKindStoriesDreamFictionExerciseTitlesSubconsciousEvoke Author:Dan Chaon
“Read non-fiction. History, biology, entomology, mineralogy, paleontology. Get a bodyguard and do fieldwork. Find your inner fish. Don't publish too soon. Not before you have read Thomas Mann in any case. Learn by copying, sentence by sentence some of the masters. Copy Coetzee's or Sebald's sentences and see what happens to your story. Consider creative non-fiction if you want to stay in South Africa. It might be the way to go. Never neglect back and hamstring exercises, otherwise you won't be able to write your novel. One needs one's buttocks to think.” IfsThinkingWayWantNeedsWritingStoriesMightHappensAbleFictionCasesNovelCreativeMastersExerciseSouthFishesSentencesBiologyNeglectCopiesSouth AfricaPublishNon FictionCopyingBodyguardPaleontologyButtocksFieldworkHamstringsCoetzee Author:Marlene van Niekerk
“I took a correspondence course with a guy at Ohio University. He gave me ten exercises, and one of them resulted in the story "Bactine." It pleased me a lot more than anything else I'd ever done, so I kept messing around and by the time I got to Ohio State I'd written maybe eight stories.” StatesDoneStoriesGuyCoursesWrittenExerciseTenUniversityEightOhioCorrespondenceOhio State Author:Donald Ray Pollock
“I made commercials for corporations like Volkswagen and Coca-Cola, but I was always the one to write them, too, which was a very good exercise, because I learned to tell little stories.” WritingLittlesMadeStoriesExerciseVery GoodCorporationsCoca ColaGood ExerciseVolkswagens Author:Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
“One of the reasons why I agreed to do commercials is that they gave me complete freedom. I just had to have the car in it and write a story around it. I wanted to do something serious set in a Latin American country, but again, it was an exercise in style for me.” WritingCountryReasonStoriesWantedCarStyleSeriousExerciseReason WhyLatinLatin AmericaLatin AmericanComplete Freedom Author:Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
“As far as commercials were concerned, I did very few, and I did them only when they gave me carte blanche to them the way that I wanted to. And I did them as an exercise, because I, who do very long films, never thought I would be able to tell a story in 30 or 40 seconds - you come across a whole new system and manner of approaching a subject.” WayLongWholeStoriesWould BeAbleWantedFilmSubjectsExerciseConcernedSecondsBlanche Author:Sergio Leone
“What I often do in my work is to take a great story, such as the Odyssey, the search for the Grail, the story of Jesus, or the story of the great peacemaker who helped create the Iroquois Confederacy in the 15th century. I then use these tales as templates upon which to weave psychological and spiritual exercises which allow us to open ourselves up to the larger venue of a story.” StoriesUseSpiritualJesusCenturyExerciseTalesPsychologicalVenuesPeacemakerOdysseyIroquois Author:Jean Houston
“I keep threatening to keep a formal journal, but whenever I start one it instantly becomes an exercise in self-consciousness. Instead of a journal I manage to have dozens of notebooks with bits and pieces of stories, poems, and notes. Almost every thing I do has its beginning in a notebook of some sort, usually written on a bus or train.” SelfStoriesBitsConsciousnessPiecesWrittenExerciseTrainNotesManageBusDozenFormalJournalThreateningNotebookSelf ConsciousnessBits And Pieces Author:Walter Dean Myers
“I have a two-story house and a bad memory, so I'm up and down those stairs all the time. That's my exercise.” TwoStoriesHouseMemoriesExerciseUp And DownStairsBad Memories Author:Betty White