“I've heard so many stories of young girls watching the Olympics and being inspired by it, and they want to do it now, and that's really cool.” WantStoriesYoungGirlHeardInspiredOlympicsReally Cool Author:Allyson Felix
“People must be able to use their voice, tell their stories, have their experiences recognized and their voices heard.” PeopleStoriesUseAbleVoiceHeard Author:Patricia Leavy
“I have no memory for things I have learned, nor things I have read, nor things experienced or heard, neither for people nor events; I feel that I have experienced nothing, learned nothing, that I actually know less than the average schoolboy, and that what I do know is superficial, and that every second question is beyond me. I am incapable of thinking deliberately; my thoughts run into a wall. I can grasp the essence of things in isolation, but I am quite incapable of coherent, unbroken thinking. I can't even tell a story properly; in fact, I can scarcely talk.” PeopleThinkingKnowsFeelsI CanFactsStoriesRunningMemoriesHeardEventsWallEssenceAverageIsolationI Have LearnedIncapableSuperficialMy ThoughtsEvery SecondUnbrokenNo Memory Author:Franz Kafka
“I'm a veteran, and I come from a family of veterans and people who served in that war. And the stories that I heard were a hell of a lot different than the movies that I was seeing, so I wanted to make a movie about the people that were really there.” PeopleDifferentWarStoriesWantedHellSeeingHeardVeteran Author:David Ayer
“I mean, they clearly have a process of how they go about making their movies, and John Lasseter has been instrumental in implementing that process for all three studios with the Brain Trust and the way we work and the way we break stories and how it's all creative led. There are no executives in the room. So I think all of that is embraced unilaterally. But that's the first time I've heard of that.” ThinkingWayFirstsMeanHas BeensStoriesThreeProcessRoomsBrainBreakCreativeHeardFirst TimeStudiosExecutivesImplementing Author:Klay Hall
“The Quakers have a saying: "An enemy is one whose story we have not heard." To communicate to post-Christians, I must first listen to their stories for clues to how they view the world and how they view people like me.” PeopleWorldFirstsStoriesChristianViewsEnemyHeardCommunicateLike MePostsClueQuaker Author:Philip Yancey
“I heard, one of my producers told me this story where like the Hollywood studios brought all these high-end consultants in to try to figure out how to improve their process and make films more efficiently, and these consultants like studied the process for years and finally came up with this report they put together about how studios can improve the efficiency of their process, and the conclusion was "have the script ready by the time you're shooting.” TryingYearsEndsStoriesTogetherFilmProcessHeardFiguresReadyHollywoodScriptsStudiosProducersConclusionShootingReportsEfficiencyConsultantsHollywood Studios Author:Joseph Kosinski
“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.” WayYearsWellsSaidStoriesAudienceHeardSmartYears AgoIntelligentAssumingGoing AwayReally SmartSmart Man Author:Veena Sud
“How far would you go for someone you love ? I heard this story, about this woman, who actually lifted a car off of her baby. 'Course I would have said, Dude! Back up. But, wasn't my kid. When I was born, if I'd have known all the stuff my dad was going to do for me, I'd have crawled right back in.” IfsSaidStoriesKidsCoursesStuffBornKnownHeardCarBabyDadMy DadOne You LoveSomeone You Love Author:Christopher Titus
“I tried to read The Dubliners, when I went to Dublin a couple of years ago. I think I only go thurogh the first story. Gnomon is such an interesting word. So many different uses for a word nooone has heard of, or uses these days. I googled some pictures of sundials to check that it was the tall shadow casting bit (it is) and then discovered that Saint Sulpice in Paris has a rather fascinating large gnomon- which I shall endeavour to see on my next visit to that fair city. Thanks for such a great word, which I shall try to remember.” ThinkingTryingYearsFirstsDifferentStoriesUseRememberNextBitsInterestingCitiesHeardCoupleShadowFairsYears AgoSaintChecksThanksThese DaysParisFascinatingTallCastingEndeavourDublinSundials Author:Brian D. McLaren
“I've never had a problem with someone saying "yeah you're pretty, but you can't rap." In fact, I've heard things about other artists, opposed to me. To make a long story short, I've never had a problem with that. My skills speak for themselves.” LongFactsStoriesProblemArtistSpeakHeardSkillsYeahRapYou Re PrettyLong Story Author:Jacki-O
“Being a mixed-blood person of Ojibway and European ancestry, I always found that I only heard one side of the story - that was the conquerers' side, the side of the French Jesuit missionaries that came to live in what is now Ontario.” PersonsStoriesFoundSidesHeardBloodAncestryOntarioJesuit Author:Joseph Boyden
“We need to write because so many of our stories are not being heard. Where could they be heard in this era of fear and media monopolies? Writing allows us to transform what has happened to us and to fight back against what's hurting us. While not everyone is an author, everyone is a writer and I think that the process of writing is deeply spiritual and liberatory.” ThinkingNeedsWritingStoriesSpiritualFightingProcessHurtHappenedHeardMediaErasMonopoly Author:Sandra Cisneros
“I really like narrative songs, but I wonder if that's a thing for some people. Once they've heard the story, do they really need to hear the story again?” PeopleIfsNeedsStoriesSongWonderHeardNarrative Author:Craig Finn
“I heard a story the other night about an editor who visited the Iowa Workshop and, when asked what sorts of books she published, replied, "Classic books." One of the students asked her, "You mean like Kafka?" Apparently she said, "Oh, I don't think I would publish Kafka."” ThinkingMeanSaidBookStoriesNightHeardStudentsClassicEditorsPublishWorkshopsIowaClassic Book Author:Matthew Specktor
“When I was in school, my former roommate went through hazing. I heard the stories, but I don't think I've seen a movie that captures the stuff that goes on.” ThinkingStoriesSchoolStuffHeardGoes OnFormerCaptureRoommateHazing Author:Nick Jonas
“I prefer to focus on the future. There are a lot of new stories to be heard.” StoriesFocusHeardFocus On The Future Author:Gugu Mbatha-Raw
“I was born an ugly duckling due to my mother's ill health. She wasn't supposed to be pregnant, there were all kinds of complications, she couldn't survive a cesarean section etc. She said, "They didn't hand me a child, they handed me a purple melon." I heard that when I had grown up and had no idea of the whole story because the family album had pictures of a covered carriage and my mother smiling so I assumed I was asleep.” KindChildrenSaidIdeasWholeStoriesHandsMotherBornHeardIllAlbumsUglyDuesAll KindsSupposed To BeNo IdeaEtcCoveredPregnantSectionsPurpleComplicationCarriagesIll HealthMelonsDucklingsUgly DucklingCesarean Author:Bernie Siegel
“[My friend and I] decided, we'll go to Corsicana, and we'll see what the people in Corsicana say. ... We just started meeting people and talking to them, and the more I heard the stories, the more red flags kept popping up. There was this disconnect between this person [Todd Willingham] that I'm reading in the court records, the prosecutor's statements, and this person that I'm learning about.” PeoplePersonsStoriesReadingTalkingRecordsHeardMy FriendsRedDecidedCourtMeetingsStatementsFlagsProsecutorPoppingRed Flags Author:Elizabeth Gilbert
“I have heard a lot of stories - we're putting this in for the monitors, we've got this other set of records. This is a relatively new field, but they're getting better. They're getting more resources from the companies. At some point the factories say, okay, this is here to stay.” StoriesCompanyRecordsHeardFieldsResourcesOkayGet BetterFactories Author:Pietra Rivoli
“I think you've all heard my story about my daughter and how we felt Children's Hospital saved her life when she was less than a year old. I won't go through all of the details of that.” ThinkingYearsChildrenStoriesFeltHeardDaughterDetailsSavedMy DaughterHospitals Author:Jack Nicklaus
“I was on the set of the first Powers pilot, and an actor of color came up to me and said, "When I was a kid, my friends wouldn't let me play Batman or Superman, because I wasn't their color. But they would let me play Spider-Man. And that's the difference." And I realized I had heard this story a hundred times from different people, but I wasn't there in my head yet.” PeopleMenFirstsSaidDifferentPlayStoriesKidsActorsDifferencesHeardColorHundredMy FriendsLet MeI RealizedPilotsSpidersDifferent PeoplesSpider Man Author:Brian Michael Bendis
“I think Billy Ray has a lot of great stories up his sleeve. I've heard a lot of his plans for the show, should it go forward, and I think there's a lot in store for people, if it's given a chance.” PeopleIfsThinkingShouldStoriesShowsGivenChancePlansHeardStoresRaysSleevesGiven A Chance Author:Matt Bomer
“"March" was inspired by "Martin Luther King and the Montgomery Story." I actually first heard about that comic from John Lewis, who told me that it played an important role in the movement. And so once he told me about that, it made me start thinking, "Well, why doesn't John Lewis write his own comic book?".” ThinkingWritingFirstsWellsMadeImportantBookStoriesRolesHeardMovementKingsInspiredComicMarchComic BookLutherMontgomery Author:Andrew Aydin
“I've never heard of any one single artist being the subject in an ongoing series of radio programs for decades. Bearing this in mind, that's the kind of thing Frank Sinatra brings out in his audience, his followers. It's personally satisfying to me because his music by and large was the greatest quality of lyrics, melody, orchestration and, of course, his magnificent approach to telling a story.” MindKindStoriesArtistCoursesQualityAudienceHeardSubjectsApproachProgramSeriesRadioDecadesMelodyFollowersSatisfyingFrankMagnificentOngoingOrchestration Author:Frank Sinatra, Jr.
“Hip-hop has always been chronologically misunderstood. Too many times, people are hearing the story from the second floor. Nobody's heard the story from the basement. If hip-hop was a cake, all I can tell you is the eggs, the flour, the sugar, the vanilla - the ingredient years.” PeopleIfsYearsI CanStoriesHeardHip HopHearingHipsHopsEggsIngredientsCakeSugarMisunderstoodBasementsVanillaFlour Author:Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five
“Too many times, people are hearing the story from the second floor. Nobody's heard the story from the basement.” PeopleStoriesHeardHearingBasements Author:Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five
“I just think that pop music is very interesting in how it can reach so many people. I like that I can tell stories and I just wanted to be heard more, I guess. That's why it's pop, but in my mind I don't really view my music as pop, I don't really view it as anything. I just look at it as a picture, I like visuals.” PeopleThinkingMindLooksI CanStoriesWantedInterestingViewsHeardMusic IsPopsVisualsVery InterestingPop Music Author:Melanie Martinez
“I produced a play in New York that got nominated for an Outer Critics Circle Award for Best American Play.The play is called Stalking The Bogeyman. It was a story on This American Life, and my former roommate is the artistic director of the New York Repertory Theater. He heard the NPR show, contacted them, and essentially - shortest synopsis ever, like I'm the Cablevision guide button - it's the true story of a man stalking and plotting to kill the man who raped him when he was seven. It's by a brilliant reporter named David Holthouse.” MenPlayStoriesShowsHeardNew YorkHe ManDirectorsTheaterCriticsSevenGuidesBrilliantCirclesFormerArtisticAwardsButtonsReportersStalkingTrue StoryAmerican LifeRoommateNprBest AmericanSynopsis Author:Adam Richman
“You've heard me talk about the quantum realm in Ant-Man which was certainly designed for that movie and for that story to take the notion of somebody who has the ability to shrink to another level we've never seen before, but as we were doing that, and studying it and talking to the science advisors who are always more than willing to spend an afternoon with us and talk about these amazing things - the quantum realm is another dimension.” MenStoriesAbilityLevelsTalkingStudyHeardWillingNotionRealmsDimensionsAfternoonQuantumShrinksAntsAmazing ThingsAdvisors Author:Kevin Feige
“I have heard so many stories of contractors, and I've met some, too, who worked for Donald Trump, produced the goods and services and never got paid for what they were owed.” StoriesHeardTrumpMetsPaidGoodsGoods And ServicesContractor Author:Hillary Clinton
“I've heard some readers saying they wished the story was longer, and I completely understand that desire - we all like to sink into a nice, long novel.” LongStoriesDesireNovelNiceHeardReader Author:Theodora Goss