“I like good stories. Quality products and character are what's important. Even if the script isn't that strong, if I challenge myself with a great character, I'll go for it.” IfsImportantCharacterStoriesStrongChallengesQualityProductsScriptsGood StoryWhat's ImportantGreat Character Author:Corin Nemec
“No one person can take credit for the success of a motion picture. It's strictly a team effort. From the time the story is written to the time the final release print comes off the printer, hundreds of people are involved - each one doing a job - each job contributing to the final product.” PeoplePersonsStoriesJobsEffortWrittenTeamDesignProductsDevelopmentInvolvedFinalsCreditReleasePrintContributingMotion PicturesPrinterTeam Effort Author:Walt Disney
“Most of the complexity of the stories has developed as the stories came along (and may be a product of the principle that "nothing is what it seems"). I did start with some essential ambiguousness in the aliens' motivation and the questions this raises in human minds, which I consider to have been disregarded in Contact (novel and film). That, in part, may be what has delayed the writing of the fifth and sixth novelettes in the series.” WritingMindHumansMayHas BeensStoriesSeemsFilmMotivationPrinciplesNovelProductsEssentialsRaisesSeriesContactAliensComplexityHuman MindFifthAmbiguityDelayedDisregarded Author:James Gunn
“The argument that the literal story of Genesis can qualify as science collapses on three major grounds: the creationists' need to invoke miracles in order to compress the events of the earth's history into the biblical span of a few thousand years; their unwillingness to abandon claims clearly disproved, including the assertion that all fossils are products of Noah's flood; and their reliance upon distortion, misquote, half-quote, and citation out of context to characterize the ideas of their opponents.” NeedsYearsIdeasStoriesEarthReligionOrderThreeHalfAtheismEventsProductsThousandMajorsArgumentMiracleClaimsIncludingOpponentsAbandonCollapseBiblicalFloodThousand YearsFossilsRelianceLiteralAssertionGenesisDistortionInvokeOf ContextCitations Author:Stephen Jay Gould
“In a business that has exploited and ignored our people I have only found dead-ends. We need romantic comedies, gross-out and mockery comedies, horror and thrillers, teen movies and love-stories. All these and more will be a positive step towards the future of Native Americans in the world and film industry; an industry that that offers us not only the chance to play the parts of heroes, love interests and warriors, but also of villains, dorks and dangerous, brokenhearted products of circumstance.” PeopleWorldNeedsEndsPlayStoriesFilmFoundInterestChanceStepsComedyDangerousProductsIndustryHeroCircumstancesHorrorOffersAnd LoveLove StoryWarriorNativeVillainNative AmericanIgnoredGrossMockeryThrillersFilm IndustryDead EndsDorkBrokenheartedMovies And LoveFound Dead Author:Misty Upham
“Every person I talk to has a story about how their smoke alarm went off or woke them up with a battery beeping. So you take it off the wall and you take the battery out and say screw this. They hate the products.” PersonsStoriesHateProductsWallSmokeScrewsAlarmsBatteriesOff The Wall Author:Tony Fadell
“Buy products of genuine lasting value from brands that take their manufacturing seriously. I have things that are 75 years old, like the dinner suit of my grandfather's that was made in 1933 by a tailor in Edinburgh. Clothes develop stories. You can remember where you've been through clothing that you've worn. I want products that are going to endure. I hate that we buy things that are disposable. We need to buy products with integrity.” WantNeedsYearsMadeStoriesRememberValuesHateProductsIntegrityClothesI HateEndureDinnerGenuineSuitsBrandsLastingClothingsGrandfatherWornMy GrandfatherManufacturingDisposableTailorsEdinburgh Author:Patrick Grant
“Now on the other hand, if someone is selling a product, opening a dance studio, or has some other aim to help themselves, then I tend to look askance at some of these strange stories from outer space.” IfsLooksHelpingStoriesHandsSpaceStrangeProductsAimStudiosOpeningSellingOuter SpaceStrange Stories Author:Robert Stack
“No work of literature is the product of only one or two conscious ideas. A story is mysteriously dense of meaning.” TwoIdeasStoriesLiteratureProductsConsciousDense Author:Carol Bly
“I write human stories. I write about people. Not as a product of their environment. But from the stance that everybody is made of the same thing.” PeopleWritingHumansMadeStoriesEnvironmentProductsStance Author:Cecelia Ahern
“There are certain aspects of celebrity that I understand, although that's not the main point of the story [in Assassination of Jesse James] , but it is one of the by products. I certainly understand what its like to be hunted and have a bounty on my head but at least nobody is pointing guns at me.” StoriesCertainProductsGunAspectPointingAssassinationBountyHunted Author:Brad Pitt
“We need more filmmakers of color telling the story. I'd like to see more filmmakers take their products out independently, put together a good commercial film and distribute it online.” NeedsStoriesTogetherFilmColorProductsFilmmakerOnline Author:Will Packer
“The thing that's helped me from wrestling is sometimes when you do live television, things change immediately, so you can be immersed in one story and then the story shifts. Ultimately, if you just get the point of what you're trying to accomplish, if you know the story, then you can put forth a good product.” IfsKnowsTryingSometimesStoriesTelevisionProductsAccomplishWrestlingThings ChangeLive Television Author:John Cena
“Architectural and product designs have a narrative capacity - you can start to tell a story about them and imagine a lot of things.” StoriesImagineDesignProductsCapacityNarrativeProduct Design Author:Michael Graves
“Outsiders think of Silicon Valley as a success story, but in truth, it is a graveyard. Failure.. is Silicon Valley's greatest strength. Every failed product or enterprise is a lesson stored in the collective memory of the country. We not only don't stigmatize failure, sometime we even admire it. Venture Capitalists actually like to see a little failure in the resumes of entrepreneurs.” ThinkingLittlesCountryStoriesMemoriesProductsLessonsEntrepreneurAdmireEnterpriseCollectivesValleysCapitalistOutsidersVentureGraveyardResumesSiliconSilicon ValleySuccess StoriesCollective MemoryVenture Capitalists Author:Michael Malone
“You persuade people with passion, so you've got to have a product or service you feel emotionally charged about. Then you can tell stories about it that will inspire others.” PeopleFeelsStoriesPassionInspireProductsInspire Others Author:Anita Roddick
“There's nothing that makes my day more than getting an e-mail from some random person in the universe who just bought an iPad over in the UK and tells me the story about how it's the coolest product they've ever brought home in their lives. That's what keeps me going.” PersonsStoriesHomeUniverseProductsMailIpads Author:Steve Jobs
“Woodworking requires a completely different kind of thinking and problem-solving ability than writing. With writing, you take a set of facts and ideas, and you reason your way forward to a story that pulls them together. With woodworking, you start with an end product in mind, and reason your way backward to the raw wood.” ThinkingWayWritingMindKindIdeasDifferentEndsReasonFactsStoriesProblemTogetherAbilityProductsWoodsDifferent KindsProblem SolvingWay ForwardWoodworking Author:Joshua Foer
“Find the simple story in the product, and present it in an articulate and intelligent, persuasive way.” WayStoriesSimpleProductsIntelligentPersuasive Author:William Bernbach
“On the one hand, I loved being a banker. I loved how numbers could tell a story and how you can invest in ideas and see them translate into products and services and create jobs. What I didn't like, particularly where I was working in Brazil during the debt crisis of the early '80s, was how the poor were excluded from the banking system. I made the decision to try and experiment with whether we could use the tools of banking to extend the benefits of the economy to the poor.” TryingMadeIdeasStoriesUseHandsJobsDecisionPoorNumbersEconomyProductsBenefitsToolsCrisisDebtExperimentsTranslate80sBankingBankersBrazilExcludedBanking SystemDebt Crisis Author:Jacqueline Novogratz
“I think if you look at Hollywood as a whole and the type of content that they put out over the years, it's pretty homogeneous, right? They haven't done a really deep dive into a lot of stories of people of color. I don't want to say that there haven't been attempts, and there has been some great product that has come out over the years, but I think in 2016, we're in a world of struggle. It's not just about race, it's also about the LGBT community too and others.” PeopleIfsThinkingWorldWantYearsLooksHas BeensDoneWholeStoriesCommunityRaceStruggleHavensColorProductsTypeHollywoodLgbtReally DeepHomogeneousLgbt Community Author:Mike Jackson
“I've been with the project for like three years: creating it, pushing it. [There] becomes a certain doubt when you're pitching this story to people. ["The Land" is] a cautionary tale. It's not the brightest or best ending to a film when you're telling a cautionary tale about four kids, kids who are killing each other, kids who are products of the streets.” PeopleYearsStoriesKidsFilmCertainThreeDoubtFourStreetsLandProductsProjectsCreatingKillingTalesPushingThree YearsPitchingKilling Each OtherPushing ItCautionary Tales Author:Steven Caple Jr.
“You work for so long on a graphic novel that it's easy to question your ideas or to burn out on drawing. But you plug away at it and trust in the story you want to tell. It's a marathon, but the finished product is really satisfying.” WantLongIdeasStoriesEasyNovelProductsFinishedDrawingSatisfyingMarathonGraphicPlugsBurn OutGraphic Novels Author:Vera Brosgol
“We [me and Alison McGhee] probably wouldn't have said that when we were writing the stories, but it is so apparent to me in the finished product. For me, looking at Bink, it's like looking at myself on the page in a way that I've never experienced with any other book that I've written.” WayWritingSaidBookStoriesWrittenProductsPagesFinished Author:Kate DiCamillo
“Apple made tools that helped people express their creativity and Steve Jobs knew that so he told that story well. But Facebook makes tools that help people connect and Mark Zuckerberg is hardly a story-teller. Nevertheless, he's become a leader because his products do such a good job of solving a problem.” PeopleWellsMadeHelpingStoriesProblemJobsLeaderCreativityProductsToolsMarkApplesNeverthelessGood JobZuckerberg Author:Lewis Schiff
“It's one of the underappreciated skills required by an innovator - they have to be able to convince lots of people to do things that might not be fully rational (invest in the company, join something that is likely to fail, try a product they've never seen before), and if you can't tell a good story it is just very hard to make that happen.” PeopleIfsTryingHardStoriesMightHappensAbleCompanyFailingProductsSkillsRationalConvinceGood StoryInnovators Author:Scott D. Anthony
“Everything I learn about the world, whether it's the simple arcana of how commercial products are manufactured and designed and how they reach our shelves and where the chips come from and who does the code, to more profound things like whether or not a black hole might be penetrable as a wormhole, whether or not universes might be accessible from here, whether space can be stretched and compressed to enable faster-than-light travel without violating physical law - all of those things have tremendous story potential.” WorldDoeStoriesLightMightLawUniverseBlackSimpleSpaceProductsProfoundHolesFasterCodeShelvesChipsBlack HoleWormholes Author:Jon Spaihts
“Music is trying to tell a story, and I love the rock vibe. Hearing that finished product is almost the same high as having a killer wrestling match, you're just doing it with a guitar instead of a partner in the ring.” TryingStoriesRocksProductsMusic IsGuitarHearingFinishedPartnersRingsWrestlingKillers Author:Jeff Hardy
“Own one idea. Complete it. Map the current model of purchase and usage. Change how it is done so at least some part of the market uses only your product. Extend from that core user to a much broader universe. Describe your concept in a very short, "six-word story" - a la Ernest Hemingway: "For sale: baby shoes, never worn."” IdeasDoneStoriesUseUniverseProductsBabySixModelsConceptsShoesCurrentsCoreMapsUsersWornUsage Author:Michael J. Silverstein
“One of the best ways to convince someone is to use a telling example, a story, a narrative. When Steve Jobs announced a new product, he told a story, exzlaining how a product would change the world as we know it. He turned Apple into a story whose challenges and adventures you want to hear about.” KnowsWorldWayWantStoriesUseJobsChallengesExampleAdventureProductsBest WayNarrativeApplesChanging The WorldConvinceNew Products Author:Kabir Sehgal
“All through my life what I've loved doing is watching movies. I love the escapism of film, I love stories. So it is incredible to be able to be in them as much as I am, to see them from the first stitch in a costume to the end product.” FirstsEndsStoriesAbleFilmProductsIncrediblesLove StoryCostumesEscapismStitches Author:Keira Knightley
“Steve Jobs had something like a 90% approval rating from his employees. You hear stories about him being this short-tempered, aggressive person, which he was. But he was in the pursuit of making people around him better, so the product they created would be better.” PeoplePersonsStoriesWould BeJobsProductsPursuitEmployeeAggressiveApprovalRatingApproval Rating Author:Ashton Kutcher