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“Many people don’t realize the extent to which stories influence our behavior and even shape our culture. Think about how Bible stories teach the fundamentals of religion and rules of conduct. Think of the fables and parables that molded your values. Think of how stories about your national, cultural or family history have shaped your attitudes about yourself and others.”

People Thinking Stories Values Culture Realizing Attitude Teach Influence Shapes Behavior Fundamentals About Yourself Fables Parables Family History Bible Stories

Author:Lawrence Shapiro

“So we recast the wisdom of the great thinkers in the shape of our illusions. They are shiny from their makeovers, they are fabulous and gorgeous, and they want us to know that we can have it all.”

Knows Want Shapes Illusion Thinker Fabulous Gorgeous Want U Great Thinkers Makeovers

Author:Brian Morton

“The only thing we are naturally afraid of is pain, or loss of pleasure. And because these are not annexed to any shape, colour, or size of visible objects, we are frighted of none of them, till either we have felt pain from them, or have notions put into us that they will do us harm.”

Pain Felt Loss Pleasure Objects Shapes Notion Size Harm Colour Visible

Book:Delphi Complete Works of John Locke (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of John Locke (Illustrated)

“The various parts of the body cannot be perceived as simple units and have no clear relationship to one another. In almost every detail the body is not the shape that art has led us to believe it should be.”

Should Believe Art Body Simple Clear Shapes Details Various Units Parts Of The Body

Book:The nude: a study in ideal form

Source: The nude: a study in ideal form

“Fear of an enemy can often blind men to other hazards, not least the shape which they themselves make in the world.”

Men World Enemy Shapes Blind Hazards Blind Man

Book:No Country for Old Men

Source: No Country for Old Men

“If people knew the story of their lives how many would then elect to live them? People speak about what is in store. But there is nothing in store. The day is made of what has come before. The world itself must be surprised at the shape of that which appears. Perhaps even God.”

People Ifs World Life Made Stories Speak Shapes Stores God Life

Book:The Crossing: Book 2 of The Border Trilogy

Source: The Crossing: Book 2 of The Border Trilogy

“Well, just to dispel all the myths, Walt [Disney] was not anti-Semitic. He was not racist in any way, shape, or form. He was not frozen when his life ended. He's not in some frozen vault right now waiting to make a big comeback.”

Way Wells Bigs Form Waiting Right Now Shapes Myth Racist Frozen Comeback Walt Vaults Anti Semitic

Author:Pat Williams

“Let the business shape the organization, not the organization shape the business.”

Business Shapes Organization Management

Book:Nuts, Bolts and Jolts

Source: Nuts, Bolts and Jolts

“There's nothing like boxing for getting you in shape.”

Shapes Boxing

Author:Christian Bale

“I'm doing what I love. I'm enjoying the perks of the job-the travel. I am having a great time being a shape shifter and I'm really getting a kick out of it. I love my job.”

Jobs Enjoy Shapes Kicks Great Times Perks

Author:Amber Heard

“I read a lot of ghost stories because I was writing a ghost story. I didn't think at all I was writing a horror or a thriller or whatever because it is about a ghost, whereas a horror film can be about aliens or things that rise out of the marsh that have no human shape.”

Thinking Writing Humans Stories Film Horror Shapes Ghost Aliens Thrillers Horror Film Ghost Stories Marshes

Author:Susan Hill

“Define the space horizontally rather than vertically in movie widescreen, 2.35:1 just having that rectangular shape and when you think of great horror movies like Halloween and Jaws that just really exploit the space so well and I just think we would have so many more opportunities in creating suspense and shocks.”

Thinking Wells Opportunity Space Horror Shapes Creating Suspense Shock Halloween Exploits

Author:David Kirschner

“I've done films where you have to get in shape for purely vanity reasons, when you read a script, turn to page 87 and it says: "Rips his shirt off and casually throws it onto chair" - and you're going to go to the gym the next day because nobody wants to see your big fat arse out there taking your shirt off!”

Want Reason Done Bigs Film Turns Next Shapes Pages Scripts Fats Vanity Shirts Chairs Gym Next Day Rip Arses Shirt Off Getting In Shape

Author:Bruce Willis

“I'm here to challenge myself and to see whether I can shape-shift in an environment that's actually quite daunting, but which I think would be nice to shine a light into. The destination of any interesting drama is that you shine a light into a place that not many people know about.”

People Thinking Knows I Can Light Would Be Challenges Interesting Environment Nice Drama Shapes Shining Destination Being Nice

Author:Tom Hardy

“People build continuity into their life: Places, friends and goals. We go to work on Monday with plans for Friday night, enroll as freshmen intending to be seniors and save money for retirement. We try to control what comes next and shape it to meet our will.”

People Trying Night Next Goal Plans Shapes Retirement Senior Monday Friday Continuity Saving Money Freshman Friday Night

Book:One Bullet Away: The Making of a Marine Officer

Source: One Bullet Away: The Making of a Marine Officer

“I don't want people to know anything about me, because that's not important. I'm more interested in the me that takes shape through the characters.”

People Knows Want Important Character Shapes

Author:Willem Dafoe

“Equal partners aren't always what we envision as being manifestly equal. Equality can come in many different shapes and sizes and combinations.”

Different Shapes Equal Size Partners Combination Different Shapes And Sizes

Author:Ben Kingsley

“I'm inspired by lines, by shapes, when I see a dress on a person, when I see a beauty in a face, whether it's a man from an ancient culture or a beautiful young model. So what inspires me? Life inspires me.”

Men Persons Beautiful Faces Young Culture Lines Inspire Shapes Models Dresses Inspired Ancient

Author:Russell James

“Complicated things for me tend not to be interesting. Simple things, like when it's really direct eye contact, or when you see a really beautiful shape, like when it's clean or well balanced in the frame.”

Wells Eye Beautiful Simple Interesting Shapes Direct Clean Complicated Contact Balanced Simple Things Really Beautiful Eye Contact Complicated Things

Author:Russell James

“It's so interesting to me how songs take on a shape and body of their own and grow.”

Body Song Grows Interesting Shapes

Author:PJ Harvey

“Everything I do is really an expression of myself, through colors and shapes and, at the same time, I try to explain what I feel not only as a creator but also as a woman. I cannot separate one from the other.”

Feels Trying Color Expression Shapes Creator

Author:Sonia Rykiel

“Men and women are so alike that a woman must make an intellectual effort to differentiate herself. As soon as one understands who one is, one can disguise oneself any way one wants. As soon as one has found one's look, one's shape, one does not need to alter it too much, in fact I would say that one should not change it.”

Men Way Want Needs Should Looks Doe Facts Found Effort Too Much Shapes Intellectual Men And Women Oneself Disguise Differentiate

Author:Sonia Rykiel

“I don't like women who are multiform, who wear many different shapes. Women who retain a unique shape are usually unique people.”

People Different Shapes Unique

Author:Sonia Rykiel

“I like having a beard. My beard changes my face shape and allows me to see in it family members who I love and can't see otherwise.”

Faces Shapes Members Beard Family Members

Author:Douglas Coupland

“The heft of a life in the hands grows both lighter and weightier. Over time, my life has become more saturated with its shape and made-ness, while my poems have become more and more free. The first word of every poem might be "Yes." The next words: "And then."”

Firsts Made Hands Might Next Grows Shapes Lighters Saturated

Author:Jane Hirshfield

“A novel determines its own size and shape and I've never tried to stretch an idea beyond the frame and structure it seemed to require.”

Ideas Novel Shapes Structure Size Determine

Author:Don DeLillo

“When I work I have a sculptor's sense of the shape of the words I'm making. I use a machine with larger than average letters: the bigger the better.”

Use Shapes Letters Machines Bigger Average Sculptors

Book:Conversations with Don DeLillo

Source: Conversations with Don DeLillo

“Not long ago, a novelist could believe he could have an effect on our consciousness of terror. Today, the men who shape and inflence human consciousness are the terrorists.”

Men Believe Humans Long Today Consciousness Effects He Man Shapes Terror Terrorist Novelists Long Ago Human Consciousness

Author:Don DeLillo

“Psychologically speaking, it's very important to be in good shape. I work in a sport that requires you to react quickly and be in excellent shape. Besides, things don't get easier as you get older.”

Important Sports Easier Shapes Excellent

Author:Michael Schumacher

“I don't like weak women and I don't find it interesting to play them. I'm inspired by them, when I see them in dramas, like with Natalie Portman, in almost every movie she's in. It's awesome that chicks can really go there, and it's beautiful to watch, but I don't think I'm interested, in any way, shape or form, in embodying those creatures.”

Thinking Way Play Beautiful Form Interesting Watches Drama Shapes Creatures Weak Inspired Chicks Weak Women

Author:Michelle Rodriguez

“My work is strongly rooted in place and memory, in personal, formative experiences that took shape within very different environments.”

Different Memories Environment Shapes Rooted Different Environments

Author:David Rockwell

“Oh it's fantastic because I get to whip people like David into shape and tell them to go get me coffee. Kidding - okay.”

People Shapes Okay Coffee Fantastic Whips

Author:Debra Messing

“But just as elevators have changed the shape of buildings and cars have changed the shape of cities, bits will change the shape of organizations, be they companies, nations, or social structures.”

Nations Social Bits Cities Company Car Changed Building Shapes Organization Structure Elevators Social Structure

Author:Nicholas Negroponte

“Know that the outward form passes away, but the world of reality remains forever. How long will you play at loving the shape of the jug? Leave the jug; go, seek the water!”

Knows World Long Play Reality Form Water Forever Shapes Remains Passing Away Jugs

Author:Rumi

“We were a Western civilisation, an English speaking civilisation, both NZ and Australia, and we had all these influences coming from both Great Britain and America to us; sending us their culture in the shape and form of movies and television.”

America Form Culture Influence Television Shapes Western Britain Australia Civilisation Great Britain English Speaking Britain And America

Author:Richard O'Brien

“But our culture is in truly bad shape if we have come to define respecting something as the failure to set it on fire.”

Ifs Culture Fire Shapes

Author:Barbara Ehrenreich

“Every poem, formal or free, has an ideal shape, and the job of the poet is to find it.”

Jobs Poet Shapes Ideals Formal

Author:Peter Meinke

“There is no 'my self' and 'his self'. There is the Self, the only Self of all. Misled by the diversity of names and shapes, minds and bodies, you imagine multiple selves.”

Mind Self Body Names Imagine Shapes Diversity Multiple Mind And Body Misled

Author:Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

“Laughter was the shape the darkness took around the first appearance of the light.”

Firsts Light Darkness Shapes Laughter Appearance

Author:W. S. Merwin

“I want to be with people who submerge in the task, who go into the fields to harvest and work in a row and pass the bags along, who are not parlor generals and field deserters but move in a common rhythm when the food must come in or the fire be put out. The work of the world is common as mud. Botched, it smears the hands, crumbles to dust. But the thing worth doing well done has a shape that satisfies, clean and evident.”

People World Want Wells Done Hands Moving Common Fire Fields Shapes Tasks Clean Rhythm Dust Bags Evident Harvest Mud Well Done Parlor

Book:Circles on the Water

Source: Circles on the Water

“Results "are no good unless they answer (or can be made to seem to answer, or can be twisted and wrenched and piled into odd shapes until they hint at being somehow perhaps on the verge or answering) a question that someone might conceivably want asked."”

Want Made Seems Might Answers Results Shapes Odd Twisted Hints Verge

Author:David Quammen

“Culture and technology exist in a dynamic reciprocal relationship. Culture comprehends technology through the means of narratives or myths, and those narratives influence the future shape and purposes of technology. The culture-technology circuit is at the heart of cultural evolution.”

Heart Mean Purpose Culture Technology Influence Evolution Shapes Myth Narrative Circuits Reciprocal

Book:Utopian Entrepreneur

Source: Utopian Entrepreneur

“Context shapes who you are.”

Shapes Who You Are

Author:Cornel West

“Either the material order is the whole of being, wherein all transcendence is an illusion, or it is the phenomenal surface - mysterious, beautiful, terrible, harsh, and haunting - of a world of living spirits.... One should... be able to recognize that it is only the latter view that has ever had the power - over centuries and in every realm of human accomplishment - to summon desire beyond the boring limits marked by mortality, to endow the will with constancy and purpose, and to shape imagination towards ends that should not be possible within the narrow economies of the flesh.”

“Behavior shapes beliefs.”

Belief Shapes Behavior

Author:A. J. Jacobs

“I have to have the sensibility to keep Versace company in good shape because there are so many people working for it, and we need to have the company grow and also be relevant. So I work very hard for all that to happen, and I wish people would know me for that and be satisfied.”

People Knows Needs Hard Happens Wish Grows Company Shapes Satisfied Relevant Know Me Sensibility Versace

Author:Nicki Minaj

“There's no rational reason why opera should exist. It's expensive, time consuming. Yet in some shape or other it has always existed.”

Should Reason Shapes Rational Reason Why Expensive Opera Consuming Time Consuming

Author:Jake Heggie

“As an actor, you want people to see you as a whole person, not just a single facet of your emotional spectrum. And whether it's the audience or the industry, you end up getting pigeonholed as one thing. So for people to see I can be funny and stay in shape is a bit of a weight off my shoulders.”

People Want Persons I Can Ends Whole Actors Bits Audience One Thing Emotional Industry Shapes Weight Shoulders Spectrum Facets Whole Person

Author:Scott Porter

“The Flavr Savr wasn't about taste at all; that was just the name. It was about the shape and the shipability of it. My dad's company was all about flavor. His tomatoes are some of the best selling at Trader Joe's and Whole Foods.”

Whole Names Company Dad Taste Shapes My Dad Selling Flavor Tomatoes Traders Whole Foods

Author:Sanjay Rawal

“I often use the iPhone as an example of how governments shape markets, because what makes the iPhone ‘smart’ and not stupid is what you can do with it. And yes, everything you can do with an iPhone was government-funded. From the Internet that allows you to surf the Web, to GPS that lets you use Google Maps, to touch screen display and even the SIRI voice activated system - all of these things were funded by Uncle Sam through the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), NASA, the Navy, and even the CIA!”

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