“There is no such thing as a boring person: everyone has stories and insights worth sharing. While on the road, we let our phones or laptops take up our attention. By doing that, we might miss out on the chance to learn and absorb ideas and inspiration from an unexpected source: our fellow travelers.” PersonsIdeasStoriesInspirationMightChanceAttentionMissingSourceFellowsPhonesBoringInsightUnexpectedTravelerLaptopsFellow TravelersEveryone Has A StoryIdeas And InspirationBoring Person Author:Richard Branson
“When my father made 'Jean de Florette' and 'Manon des Sources' back to back, everybody said, 'Why two movies?' But you need two movies to show how criminality evolves, and to tell the story: You can't show a man in love with so many women in one big biopic.” MenNeedsMadeSaidTwoStoriesShowsBigsFatherSourceEvolveCriminality Author:Thomas Langmann
“The brilliant creative core of capitalism ... is the story the entrepreneurs and capital investors tell themselves about the future. How they intend to alter it, what they expect to gain in return, where they will raise the capital to accomplish their vision. Many of their stories turn out to be flawed or mistaken, of course, but the capacity to envision a set of future events and then act to fulfill them is a central source of capitalism's strength and its dominance of society.” StoriesTurnsCoursesVisionCreativeEventsSourceReturnCapitalismGainsCapacityRaisesEntrepreneurAccomplishBrilliantCoreInvestorsMistakenFlawedDominanceFuture Events Book:The Soul of Capitalism: Opening Paths to a Moral Economy Source: The Soul of Capitalism: Opening Paths to a Moral Economy
“Freed from the sublimated form which was the very token of its irreconcilable dreams - a form which is the style, the language in which the story is told - sexuality turns into a vehicle for the bestsellers of oppression. ... This society turns everything it touches into a potential source of progress and of exploitation, of drudgery and satisfaction, of freedom and of oppression. Sexuality is no exception.” StoriesDreamFormTurnsLanguageProgressStyleSourceSatisfactionSexualityOppressionExceptionVehicleExploitationTokensThis SocietyDrudgery Author:Herbert Marcuse
“I have been advised that you have decided to move forward with your story without my interview. This, despite the fact confirmed more than three weeks ago that I would make myself available on a date certain (6 July), after you spoke to other relevant Church personnel and toured Church facilities, and that I would provide information annihilating the credibility of your sources including the fundamental crimes against the Scientology religion that were the reasons for their removal from post.” Has BeensReasonFactsStoriesMovingCertainThreeChurchWeekCrimeInformationSourceDecidedFundamentalsIncludingAvailableMoving ForwardDespitePostsInterviewsSpokesRelevantCredibilityFacilityJulyRemovalPersonnelScientology Author:David Miscavige
“I do think students in public school (and private) should be required to study the Bible. [...] As a matter of pure education, it's shocking that we [the americans] are not compelled to learn the book, which is the source of our language, our common stories, our political structure, our conflicts.” ThinkingShouldBookMatterStoriesSchoolPoliticalLanguageCommonStudyStudentsSourcePureConflictStructureShockingCompelledPublic School Author:David Plotz
“Inspiration comes from so many sources. Music, other fiction, the non-fiction I read, TV shows, films, news reports, people I know, stories I hear, misheard words or lyrics, dreams” PeopleKnowsStoriesShowsDreamInspirationFilmFictionTvsSourceNewsReportsTv ShowsNon Fiction Author:Trudi Canavan