Telling Quotes · Page 29

I never want to get caught up in praises. Never want to get caught up in people telling me how good I…

— Jarvis Landry

I remember clearly watching a 'Sooty Show' at a theatre and telling my mum I wanted to be up with the puppets,…

— Tom Riley

Moviemaking is about telling a story. And you need to know what story you are going to tell.

— Nancy Juvonen

Nietzsche said that everyone tells themselves the story of their life. That's true about countries, too. We're constantly telling ourselves the American…

— Ben Dreyfuss

I am doing what I can to expand the tent and bring up other people and make sure we are telling different…

— Raphael Bob-Waksberg

If you wish to get along with people, pretend not to know already whatever they are telling you.

— Vikrant Parsai

“I'm not telling you what to do, I'm just telling you what you're going to do. There's a difference.”

— Jennifer Lynn Barnes

“Publicly telling the truth on social media can be one of the most effective healing journeys.”

— Steven Magee

I really believe that, as an artist, my opportunity to help to bring about awakening is one that should come from a…

— Michael Franti

Many people think that discipline is the essence of parenting. But that isn't parenting. Parenting is not telling your child what to…

— Gordon Neufeld

This guy kept telling us that rock was the big thing, everyone's talking about the big thing, our band was the big…

— Terry Kath

“the happening and the telling are very different things. This doesn’t mean that the story isn’t true, only that I honestly don’t…

— Karen Joy Fowler

We are not dictating. We are not telling them [Saudi Arabia] how they should do it or who they should look like.…

— Colin Powell

When I meet children at book signings, they'll bring me photos of when I first met them many years ago when they…

— Grace Lin

At the core, coaching authenticity is complicated - some might say impossible. Telling someone to be authentic sounds pretty low calorie, especially…

— Scott Weiss

Each of us chooses the tone for telling his or her own story. I would like to choose the durable clarity of…

— Isabel Allende

I am not interested in telling you what to think. My job is to show you what I think. Period.

— Christopher McQuarrie

I wasn't sure how people were going to take to the stories I was telling and the things I wanted to sing…

— Jackson Harris

“I say, "This is the only way it might be," thinking of all the other ways. I'm either telling a lie or…

— Jac Jemc

I'm not ashamed to speak about anything. And what I'm telling you is real; it's from the heart.

— Pepa

I am not comfortable telling people I am trying stand-up because to me that implies confidence. I'm - well, I'm not.

— Jessie Cave

Somewhere along the way one discovers that what one has to tell is not nearly so important as the telling itself.

— Henry Miller

Never tell someone you love them if you don't, it's easier telling the truth then living a lie...

— Lonniedagreat

I have a problem with telling jokes about physics. Quite often the audience have no idea what you are talking about and,…

— Robin Ince

I get quite disappointed that we're still telling stories that I think are problematic in terms of what they're saying about women.

— Romola Garai

My dad could've made it big. At the time, he didn't have the right guys to push him, telling him what to…

— JaMarcus Russell

More than what we say or do, the way we are expresses what we think it means to be alive. So the…

— Polly Berrien Berends

I guess that is my favorite thing - to make people laugh and also to maybe engage them emotionally and touch them…

— Lesley Nicol

Donald Trump is not going anywhere. And we see as calculated as these are, he has a knack for telling a certain…

— Chris Hayes

It is frustrating that people have a hard time telling other female stories besides, 'Is she going to get the guy?'

— Ari Graynor

I was pretty hot-tempered all through school. I remember my high school basketball coach telling me: 'Boy, if you don't learn to…

— Tony Dorsett

Dance and theatre afforded me the opportunity to discover my passion for acting, for telling stories.

— Kelsey Chow

“In sign, you more often than not start a story with the punch line. It’s the telling that is important.”

— Lou Ann Walker

Photography, like any other art, is a form of communication. The artist is not blowing bubbles for his own gratification, but is…

— William Mortensen

Start telling the story of your amazing life, and the law of attraction must make sure you receive it!

— Rhonda Byrne

That man (Lord Lyttelton) sat down to write a book, to tell the world what the world had all his life been…

— Samuel Johnson

“Good literature boils down to two things: How interesting is the story you are telling, and how interesting is your telling.”

— Hillel F. Damron

If you go in with a plan to make a point, and you know what your narrative is going to be already,…

— Lynn Novick

My training of cold-calling and everyone under the sun telling me no, and my keeping going, was a huge part of the…

— Sara Blakely

I see myself as anybody, as everybody; I'm not just telling the story of my life to give the reader a picture…

— Paul Auster