Able Quote by Ben Mezrich Download Open image “The idea that the story is true is more important than being able to prove that it's true.” — Ben Mezrich ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 5.0 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Able Ideas Important Prove Stories
Stories are important...They can be more important than anything. If they carry the truth. — Patrick Ness Copy Share Image
Stories are not like the real world; they aren't held back by what we know is false or true. What's important is how a… — Tahir Shah Copy Share Image
A story always tells the truth about the true intention of the storyteller, regardless of the plot — Unknwon Copy Share Image
A story is based on what people think is important, so when we live a story, we are telling people around us what we… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
“If I've learned one thing in the last few days it is that every question does not need to be answered. A story is… — Joseph Bruchac Copy Share Image
False stories can be promulgated more easily when the people trying to tell true stories have been discredited - or when they are battered… — Anne Applebaum Copy Share Image
“I know that you are wise. When you hear a true story, there is a part of you that responds to it regardless of art, regardless of evidence…You believe that the story is true, because you responded to it from that sense of truth deep within you. But that sense of truth does not respond to a story's factuality...[rather] to… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share
Sometimes the facts can get in the way of the telling of a good story. But they don't get in the way of the… — Bennett Miller Copy Share Image
I certainly was a geeky kid myself, but to me, math and science were always these magical things- powerful tools you could use in… — Ben Mezrich Copy Share Image
I believe Facebook is going all the way. They're going to reach a billion members and will be the biggest company in the world.… — Ben Mezrich Copy Share Image
“Below, he could see down the entire Strip, from the radioactive green lion at the base of the MGM Grand to the glowing spire… — Ben Mezrich Copy Share Image
I have an antique console stand-up radio that I bought in a yard sale, that I've always half-believed has magical properties. It's in my… — Ben Mezrich Copy Share Image
In terms of a narrative nonfiction book, when you're describing scenes that you have multiple sources for, and that you have differing sources for,… — Ben Mezrich Copy Share Image
Businesses should follow and learn from others successes and failures in order to better understand and predict their own. — Ben Mezrich Copy Share Image
I see myself as attempting to break ground. I definitely am trying to create my own genre here... I'm attempting to tell stories in… — Ben Mezrich Copy Share Image
I've always loved adventure stories that involve brilliant kids using their brains to beat systems that seem unbeatable. — Ben Mezrich Copy Share Image
I am certain that children always know more than they are able to tell, and that makes the big difference between them and adults,… — Jacques Lusseyran Copy Share Image
I have observed this in my experience of slavery, - that whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment, it only… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
There is something about the South that accepts the supernatural. If you don't accept it and you're having a conversation with someone who does,… — Alice Englert Copy Share Image
In the '80s, the way radio was programmed, if you didn't have a hit record you weren't going to be able to make any… — Huey Lewis Copy Share Image
I think I've had the longest career of strength, focus, and still being able to sell records. I think I'm that guy. I'm still… — Nas Copy Share Image
I have that need in me, I want everyone to love me, but I'm embarrassed by that need, so I wanted to cover it… — Anthony Jeselnik Copy Share Image
Thinking about the things that happened, I don't know any other ball player would could have done what he (Jackie Robinson) did. To be… — Pee Wee Reese Copy Share Image
Government schools, with your tax money, now discourage the teaching of multiplication tables by rote memorization but teach reading by the 'look-and-say' method which… — Greg Perry Copy Share Image
I don't know if I would qualify as mainstream. I think I have managed to function pretty successfully on the fringes of the music… — Pat Metheny Copy Share Image
What we're supposed to do as actors is be able to portray real human beings and emotions. And if you grow up in this… — Emily Browning Copy Share Image
The reason that Apple is able to create products like iPad is because we always try to be at the intersection of technology and… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image