Differences Quote by Donald Davis

We don't only tell stories when we set out to tell stories, our memory tells us stories. That is, what we get to keep…

— Daniel Kahneman

By telling stories, you objectify your own experience. You separate it from yourself. You pin down certain truths. You make up others. You start…

— Tim O'Brien

Our memory tells us stories, that is, what we get to keep from our experiences is a story.

— Daniel Kahneman

The past is just a story we tell ourselves.

— Anonymous

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

— Karen Joy Fowler

As a writer, I'm more interested in what people tell themselves happened rather than what actually happened.

— Kazuo Ishiguro

We can tell people abstract rules of thumb which we have derived from prior experiences, but it is very difficult for other people to…

— Anonymous

I never told a victim story about my imprisonment. Instead, I told a transformation story - about how prison changed my outlook, about how…

— Fernando Flores

I'm just trying to make the point that the story we're telling ourselves is often very different from the story we're telling the people…

— Donald Miller

I tell the story to you now, but in each telling the story itself changes a little, changes direction, and that in turn changes…

— Vera Nazarian

So much history can be lost if no one tells the story -- so that's what I do. I tell the stories. This is…

— Alanis Obomsawin

Storytelling sticks in the mind because it attaches emotions to events, and that's the way we remember things. If you don't tell stories, no…

— Nick Morgan