Constructs Quote by Doris Lessing Download Open image “A story is how we construct our experiences.” — Doris Lessing ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Constructs Stories
Our memory tells us stories, that is, what we get to keep from our experiences is a story. — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
Stories are the creative conversion of life itself into a more powerful, clearer, more meaningful experience. They are the currency of human contact. — Robert McKee Copy Share Image
Telling a story is the way of exploring so many different things - human behavior, society, whatever existence. — Yorgos Lanthimos Copy Share Image
This unceasing interplay between experience and narrative is a uniquely human attribute. We are the storytellers, the ones who put life into words. — Christina Baldwin Copy Share Image
Everybody has a story. And there's something to be learned from every experience. — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
“We come to know ourselves only through stories. We listen to the stories of others, we inherit the stories of those who came before,… — Camilla Gibb Copy Share Image
“Stories are how we think. They are how we make meaning of life. Call them schemas, scripts, mental maps, ideas, metaphors, or narratives. Stories… — Jeroninio Almeida Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“As the video game designer and writer James Wallis puts it, “Human beings like stories. Our brains have a natural affinity not only for… — Jonathan Gottschall Copy Share Image
A story is a kind of biopsy of human life. A story is both local, specific, small, and deep, in a kind of penetrating,… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
Stories develop from things I read and also from my own experiences and experiences of people I know. — William Sleator Copy Share Image
A story is the relationship that you develop between who you are, or who you potentially are, and the infinite world. — Shekhar Kapur Copy Share Image
Some books are not read in the right way because they have skipped a stage of opinion, assume a crystallization of information in society… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“In the morning, when she wishes me to wake, she crouches on my chest, and pats my face with her paw. Or, if I… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
You know, whenever women make imaginary female kingdoms in literature, they are always very permissive, to use the jargon word, and easy and generous… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
There is only one real sin and that is to persuade oneself that the second best is anything but second best. — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“She was using the water as she had used the fruit earlier—to calm herself, to assure herself of the possibility of normality. Yet all… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
I remember World War II when there were very few books, very little paper available. For me to walk into a shop or look… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
They can't give a Nobel to someone who's dead so I think they were probably thinking they had better give it to me now… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“While she strode rapidly through the ward to the door at the other end, she was able to see that every bed or cot… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
I do not think that marriage is one of my talents. I've been much happier unmarried than married. — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
What really fascinates me is this need that is so strong now that if you read a work of the imagination you instantly have… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“The charge that the United Nations are using bacteriological warfare in Korea cannot be dismissed merely because it would be insane.” — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
A language possesses utility only insofar as it can construct conventional boundaries. A language of no boundaries is no language at all, and thus… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
I reject the idea there are just two sides. I think that with the amount of ideas and thoughts there are, it's not even… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
My thinking was that today's spectator is so well-versed in film language that all theories about suspense, as argued by Dreyer and Hitchcock, on… — Bruno Dumont Copy Share Image
Charming Alnaschar visions! it is the happy privilege of youth to construct you. — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
Want to talk third wave feminism, you could cite Ariel Levy and the idea that women have internalized male oppression. Going to spring break… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
To me the female principle is, or at least historically has been, basically anarchic. It values order without constraint, rule by custom not by… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
The second commandment is "Thou shall not construct any graven images." Is this really the pinnacle of what we can achieve morally? The second… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
Philosophy first constructs a scheme of happiness and then tries to fit the world to it. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
You can see the rider serving the elephant when people are morally dumbfounded. They have strong gut feelings about what is right and wrong,… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
She and Thomas had helped construct the Maze; at the same time she’d exerted a lot of effort to build a wall holding back… — James Dashner Copy Share Image
Today, when we look at a brain, we see an intricate network of billions of neurons in constant, crackling communication, a chemical labyrinth that… — Carl Zimmer Copy Share Image
Inevitably we construct ourselves. Let me explain. I enter this house and immediately I become what I have to become, what I can become:… — Luigi Pirandello Copy Share Image
