Stories Quote by James Paul Gee Download Open image ““people like stories because they are good, not because they are true.”” — James Paul Gee ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Good True Like Stories People Like Stories Stories Good Story
“I have stories. But stories are not facts.' 'I like stories. Love them, actually. Most of the time they're better than facts.” — Morgan Rhodes Copy Share Image
“Good content isn’t about good storytelling. It’s about telling a true story well.” — Ann Handley MarketingProfs Copy Share Image
“People tell stories, and it's up to those who listen whether to believe them or not. It's not the job of the storyteller.” — Cecelia Ahern Copy Share Image
“All good stories are true. Even if they were completely made up by the storyteller, there is something in them that resonates with us.… — C.E. Laureano Copy Share Image
“Great stories are not the ones which have great people in them. Great stories are the ones which have ordinary people, willing to do… — Priyanka singh Copy Share Image
“Most people want to hear or tell a good story. But they don’t realize they can and should be the good story. That requires… — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
“Don’t you think one can tell the truth much better with a story?” — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
“Why do bad things happen to good people?' 'Because it makes a good story.” — Andrew Kaufman Copy Share Image
“Good stories are living texts, and when policies, laws, and social fads change, a good story remains evidence of not only what once was,… — Nevien Shaabneh Copy Share Image
An academic discipline, or any other semiotic domain, for that matter, is not primarily content, in the sense of facts and principles. It is… — James Paul Gee Copy Share Image
“Our world is now so complex, our technology and science so powerful, and our problems so global and interconnected that we have come to… — James Paul Gee Copy Share Image
Learning is a deep human need, like mating and eating, and like all such needs it is meant to be deeply pleasurable to human… — James Paul Gee Copy Share Image
“Global warming, environmental degradation, global flows of economic speculation and risk taking, overpopulation, global debt, new viruses, terrorism and warfare, and political polarization are… — James Paul Gee Copy Share Image
Gamers co-author the games they play by the choices they make and how they choose to solve problems, since what they do can affect… — James Paul Gee Copy Share Image
“human intelligence and creativity, today more than ever, are tied to connecting—synchronizing—people, tools, texts, digital and social media, virtual spaces, and real spaces in… — James Paul Gee Copy Share Image
“School is often based not on problem solving, which perforce involves actions and goals, but on learning information, facts, and formulas that one has… — James Paul Gee Copy Share Image
Video games provide an easy lead-in to computer literacy. They can get you thinking like a video game designer and can even lead to… — James Paul Gee Copy Share Image
Histories never conclude; they just pause their prose. Their stories are, if they are truthful, untidy affairs, resistant to windings-up and sortings-out. They beat… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
When you listen to someone improvise, the notes that are played are only half the story. — Hubert Laws Copy Share Image
Well, The Day the Earth Caught Fire was a story... I don't if anybody knows what it is but it was about... in the… — Val Guest Copy Share Image
She smiled, if he could see that, and waited for him to ask the real question. But he was silent. He wanted her to… — Sharon Shinn Copy Share Image
It's like the query letter problem that I just mentioned, magnified a hundredfold. You might be good at telling a story, but that doesn't… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
It took me 20 years to buy an electric typewriter, because I was afraid it would be too sensitive. I like to bang the… — Elmore Leonard Copy Share Image
Having small children and being an investigative reporter would seem like a difficult mix, but it worked well for me. I was often working… — Jill Abramson Copy Share Image
In the current climate, things that are true, brave human stories become political. — Cate Blanchett Copy Share Image
It goes to show you how we in the press so often miss the big stories that are right under our noses. There is… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
Now I am in the place I call this wide wide Heaven because it includes all my simplest desires but also the most humble… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
I think it's actually kind of sweet how there is a reciprocal effect that our stories can have on each other. — Chelsea Manning Copy Share Image
