Ccios Quote by James Scott, co-founder, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology

“The writer ultimately tires of the subject's self-serving story, and substitutes a story of his own.”

— Janet Malcolm

“Understand and challenge your personal narrative. Narratives become choices and actions — which become your life.”

— Bryant McGill

“If you don't have a narrative, just make one up. You can always change it when you have more clarity. Any narrative beats no…

— L. R. W. Lee

“If you don't turn your life into a story, you just become a part of someone else's.”

— Terry Pratchett

“It is just that narrative can be lethal when used in the wrong places.”

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“The narratives we create in order to justify our actions and choices become in so many ways who we are. They are the things…

— Cheryl Strayed

“The power of your story may not lie in its drama, but in its absolutely perfect relationship to your cause.”

— John Capecci and Timothy Cage

“My own story, anyone's own story, is always told against me, even what I myself am writing here, because I have no heroic history…

— Sebastian Barry

“I believe in letting the story speak for itself.”

— L.M. Fields

“You think you know how a story begins, or how it's going to turn out, especially when it's your own. You don't.”

— Edan Lepucki

“We are at the mercy of our own narrative impulses.”

— Leah Hager Cohen

“You alone own your story. Do not let another tell it, and if you find yourself in the company of one determined to rewrite…

— Jeanette LeBlanc