Interrupting Quote by Paula Fox Download Open image “The truth came slowly like a story told by people interrupting each other.” — Paula Fox ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Interrupting People Stories Truth
As human beings, the closest we can get to truth is through story. — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
You have to understand, my dears, that the shortest distance between truth and a human being is a story. — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
Truth is quite constricting, in a way. You endlessly see at the start of a film 'This is a true story'. — Stephen Frears Copy Share Image
“a truth does not take too long to tell, only a fiction requires so much thought” — Tami Hoag Copy Share Image
A truth discovered always seems so plain and simple that we wonder why the discovery was so long delayed. — Vash Young Copy Share Image
“The shortest distance between truth and a human being is a story.” — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
“A law of life: at the precise instant when someone tells a truth, that truth is transformed into a story” — Enrique De Heriz Copy Share Image
The more rapidly truth is spread among mankind the better it will be for them. Only let us be sure that it is the… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
My life was incoherent to me. I felt it quivering, spitting out broken teeth. — Paula Fox Copy Share Image
People steal into one's consciousness and occupy what seems, in retrospect, to have been their place all along. — Paula Fox Copy Share Image
You'll see some bad things, but if you didn't see them, they'd still be happening. — Paula Fox Copy Share Image
“I imagine there's a timid animal inside me...When it's afraid, I feel it tremble. It can't hear. It only knows the fear it feels. It doesn't have memory or an idea of the future. It lives in the present—the right now—and I try to remember it is only a part of myself, a small frightened thing I can pity. When… — Paula Fox Copy Share
I taught writing classes at the University of Pennsylvania for a number of years and I realized that all you can do is encourage… — Paula Fox Copy Share Image
“Words are nets through which all truth escapes ("News From The World")” — Paula Fox Copy Share Image
Imagination has to do with one's awareness of the reality of other people as well as of one's own reality. Imagination is a bridge… — Paula Fox Copy Share Image
“Imagination is conjunctive and unifying; the sour, habitual wars of the self are disjunctive and separating. When I begin a story at my desk,… — Paula Fox Copy Share Image
If a person had accused him of meanness, he could have defended himself. But with a dog - you did something cheap to it… — Paula Fox Copy Share Image
A year and a half after the end of the war and the German occupation, Paris was muted and looked bruised and forlorn. Everywhere… — Paula Fox Copy Share Image
“You’ll see some bad things, but if you didn’t see them, they’d still be happening so you might as well.” — Paula Fox Copy Share Image
Eating and sleeping are the only activities that should be allowed to interrupt a man's enjoyment of his cigar. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Writers get exactly the right amount of fame: just enough to get a good table in a restaurant but not enough so that people… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
That's the trouble with a politician's life-somebody is always interrupting it with an election. — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
The fact that I am interrupting serious work to answer these questions proves that I am so stupid that I should be penalized severely.… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Selling to people who actually want to hear from you is more effective than interrupting strangers who don't. — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
When the Vent begins, you might confuse [it] for a conversation. It's not. It's a Vent. It's a mental release valve and your job is to listen for as long as it takes. Don't problem solve. Don't redirect. Don't comfort. Yet. Your employee is doing mental house cleaning and interrupting this cleaning is missing the point. They don't want a… — Rands Copy Share
The trouble is that neutrality is confused with hostility. We're not disrupting churches, or interrupting people's prayers. We're not fighting religion. — Dan Barker Copy Share Image
Subplots bring realism to your main plot simply by existing – by interrupting the flow. Why is this? Because life doesn’t move forward all… — Elizabeth Sims Copy Share Image
I was brought up in a house full of women; the first time I realised no one was interrupting me was when I was… — Eddie Marsan Copy Share Image
I have this habit of asking 'why do you want to do it?' and then interrupting them to say, 'here's why you want to… — Mike Birbiglia Copy Share Image
Dear Lord, make me a better parent. Teach me to understand my children, to listen patiently to what they have to say and to… — Gary Myers Copy Share Image
Remember that this is not something we do just once or twice. Interrupting our destructive habits and awakening our heart is the work of… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
![“I have this habit of asking 'why do you want to do it?' and then interrupting them to say, 'here's why you want to do it.' Because it's in the 'yes...and' spirit [rule of improvisation].” quote by Mike Birbiglia](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/f23/mike-birbiglia-1343_asking_i-have-this-habit-of-asking-why-do-you-w_896488.jpg)
