Adversity Quote by Robert Olen Butler Download Open image “Story is a yearning meeting an obstacle.” — Robert Olen Butler ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Adversity Desire Inspirational Inspiring Meetings Obstacles Stories Storytelling Yearning
A compelling story requires conflict, friction, an obstacle to be overcome. — Kristen Soltis Anderson Copy Share Image
“Stories trace their roots to impassioned human interactions with the world. I always sense a storyline as an emotional yearning embedded in a deep… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
A story is an invitation, and a challenge, and a choice. — Marilyn Chandler McEntyre Copy Share Image
A story is a character who wants something and overcomes conflict to get it. — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
One of the remarkable qualities of the story is that it creates space. We can dwell in a story, walk around, find our own place. The story confronts but does not oppress; the story inspires but does not manipulate. The story invites us to an encounter, a dialogue, a mutual sharing. As long as we have stories to tell to… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share
Stories open up new paths, sometimes send us back to old ones, and close off still others. Telling and listening to stories we too… — Arthur Kleinman Copy Share Image
“A story has no beggining or end; arbitratily one chooses that moment of experience from which to look back or from which to look… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A story can take you through a whole process of searching, seeking, confronting, through conflicts, and then to a resolution. As the storyteller and… — Maxine Hong Kingston Copy Share Image
A story invites both writer and reader into a kind of superficial ease: we want to slide along, pleasingly entertained, lost in the fictional… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
The passion for the story is the wind in your narrative sails. Begin at the heart. We must hear the heartbeat of the story.… — Patricia Lee Gauch Copy Share Image
The ironic humor comes from the distance between what we understand about ourselves and what is truly going on in ourselves. — Robert Olen Butler Copy Share Image
“If all the artists you loved changed you, they'd hack you up in little piece and you'd never get back together. That, or you'd… — Robert Olen Butler Copy Share Image
“Most journals are repositories of great swatches of abstraction and generalization and self-analysis and interpretation and all that bad stuff. Don’t do that. But here’s a certain kind of journal that might be useful to you: at the end of the day or beginning of the next day, return to some event of the day that evoked an emotion in… — Robert Olen Butler Copy Share
The only craft and technique you have legitimate access to is the craft and technique you forgot, that has dissolved itself into the unconscious...… — Robert Olen Butler Copy Share Image
Natural writers will often try to force themselves into a form - novel, story, screenplay, or poem - that is not necessarily the appropriate form for the way they see the world... if, in fact, they are writing from the artist's impulse, which is a deep, inchoate vision of some sort of order behind the apparent chaos of life on… — Robert Olen Butler Copy Share
The great Japanese film director Akira Kurosawa said that to be an artist means never to avert your eyes. And that's the hardest thing,… — Robert Olen Butler Copy Share Image
Jayne Anne Phillips . . . is at the height of her powers in Lark and Termite. . . . This is a major… — Robert Olen Butler Copy Share Image
“And so, given the musical sensibilities Hatcher treasured in his earthly life, it is hard to exaggerate the severity of his torture at standing… — Robert Olen Butler Copy Share Image
All plot comes from the character's trying to get something, to achieve something, wanting, desiring, longing. — Robert Olen Butler Copy Share Image
In Red Flags, Juris Jurjevics has brilliantly accomplished a feat that is becoming a major characteristic of 21st century literature: the seamless combining of… — Robert Olen Butler Copy Share Image
“I think, by the way, that’s why athletes are so superstitious. Because if you believe that your current batting streak depends on wearing a… — Robert Olen Butler Copy Share Image
We love playing together and we love adversity. You know, back-to-back, the two best teams in the East. — Steve Nash Copy Share Image
“The threats that resurfaced in the past 10 years were not an aberration. Al Qaeda and terrorism or one such threat, but it was actually not the most serious threat that the United States faced. The president can and should speak of foreseeing an era in which these threats don't exist, but you must not believe his own rhetoric. To… — George Friedman Copy Share
He who is content with what has been done is an obstacle in the path of progress. — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
“Friction is necessary. Ease of life leads to complacency and the atrophy of the human will and spirit. Within our struggles lives our strength, within our trials lives our triumphs. Friction creates a platform for change, generates heat and or fervor and creates a motivational charge that gives us an opportunity to be better. A gem cannot be polished without… — Jason Versey Copy Share
“Every adversity is just another opportunity to excel a little more.” — Michel Templet Copy Share Image
“Just because she doesn't talk about it, doesn't mean she isn't feeling it. She hurts, but she won't wear it on her sleeve. She will never let an illness, a diagnosis, or a prediction, define her. She doesn't want sympathy, because that type of attention is not her goal. She'd rather you see the woman who smiles in the face… — Alfa H Copy Share
Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before. — James Buckham Kennedy Copy Share Image
“Struggles are not associated to a particular people or creed, everyone struggles, not for the same reasons, but each has a personal struggle at… — Wayne Chirisa Copy Share Image
God often hides His blessing in trouble or trial, which makes it all the sweeter when it comes our way. — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
