I hope telling stories though 'Making a Difference' - as in my academic work and nonprofit work - will help me to live my grandmother's adage of 'Life is not about what happens to you, but about what you do with what happens to you.'
I believe that being successful means having a balance of success stories across the many areas of your life. You can't truly be considered successful in your business life if your home life is in shambles.
Like so many writers I started writing stories because I didn't have much time for anything else.
There are days when I look at my news feed, and it seems like a social fabric of fun - a video of the first steps of my friends' baby! My nephew's prom date! On other days, it feels like a NASCAR vehicle, plastered with news stories, promoted posts, lame Live videos, and random content.
The kids are fixing their eyes on social media, and the stories they're looking at may not be the most important things. I'm guilty of that, too. Do you want to look at Instagram or the news? It's a difficult, and weird, situation.
I just come up with the stories and write them as well as I can. There's not really a great deal of strokey-beard thinking going on.
I love telling stories, telling jokes, making people laugh. I've got no plans to stop doing it.
I like all kinds of stories, and I usually work on several stories at once. When I run out of gas on one, I start work on the other.
It simply is not cost affective to cover stories from independent sources.
My responsibility is to try to tell true stories. To me a true story is always hopeful, but never simply, uncomplicatedly happy.
I was thinking of applying to the 'Guardian' for a job after university. Yeah, I wanted to be one of the people who writes stories in G2.
I hope you will go out and let stories happen to you, and that you will work them, water them with your blood and tears and you laughter till they bloom, till you yourself burst into bloom.
Very few stories embody a human truth so definitively that we cannot think of the truth without remembering the story and cannot imagine how people ever got by without it.
I am never not thinking about stories. 'The Bone Season' is 90% of my brain - 10% is interacting with the rest of the world.
Women's books are kind of discriminated against. If a man writes a book about his family stories, people think of it as literature. If it's a woman, she's 'spilling her guts,' and it's not art.
Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core of science fiction, its essence has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all.
I don't think there's a shortage of material in the world. Or in my head. I just pray for continued good health, because I've got other stories to tell.
It is important to tell good stories. You can tell stories even if they are not huge, epic, and wonderful. You can still take the responsibility for being a scribe of your tribe.
Mainly, what I like to do is keep things varied and not get in a rut, not tell the same stories over and over.
When I was in my early twenties, my mom started repeating things, asking the same questions, telling the same stories. It was like, 'Oh, God, this is not right.' When I was 25, my brother and I finally told our dad we had to take her to the doctor.
We have a 25-year head start for the stories of 'Scorpion.' By the time we get to Season Two and Three, the stuff that happened because of Season One will actually fuel Season Three. So it'll become a self-sustainable show.
I'm not as good a singer as I am an actor. So that's why I - the stories I like so much is because I've been a story teller for a long time. I started as a singer and found out I didn't have a very good voice. That's the reason I went into acting.
Sometimes stories are inherently important whether or not they have a direct relation to your life.
The stories about broadcast dying or it being overtaken by cable have stopped. Same goes for the stories about the Internet hurting our business.
I love vampire stories. That's why I did the movie. Women especially were taken with that movie-even more so when it came out on video.
I'm still really fascinated with characters and people and telling their stories.
Fortunately, I get asked to play - regardless of how big or small they are - some really interesting people who are part of great stories. So, as an actor, there's really nothing better.
Cable TV has become where the best actors, writers and directors have gone to work because they are allowed to do character-driven stories.
I have great family and good friends; the stories I told became popular, and people all over the world bought them.
I love to tell stories. It's a delight for me.
All of us in the Ball family in South Carolina, from the time we're children, hear stories about our ancestors, the slave owners.
The importance and influence of books on me has been cumulative: the result of hearing and reading lots of stories about interesting people and places.
You've just got to focus on excellence and try not to be distracted by the news and the rumors and the absurdities of the stories that were coming out.
I come from a time when people like Bob Newhart and Bill Cosby told stories that were devastatingly funny without being off-color.
Our dream as actors is to tell interesting stories about interesting people.
I'm glad that in this sport you can write your own stories, and you don't have to worry about what other people expect out of you.