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Quotes about narratives

Narratives are the threads that weave the fabric of human experience, capturing the essence of our lives through stories that resonate across time and culture. They are more than just tales; they are the frameworks through which we understand the world and our place within it. Narratives shape our identities, influence our perceptions, and guide our actions. They can be personal, reflecting individual journeys and transformations, or collective, encapsulating the shared experiences of communities and societies. People are drawn to quotes about narratives because they distill complex stories into powerful, memorable insights that can inspire, provoke thought, or offer comfort. These quotes often serve as mirrors, reflecting our own experiences and emotions, or as windows, offering glimpses into perspectives and lives different from our own. In a world where stories are constantly being told and retold, quotes about narratives remind us of the enduring power of storytelling to connect, heal, and transform. Whether seeking wisdom, solace, or motivation, individuals turn to these quotes to find meaning and understanding in the ever-evolving story of life.

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A lot of the drive to make narratives came from having to play by myself as a 5- or 6-year-old in the woods.
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As it’s told, it is altered, as all stories are in the telling, by time, will, perception, faith, love, work, by hope, decrepit, imagination, fear, history and the thousand other variable powers that play upon our personal narratives.
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Back then, as now, narratives shaped outcomes in courtrooms.
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Poetic language that knows itself as such doesn't contradict reason. On the contrary, it reminds each speaking subject not to take the narrative of his mind's adventures for the voice of truth. Every speaking subject is the poet of himself and of things. Perversion is produced when the poem is given as something other than a poem, when it wants to be imposed as truth, when it wants to force action.
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I understand,' Marder said. 'But a claim filed in a court has limited publicity. Newsline is going to present these crazy claims to forty million viewers. And at the same time, they'll automatically validate the claims, simply by repeating them on television. The damage to us comes from their exposure, not from the original claims.
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Our reflection of action occurs in different contexts which may influence us to shape our accounts in different ways for different audiences - our colleagues, supervisor, trainers or examiners. Wwe story our lives in ways that give human meaning and purpose to our endeavors, and these stories in turn shape and guide our future actions.
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Language allows us to represent autobiographical events in the past, present and future; we can imagine events that have not yet happened, that we wish to happen or fear will happen. Jerome Bruner first proposed narratives as the best candidate for how people give meaning to the world, themselves and dominated in our everyday representation of our lives, rather than narrower units that featured in the information processing paradigm at that time.
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Narratives were far easier to shape than battles.
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I’m not going to tell you how to start a bug-powered vehicle, I’m just going to put you inside one with somebody who knows how, and send you off on a ride.
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No, love, in real life you can get all the way to death and never have finished one single story.
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