Story - do you have yours set? How influential is your story about your life?

"Everyone has a story." - Neil LaBute, film director
"There is no such thing as a person that nothing happens and the story of every person is as different as his fingertips." - Elsa Lanchester, actress
I chose "story" for the theme of this article, because I just returned from our Annual Meeting, the Conference narratives Ohio. Our wonderful storyteller Jim May, determined by our own personal stories - how, what we are and what they mean.
Once we know the story of someone, we can not help but love them!
We started through the exchange of words and mantras we heard in our families, as they mature. Many knew how 'Always do your best "," Water seeks its own level "and" What will the neighbors think? "
Then we had Jim and reflect to six questions that we discover our history, and why we believe what we do to help:
1st What mantra positive and / or belief you hold in your growing family?
2nd What do Mantra negative and / or belief you do?
3rd Their heroic Threshold (s): Departure from your normal life behind - turns your life upside down?
4th Who was your mentor (s)?
5th What is the paradox of paradoxes in your life and your direction?
6th What is your favorite food, order in a restaurant?
A reply and you have a good idea of your own history.
What experts say about "Story" - a large number of citations election

    * "So I developed early on a massive inferiority complex, and I told the story of how often inspired me in later life, in other things because I could not my brothers in the sport, and it is a very competitive relationship." George J. Mitchell, American politician
    * "If people do not like us, they do not like us, but at least they have heard the story." - Lee Scott, American businessman
    * "Life is too short for a long story." - Mary Wortley Montagu, English writer
    * "Patience is the quality most needed by these companies, many people prefer that you listen to his story that the granting of his request." - Lord Chesterfield British politician
    * "When I look back on all these worries think I remember the story about the old man said on his deathbed that he had had many difficulties in his life, most of which had never been." - Winston Churchill, British statesman
    * Objects in pictures should be organized by their position to tell their own story. " - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German poet
A few tricks:

    * "You want to say something meaningful and creative, artistic, and that tells a story and take people elsewhere." - Sarah McLachlan, Canadian musician
    * "Save me, I dug this old story from high school and spent my days getting lost in my imagination." Physically, I was away in the movement of the grinding plastic, but mentally I am far, far away. I'm turning this old story in a world of mine and a fantastic novel by me. "- RA Salvatore, American writer
    * "You can know, say two people exactly the same words that tell the same story, and that would mean something else." - PJ Harvey, British musician
    * "Make your own decision. There are three parts of the story: his, her, and truth." - Erik Estrada, actor
    * "When a man his fortune does not suit him, as is the shoe in history, it is too large to travel, if it is too small and pinched. - Horace, Greek poet
    * "The story of Harold Ross, The New Yorker and me is a simple reference to the history of our time, and we could also provide the truth that the scientists of the future poked, in the ruins of the time, we will all be tiny glitters . But when the diamond. "- James Thurber, American humorist
And two thoughts for me:
"A good story will never die." - Roberta Williams, American Designer
"Your life story would not try a good book. Not even." - Fran Lebowitz, American journalist