Anecdotes Quotes

Statistics is the plural of anecdote.

I blend memories. I blend them into one that's funny. I exaggerate to clarify.

There is no history worthy attention save that of free nations; the history of nations under the sway of despotism is no more than a collection of anecdotes.

We’re not used to calculating large amounts of data. Our brains think anecdotally.

Stories," he'd said, his voice low and almost husky, "we are made up of stories. And even the one's that seem the most like lies can be our deepest hidden truths.

One of the most intriguing things in management and in business is the role of storytelling - people need the anecdotes to do the work that they do.

I appreciate hearing different stories. It inspires me.

All the truth in the world is held in stories.

I don't know how to tell a joke. I never tell jokes. I can tell stories that happened to me... anecdotes. But never a joke.

Storytelling is essentially what we do.

I remember once going to see him [Ramanujan] when he was lying ill at Putney. I had ridden in taxi-cab No. 1729, and remarked that the number seemed to me rather a dull one, and that I hoped it was not an unfavourable omen. "No," he replied, "it is a very interesting number; it is the smallest number expressible as a sum of two cubes in two different ways."

Poetry is a kind of ingenious nonsense (Spence, Anecdotes

Photography has arrived at the point where it is capable of liberating painting from all literature, from the anecdote, and even from the subject. In any case, a certain aspect of the subject now belongs to the domain of photography. So shouldn't painters profit from their newly acquired liberty, and make use of it to do other things?

(I am) dealing not with the particular anecdote, but rather with the Spirit of Myth, which is generic to all myths at all times.

The most important thing is story-telling. It's as singular and old-fashioned as that.

Tell them stories. They need the truth you must tell them true stories, and everything will be well, just tell them stories.

It sounds trite, but I like telling stories.

You can't throw away years of your life because it makes a funny anecdote.

People's talk and the stories they tell have been engraved on my heart, and some of them have flown into my pen.

Children, only animals live entirely in the Here and Now. Only nature knows neither memory nor history. But man - let me offer you a definition - is the storytelling animal. Wherever he goes he wants to leave behind not a chaotic wake, not an empty space, but the comforting marker-buoys and trail-signs of stories. He has to go on telling stories. He has to keep on making them up. As long as there's a story, it's all right. Even in his last moments, it's said, in the split second of a fatal fall - or when he's about to drown - he sees, passing rapidly before him, the story of his whole life.

The recent medical controversy over whether vaccinations cause autism reveals a habit of human cognition—thinking anecdotally comes naturally, whereas thinking scientifically does not.

This [Washington DC] is a town of anecdotes.

I describe incidents which may or may not have happened but which are true.

Stories are how we remember; we tend to forget lists and bullet points.

That's all that really matters in the end. Stories.