Stories in sentence

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It isn't surprising, then, that if you should speak to anyone affected by a mental illness, the chances are that you will hear stories of hidden suffering, shame and discrimination in nearly every sector of their lives.

But perhaps most heartbreaking of all are the stories of the abuse of even the most basic human rights, such as the young woman shown in this image here that are played out every day, sadly, even in the very institutions that were built to care for people with mental illnesses, the mental hospitals.

I want to tell you some stories that explain my view.

We all heard about the importance of stories yesterday.

I could regale you with horror stories of ignorance over decades of experience as a forensic expert of just trying to get science into the courtroom.

I want to tell you two stories.

Now, the story behind TaskRabbit starts like so many great stories with a very cute dog by the name of Kobe.

And then other people will say, "No, actually, the big stories, the big developments are the founding of the world's major religions, which have changed civilizations and have changed and influenced how countless people are living their lives."

And then some other folk will say, "Actually, what changes civilizations, what modifies them and what changes people's lives are empires, so the great developments in human history are stories of conquest and of war."

And you start to plot the data, because, by this approach, the big stories, the big developments in human history, are the ones that will bend these curves a lot.

Now we expect that to happen with silly stories about precognition, but the problem is, we have exactly the same problem in academia and in medicine, and in this environment, it costs lives.

Now these are stories from basic science.

These are stories from 20, 30 years ago.

I found myself growing outraged that someone like Nathaniel could have ever been homeless on Skid Row because of his mental illness, yet how many tens of thousands of others there were out there on Skid Row alone who had stories as tragic as his, but were never going to have a book or a movie made about them that got them off the streets?

Thank you, thank you. (Applause) To understand the world that live in, we tell stories.

I think Popcorn could change the way that we tell stories on the web, and the way we understand the world we live in.

A few things to consider are having examples, stories and analogies.

These are the kinds of stories that convinced me that letter-writing will never again need to flip back her hair and talk about efficiency, because she is an art form now, all the parts of her, the signing, the scripting, the mailing, the doodles in the margins.

I had to let go at the very beginning, and I had to immerse myself in the stories of hundreds of artists and writers and musicians and filmmakers, and as I listened to these stories, I realized that creativity grows out of everyday experiences more often than you might think, including letting go.

The best way to learn about anything is through stories, and so I want to tell you a story about work and play and about four aspects of life that we need to embrace in order for our own creativity to flourish.

The first time I told these stories, a man in the audience raised his hand and said, "All these artists talk about their work, not their art, which has got me thinking about my work and where the creativity is there, and I'm not an artist."

And I can tell you two great stories.

But the problem is that this kind of thing happens all the time, and it affects not just the stories you read in the news but also the products you see on the shelves.

Every time a country started talking about it, like Germany, America, wherever, a page on Facebook popped up with the same logo with the same stories, so at the beginning we had "Iran-Loves-Israel," which is an Iranian sitting in Tehran, saying, "Okay, Israel loves Iran?

What if instead of calling them fears, we called them stories?

Like all stories, fears have characters.

Just like all great stories, our fears focus our attention on a question that is as important in life as it is in literature: What will happen next?

So if we think of our fears as more than just fears but as stories, we should think of ourselves as the authors of those stories.

Just as the most nuanced stories in literature are often the richest, so too might our subtlest fears be the truest.

As a result, I knew I needed to make my own stories about this experience, new narratives to reclaim my identity.

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