Richard Branson Quotes

Every person you meet has a lesson to teach, a story to tell and a dream to share.

Books change us. Books save us. I know this because it happened to me. Books saved me. So, I do believe through stories we can learn to change, we can learn to empathize and be more connected with the universe and with humanity.

What we find in books is like the fire in our hearths. We fetch it from our neighbors, we kindle it at home, we communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all.

I try not to live my life on my phone or my social media pages. Most of the time, I feel better and happier and I learn more when I'm not on my phone, all day, or a computer, or an iPad.

Share your story with someone. You never know how one sentence of your life story could inspire someone to rewrite their own.

My mission is to communicate, to wake people up, just to give them my energy and accept theirs.

All I can do is share what I'm thinking - and learn from others.

The teacher is one who makes two ideas grow where only one grew before.

Inspiration hits me at the most annoying times. Like when I am on my bicycle going back home from the studio at 3 a.m.. I've many crackly recordings into my mobile phone practically inaudible from the wind rushing into the handset!

And when they start talking, and they always do, you find that each of them has a story they want to tell. Everyone, no matter how old or young, has some lesson they want to teach. And I sit there and listen and learn all about life from people who have no idea how to live it.

The very act of writing assumes, to begin with, that someone cares to hear what you have to say. It assumes that people share, that people can be reached, that people can be touched and even in some cases changed. So many of the things in our world lead us to despair. It seems to me that the final symptom of despair is silence, and that storytelling is one of the sustaining arts; it’s one of the affirming arts. A writer may have a certain pessimism in his outlook, but the very act of being a writer seems to me to be an optimistic act.

The seeds of greatness are ideas you learn from people who've been great in their service to others.

Sometimes strange and wonderful things will pop into my head. And sometimes I will see something in the world that is the beginning of a story. I always have a notebook with me so that I can write down what I see and hear.

The urge to create a fictional narrative is a mysterious one, and when an idea comes, the writer's sense of what a story wants to be is only vaguely visible through the penumbra of inspiration.

This is intimacy: the trading of stories in the dark.

I did actually sit down with a blank sheet of paper once. I think the phone rang and that was the end of my literary career.

Books light the fire-whether it's a book that's already written, or an empty journal that needs to be filled in.

Penetration seems a kind of inspiration; it gives me an idea of prophecy.

I usually work in a direction until I know how to do it, then I stop, At the time that I am bored or understand - I use those words interchangeably - another appetite has formed.

There are so many people I would love to meet and say thank you for posting their videos, because hearing their stories and everything comforted me.

I used to get my best ideas from being bored, and now, if I even think I'm being faintly bored, I have two million Twitter followers I can engage with. It's great, but I also think it's important to be able to let your thoughts flow and percolate.

Stories have inspired me all my life. I like reading about what other people have done and it inspires me to share my own stories, and encourage people to make their own life stories.

my friends plunged into a borderless sea of reminiscences and personal news.

I don't know where my ideas come from, but I know where they come to. They come to my desk, and if I'm not there, they go away again.

I'm generally not a social dramatist or comedy writer. My interests have always been more in psychological stories or personal relations and comic ideas.