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Let him who would move the world first move himself.
Socrates

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Stories are the only enchantment possible, for when we begin to see our suffering as a story, we are saved.
Anaïs Nin 

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Great stories happen to those who can tell them.
Ira Glass 

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One of the ways to reincarnate is to tell your story
Spalding Gray #storytelling

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The process of putting your life into order with a beginning, middle, and end forces you to see cause and effect.
Catherine Burns, Artistic Director, The Moth

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Human beings all change. Not what they are but who they are. We have the power to change what we do with our life and turn it into our destiny.
Elie Wiesel

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I realized the importance of having a story today is what really separates companies. People don’t just wear our shoes, they tell our story.

Blake Mycoskie

CEO, Tom’s Shoes

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Stories are how we think. They are how we make meaning of life. Call them schemas, scripts, cognitive maps, mental models, metaphors, or narratives. Stories are how we explain how things work, how we make decisions, how we justify our decisions, how we persuade others, how we understand our place in the world, create our identities, and define and teach social values.
Dr. Pamela Rutledge, Director, Media Psychology Research Center

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Over the years I have become convinced that we learn best—and change—from hearing stories that strike a chord within us…Those in leadership positions who fail to grasp or use the power of stories risk failure for their companies and for themselves.
John Kotter, Harvard Business School professor, and author Leading Change

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I don’t believe anybody else’s story. I know that whatever people say is nothing but a story that’s distorted by their beliefs. I also know when their words come from truth, and I know because I can feel it.
- Don Miguel Ruiz, Author of The Four Agreements