August 2012
2 posts
“Let him who would move the world first move himself.”
– Socrates
“Stories are the only enchantment possible, for when we begin to see our...”
– Anaïs Nin
January 2012
2 posts
“Great stories happen to those who can tell them.”
– Ira Glass
“One of the ways to reincarnate is to tell your story”
– Spalding Gray #storytelling
October 2011
2 posts
“The process of putting your life into order with a beginning, middle, and end...”
– Catherine Burns, Artistic Director, The Moth
“Human beings all change. Not what they are but who they are. We have the power...”
– Elie Wiesel
September 2011
1 post
“I realized the importance of having a story today is what really separates...”
– Blake Mycoskie
CEO, Tom’s Shoes
July 2011
5 posts
“Stories are how we think. They are how we make meaning of life. Call them...”
– Dr. Pamela Rutledge, Director, Media Psychology Research Center
“Over the years I have become convinced that we learn best—and...”
– John Kotter, Harvard Business School professor, and author Leading Change
“I don’t believe anybody else’s story. I know that whatever people...”
– - Don Miguel Ruiz, Author of The Four Agreements
“In many shamanic societies, if you came to a medicine person complaining of...”
– Gabrielle Roth
“Storytelling: the world’s second oldest profession.”
– - Danny Harris
June 2011
1 post
“We are our stories. We compress years of experience, view, and emotion into a...”
– Dan Pink, A Whole New Mind
May 2011
1 post
“No matter what you do in your life, what you create, what career u have, whether...”
– Jonathan Harris, artist
March 2011
3 posts
“Every man is bound to leave a story better than he found it.”
– Mary Augusta Ward, late 19th, early 20th century British novelist
via Rick Larios
“Great stories happen to those who can tell them.”
– Ira Glass
“Stories are the secret reservoir of values: change the stories individuals and...”
– Ben Okri (provided by Grant Costello)
December 2010
1 post
3 tags
“One of the ways to reincarnate is to tell your story.”
– Spalding Gray
October 2010
12 posts
3 tags
“Our emotions are the driving powers of our lives. When we are aroused...”
– Earl Riney
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“We all live in suspense, from day to day, from hour to hour; in other words, we...”
– Mary McCarthy
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“The law embodies the story of a nation’s development through many...”
– Oliver Wendell Holmes
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“I wrote the story myself. It’s about a girl who lost her reputation and...”
– Mae West
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“Most of all one discovers that the soil does not stay the same, but, like...”
– Carol Williams
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“The storyteller serves the story. The fool serves the moment. The shaman serves...”
– Tony Allen, Afro-beat Drummer
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“The best way to persuade people is with your ears - by listening to them.”
– Dean Rusk
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“Story gives people enough space to think for themselves. A story develops and...”
– Annette Simmons, Author, The Story Factor
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“The stranger who tells our stories when we cannot speak not only awakens our...”
– Mende Proverb, Sierra Leone
3 tags
“Until lions have their historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the...”
– African proverb
4 tags
“Storytelling is by far the most underrated skill in business.”
– Gary Vaynerchuck, @garyvee, Author, Crush It!
3 tags
“The engineers of the future will be poets.”
– Terence McKenna
September 2010
21 posts
3 tags
“The human species thinks in metaphors and learns through stories.”
– Mary Catherine Bateson, Anthropologist
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“A song ain’t nothin’ in the world but just a story wrote with music to it.”
– Hank Williams, Sr.
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“People are hungry for stories. It’s part of our very being. Storytelling is a...”
– Studs Terkel
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“If you give audiences half a chance, they’ll do half your acting for you.”
– Katherine Hepburn
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“Sometime reality is too complex. Stories give it form.”
– Jean Luc Godard – French Filmmaker
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“The ‘true story’ is not the one that exists in mind…The story...”
– Orson Scott Card, Science Fiction Writer
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“By refusing to have our stories bounded by race, belief, ideology, nationality,...”
– Michael Bogdanffy-Kriegh, Architect; Past President, New York Society for Ethical Culture
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“We live in story like a fish lives in water. We swim through words and images...”
– Christina Baldwin, Author, StoryCatcher: Making Sense of our Lives Through the Power and Practice of Story.
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“Story is a yearning meeting an obstacle.”
– Robert Olen Butler, Author, via @StoryRoute
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“Storytelling may be what most distinguishes social movements from interest...”
– Marshall Ganz, Professor, Harvard Kennedy School of Government via @StoryRoute
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“One of the most important things to keep in mind using stories in organizations...”
– Steve Denning, Author, Leader’s Guide to Storytelling
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“If you’re going to have a story, have a big story, or none at all.”
– Joseph Campbell, Mythologist
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“What happens is fact, not truth. Truth is what we think about what happens.”
– Robert Mckee, Author, Story: Substance, Structure, Style and the Principles of Screenwriting
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“It’s all a question of story. We are in trouble just now because we do not...”
– Thomas Berry, Theologian, Philosopher, and Cultural Historian
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“We have to have a version of our own story that we keep telling ourselves that...”
– Steven Soderbergh, Academy-Award Winning Film Director
“If you don’t know the trees you may be lost in the forest, but if you...”
– Siberian Elder
“I wanted a perfect ending. Now I’ve learned, the hard way, that some poems...”
– Gilda Radner
“Australian Aborigines say that the big stories — the stories worth telling...”
– Robert Moss, Author, Dreamgates
“Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it.”
– Hannah Arendt, German Political Philosopher
“Men often become what they believe themselves to be. If I believe I cannot do...”
– Mohandas Ghandi 