The most powerful person in the world is the story teller.
The storyteller sets the vision, values and agenda
of an entire generation that is to come. — Steve Jobs
People are hungry for stories. It's part of our very being. Storytelling is a form of history, of immortality too. It goes from one generation to another. -Studs Terkel — Studs Terkel
Good storytelling is humanity's great connector, and it just might keep the world from eating itself. — James Genn
A boy's story is the best that is ever told. — Charles Dickens
I'm an interpreter of stories. When I perform it's like sitting down at my piano and telling fairy stories. — Nat King Cole
Southerners love a good tale. They are born reciters, great memory retainers, diary keepers, letter exchangers . . . great talkers. — Eudora Welty
Storytelling is the most powerful way to put ideas into the world today. — Robert McKee
Storytelling is the most powerful way to put ideas into the world today. — Robert McAfee Brown
Successful people often enjoy telling their story. — Lewis Howes
The best stories are often true...The narrative of human life is most beautiful when told truthfully and without boundaries. — Shonda Rhimes
The trouble with telling a good story is that it invariably reminds the other fellow of a dull one. — Sid Caesar
Short Great Storyteller Quotes
Most people don't know how to tell stories. — Ted Rall
One feels the excitement of hearing an untold story. — John Hope Franklin
To survive, you must tell stories. — Umberto Eco
Know something, sugar? Stories only happen to people who can tell them. — Allan Gurganus
A good story cannot be devised; it has to be distilled. — Raymond Chandler
A good story is like a bitter pill, with the sugar coating inside of it. — O. Henry
The most powerful words in English are, 'Tell me a story.' — Pat Conroy
Every tale can be told in a different way — Greek Proverbs
If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten. — Rudyard Kipling
That's the strange thing about a good story. No pleasure if you can't share it. — Carsten Jensen
Great Storyteller Image Quotes
The planet does not need more "successful people". The planet desperately needs more peacemakers, healers, restorers, storytellers and lover of all kinds.
Good Storytelling Quotes
I'm not very good at depicting the characters' psychology on the page. — Akira Toriyama
Marketing is about telling good stories. Social media marketing is about getting your customers to tell them for you. — Ryan Deiss
A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses that moment of experience from which to look back or from which to look ahead. — Graham Greene
Some of Eminem's rap songs kind of have the teenage love songs like the fifties love songs. It's kind of like domestic drama set to music. He is really good storyteller. — Bruce Dickinson
Good storytelling doesn't have to be in the form of the classics. It doesn't have to be revered by everybody. In fact, to me, the best storytelling is not universally loved by every single person. I think you can water down the ethicacy of the work, itself. — Bryan Cranston
Make today so awesome, yesterday gets jealous.
Good storytelling is harder than it sounds, but the easy part is that everyone has the ability to do it. ...Tap into it. — Peter Guber
Good storytelling for me is not so much technical expertise, which I know is applauded often; it's actually freshness of approach. It does mean you sometimes stumble and fall and make a horrible mess of things in seeking that freshness, but you should always keep trying to do that. — Danny Boyle
I remember one review of The Office Christmas Special that compared it unfavourably to Dickens. What? You're saying I'm not as good as the greatest storyteller ever. Boo! Boo! I think I can live with that. — Ricky Gervais
My brand is good storytelling. I really want [my company] Hillman Grad Productions to be associated with great stories, interesting characters; things that are three-dimensional and feel honest. — Lena Waithe
Storyteller Quotes
The planet does not need more successful people. The planet desperately needs more peacemakers, healers, restorers, storytellers, and lovers of all kinds. — Dalai Lama
Traveling - it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller. — Ibn Battuta
All great literature is one of two stories; a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town. — Leo Tolstoy
Great minds discuss ideas.Average minds discuss events.Small minds discuss people.
All I need is a sheet of paper and something to write with, and then I can turn the world upside down. — Friedrich Nietzsche
We lay out our lives in a narrative we understand, like a movie, but are you enjoying making it or are you wondering who's watching my movie. — Donald Glover
That's what we do, man, we're like storytellers. We tell you stories from the streets. Whether we did it before when we was young or we heard it from one of the homies telling us a tale of what he been through. It's all in having fun and creating a movie like vibe to tell a tale from the streets. — Kurupt
Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.
And it's a human need to be told stories. The more we're governed by idiots and have no control over our destinies, the more we need to tell stories to each other about who we are, why we are, where we come from, and what might be possible. — Alan Rickman
There have been great societies that did not use the wheel, but there have been no societies that did not tell stories. — Ursula K. Le Guin
I'm an athlete, I'm funny, I'm creative, I can tell a story, I'm likable. — Logan Paul
I think Hollywood, I think America in general, they love redemption stories. — Logan Paul
Having a story is what people connect with, but the story alone doesn't allow you to achieve greatness and results. — Lewis Howes
Acknowledge all of your small victories. They will eventually add up to something great.
I often speak publicly, and when I do, I also get to listen to other presenters. The most memorable are the ones that hit an emotional chord with a tight story and a punch line. No fluff. Keep it creative and concise. Greatness exists in quality, not quantity. — Lewis Howes
Like the greats, you want to make your own story yourself, and not be a copy of another. — Kylian Mbappe
If your stories are all about your products and services, that's not storytelling. It's a brochure. Give yourself permission to make the story bigger. — Jay Baer
You need a little bit of insanity to do great things.
Instead of telling a story about how great your brand is, try telling a story that shows you completely understand and empathize with your customer and their life. — Lewis Howes
If you're sitting in your minivan, playing your computer animated films for your children in the back seat, is it the animation that's entertaining you as you drive and listen? No, it's the storytelling. That's why we put so much importance on story. No amount of great animation will save a bad story. — John Lasseter
You can't sell anything if you can't tell anything. — Beth Comstock
Not all poetry wants to be storytelling. And not all storytelling wants to be poetry. But great storytellers and great poets share something in common: They had something to say, and did. — Sarah Kay
Being true to yourself involves showing and sharing emotion. The spirit that motivates most great storytellers is 'I want you to feel what I feel,' and the effective narrative is designed to make this happen. That's how the information is bound to the experience and rendered unforgettable. — Peter Guber
There's a great tradition in storytelling that's thousands of years old, telling stories about kings and their palaces, and that's really what I wanted to do. — Aaron Sorkin
I love storytelling, you know, beyond anything. I love a great story beyond a great performance. Storytelling is about what we all do together and how we collaborate together. A performance can be a collaboration in ways, but oftentimes it's one individual thing. — Jake Gyllenhaal
Marketing is no longer about the stuff that you male, but about the stories you tell. — Seth Godin
After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world. — Philip Pullman
Photography's future is infinite and bright. It's growing exponentially, so that's great, but for me as a practitioner, that exponential growth makes it even more problematic. And so for me, it's got me more engaged with storytelling. — Alec Soth
Leaping away from my mistakes has propelled me forward. It has great force behind it. It makes for great storytelling. — Holly Near
Every great love starts with a great story. — Nicholas Sparks
Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on — Louis L'Amour
I always say that, if you have great actors and great storytelling and great monsters, and you mix them together, nine times out of 10, it explodes in your face. — Gregory Nicotero
It's populated by people who, by and large, have terrific communication skills. Every day is an extraordinary day. For me, it was just a great area for storytelling. — Aaron Sorkin
I'm a storyteller and the Bible is a bunch of stories about life and things that took place here on planet earth. It's a great example to use and a great reason to be happy about being a storyteller because the lessons of the land are always in stories. — Nas
Fantasy, in addition to being great storytelling, moves us at some unique and profound level. It has, I think, the power of mythology, or ancient dreams we have always and forever shared. In it, we find our real world and our real selves. — Lloyd Alexander
I love creating partnerships; I love not having to bear the entire burden of the creative storytelling, and when I have unions like with George Lucas and Peter Jackson, it's really great; not only do I benefit, but the project is better for it. — Steven Spielberg
But along with all of that it was, "Oh, isn't he a great storyteller? Oh, it's that why I married him? Isn't he handsome? Oh, what am I going to make for dinner today?" I put all of that as a part of [Roses's from "Fences"] inner everyday monologue so, by the time he tells he that news and all of that I feel that it's there already. — Viola Davis
I was lucky enough to see the original cast of 'In the Heights.' This one blew my mind. The infusion of Latin, hip hop and rap with musical theatre, great storytelling and talent was a powerful combination to me during a time when I'd not been moved by much! — Josh Young
You can take the high moral ground intellectually, but if it ever happens to you personally, I don't know that I could honestly say that I wouldn't want to kill someone who took someone away from me. So, it's a rich, fertile ground for great characters and great storytelling. That was the impetus. — Richard LaGravenese
I think great filmmakers will always talk in terms of storytelling. These guys were always about the story. That is how I love to talk about a film. — Michael Giacchino
I grew up as a fifth-generation Jew in the American South, at the confluence of two great storytelling traditions. After graduating from Yale in the 1980s, I moved to Japan. For young adventure seekers like myself, the white-hot Japanese miracle held a similar appeal as Russia in 1920s or Paris in the 1950s. — Bruce Feiler
There are books full of great writing that don't have very good stories. Read sometimes for the story... don't be like the book-snobs who won't do that. Read sometimes for the words--the language. Don't be like the play-it-safers who won't do that. But when you find a book that has both a good story and good words, treasure that book. — Stephen King
Look at the people who are coming to television Ridley Scott, Ang Lee or Guillermo del Toro - all these great filmmakers - actively put themselves back into TV. That's because the environment is very encouraging for bold storytelling, storytelling that you've never seen before. — Ron Perlman
I am very fond of Edith Wharton. She's quite high brow but also a great storyteller. My favorite is 'The House of Mirth.' I also like 'The Reef. — Ken Follett
It is an ancient need to be told stories. But the story needs a great storyteller. Thanks for all of it, Jo. — Alan Rickman
It's about storytelling. The story is told through images. So with the cast, I had to make sure that the emotions were readable without sound... I know some great actors, if you turn off the sound, you don't really know what they're saying. — Michel Hazanavicius
Well, here's what I'll say: The storytellers of 'Lost' have taken us on a pretty great journey, and there have been questions along the way, and criticisms along the way, but if you look at the totality of the show, or the experience of it as a whole, I think as long as you look at it from that perspective you'll be happy. — Daniel Dae Kim
Frank is such a great visual storyteller, that if you study his artwork you see that his Sin City books are already the best movies never seen on the big screen. — Robert Rodriguez
I come from a family of great readers and storytellers. — Katherine Dunn
My experience of great storytelling, working with classics, is just finding a way to present it simply but let the story do its own work, or be an invite to the audience's imagination. — Kenneth Branagh
Everybody in my family were great storytellers. My dad and his brothers would just go on and on; they could tell amazing stories. I think it was something to do with the Celtic, oral storytelling tradition. People very much had that propensity towards telling tales. — Irvine Welsh
I think comedy allows people to accept the more difficult parts of history. And history, if it's presented wrong, is just very depressing, particularly the history of slavery. If slavery is presented properly, it's a great story. But I think that within the commercial world of storytelling in which I live, there haven't been many strong works that discuss slavery in ways that are palatable and funny and interesting to the reader. — James McBride
I may love individual people, but I am contemptuous of the arrogance , and in a way, it's both ruined me and fuels me. It's ruined me because nobody cares about these issues, and then it's the source of most of my storytelling now, because I am so preoccupied with it. It fuels me, because this is my outrage. I do believe in that great tradition of literature and storytelling. You know, the downfall and the folly of it all. — Larry Fessenden
I was never a critic. I was a journalist and wrote about filmmakers, but I didn't review movies per se. I make that distinction only because I came to it strictly as someone who was just a lover of storytellers and cinematic storytellers. And I still am. I'm still a great movie fan, and I ,that love of movies is very much alive in me. I approach the movies I make as a movie-lover as much as a movie-maker. — Curtis Hanson
The great thing about television is that you get to tell, like with "The Walking Dead", 16 hours worth of character-driven storytelling in less time than it takes to make a feature film. So, it really is a medium at least for storytellers who are passionate about not only the genre but also the character-driven genre stories. It's probably a better medium. — Gale Anne Hurd
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