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
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
I do believe in the power of story. I believe that stories have an important role to play in the formation of human beings, that they can stimulate, amaze and inspire their listeners. — Hayao Miyazaki
Stories are the creative conversion of life itself into a more powerful, clearer, more meaningful experience. They are the currency of human contact. — Robert McKee
Storytelling comes naturally to humans, but since we live in an unnatural world, we sometimes need a little help doing what we'd naturally do. — Dan Harmon
A story can take you through a whole process of searching, seeking, confronting, through conflicts, and then to a resolution. As the storyteller and the listener, we go through a story together. — Maxine Hong Kingston
Good storytelling is humanity's great connector, and it just might keep the world from eating itself. — James Genn
Stories have to be told or they die, and when they die, we can't remember who we are or why we're here. — Sue Monk Kidd
The best stories are often true...The narrative of human life is most beautiful when told truthfully and without boundaries. — Shonda Rhimes
All human beings have an innate need to hear and tell stories and to have a story to live by. . . . — Harvey Cox
Short Story Telling Quotes
Storytelling may be what most distinguishes social movements from interest groups. — Marshall Ganz
Most people don't know how to tell stories. — Ted Rall
The most powerful words in English are, 'Tell me a story.' — Pat Conroy
Technology is the campfire around which we tell our stories. — Laurie Anderson
He is a good storyteller who can turn a man's ears into eyes. — Moroccan Proverbs
Sometimes reality is too complex. Stories give it form. — Jean Luc Godard
Top 10 Story Telling Quotes
If I'm gonna tell a real story, I'm gonna start with my name. — Kendrick Lamar
What I tell people is be the best version of yourself in anything that you do. You don't have to live anybody else's story. — Stephen Curry
I am only a mouthpiece through which to tell the story of lynching and I have told it so often that I know it by heart. I do not have to embellish; it makes its own way. — Ida B. Wells
Life begins at 40 - but so do fallen arches, rheumatism, faulty eyesight, and the tendency to tell a story to the same person, three or four times. — Helen Rowland
Life begins at 40 -- but so do fallen arches, rheumatism, faulty eyesight, and the tendency to tell a story to the same person, three or four times. — William Feather
Try to reach for a simple, visual phrase that tells you what the picture is all about and evokes the essence of the story — Saul Bass
Not only is your story worth telling, but it can be told in words so painstakingly eloquent that it becomes a song. — Gloria Naylor
From every wound there is a scar, and every scar tells a story. A story that says, "I survived." — Craig Scott
But how could you live and have no story to tell? — Fyodor Dostoevsky
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
Story Telling Image Quotes
When the raindrop touches the ocean, can it tell a story. — Mooji
Travel and tell no one, live a true love story and tell no one, live happily and tell no one, people ruin beautiful things.
The blues tells a story. Every line of the blues has a meaning. — John Lee Hooker
If I could tell the story in words, I wouldn't need to lug around a camera. — Lewis Hine
Tell me how you read and I'll tell you who you are. — Martin Heidegger
Be unpredictable, be real, be interesting. Tell a good story. — James Dashner
Never let the truth get in the way of a good story. — Mark Twain
Every person you meet has a story to tell, a lesson to teach and a dream to share.
Power Of Storytelling Quotes
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
Australian Aboriginees say that the big stories - the stories worth telling and retelling, the ones in which you may find the meaning of your life - are forever stalking the right teller, sniffing and tracking like predators hunting prey in the bush. — Robert Moss
A culture cannot evolve without honest, powerful storytelling. When a society repeatedly experiences glossy, hollowed-out, pseudo-stories, it degenerates. We need true satires and tragedies, dramas and comedies that shine a clean light into the dingy corners of the human psyche and society. — Robert McKee
If you keep telling the same sad small story, you will keep living the same sad small life.
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
J.K. Rowling is a talented storyteller, but she has also used the style and technique of modern television and cinema media, which seizes the imagination by pummelling it, bombarding it with powerful stimuli, in a rapid pace, with plenty of emotional rewards. — Michael O'Brien
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
Don't forget - no one else sees the world the way you do, so no one else can tell the stories that you have to tell.
I do think there are always ways to create what seem like insurmountable powers, but then suddenly you find their limitations and that's the nature of comic book storytelling - always has been. — Scott Derrickson
You cannot reduce the power of story with the tag of money because it's not a share market. So you must know the seriousness of the power of storytelling. — Irrfan Khan
I feel that the power that storytelling has to change people, to bring them together, to have that cathartic sort of experience, is something that definitely has helped my life be worthwhile and better. — Karla Souza
I'm a storyteller who uses all of the beauty and power of cinema to tell tales of human struggles for positive social change. — Pamela Yates
Importance Of Storytelling Quotes
What’s really important is storytelling. None of it matters if it doesn’t support the story. — Wally Pfister
To poison a nation, poison its stories. A demoralised nation tells demoralised stories to itself. Beware of the storytellers who are not fully conscious of the importance of their gifts, and who are irresponsible in the application of their art: they — Ben Okri
Well, we look for sources of inspiration in pop culture in general. It's very important for us that, when it comes to storytelling, we don't look into other video games. We'd rather look into other mediums - movies, television series and books - for sources of inspiration. — Sam Lake
Those who tell the stories rule society.
Storytelling is important. Part of human continuity. — Robert Redford
I think I can work with different crews; I've worked with Bulgarian, Norwegian, Japanese, and Chinese crews. For me, the most important thing is the storytelling, and I'm really comfortable working with all kinds of languages. — Isabel Coixet
I like being in real environments. I love being in the place that it's about - these sets and locations are characters in the movies. Can you imagine Breakfast at Tiffany's shot somewhere else? It's classic. Characters are part of storytelling; they're just as important as everything else. — Antoine Fuqua
No matter what you do, your job is to tell your story.
When you don't put your initials behind your name, and I've got tons of them, and when you talk about storytelling or love or gratitude, you're diminishing your legitimacy and importance in this world. — Brené Brown
I myself wouldn't want to read a magazine that focuses solely on a small part of the literary field or of the popular culture - better to smash the borders and look for interesting and important stuff from many different forms of storytelling. — Toni Jerrman
I think that it's important for a film that's in 3D that the filmmakers create the movie from a staging and scene planning standpoint with the dimensional space as one of their storytelling components. — Christopher Meledandri
Novels have become equally important to me as films. I consider myself a storyteller and passionately engaged in both of those disciplines. — Rebecca Miller
Beautiful Story Telling Quotes
All Nature's wildness tells the same story: the shocks and outbursts of earthquakes, volcanoes, geysers, roaring, thundering waves and floods, the silent uprush of sap in plants, storms of every sort, each and all, are the orderly, beauty-making love-beats of Nature's heart. — John Muir
The Things That Matter convincingly lays out Nate Berkus’s philosophy that things do matter. Our homes tell our stories, they reflect the places we’ve been and the people we’ve loved along the way—and there can be no more beautiful design for living than that. — Nate Berkus
Raw and honest is what I go for [in my style of shooting]. I am looking for your inner beauty. The outside tells a story... But together is raw honesty. — Nikki Sixx
Declarations of high confidence mainly tell you that an idividual has construced a coherent story in his mind, not necessarily that the story is true.
Beautiful memories tell our story, and wrap themselves in ribbons of the heart. — Flavia Cacace
And I loved the whole idea behind the story, which is that you're beautiful, so don't let other people tell you that you're not just because you don't look like the people in magazines. Or because you're not that weird ideal body image that's out there right now. — Mike Myers
funny how a beautiful song could tell such a sad story — Sarah Dessen
Marketing is no longer about the stuff you make, but about the stories you tell.
She liked books more than anything else, and was, in fact, always inventing stories of beautiful things and telling them to herself. — Frances Hodgson Burnett
The curious beauty about African music is that it uplifts even as it tells a sad story. — Nelson Mandela
There is an invisible beauty all around us, each grain with a story to tell ... each of us with a story to tell from the pollen fingerprint that's upon us. — Jonathan Drori
Ranking among the greatest Christmas movie classics, 'It's a Wonderful Life' tells a beautiful story about the priceless value of relationships. — John C. Maxwell
Storytelling 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
Courage is telling our story, not being immune to criticism.
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
Great stories happen to those who can tell them.
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
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
With things like 'Dragon Ball,' in the case of fight scenes, I'd take the panel layout across two pages when the book is opened and alter it by angling them, and making them bigger or smaller, to give movement to the panels themselves. — Akira Toriyama
Storyteller Quotes
Having a story is what people connect with, but the story alone doesn't allow you to achieve greatness and results. — Lewis Howes
I wanted to change up the tempo and setting of my comics in the sense of giving them some variety, for one thing. — Akira Toriyama
I really like the story of Bardock, Goku's father. — Akira Toriyama
To me, an influencer must embody 2 critical skills, continuous learning and storytelling. — Jay Shetty
I'm not very good at depicting the characters' psychology on the page. — Akira Toriyama
Every scene should be able to answer three questions: "Who wants what from whom? What happens if they don't get it? Why now?" — David Mamet
Our point of view, not our drawing skills or musical virtuosity or ability to tell a story. — Rick Rubin
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
When you move the camera, or you do a shot like the crane down (in Shawshank) with them standing on the edge of the roof, then it's got to mean something. You've got to know why you're doing it; it's got to be for a reason within the story, and to further the story. — Roger Deakins
People can see themselves in a story much easier than they can see themselves in a hypothetical situation that a brand might present to them. — Lewis Howes
Visual Storytelling Quotes
In learning the art of storytelling by animation, I have discovered that language has an anatomy. — Walt Disney
I've been obsessed with this kind of visual storytelling for quite a while, and I try to create material that allows me to explore it. — Brian De Palma
Visual storytelling of one kind or another has been around since cavemen were drawing on the walls. — Frank Darabont
But I think we're also just talking about the literacy of the audience. The visual literacy of the audience. They've seen so many images now, especially here in the States. There's so much to look at, to watch. So the visual storytelling literacy is harder to impress. — Keanu Reeves
I'm a visual filmmaker so the camera is a big part of my storytelling tool and it's something that I really rely on to tell a scene or create the suspense that I need and create the emotion of a scene or a sequence. — James Wan
I achieved perfection, my type of perfection - visual storytelling. Storytelling was my style. — Jack Kirby
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
So I like to try to go back and develop pure visual storytelling. Because to me, it's one of the most exciting aspects of making movies and almost a lost art at this point. — Brian De Palma
Pixar has outdone itself in visual magic and vivid storytelling. — Peter Travers
I wanted wherever possible to lean into the comic form and do things in the story telling that could only be done in comics and which pay homage to the many strands of comic and visual storytelling tradition. — Arvind Ethan David
Good Storytelling Quotes
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
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
A good picture book can almost be whistled. ... All have their own melodies behind the storytelling. — Margaret Wise Brown
Storytell Quotes
The best story wins. Not the best idea, or the right idea, or the most rational idea. Just whoever tells a story that catches people’s attention and gets them to nod their heads is the one who tends to be rewarded. — Morgan Housel
With enemies, it's easier to just have them be straight-up bad guys so they can just get beaten up. — Akira Toriyama
The key in telling stories that people relate to is, not surprisingly, vulnerability and authenticity. — Lewis Howes
If you're doing gags, I think it's important to have characters who are as strong-willed and impactful as possible. — Akira Toriyama
When I got into the second half of 'Dragon Ball,' I had already become more interested in thinking up the story then in drawing the pictures. Then I started to not place much emphasis on the pictures. — Akira Toriyama
Chase the story behind the stock, not the money on the table. Money will make you rich, but the story will make you wealthy. — Vijay Kedia
I will tell you something about stories . . . They aren't just entertainment. Don't be fooled. They are all we have, you see, all we have to fight off illness and death. — Leslie Marmon Silko
Like the greats, you want to make your own story yourself, and not be a copy of another. — Kylian Mbappe
But I think we are seeing a resurgence of the graphic ghost story like The Others, Devil's Backbone and The Sixth Sense. It is a return to more gothic atmospheric ghost storytelling. — Guillermo del Toro
Telling Your Story Quotes
If you don't recount your family history, it will be lost. Honor your own stories and tell them too. The tales may not seem very important, but they are what binds families and makes each of us who we are. — Madeleine L'Engle
What if all those terrible stories you tell yourself about yourself aren’t true? What if the limits you self-impose on your capabilities are a lie? Consider the possibility. Then modify your behavior accordingly. — Rich Roll
If you want your children to be smart, tell them stories. If you want them to be really smart, tell them more stories. If you want your children to be brilliant, tell them even more stories. — Albert Einstein
It's important that we share our experiences with other people. Your story will heal you and your story will heal somebody else. When you tell your story, you free yourself and give other people permission to acknowledge their own story — Iyanla Vanzant
No matter what you think your values are, your actions tell the real story. What we do with our spare time shows what we value. — Jay Shetty
Your home should tell the story of who you are, and be a collection of what you love brought together under one roof. — Nate Berkus
Humans will always tell you the story. Dogs can only tell you the truth. Trust your instincts and listen your dog. — Cesar Millan
When the remedy you have offered only increases the disease, then leave him who will not be cured, and tell your story to someone who seeks the truth. — Rumi
The only thing standing between you and your goal is the bullshit story you keep telling yourself as to why you can't achieve it. — Jordan Belfort
You may do this, I tell you, it is permitted. Begin again the story of your life. — Jane Hirshfield
Africa’s story has been written by others; we need to own our problems and solutions and write our story. — Paul Kagame
If someone writes a great story, people praise the author, not the pen. People don't say, 'Oh what an incredible pen...where can I get a pen like this so I can write great stories?' Well, I am just a pen in the hands of the Lord. He is the author. All praise should go to him. — Keith Green
You are going to feel like hell if you never write the stuff that is tugging on the sleeves in your heart--your stories, visions, memories, songs: your truth, your version of things, in your voice. That is really all you have to offer us, and it's why you were born. — Anne Lamott
It's possible, in a poem or short story, to write about commonplace things and objects using commonplace but precise language, and to endow those things—a chair, a window curtain, a fork, a stone, a woman's earring—with immense, even startling power. — Raymond Carver
I don't have ugly ducklings turning into swans in my stories. I have ugly ducklings turning into confident ducks. — Maeve Binchy
First forget inspiration. Habit is more dependable. Habit will sustain you whether you're inspired or not. Habit will help you finish and polish your stories. Inspiration won't. Habit is persistence in practice. — Octavia Butler
There's a story everywhere. Being bored to death someplace is basically a funny proposition. What you have to watch out for is you don't write a boring story about a boring place. — Tim Cahill
A short story must have a single mood and every sentence must build towards it. — Edgar Allan Poe
Africa's risks are mainly perceived and not real. Unfortunately for us in Africa we are not really very good at telling our own story. But things are changing and people are beginning to understand that things are going very, very well. — Aliko Dangote
I was born an only child in Vienna, Austria. My father found hours to sit by me by the library fire and tell fairy stories. — Hedy Lamarr
I will never again play anything that does not have social significance. We American jazz musicians of African descent have proved beyond all doubt that we are master musicians of our instruments. Now what we have to do is employ our skill to tell the dramatic story of our people and what we've been through. — Max Roach
There is probably a smell of roasted chestnuts and other good comfortable things all the time, for we are telling Winter Stories - Ghost Stories, or more shame for us - round the Christmas fire; and we have never stirred, except to draw a little nearer to it. — Charles Dickens
If you want real control, drop the illusion of control; let life have you. It does anyway. You’re just telling yourself the story of how it doesn’t. — Byron Katie
Our minds are mischievously clever. Time and again, they pull us back to the past and yank us forward into the future. Our perception of the world – and the story we tell ourselves about who we are – is completely colored by half-baked memories and imagined projections. But in truth this is all illusion... The only objective truth is the present moment – the now. — Rich Roll
Clothes make a statement. Costumes tell a story. — Mason Cooley
That was certainly true the first time, when I did Body Heat, the first movie that I directed. I was looking for a vessel to tell a certain kind of story, and I was a huge fan of Film Noir, and what I liked about it was that it was so extreme in style. — Lawrence Kasdan
Schizophrenics have a whole lot of trouble telling the level of abstraction of a story. They're always biased in the direction of interpreting things more concretely than is actually the case. — Robert M. Sapolsky
You need contrast and conflict in order to tell a story. Stories need to have dark and light, turmoil, all those things. But that does not mean the filmmaker has to suffer in order to show the suffering. Stories should have the suffering, not the people. — David Lynch
Movements have narratives. They tell stories, because they are not just about rearranging economics and politics. They also rearrange meaning. And they're not just about redistributing the goods. They're about figuring out what is good. — Marshall Ganz
The world is not a courtroom There is no judge no jury no plaintiff. This is a caravan filled with eccentric beings telling wondrous stories about God. — Saadi Shirazi
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