7. WHY STORYTELLING?
#1 WE GREW UP WITH STORIES.
#2 STORIES HELP US TO LEARN.
#3 STORIES BRINGS US CLOSER TO LIFE.
#4 STORIES OFFER AN ESCAPE.
#5 WE THINK IN STORIES.
#6 WE FORGET FACTS, BUT WE NEVER FORGET A GREAT STORY.
#7 STORIES MAKE COMPLICATED THINGS SIMPLE.
#8 WE DREAM IN STORIES.
#9 OUR LIFE IS A STORY: IT HAS A BEGINNING, A MIDDLE AND…THE END.
#10 IMAGINE LIFE WITHOUT STORIES. YOU CAN’T - RIGHT?
12. Marketing is no longer about the stuff that you make,
but about the stories you tell.
Seth Godin
13. Tell me the facts and I’ll learn.
Tell me the truth and I’ll believe.
But tell me a story and it will live in
my heart forever.
Native American Proverb
15. The most powerful person in the
world is the storyteller. The storyteller
sets the vision, values and agenda of an entire
generation that is to come.
Steve Jobs
16. The greatest art in the world is
the art of storytelling.
Cecil B. DeMille
17. My life is storytelling. I believe in stories, in
their incredible power to keep people alive, to
keep the living alive, and the dead.
Tim O’Brian
18. If you don't have a conflict or a
challenge, you don't have a story.
Tom Kellner
19. The future belongs to a different kind of person with
a different kind of mind: artists, inventors,
storytellers-creative and holistic ‘right-brain’ thinkers.
Daniel Pink
20. If history were taught in the form of stories,
it would never be forgotten.
Rudyard Kipling
21. How You Tell A Story Is Just As
Important As The Story Itself.
Story Berlin
22. The basic rule of storytelling is
'show, don't tell.
Julianna Baggott
23. Have your adventures, make your mistakes, and
choose your friends poorly - all these
make for great stories.
Chuck Palahniuk
24. The way we experience story will evolve, but as
storytelling animals, we will no more give it up
than start walking on all fours.
Jonathan Gottschall
25. STORIES CAN CONQUER FEAR, YOU KNOW.
THEY CAN MAKE THE HEART BIGGER.
Ben Okri
26. We're so complex; we're mysteries to ourselves;
we're difficult to each other. And then storytelling
reminds us we're all the same.
Brad Pitt
28. You’re never going to kill storytelling because it’s
built into the human plan.
We come with it.
Margaret Atwood
29. Stories are memory aids, instruction
manuals and moral compasses.
Aleks Krotoskix
30. There’s always room for a story
that can transport people to
another place.
J.K. Rowling
31. Platforms - they come and go,
but storytelling is forever.
Michelle Phan
32. I consider music to be storytelling,
melody and rhythm. A lot of hip-hop has broken
music down. There are no instruments and no
songwriting. So you're left with just storytelling
and rhythm. And the storytelling can be so
braggadocious, you're just left with rhythm.
Jack White
34. Storytelling is the essential
human activity. The harder the
situation, the more essential it is.
Tim O’Brian
35. Whether it's an ad or organic content, video
provides a new creative dimension for storytelling
on 'Instagram'. Video lets people convey the power
and beauty in a moment through sight, sound, and
motion.
Kevin Systrom
36. IF YOU TELL A TRUE STORY,
YOU CAN’T BE WRONG.
Jack Kerouac
37. I THINK PEOPLE LOVE HAVING A PERSON BEHIND A
BRAND WHO LIVES IT. THE IDEA OF
STORYTELLING IS REALLY IMPORTANT.
Aren Lauder
38. I grew up in a place where everybody was a storyteller,
but nobody wrote. It was that kind of Celtic, storytelling
tradition: everybody would have a story at the pub or
at parties, even at the clubs and raves.
Irvine Welsh
39. As long as we are engaged in
storytelling that moves the culture forward,
it doesn't matter what format it is.
LeVar Burton
40. The purpose of a storyteller is not
to tell you how to think, but to give
you questions to think upon.
Brandon Sanderson
41. STORY TELLING IS ABOUT CONNECTING TO OTHER
PEOPLE AND HELPING PEOPLE TO SEE WHAT YOU SEE.
Michael Margolis
42. For me, the drive is storytelling.
To be a part of an art that tells a
story and to be a catalyst, a color
in that, is very exciting.
Alden Ehrenreich
43. If a story is not about the hearer he will not listen.
And here I made a rule – a great and interesting
story is about everyone or it will not last.
John Steinbeck
44. PEOPLE THINK THAT STORIES ARE
SHAPED BY PEOPLE. IN FACT IT'S
THE OTHER WAY AROUND.
Terry Pratchett
45. There are 2 ways to share knowledge. You can push
information out. You can pull them in
with a story.
great - but unknown
46. TO BE A PERSON IS TO HAVE
A STORY TO TELL.
Isak Dinesen
47. 70 percent of what we do involves
staring into space and trying to figure
out what the hell happens next.
Robert Gregory Browne
48. There is no greater agony than
bearing an untold story inside you.
Maya Angelou
49. I think the best stories always end
up being about the people rather
than the event, which is to say
character-driven.
Stephen King
50. STORIES CREATE COMMUNITY, ENABLE US TO SEE
THROUGH THE EYES OF OTHER PEOPLE, AND OPEN
US TO THE CLAIMS OF OTHERS.
Peter Forbes
51. The fact of storytelling hints at a fundamental
human unease, hints at human imperfection.
Where there is perfection there is no story to tell.
Ben Okri
52. STORYTELLING IS MY CURRENCY. IT'S MY ONLY WORTH. THE
ONLY THING OF VALUE I HAVE IN THIS LIFE IS MY ABILITY TO
TELL A STORY, WHETHER IN PRINT, ORATING, WRITING IT DOWN
OR HAVING PEOPLE ACTING IT OUT.
Kevin Smith
54. PART OF TELLING A NEW STORY HAS TO
BE TELLING IT IN NEW WAYS.
Josh Stearns
55. IF A NATION LOSES ITS STORYTELLER,
IT LOSES ITS CHILDHOOD.
Peter Handke
56. Writing is storytelling and
all of us are authors, not just
of words but of reality. You are the author
of your life, so go out and live! Then never
quit writing about it!
Ben Mikaelsen
57. IN THE END WE’LL ALL BECOME STORIES.
Margaret Atwood