Works: The Icarus Deception, V Is For Vulnerable, Whatcha Gonna Do With That Duck?ġ7. – Seth Godin, author, entrepreneur, marketer, and public speaker “Marketing is no longer about the stuff that you make, but about the stories you tell.” Storytelling is the most powerful way to put ideas into the world.”ġ6. Works: The Edible Woman, The Handmaid’s Tale, Alias Graceġ5. Margaret Atwood, poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, and environmental activist. You’re never going to kill storytelling because it’s built into the human plan. “The way we experience story will evolve, but as storytelling animals, we will no more give it up than start walking on all fours.”ġ4. Jimmy Neil Smith, Director of the International Storytelling Centerġ3. There isn’t a stronger connection between people than storytelling.” Mark Turner, cognitive scientist, linguist, and authorġ2. It is our chief means of looking into the future, or predicting, of planning, and of explaining.” “Narrative imagining - story - is the fundamental instrument of thought. Gary Halbert, author, marketing practitioner, copywriterġ1. is a vital component of a marketing campaign.” “And do you know what is the most-often missing ingredient in a sales message? It’s the sales message that doesn’t tell an interesting story. Howard Gardner, professor Harvard Universityġ0. “Stories constitute the single most powerful weapon in a leader’s arsenal.” “Inside each of us is a natural-born storyteller, waiting to be released.”ĩ. Works: Wise Blood, The Violent Bear it AwayĨ. He wants to be transported, instantly, either to mock damnation or a mock innocence.” When he reads a novel, he wants either his sense tormented or his spirits raised. His sense of evil is diluted or lacking altogether, and so he has forgotten the price of restoration. The reader of today looks for this motion, and rightly so, but what he has forgotten is the cost of it. The End of the Affair, The Quiet Americanħ.” There is something in us, as storytellers and as listeners to stories, that demands the redemptive act, that demands that what falls at least be offered the chance to be restored. “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.” “We tell ourselves stories in order to live.”Ħ. “Stories have to be told or they die, and when they die, we can't remember who we are or why we're here.”ĥ. Brandon Sanderson, fantasy and science fiction writerĤ. “The purpose of a storyteller is not to tell you how to think, but to give you questions to think upon.” Laura Holloway, Founder & Chief of The Storyteller Agencyģ. Give something of meaning to your audience by inspiring, engaging, and educating them with story. If all we are doing is marketing, we are doing a disservice, and not only to our profession, but to our children, and their children. “Storytelling is our obligation to the next generation. Works: The Name of the Wind, The Wise Man’s FearĢ. “It's like everyone tells a story about themselves inside their own head. So, what’s your story? Storytelling Quotesġ. To start off the week, we’ve compiled some of the best storytelling quotes in hopes of inspiring others to tell their stories. We all have a distinct definition of a story, so why not share yours? Here at The Storyteller Agency we love to hear and to tell stories. Stories are never-ending journeys, hidden talents or suppressed memories, all waiting to be told. Please feel free to share it with others that you feel will benefit from this message.How does one define the word story? Long, short, funny or serious? Dark, inspirational, or possibly captivating? Each person has his or her own unique story to tell. I hope and pray that this divinely-inspired poem will provide a different perspective of some of the students in the classrooms. Author's/Poet's Note : I rarely write poems, but this is one where the words started flooding my heart, and the draft was written approximately 4 minutes later. Will you be sure to have already learned my story? So next time you are teaching and call my name, You keep me from participating in recess because I run around the classroom,īut you don’t know that I have no safe place to run and play in my neighborhood. You see me yelling and hitting people when I get mad,īut you don’t see that at home that’s what is done to me. You see me having a hard time focusing and getting my work completed,īut you don’t see that my pantry at home is bare. While my mom is in the hospital dying of cancer. You mark me absent a lot and tell me I may have to repeat the same grade,īut you don’t realize that I’m at home taking care of my baby brother You see me almost falling asleep in class,īut you didn’t see how I was working until midnightĪt the local fast-food restaurant to help put food on my family’s table.
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