Storytelling Quotes

Storytelling Quote of the day

Man gave us laws, and God gave us time, It's the art of storytelling and I'm only telling mine.

We are storytelling creatures, and as children we acquire language to tell those stories that we have inside us.

Dancing, singing, storytelling and silence are the four universal healing salves.

Storytelling is the most powerful way to put ideas into the world today.

We learn best - and change - from hearing stories that strike a chord within us.

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.

The purpose of a storyteller is not to tell you how to think, but to give you questions to think upon.

The greatest art in the world is the art of storytelling.

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.

In learning the art of storytelling by animation, I have discovered that language has an anatomy.

Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it.

When I put together a graphic novel, I don't think about literary prose. I think about storytelling.

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

We need storytelling. Otherwise life just goes on and on, like the number Pi.

Expedition EVEREST adds a new dimension to our storytelling in Disney's Animal Kingdom. It's a thrilling adventure themed to the folklore of the mysterious yeti.

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.

All human beings have an innate need to hear and tell stories and to have a story to live by. . . .

I think that the art of marketing, the art of promotion and the art of storytelling is definitely elevated and we have to get better every year.

You can't sell anything if you can't tell anything.

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.

One of the ways to reincarnate is to tell your story.

What’s really important is storytelling. None of it matters if it doesn’t support the story.

That's the strange thing about a good story. No pleasure if you can't share it.

A good story cannot be devised; it has to be distilled.

A story has its purpose and its path. It must be told correctly for it to be understood.

The more you leave out, the more you highlight what you leave in.

It's like everyone tells a story about themselves inside their own head. Always. All the time. That story makes you what you are. We build ourselves out of that story.

Design is in everything we make, but it's also between those things. It's a mix of craft, science, storytelling, propaganda, and philosophy.

Rap is rhythm and poetry. Hip-hop is storytelling and poetry as well.

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.

Good storytelling is humanity's great connector, and it just might keep the world from eating itself.

In 6,000 years of storytelling, [people have] gone from depicting hunting on cave walls to depicting Shakespeare on Facebook walls.

Storytelling is not what I do for a living - it is how I do all that I do while I am living.

As we grow older, our bodies get shorter and our anecdotes longer.

Artists should always think of themselves as cosmic instruments for storytelling.

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.

As long as we are engaged in storytelling that moves the culture forward, it doesn't matter what format it is.

You want to tell a story? Grow a heart. Grow two. Now, with the second heart, smash the first one into bits.

That's what we storytellers do. We restore order with imagination. We instill hope again and again and again.

I don't think that digital technology will ever take away the humanity of storytelling, because storytelling is entirely, in and of itself, a wholly human concern.

Humans are, by nature, pattern-seeking, storytelling animals, and we are quite adept at telling stories about patterns whether they exist or not.

Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen.

Listen, and you will realize that we are made not from cells or from atoms. We are made from stories.

...What happens is of little significance compared with the stories we tell ourselves about what happens. Events matter little, only stories of events affect us.

Sometime reality is too complex. Stories give it form.

Stories have to be told or they die, and when they die, we can't remember who we are or why we're here.

Storytelling may be what most distinguishes social movements from interest groups.

If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.

Power consists to a large extent in deciding what stories will be told.

Directing is all about storytelling. It's not about equipment, or anything else.