The Power of Storytelling

STORYTELLING
THE POWER OF
CREATIVE FOOD FOR CREATIVE MINDS: REAL MASTERS ON THE CRAFT OF STORYTELLING

#1 YOU DO TALK ABOUT STORYTELLING

#2 YOU DO TALK ABOUT STORYTELLING

SO - LET’S TALK ABOUT STORYTELLING

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?

To hell with facts.
WE NEED STORIES!
Ken Kesey

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

Sometimes reality is too complex.
Stories give it form.
Jean Luc Godard

Marketing is no longer about the stuff that you make,
but about the stories you tell.
Seth Godin

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

Great stories happen to those
who can tell them.
Ira Glass

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

The greatest art in the world is
the art of storytelling.
Cecil B. DeMille

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

If you don't have a conﬂict or a
challenge, you don't have a story.
Tom Kellner

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

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

How You Tell A Story Is Just As
Important As The Story Itself.
Story Berlin

The basic rule of storytelling is
'show, don't tell.
Julianna Baggott

Have your adventures, make your mistakes, and
choose your friends poorly - all these
make for great stories.
Chuck Palahniuk

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

STORIES CAN CONQUER FEAR, YOU KNOW.
THEY CAN MAKE THE HEART BIGGER.
Ben Okri

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

We are the
STORYTELLING ANIMAL.
Salman Rushdie

You’re never going to kill storytelling because it’s
built into the human plan.
We come with it.
Margaret Atwood

Stories are memory aids, instruction
manuals and moral compasses.
Aleks Krotoskix

There’s always room for a story
that can transport people to
another place.
J.K. Rowling

Platforms - they come and go,
but storytelling is forever.
Michelle Phan

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

The universe is made of stories,
not atoms.
Muriel Rukeyser

Storytelling is the essential
human activity. The harder the
situation, the more essential it is.
Tim O’Brian

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

IF YOU TELL A TRUE STORY,
YOU CAN’T BE WRONG.
Jack Kerouac

I THINK PEOPLE LOVE HAVING A PERSON BEHIND A
BRAND WHO LIVES IT. THE IDEA OF
STORYTELLING IS REALLY IMPORTANT.
Aren Lauder

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

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

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

STORY TELLING IS ABOUT CONNECTING TO OTHER
PEOPLE AND HELPING PEOPLE TO SEE WHAT YOU SEE.
Michael Margolis

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

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

PEOPLE THINK THAT STORIES ARE
SHAPED BY PEOPLE. IN FACT IT'S
THE OTHER WAY AROUND.
Terry Pratchett

There are 2 ways to share knowledge. You can push
information out. You can pull them in
with a story.
great - but unknown

TO BE A PERSON IS TO HAVE
A STORY TO TELL.
Isak Dinesen

70 percent of what we do involves
staring into space and trying to ﬁgure
out what the hell happens next.
Robert Gregory Browne

There is no greater agony than
bearing an untold story inside you.
Maya Angelou

I think the best stories always end
up being about the people rather
than the event, which is to say
character-driven.
Stephen King

STORIES CREATE COMMUNITY, ENABLE US TO SEE
THROUGH THE EYES OF OTHER PEOPLE, AND OPEN
US TO THE CLAIMS OF OTHERS.
Peter Forbes

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

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

We tell ourselves stories in order to live.
Joan Didion

PART OF TELLING A NEW STORY HAS TO
BE TELLING IT IN NEW WAYS.
Josh Stearns

IF A NATION LOSES ITS STORYTELLER,
IT LOSES ITS CHILDHOOD.
Peter Handke

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

IN THE END WE’LL ALL BECOME STORIES.
Margaret Atwood

To trigger a story
you only need two words to start your engine

TELL THE STORY YOU WANT TO HEAR.
Story Berlin

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