The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out.
Stories are important...They can be more important than anything. If they carry the truth.
If you're sitting in your minivan, playing your computer animated films for your children in the back seat, is it the animation that's entertaining you as you drive and listen? No, it's the storytelling. That's why we put so much importance on story. No amount of great animation will save a bad story.
We have the right, and the obligation, to tell old stories in our own ways, because they are our stories.
To be a person is to have a story to tell.
Marketing is no longer about the stuff that you male, but about the stories you tell.
This is the sorcery of literature. We are healed by our stories.
Somewhere along the way one discovers that what one has to tell is not nearly so important as the telling itself.
We are the storytelling animal.
Every scene should be able to answer three questions: "Who wants what from whom? What happens if they don't get it? Why now?"
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
From American Idol to The Matrix participatory media - where old and new media converge by involving fans - is influencing our culture by creating new forms of interactive storytelling. Yet by enabling people to participate in such various media they can converge as a crowd to alter the story to create new modes of engagement, some not necessarily endorsed by the creator - or the brands that back them.
We've had fiction from the time of cave drawings. I think fiction, storytelling, and narrative in general will always exist in some form.
It's all storytelling, you know. That's what journalism is all about.
Content marketing is weaponized storytelling.
The fact of storytelling hints at a fundamental human unease, hints at human imperfection. Where there is perfection there is no story to tell.
Staying vulnerable is a risk we have to take if we want to experience connection.
There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.
Stories make us more alive, more human, more courageous, more loving.
We are lonesome animals. We spend all our life trying to be less lonesome. One of our ancient methods is to tell a story begging the listener to say — and to feel — "Yes, that’s the way it is, or at least that’s the way I feel it. You’re not as alone as you thought."
Wherever a story comes from, whether it is a familiar myth or a private memory, the retelling exemplifies the making of a connection from one pattern to another: a potential translation in which narrative becomes parable and the once upon a time comes to stand for some renascent truth. This approach applies to all the incidents of everyday life: the phrase in the newspaper, the endearing or infuriating game of a toddler, the misunderstanding at the office. Our species thinks in metaphors and learns through stories.
Storytelling may be what most distinguishes social movements from interest groups.
The human species thinks in metaphors and learns through stories.
Storytelling: the world's second oldest profession.
Stories,' the green-eyed Sigrid said, unperturbed, 'are like prayers. It does not matter when you begin, or when you end, only that you bend a knee and say the words.
Follow AzQuotes on Facebook, Twitter and Google+. Every day we present the best quotes! Improve yourself, find your inspiration, share with friends
or simply: