S Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with S. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Stories are medicine. They have such power; they do not require that we do, be, act anything - we need only listen.”
“Stories are more than compelling facts. People remember stories more than they remember statistics.”
“stories are not a privilege
stories are freedom
is there any deeper grief than
unheard, unsaid stories?”
Source: Blanks & Blues
“Stories are not about ideas, gimmicks, or places. Stories are about people. People are about feelings!”
“Stories are not confrontational. Storytelling is about entering the mind of your audience so that they connect the dots, according to the pattern you want them to see.”
Source: Business Storytelling from Hype to Hack: How Do Stories Work? Unlock the Software of the Mind
“Stories are not like the real world; they aren't held back by what we know is false or true. What's important is how a story makes you feel inside.”
“Stories are often told by men with little else to do, and spred by women who love the sound of their own voices.”
Source: Winterdream
“Stories are one of the greatest gifts we can give to our children. Stories are equipment for life.”
Source: Framing Faith: From Camera to Pen, An Award-Winning Photojournalist Captures God in a Hurried World
“Stories are one thing that will be constant in life. Whether told, written, reenacted they are a fundamental part of human nature.”
“Stories are our attempts to share our values & beliefs with the hopes that we may attract those who believe what we believe. This is the basis of forming a trusting relationship. Story telling, therefor, is only worthwhile when it tells what you stand for, not what you do.”
“Stories are people. I'm a story, you're a story ... your father is a story. Our stories go in every direction, but sometimes, if we're lucky, our stories join into one, and for a while, we're less alone.”
“Stories are powerful and memorable. That is why I have told so many in this book. But an individual anecdote can only serve as an illustration. To really convince yourself, much less others, we need to change the way we do things: we need data, and lots of it. [...] People become overconfident because they never bother to document their past track record of wrong predictions, and then they make things worse by falling victim to the dreaded confirmation bias - they only look for evidence that confirms their preconceived hypotheses. The only protection against overconfidence is to systematically collect data, especially data that can prove you wrong. [...] "If you don't write it down, it doesn't exist". In addition, most organizations have an urgent need to learn how to learn, and then commit to this learning in order to accumulate knowledge over time. At the very least this means trying new things and keeping track of what happens. Even better would be to run actual experiments. [...] The ideal organizational environment encourages everyone to observe, collect data, and speak up.”
Source: Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics
“Stories are propaganda, virii that slide past your critical immune system and insert themselves directly into your emotions.”
Source: Eastern Standard Tribe
“Stories are psycho-diagnostic ― they diagnose the condition of our psyches. When we watch, read or hear a story, whatever detail jumps out reflects an issue in our psyche that requires our attention.”
Source: Running Into Myself
“Stories are relics, part of an undiscovered pre-existing world.”
Source: On writing: a memoir of the craft
“Stories are the best democracy we have. We are allowed to become the other we never dreamed we could be.”
“Stories are the collective wisdom of everyone who has ever lived. Your job as a storyteller is not simply to entertain. Nor is it to be noticed for the way you turn a phrase. You have a very important job--one of the most important. Your job is to let people know that everyone shares their feelings--and that these feelings bind us. Your job is a healing art, and like all healers, you have a responsibility. Let people know they are not alone. You must make people understand that we are all the same.”
“Stories are the creative conversion of life itself into a more powerful, clearer, more meaningful experience. They are the currency of human contact.”
“Stories are the currency of human relationships.”
“Stories are the currency of life. The richer the stories the richer the life.”
Source: The Inquisitive Gene: Book One: Mother is Coming
“Stories are the lies that we need to make sense of our world and for our existence not to be meaningless.”
“Stories are the medicine that fill in the gaps of the self and show us who we are. (p. 38)”
Source: Belonging Metis
“Stories are the most important thing in the world. Without stories, we wouldn't be human beings at all.”
“Stories are the most primitive and purest form of communication.”
Source: Start Something That Matters
“stories are the one sure way I know to touch the heart and change the world.”
Source: Two Or Three Things I Know for Sure
“Stories are the only enchantment possible, for when we begin to see our suffering as a story, we are saved.”
“Stories are the only thing that I can be bothered with. Its the only way that I can do anything, even if Im quite useless. Its the only area in being human where I could be a little useful.”
“Stories are the reproductive organs of language.”
Source: Prosodies of Meaning: Literary Form in Native North America
“Stories are the secret reservoir of values: change the stories individuals and nations live by and tell themselves, and you change the individuals and nations.”
“Stories are the shortcut to the heart.”
“Stories are the single most powerful tool in a leader's toolkit.”
“Stories are the thing which shapes our kinky and wicked minds.”
“Stories are the things that allow us to persuade each other that we're human.”
“Stories are the untested, uninvestigated theories that tell us what all these things mean. We don’t even realize that they’re just theories.”
“Stories are the way we learn. Stories are how we understand each other. But reality
happens only once.”
Source: I'm Thinking of Ending Things
“Stories are the wealth of humanity!”
Source: Iron Gold
“Stories are the wildest things of all. Stories chase and bite and hunt.”
“Stories are there to be told, and each story changes with the telling. Time changes them. Logic changes them. Grammar changes them. History changes them. Each story is shifted side-ways by each day that unfolds. Nothing ends. The only thing that matters, as Faulkner once put it, is the human heart in conflict with itself. At the heart of all this is the possibility, or desire, to create a piece of art that talks to the human instinct for recovery and joy.”
“Stories are thick with meanings. You can fall in love with a story for what you think it says, but you can't know for certain where it will lead your listeners. If you're telling a tale to teach children to be generous, they may fix instead on the part where your hero hides in an olive jar, then spend the whole next day fighting about who gets to try it first. People take what they need from the stories they hear. The tale is often wiser than the teller.”
Source: Shadow Spinner
“Stories are timeless. They spill through ages, times, genders, races, religions, nationalities. They unite us. With the world the way it is at the moment, they’re one of the only things we’ve got left that does. People are still reading books that were written hundreds of years ago. Children are still brought up with fairy tales that date back to centuries we can’t even imagine living in. That’s magic of a different kind.”
Source: The Little Bookshop of Love Stories
“Stories are verbal acts of hospitality.”
Source: Christ Plays in Ten Thousand Places: A Conversation in Spiritual Theology
“Stories are webs, interconnected strand to strand, and you follow each story to the center, because the center is the end. Each person is a strand of the story.”
Source: Anansi Boys
“Stories are what death thinks he puts an end to. He can't understand that they end in him, but they don't end with him.”
Source: Gifts
“Stories are wondrous things. And they are dangerous.”
“Stories aren't about things. Stories are things. Stories aren't about actions. Stories are, unto themselves, actions.”
“Stories aren't the beauty of what did happen. They're the beauty of what could happen.”
“Stories aren't the icing on the cake; they are the cake!”
“Stories aren’t about things. Stories are things.”
“Stories become the gift we give the world: the beauty that can grow out of what has wounded us, our brokenness, and the world shattering.”
Source: Life-Saving Skill of Story
“Stories begin when the last chapter says goodbye, stories begin when the last of tender feelings have seen their end, stories begin when two people release their saddest sighs, knowing it is time to walk their separate ways. That's when....”