S Quotes
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“Storytelling is one means to entertain, share knowledge, and transmit cultural ideology. Through the universal lens of storytelling, do we become familiar with the life altering dilemmas and moral challenges that fuselage provides the linkage to mode the character patterns essential to leading a principled life? By shuffling through scores of loose leafed stories, can we glean the clarity of thought and the lucidity of perception needed successfully to tackle our own life with gusto? Is reading stories of struggle and redemption one way that we become acquainted with the chemistry of pain and suffering that permeates the arteries of all thinking human beings? Does appreciation for other people’s hardbound stories assist us place the vertebrae of our own experiences into a telling template? Can we draw upon the accumulated experiences of other people’s lives as well as our own hands-on experiences when we see our lives folded into a comprehensible scabbard depicting what it means to be human and, therefore, fallible?”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“Storytelling is one of comics' esthetic hurdles at the moment, which was the novelist's problem 150 years ago: namely, to take comics from storytelling into that of "writing," the major distinction between the two to me being that the former gives one the facts, but the latter tries to recreate the sensation and complexities of life within the fluidity of consciousness and experience. As far as I'm concerned, that's really all I've been trying to do formally for the past decade or more with comics, and it's certainly time-consuming, since it has to be done with drawings, not words.”
“Storytelling is our oldest form of remembering the promises we have made to one another and to our various gods, and the promises given in return; it is a way of recording our human emotions and desires and taboos.”
Source: Touch Magic: Fantasy, Faerie and Folklore in the Literature of Childhood
“Storytelling is powerful when creating a vision to your dreams. It's impactful when you inspire others by your integrity and by the promises delivered”
“storytelling is prehistoric.
it existed before the written word and will exist long after all the books have been banned. return to oral traditions. let our children hear our stories.”
“Storytelling is the art of unfolding knowledge in a way that makes each piece contribute to a larger truth.”
Source: Writing a Book That Makes a Difference
“Storytelling is the art of weaving ordinary words into extraordinary worlds.”
Source: The Lost and Found Journal of a Miner 49er: Vol. 2
“Storytelling is the distinctly human implement designed to synthesize our purposeful interaction with reality.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“Storytelling is the essential human activity. The harder the situation, the more essential it is.”
“Storytelling is the game. It's what we all do.”
“Storytelling is the game. It's what we all do. It's why Nike is Nike, it's why Apple is Apple, it's why Walt Disney built Disney World and it's why Vince McMahon makes a billion dollars.”
“Storytelling is the greatest activity of any culture. Storytelling is how you build a family, how you pass along identity.”
“Storytelling is the important thing.”
“Storytelling is the most powerful way to put ideas into the world today.”
“Storytelling is the oldest form of education.”
Source: Pieces of White Shell: A Journey to Navajoland
“Storytelling is the only studio movie where the censorship is perfectly clear, the only studio movie with a big red box covering up a shot. I take pride in that - and, of course, in having avoided the fate of Eyes Wide Shut.”
“Storytelling is ultimately a creative act of pattern recognition. Through characters, plot and setting, a writer creates places where previously invisible truths become visible. Or the storyteller posits a series of dots that the reader can connect.”
“Storytelling is ultimately the only way that we know besides song, dance, painting, and music to share with our tribesmen what it means to be human, express the indefinable feelings that unite humankind.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“Storytelling is very important. It is through context and relations that we understand the importance of human dignity. The concept means nothing as an abstraction. It's important for us to understand why people do the things they do, including the monsters - the suicide bomber and the war criminal. Understanding is not acceptance. Understanding is exploring the human psyche. If we want to put an end to violence, we need to have the sort of conversation I had with the teenage suicide bomber.”
“Storytelling is what lights my fire.”
“Storytelling isn’t a luxury. It’s how we decide who gets to be human.”
“Storytelling isn’t an invention but a natural product of brain activity, and as such, it obeys natural laws rooted in human psychology.”
Source: Trust Your Story: Master Storytelling and Build a Successful Creative Writing Career
“Storytelling makes the human animal unique: Our ability to step back from existence, fictionally reframe it, and learn is a profound faculty.”
“Storytelling may be what most distinguishes social movements from interest groups.”
“Storytelling sticks in the mind because it attaches emotions to events, and that's the way we remember things. If you don't tell stories, no one will remember what you say.”
“Storytelling strengthens the imagination. To imagine is to envision, to see with the inward eye. This ability to imagine is the basis of all creativity. Creativity is being able to see beyond what is readily apparent. It is seeing a new answer to an old problem.”
“Storytelling tastes best in the kitchen, told deep inside the aroma of cooking, told with stomachs growling and mouths salivating. In the kitchen, partnerships formed, bargains began, forgiveness came with the sharing of food.”
“Storytelling--that's not the future. The future, I'm afraid, is flashes and impulses. It's mode up of moments and fragments, and stories won't survive.”
Source: The Dream of Perpetual Motion
“Storytelling was a way to see the world bigger than the one you were looking at, and that had great appeal for me. I think since that was part of my upbringing, it became part of me, and I wanted to pass it along to my kids and my grandkids.”
“Storytelling was the most honored of all talents, for it benefited everyone.”
Source: The Host
“Storytelling wasn't about making things up. It was more like inviting the stories to come through her, let themselves be told.”
Source: Don't Breathe a Word: A Novel
“Storytelling wise, you've gotta take it as far as you can possibly take it with each individual movie. If you're holding out something for a sequel or some cliff-hanger, that's not how I think of a satisfying story.”
“Storytelling with music is a really powerful device.”
“Storytelling, a primitive art, is as old as the beginning of mankind. People want to receive what's out there in the form of stories, not just facts, opinion, analysis.”
“Storytelling, you know, has a real function. The process of the storytelling is itself a healing process, partly because you have someone there who is taking the time to tell you a story that has great meaning to them. They're taking the time to do this because your life could use some help, but they don't want to come over and just give advice. They want to give it to you in a form that becomes inseparable from your whole self. That's what stories do. Stories differ from advice in that, once you get them, they become a fabric of your whole soul. That is why they heal you.”
“Storytelling: the world's second oldest profession.”
“Storytime is over, Rock. Every time you want to 'bring it,' because it belongs to me, I'm just going to take it!.”
“Stothard learned the art of combining colors by closely studying butterflies wings; he would often say that no one knew what he owed to these tiny insects. A burnt stick and a barn door served Wilkie in lieu of pencil and canvas.”
Source: Self-help: With Illustrations of Character and Conduct
“Stotting is jumping upward with all four legs simultaneously. My advice: do not die until you've seen a large black poodle stotting in the snow.”
Source: The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time
“Stoutly as we may affirm that our disasters and vices are chargeable to luck, we never dream of ascribing our meritorious deeds, in the slightest degree to its agency. In such cases we quite unconsciously blink out of sight the magic power of the latter principle, so wondrous and all-controlling in its influence at other times, and coolly appropriate to ourselves not merely the lion's share, but the whole glory of our position.”
“Straddling him intimately, he slides his hands up my thighs, pushing the silk aside and caressing my pale, exposed skin. Even against his uniform, I can feel his hardness. His body feels taut and poised for action.”
Source: Erotic Fantasies
“Straddling the top of the world, one foot in China and the other in Nepal, I cleared the ice from my oxygen mask, hunched a shoulder against the wind, and stared absently down at the vastness of Tibet.”
Source: Into Thin Air: A personal account of the Everest disaster
“Strah je posledica čovekove sposobnosti predviđanja.”
“Strah je samo ono što čovjek strahom sebi predstavi
A spokoj je ono što čovjek sebi spokojem umisli.”
Source: أنا.. وأخواتها: رحلة في أسرار الذات
“Strah muškarce parališe, a žene pokreće.”
“Strah od Njega udaljava te od griješenja prema Njemu, nada u Njegovu milost podstiče te na pokornost prema Njemu, a ljubav prema Njemu vodi te Njemu.”
Source: Taman Orang-orang Jatuh Cinta dan Memendam Rindu
“Strahlt ein Leuchtturm allzu hell, verwirrt er die vorüberfahrenden Schiffe und zieht die wunderlichsten Schicksale an.(...) Ich glaube es gibt eine bestimmte Art von Anziehungskraft, deren Daseinsenergie unermüdlich nach Veränderung verlangt.”
“Strahopetni umira tisočkrat, hrabri enkrat.”
Source: Alamut
“Straight-A students without good manners or etiquette are like a sharp knife without a handle, dangerous and useless.”
“Straight ahead you can't go very far.”