“Some of you may know my story: How for nineteen years, I worked as a manager for a tire plant in Alabama. And some of you may have lived a similar story: After nearly two decades of hard, proud work, I found out that I was making significantly less money than the men who were doing the same work as me.” KnowsMenYearsMayTwoHardStoriesFoundHe ManProudPlantDecadesManagersTireAlabamaNineteen Author:Lilly Ledbetter
“Every success story is a tale of constant adaption, revision and change. A company that stands still will soon be forgotten. Trying to provoke positive change is a principle we've embedded across the Virgin family for more than four decades.” TryingStillsStoriesChangeCompanyPrinciplesFourConstantForgottenDecadesTalesProvokingVirginsEmbeddedRevisionPositive ChangeSuccess StoriesBusiness Change Author:Richard Branson
“Until recently we’ve only been able to speculate about story's persuasive effects. But over the last several decades psychology has begun a serious study of how story affects the human mind. Results repeatedly show that our attitudes, fears, hopes, and values are strongly influenced by story. In fact, fiction seems to be more effective at changing beliefs than writing that is specifically designed to persuade through argument and evidence.” WritingMindHumansFactsStoriesShowsSeemsAbleLastsValuesBeliefResultsAttitudeFictionStudyPsychologyEffectsSeriousEvidenceArgumentDecadesHuman MindPersuasive Author:Jonathan Gottschall
“As the decades go by, a painter's life becomes a life lived with oil paint, a story told in the thicknesses of oil. Any history of painting that does not take that obsession seriously is incomplete.” DoeStoriesPaintingPaintOilDecadesObsessionPainterIncompleteThickness Book:What Painting Is Source: What Painting Is
“For years (decades even), I genuinely believed that world would beat a path to my books and stories, but eventually, as everything I wrote went rapidly out of print and stayed there, I wised up and started assembling them in e-format editions...” WorldYearsBookStoriesPathBeatsDecadesPrintFormatAssembling Author:Scott Bradfield