Telling purposeful stories is interactive. It's not a monolog. Ultimately, purposeful tellers must surrender control of their stories, creating a gap for the listener(s) to willingly cross in order to take ownership. Only when the listener(s) own the tellers' story and make it theirs, will they virally market it.
Peter Guber
Related In any situation that calls for you to persuade, convince or manage someone or a group of people to ... PETER GUBER The best thing I could say is you do have to be a really good listener. If I go to a family reunion,... SUSAN STRAIGHT It's the subtleties of a ballad that truly make it beautiful - and it's all in the way you p... NATALIE COLE Or maybe they just accept that it's wrong in God's eyes, although not in their own, and they'll worr... CRAIG GROESCHEL I never limit myself when it comes to telling stories; I think people can see that in my body of wor... F. GARY GRAY I don't think it's going to be possible for the next generation of writers to tell stories w... DAN HARMON They usually have two tellers in my local bank, except when it's very busy, when they have one. RITA RUDNER It is a small world. You do not have to live in it particuarly long to learn that for yourself. Ther... NEIL GAIMAN you have to be the prude or the slut, and if you pick one, other people hate you for it, and you can... NED VIZZINI Nowadays, it's hard to find the best horror and to be interesting and to be afraid of it! DEYTH BANGER You don't find interesting stuff because you don't search enough, ... every book has it's own lesson... DEYTH BANGER I usually don't like to 'spoon feed' my audience, because I grew up idolizing story tell... THE WEEKND We're all going to keep telling love stories, we're all going to tell hero stories. It's... ANDREW STANTON How we experience memory sometimes, it's not linear. We're not telling the stories to oursel... FRANK OCEAN Everybody's got a different way of telling a story - and has different stories to tell. KEITH RICHARDS But, you know there's a lot of westerns - not that they were bad - it's just that they can b... TOM SELLECK The newspaper fits the reader's program while the listener must fit the broadcaster's progra... KINGMAN BREWSTER, JR. I'm not sure it's a better music world of appreciation and performance. I think the listener... AL JARREAU I'm an interpreter of stories. When I perform it's like sitting down at my piano and telling... NAT KING COLE It's a director's job to tell a story and he's very well versed in telling stories with ... CUBA GOODING, JR. What's the difference between people who see and seek gaps and those that see and seek bridges? The ... RICHIE NORTON For starters, that’s a rather simple principle of Time Travel right there – and according to the... CHRISTINA ENGELA There's definitely a delicate line you have to walk in telling someone else's story that'... BOX BROWN He never seemed to get tired. Always first up and ready to move on. Never afraid of what lay ahead. ERIN HUNTER Showing young children in these communities, that there are outlets for their feelings, that there i... TOM HIDDLESTON If the story-tellers could ha' got decency and good morals from true stories, who'd have troubled to... THOMAS HARDY You hear all these stories about, 'There's one in a million guys that make it to the NBA and... KEVIN DURANT It's about stories. If I can tell the story to America, whether it's Riesling or a boxer fro... GARY VAYNERCHUK If you want what you're saying heard, then take your time and say it so that the listener will a... MAYA ANGELOU Nothing happens in any legislative body that's not purposeful. DAN WEBSTER You get guys around a campfire, and they start telling their stories. That's the fellowship that... JOHN ELDREDGE I could not stop talking because now I had started my story, it wanted to be finished. We cannot cho... CHRIS CLEAVE We cannot choose where to start and stop. Our stories are the tellers of us. CHRIS CLEAVE In the beginning the Universe was created. This had made many people very angry and has been wi... DOUGLAS ADAMS My style is colloquial storytelling. It's the way we tell stories to one another - it's not ... JAMES PATTERSON Just telling a story. That's cinema. It's not silent, black and white. It's a simple sto... JEAN DUJARDIN When I left Milwaukee, and I had all these stories. I felt so responsible for people. It's a hec... MATTHEW DESMOND You release the pain of the past and press on. It's a new day, and God is doing a new thing. He want... CRAIG GROESCHEL It's a really important thing for Aboriginal people to remember how stories are told and the pow... ALEXIS WRIGHT It is a lie. ARTHUR MILLER My family, they're story tellers. My mom is Irish, and my dad is Italian. In my family, we weren... MEG CABOT There's a great tradition in storytelling that's thousands of years old, telling stories abo... AARON SORKIN When we went to Iraq, we stayed in one of Saddam's palaces. It was kind of creepy. If those wall... KELLIE PICKLER Witness protection just makes for exciting stories and it's a really rich sort of place to grab ... MARY MCCORMACK Theologians are collectors and tellers of tales; the better the theologian, the better the stories HANNO LANGENHOVEN You know, I just don't believe that art is supposed to make sense. I really don't think it... SHELBY LYNNE I feel like 'Beware' is a heartfelt song - it's something that is definitely a story, so... BIG SEAN It's actually easier to do autobiographical stories. The story is already there. It's a matt... CRAIG THOMPSON 'Farscape' is a story about family. It's a story about creating life in a harsh environm... BEN BROWDER An aria in an opera - Handel's 'Ombra mai fu,' for example - gets along with an incredib... JAMES FENTON Being a good listener is more than just being quiet. It's reflecting back on what you're hea... SHELLEY MOORE CAPITO I try and make little stories. Whether it's with a pencil or with bits of records, it's real... ERIC SAN We know there needs to be diversity in storytellers telling their own stories. I think there's a... AVA DUVERNAY There's a very curious and - and almost sadistic lust for blood that overcomes the concert liste... GLENN GOULD When people are reading a book, it's a personal thing. They're reading it; it's in their... KRISTY SWANSON I want to continue to make beautiful movies. The most important thing is to be a part of beautiful s... MELANIE LAURENT It's much easier to make a movie with kind of stylistic pyrotechnics because you can hide behind... JAMES GRAY In America, we have so many movies and so much media about the Islamic world, the sub-continental wo... MIRA NAIR Sometimes people get mad at The Simpsons' subversive story telling, but there's another mess... MATT GROENING Denver's commitment to giving contemporary storytellers the stage is crucial to the American the... THERESA REBECK It's interesting because diversity doesn't just happen by garnishing your omelet with a litt... KELVIN YU I find it's nice when I can be a listener and absorb things coming at me. It's important, es... PHILLIPA SOO Obviously when it comes to the question of telling stories about other people's lives in a situa... ATHOL FUGARD For me, it's not an option to despair. The question is: what can we do to make someone's lif... SAMANTHA POWER Roz is telling a story. That's what they will do, increasingly in their lives: tell stories. Tonight... MARGARET ATWOOD I feel so honored to be able to say "What I do is for my son" without that being an excuse to do stu... C. JOYBELL C. I used to say to my bubbe, 'Bubbe, is this story true?' And she'd say, 'Of course it... PATRICIA POLACCO I don't mind UFO's and ghost stories, it's just that I tend to give value to the storyte... ROBERT STACK Hollywood is great for entertaining people, it's a wonderful business but it's make-believe,... DOLPH LUNDGREN Marvel does a fantastic job about bringing human stories - because you're telling big stories wi... MIKE COLTER It's really important to me to keep growing as a writer, to look for new challenges and be harsh... J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI When you are mute, you become a good listener - it's all one-way. You appreciate the written wor... JAMES EARL JONES I love Los Angeles, and it's been very good to me, but if everyone is running around telling the... MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY I get tired of stories that keep going and going and never get anywhere. It's like a promise tha... TED NAIFEH History's like a story in a way: it depends on who's telling it. DOROTHY SALISBURY DAVIS When I'm considering an idea, and there is an element of hubris involved, I generally feel comfo... ERIK LARSON It's great to play somebody's wife, but not all the time. There's so many other stories ... CARICE VAN HOUTEN The magic happens when you take facts and figures, features and benefits, decks and PowerPoints - re... PETER GUBER Anyone can write a story based on the kind of horror where you see a guy in car and then there's... SERGIO ARAGONES The hardest part of ghost writing other people's stories is capturing their voices so that it is... MICHAEL ROBOTHAM Tell your story to the universe and Let your actions speak LOVE.' No matter what it is. NAPZ CHERUB PELLAZO There's no longevity in me telling old stories on the radio. DANNY BONADUCE It's hard to say how certain stories just punch us in the heart and the brain at the same time a... T. C. BOYLE Everybody loves vampire stories, and if there's one show in particular that's done really we... MADCHEN AMICK It's nice when critics say 'Emperor of the Air' is an important book of stories. ETHAN CANIN It could happen to anyone when you get hired by a different president. There's a difference in p... RICK PITINO When it's time to make music, that's about getting lost for me. To be a control freak is not... JOSH HOMME Hip-hop is the only music in the world where you can take any instrument and make it hip hop. It'... YELAWOLF Actually, I met a lot of directors and most of them have that fantasy to make a silent movie because... MICHEL HAZANAVICIUS To me, constructive criticism is when people take ownership of their ideas. That's why I don'... BRENE BROWN You are validating someone's life by telling their story. Even if it's a sad one. ALEX TIZON I want hard stories, I demand them from myself. Hard stories are worth the difficulty. It seems to m... DOROTHY ALLISON When he entered the anteroom, two women looked up at him. One was Miss Robertson, the governor's sec... GEORGE P. ELLIOTT Writing a tribe is fun. They have their own language, their own slang; they repeat it, and it become... LAURA WADE New York in a way functions as another character within the story, as it does within most of Woody A... RADHA MITCHELL My preference is for people who can do sketch comedy or situational comedy, where it's not a jok... CAROL BURNETT The best part of having a relationship is getting to call the person or lay down next to them and te... TEGAN QUIN 'East of Eden' is an important story for me. It's about a kid that's misunderstood a... ANSEL ELGORT If you really watch 'The Voice' and follow Adam, he's very ADD. He's kind of one pla... CHRISTINA GRIMMIE As I make my way through, I feel okayness reaching through me. The funny thing is that okayness... MARKUS ZUSAK
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