November 25, 2021
Imagine: In a few days from now, you give a presentation.
As part of that presentation, you want your listeners to understand the importance of storytelling.
You do the one thing that works the best:
You prepare a story that shows the importance of storytelling.
While that story should do the job, you want to become even more memorable.
How can you do that?
By including an inspirational quote on storytelling.
Here are 23 inspirational storytelling quotes to rock your next presentation:
1. “After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.”
― Philip Pullman
2. “Inside each of us is a natural-born storyteller, waiting to be released.”
― Robin Moore
3. “Stories constitute the single most powerful weapon in a leader’s arsenal.”
― Dr. Howard Gardner
4. “Stories are a communal currency of humanity.”
― Tahir Shah
5. “Great stories happen to those who can tell them.”
― Ira Glas
6. ““Through the art of storytelling, we can preserve our heritage, educate future generations, and inspire change.”
― Philipp Humm
7. “The engineers of the future will be poets.”
― Terence McKenna
8. “Marketing is no longer about the stuff that you make, but about the stories you tell.”
― Seth Godin
9. “The human species thinks in metaphors and learns through stories.”
― Mary Catherine Bateson
10. “The purpose of a storyteller is not to tell you how to think, but to give you questions to think upon.”
― Brandon Sanderson
11. “A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses that moment of experience from which to look back or from which to look ahead.”
― Graham Greene
12. “Those who tell the stories rule the world.”
― Hopi American Indian proverb
13. “There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
― Maya Angelou
14. “Narrative imagining — story — is the fundamental instrument of thought. Rational capacities depend upon it. It is our chief means of looking into the future, or predicting, of planning, and of explaining.”
― Mark Turner
15. “There’s always room for a story that can transport people to another place.”
― J.K. Rowling
16. “Sometimes reality is too complex. Stories give it form.”
― Jean Luc Godard
17. “Story is a yearning meeting an obstacle.”
― Robert Olen Butler
18. “Stories are memory aids, instruction manuals and moral compasses.”
― Aleks Krotoski
19. “The stories we tell literally make the world. If you want to change the world, you need to change your story. This truth applies both to individuals and institutions.”
― Michael Margolis
20. “Storytelling is the most powerful way to put ideas into the world today.”
― Robert McKee
21. “Storytelling is among the oldest forms of communication. Storytelling is the commonality of all human beings, in all places, in all times.”
― Rives Collins
22. “We are all storytellers. We all live in a network of stories. There isn’t a stronger connection between people than storytelling.”
― Jimmy Neil Smith
23. “You’re never going to kill storytelling, because it’s built in the human plan. We come with it.”
― Margaret Atwood
That’s it. That was our list of 23 inspirational storytelling quotes. Pick one that you like and use it in your upcoming presentation. Let me know in the comments below which storytelling quote you like the most.
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