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Our society is just less open to platitudes, more open to stories.

...Our stories are drive by who we are and what we do, and not by the events that happens to us.

Our story is a 'once upon a time', but it's not a 'happy ever after'.

Our stories are what we have,” Our Good Mother says. “Our stories preserve us. we give them to one another. Our stories have value. Do you understand?

Our stories may be singular, but our destination is shared.

Out of pain and problems have come the sweetest songs, the most poignant poems, the most gripping stories.

Overnight success stories take a long time.

Over and over, we start our own tales, compose our own stories, whether our lives are short or long. Until at last all our beginnings come down to just one end, and the tale of who we are is done.

Owning our story can be hard but not nearly as difficult as spending our lives running from it.

Packaging can be theater, it can create a story

Over the years I have become convinced that we learn best - and change - from hearing stories that strike a chord within us ... Those in leadership positions who fail to grasp or use the power of stories risk failure for their companies and for themselves.

Own one idea. Complete it. Map the current model of purchase and usage. Change how it is done so at least some part of the market uses only your product. Extend from that core user to a much broader universe. Describe your concept in a very short, "six-word story" - a la Ernest Hemingway: "For sale: baby shoes, never worn.

Pablo Escobar is one of the great stories of all time. It's a bizarre, dark version of success.

Pain is as common as skin, we all experience it. It unites us all. Fortunately, that's not the whole story.

PANTOMIME, n. A play in which the story is told without violence to the language. The least disagreeable form of dramatic action.

Pamela Palmer's stories catch you, captivate you, and never let you go.

Parenthood offers many lessons in patience and sacrifice. But ultimately, it is a lesson in humility. The very best thing about your life is a short stage in someone else’s story.

Part of what I want to do is sort of reclaim my story - it belongs to me and to my children, who have to live with whoever their mother is.

Part of the story of Ghosts of Ascalon is how they got to that tentative truce where you can find humans and charr working together.

Patience is a most necessary qualification for business; many a man would rather you heard his story than granted his request. One must seem to hear the unreasonable demands of the petulant, unmoved, and the tedious details of the dull, untired. That is the least price that a man must pay for a high station.

Patience is the most necessary quality for business, many a man would rather you heard his story than grant his request. It is by attempting to reach the top in a single leap that so much misery is produced in the world.

Pay and the story rolls. Steal and the story folds. No stealing from the blind newsboy.

People are as healthy and confident as the stories they tell themselves.

People are generally proud of their food. A willingness to eat and drink with people without fear and prejudice... they open up to you in ways that somebody visiting who is driven by a story may not get.

People are all over the world telling their one dramatic story and how their life has turned into getting over this one event. Now their lives are more about the past than their future.

People are hungry for stories. It's part of our very being.

People are less focused on the story, and more on how the story is told.

People are much deeper than stereotypes. That's the first place our minds go. Then you get to know them and you hear their stories, and you say, 'I'd have never guessed.

People are hungry for stories. It's part of our very being. Storytelling is a form of history, of immortality too. It goes from one generation to another. -Studs Terkel

People are hungry for stories of faith. People are hungry for hope.

People are, in the confines of their own apartments, becoming Magellans of the interior world and reaching out to this alien thing and beginning to map it and bring back stories that can only be compared to the kind of stories that the chroniclers of the New World brought back to Spain at the close of the 15th century.

People are over 20 times more likely to remember a story than a series of facts and figures. A good story touches our hearts.

People at a point of conflict are always the most interesting stories to tell.

People come up to me and tell me how I changed their life and I've inspired them. And they tell me their stories, and that keeps me going.

People don't give a damn about you and they don't give a damn about your story and they don't give a damn about your content. They only give a damn that you, your content, your story can bring value to them.

People finally have permission to be human in the context of their work. That's the real Internet story.

People forgot; it was in the nature of people to forget, to blur boundaries, to retell stories to come out the way they wanted them to come out, to remember things as how they ought to be instead of how they were.

People have their own opinions but sometimes with the media things get chopped up and cut around to make stories out of it.

People love miracle stories and dramatic moments of transcendence or transformation, and may then pursue their own dramatic "awakenings.

People in life take on certain stories and say, 'I'm going to be defined by this story and I'm going to live up to every inch of this story.' Sometimes you realize the story isn't fulfilling you and in fact you're not living the life that you're given.

People love dogs. You can never go wrong adding a dog to the story.

People love stories and the more you can give information and knowledge and even wisdom through a story, the more likely you are to be heard.

People love to have lived a great story, but few people like the work it takes to make it happen.

People just want good stories.

People love stories. They need stories.

People see in stories what they’re looking for, my young friend.

People sing each other's songs and they cultivate standards. That's the reason why we have folk music and folk stories. History is told through song.

People take what they need from the stories they hear. The tale is often wiser than the teller.

People's talk and the stories they tell have been engraved on my heart, and some of them have flown into my pen.

People tell stories and it's up to those who listen whether to believe or not." "Shouldn't the storyteller believe it." "The storyteller should tell it.