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How well you tell your story determines how well your customers tell your story.

Human behavior in the midst of hardship caught my attention very early on, and my first stories were all pictures, no words.

Human beings cannot live without stories.

Human beings are psychologically far more afraid of bugs than they are of driving a car, whereas people get killed by cars every single day, and there is hardly ever a story of people getting killed by bugs.

Human beings love stories because they safely show us beginnings, middles and ends.

Human connections are deeply nurtured in the field of shared story.

Human minds yield helplessly to the suction of story. No matter how hard we concentrate, no matter how deep we dig in our heels, we just can't resist the gravity of alternate worlds.

Human memory awakens and extinguishes at will. It dulls and sharpens actions, enlarges and shrinks those who perform them. It humbles and exalts as it desires. When summoned, it slips away, and when it returns, it will do so at the time and place that suits it. It recognizes no chief, no overseer, no classifier, no ruler. Stories mix and mingle, facts sprout new shoots. The situations and words and scents-oh, the scents!-encrusted there are stored in the most disorganized and wonderful manner, not chronologically, not according to size or importance or even the alphabet.

Humans know when it's not a good story. Unless you do this for a living, you may not know exactly why you don't like a story, but you can't fool an audience ever. They know when you have it and they know when you don't.

Humans will always tell you the story. Dogs can only tell you the truth. Trust your instincts and listen your dog.

Humans are, by nature, pattern-seeking, storytelling animals, and we are quite adept at telling stories about patterns whether they exist or not.

Humans only really learn from each other by storytelling. We didn't evolve to memorize things. We evolved to hear each other's stories and feel them in our heart. Your life is the most powerful story you can tell.

I absolutely love television. What's so great about TV is that I can tell 20 stories in a year. If I was working at a feature studio, I'd tell 1% of someone else's story, over the course of four years.

Hypertext is an idea. The Internet is a medium. They grow up beside each other, they influence each other, and their evolving relationship will probably provide a great story for future biographers.

I actually have a life I said I wanted to have. I wanted to tell stories I want and be with my family. I'm whispering it, because I'm a quarter Jewish and afraid it's all going to be taken away.

I actually feel that the different kinds of stories come out of different parts of my brain.

I actually like older horror movies more than newer ones because when I'm watching newer ones, like Chucky or Saw or whatever, I'm like come on, really, this isn't even good, all it is is blood and knives. I like when it has a story line, you know? When it's actually a movie.

I actually tried to think of the story [Room] in gender-neutral terms at first and said to myself, "OK, would this work if it were a man?" Well no, you can't make a man pregnant, so it's got to be a woman.

I admire the ballad form most of all. Stories are irresistible. I've always had a passion for stories, the endings being of particular importance.

I already love acting and I love actors, so being able to communicate with actors and to bring performances out of them, and to tell a story and aid them, is really exciting for me.

I also felt The Kite Runner was a story that would lend itself well to a visual retelling in a graphic novel.

I agree strongly that no story is more valuable than someone's life.

I also want to do stories that I think are not brought to television that often that our community talks about.

I always begin my stories as experiments - on large yellow tablets - a mixture of writing and sketching.

I always believed that the picture itself should tell the story.

I always carry a notepad with me, even on vacation. If I'm on the computer when the story 'hits', I open a Word document and start typing until I get it all out. I've got tons of notes that I never throw out. You never know when a story will strike!

I also liked it when professors assigned us stories that they love. In general, I liked workshops more when they were more than just a workshop, when the professor took the time to actually guide us as young writers and teach us things it took them a long time to figure out on their own. I could probably write ten pages on this question.

I always choose my projects for the script or what the director want to tell with that story. And if I like the story.

I always do like to write love stories, even if they end tragically.

I always describe writing a story as throwing bowling pins in the air and then catching them.

I always have to start with a character that I can really hook into, and then build from there. I have writer friends who start from a world, an object or some kind of concept that they then hone and widdle into a story. But, for me, it has to be a character that I can really sink my teeth into and live with, for months and months.

I always had this non-stop drive. I had to keep sending stories out and every once in awhile I'd get something accepted or get the little trickle of positive feedback.

I always kinda liked our attic ghost. When I was a kid, I used to go up there and read stories to it. Show it my new toys. It's just an old spirit stuck between the worlds, right? What's to be scared of?"" ~Vic

I always had a good dexterity. The story in my family goes that at the age of 3 I could thread needles faster than anybody.

I always had stories inside my head and one day I just decided to start writing them down. I didn't actually decide.

I always hope that the artwork will complement and enrich a story.

I always liked stories that carry on and have a different format from the normal music video.

I always liked the story of Noah's Ark and the idea of starting anew by rescuing the things you like and leaving the rest behind.

I always like story songs, Dolly Parton, Tom T. Hall, Mel Tillis, Red Stegall, when they'd do their story songs. I was totally enthralled.

I always look for good stories and good characters, and if they're placed in a whodunit, then I'm interested.

I always let the characters guide the stories. They really let me know what they want to say and what action they want to happen.

I always liked spy stories.

I always loved the verve and vivacity of pulp and I kind of merged it with my own interest in family stories.

I always liked the Van Gogh story because I was terribly involved in that.

I always loved having the chance to disappear in a story. I always was kind of obsessed with that.

I always say African American history is the quintessential American story. It's about perseverance and resilience - something everyone can relate to.

I always think first about the nature of the story. When I had the idea for 'The Namesake,' I felt that it had to be a novel - it couldn't work as a story.

I always thought the story [Anthem] would work in three dimensions - and studying that cut material was very useful.

I always wanted to do an animated movie. I find it to be incredibly liberating as a way of telling a story.

I always try to entertain folks with good clean fun and stories from my youth.