Leadership And Storytelling Quotes & Sayings

Justice is like the north star, which is fixed, and all the rest revolve about it. — Confucius

I have started my own foundation. It's called Follow Your Art. It's at its infancy but my goal is to mentor teenage girls through one of the most difficult times in their lives. — Nadine Velazquez

This is because the Greeks had it backward, and no matter how hard humans try thinking otherwise, they still think like Greeks. For the Greeks, when you looked ahead all you saw was the past. It was like the past was the future. — Kathryn Davis

The only time she felt excited or happy was when she had had a drink because then anything might happen. That feeling of insecurity became exciting. — Lilian Pizzichini

The Leadership Seduction of storytelling invites self-pity, exaggerates one's importance, and encourages inaction. — Catherine Robinson-Walker

Federalism isn't about states' rights. It's about dividing power to better protect individual liberty. — Elizabeth Price Foley

In this era of public survival through continuous storytelling, people want someone who might surprise them. — Ron Suskind

Storytelling is not something we do. Storytelling is who we are. — Carmine Gallo

What we have to do is reinvent the idea of Europe. — Peter Mandelson

Parables release the adrenaline of urgency into our bloodstream. — Eugene H. Peterson

Stories were heirlooms in these parts. — Robert Kurson

Henry Luce to his Time magazine writers: Tell the history of our time through the people who make it. — Walter Isaacson

I'm quitting the business today. I'm going to open up an appliance store, I've always really been into toasters. I'm giving it all up. — Dane Cook

Co-operating critics comb the studios like big-league scouts, prepared to spot the art of the future and to take lead in establishing reputations. Art historians stand by ready with cameras and notebooks to make sure every novel detail is safe for the record. The tradition of the new has reduced all other traditions to triviality ... — Harold Rosenberg

The press-savy Lincoln looked not to the future, but to the past. — Harold Holzer

She introduced herself to me as Ray's wife. I was only mildly surprised to realize that Ray had this pleasant-looking matron for a partner, a little glassy-eyed, tagged by forty years of marriage like a dead deer on a car roof. — Keith Hollihan

Some shows suck, but I always - the show must go on. I learned it from my past as a child actor. The show must go on. You have to just keep on with it. — Jenny Lewis

When we neared the orchard a flock of birds lit from its outer rows. They hadn't been there long. The branches shook with their absent weight and the birds circled above in the riddy mackerel sky, where they made an artless semaphore. I was afraid, I smelled copper and cheap wine. The sun was up, but a half-moon hung low on the opposite horizon, cutting through the morning sky like a figure from a child's pull-tab book.
We were lined along the ditch up to our ankles in a soupy muck. It all seemed in that moment to be the conclusion of a poorly designed experiment in inevitability. Everything was in its proper place, waiting for a pause in time, for the source of all momentum to be stilled, so that what remained would be nothing more than detritus to be tallied up. The world was paper-thin as far as I could tell. And the world was the orchard, and the orchard was what came next. But none of that was true. I was only afraid of dying. — Kevin Powers