Top 97 Quotes About The Power Of Stories

#1. The point of telling our stories, even if only to ourselves, is to help us resurrect the parts we have buried. When we unearth them, even if it's difficult, we can integrate them into our sense of who we are. Often in our buried self our true power lies.

Helen LaKelly Hunt

Quotes About The Power Of Stories #30414
#2. So much of the world is being brought up on these stories that Hollywood is coming up with and exporting all over. They have so much power and influence, so it's really important that they represent women properly.

Brit Marling

Quotes About The Power Of Stories #36865
#3. You small mortals don't realize the power of your stories.

Karen Russell

Quotes About The Power Of Stories #44809
#4. Finally, a principal reason for the lack of attention to "unclean spirits" and Jesus' "acts of power" in the Gospel stories is surely the modern "scientific" frame of mind that developed in the wake of the Enlightenment reduction of reality to what was natural and comprehensible by reason.

Richard A. Horsley

Quotes About The Power Of Stories #52557
#5. Within the realm of fiction, it is always tempting to set one's stories in a dystopian future, where all our misgivings about state power can be shown in full force.

Anne Fortier

Quotes About The Power Of Stories #62328
#6. There are stories I'd like to tell, I'd like to see, and they're not getting made. These stories are beyond the experience of the people in power. They don't understand it, so they're frightened of it.

Randa Haines

Quotes About The Power Of Stories #76391
#7. We hear wonderful stories about some masters who can walk on water and do all kinds of great things. But the real power of the teacher is to transmit power and knowledge directly to an individual.

Frederick Lenz

Quotes About The Power Of Stories #82393
#8. Power is the ability not just to tell the story of another person, but to make it the definitive story of that person.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Quotes About The Power Of Stories #86817
#9. We need language. We need language to tell stories. We need stories to create a self. We need a self because the complexity of the chemical processes that make up our individual humanities exceeds the processing power of our brains. The self we create is a fiction.

Mohsin Hamid

Quotes About The Power Of Stories #89779
#10. I'd like to think that we strive in film and theatre to tell great stories, and I believe in the power of storytelling in our culture.

Andy Serkis

Quotes About The Power Of Stories #136998
#11. if you want to convince children of the power of books, don't tell them stories are good. Tell them a good story.

Roger Sutton

Quotes About The Power Of Stories #147769
#12. Cursed, he once cried in a fit of rage. His temper has always been as restless and unpredictable as the sea itself. But his words had power behind them and I felt the effects instantly. Too late to take it back.

Jennifer Silverwood

Quotes About The Power Of Stories #149814
#13. At Yahoo, we were one of the early proponents of the power of content showcased through new media. SnagFilms, with its large library and breadth of digital distribution, can help shape this next phase, bringing great stories to broad new audiences.

Terry Semel

Quotes About The Power Of Stories #200251
#14. We all recall the cruel stepmother in fairy tales. That archetype is often a necessary element in a fairy tale so that the heroine/hero can become a person of character and power. Stories of heroes and heroines often begin with a wound or loss or injustice and end with heroic acts of restoration.

David Richo

Quotes About The Power Of Stories #232508
#15. Our earliest poets were shamans. Today, as in the earliest times, true shamans are poets of consciousness who know the power of song and story to teach and to heal.

Robert Moss

Quotes About The Power Of Stories #240255
#16. Trying to find answers to why and how my life got into such a dismal mess, I sought answers in the scriptures, in religion and philosophy, but it only confused me further. Stories, on the other hand, helped me cope, heal and recover.

Indu Muralidharan

Quotes About The Power Of Stories #242542
#17. I do believe in the power of story. I believe that stories have an important role to play in the formation of human beings, that they can stimulate, amaze and inspire their listeners.

Hayao Miyazaki

Quotes About The Power Of Stories #266428
#18. Why bother with fictional characters and plots when the world was full of more marvelous stories that were true, with characters so fresh, so powerful, so new, that they stepped from into the narratives under their own power?

Doris Kearns Goodwin

Quotes About The Power Of Stories #271927
#19. He was intrigued by the power of words, not the literary words that filled the books in the library but the sharp, staccato words that went into the writing of news stories. Words that went for the jugular. Active verbs that danced and raced on the page.

Robert Cormier

Quotes About The Power Of Stories #277837
#20. I see hope creeping in, destabilizing old power structures. I feel it in the ground under my feet. I hear it in the stories of the people of God living right now. We're whispering to each other, eyes alight, "Aslan is on the move." Can't you feel that? The kingdom is breathing among us already.

Sarah Bessey

Quotes About The Power Of Stories #279980
#21. I'm not sure why, but I seem to be drawn to stories about abuses of power. But I'm also drawn, not so much to victims' stories, as stories that tend to show how power works. Because if you don't understand the criminals, you can't figure out how to stop the crimes.

Alex Gibney

Quotes About The Power Of Stories #283853
#22. The grinding power of the plain words of the Gospel story is like the power of mill-stones, and those who can read them simply enough will feel as if rocks had been rolled upon them.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Quotes About The Power Of Stories #287407
#23. Only library books speak with such wordless eloquence of the power good stories hold over us.

Stephen King

Quotes About The Power Of Stories #333274
#24. I feel very privileged to have reached so many kids because a life without stories, without the power of books, would be a very grey world, it's good to add colour.

Anthony Horowitz

Quotes About The Power Of Stories #358039
#25. The greatest and most inspiring mountain climbing achievements in history are not so much stories of individual achievement, but are stories of the extraordinary power of a unified, talented, prepared team that stays loyally committed to one another and to their shared vision to the end.

Stephen Covey

Quotes About The Power Of Stories #427397
#26. I think only bookworms understand the kind of power stories can have on a person

Cassie Mae

Quotes About The Power Of Stories #432258
#27. Because jurors have an extraordinary amount of power over the situation and of the people and the story in front of them, they tend to pay pretty intense attention to what's happening.

Zephyr Teachout

Quotes About The Power Of Stories #452163
#28. There is no border in my films. You can see yourself in these stories. This is the greatest thing about the power of cinema. It's very present. It's all there. You can't escape it.

Lav Diaz

Quotes About The Power Of Stories #471694
#29. One of the biggest lessons people on Earth have is the false belief that looks, money and power are requirements for love, when it's the opposite.

Brownell Landrum

Quotes About The Power Of Stories #496689
#30. She's understood the power of stories. Their magical ability to refill the wounded part of people.

Kate Morton

Quotes About The Power Of Stories #527612
#31. What I love about stories the most is the power they have to teach us of possibilities that might not occur to us without them.

Ina May Gaskin

Quotes About The Power Of Stories #543013
#32. Many of us spent time talking with the men and women who had lived through Katrina, and we heard stories of not only individual sacrifice and loss, but also of neighbors taking care of neighbors. The power of community was so evident in New Orleans.

Howard Schultz

Quotes About The Power Of Stories #576778
#33. Why is it that we all - myself included - believe these stories? Why are we so quick to assume that the TSA is a bunch of jack-booted thugs, officious and arbitrary and drunk with power? It's because everything seems so arbitrary, because there's no accountability or transparency in the DHS.

Bruce Schneier

Quotes About The Power Of Stories #581736
#34. Without a story there is no meaning.
And the nature of the meaning depends on the nature of the story.
To understand this is to understand the true power of stories.
And so, to control the stories, to be the one doing the telling...
Well now, wouldn't that be quite a thing...?

Steven Hall

Quotes About The Power Of Stories #612340
#35. In the world I've known most of my life, old stories quickly lose their power over capital markets and get replaced by new surprises. That which everyone fixates on gets priced into the stock market quickly and can't drag on.

Kenneth Fisher

Quotes About The Power Of Stories #639364
#36. The power of the human spirit inspires me. Movies, books, stories, people, anything that reminds us that we are more than just this physical body and our capacity for love and courage can bend reality.

Caity Lotz

Quotes About The Power Of Stories #693600
#37. Only that type of story deserves to be called moral that shows us that one has the power within oneself to act, out of the conviction that there is something better, even against one's own inclination.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Quotes About The Power Of Stories #694860
#38. I think about the question of perspective in reporting all the time, and since I spent 20 years of my career in Washington as both a reporter and an editor I'm keenly aware that a newspaper should not be dominated by stories in which the only voices and perspective come from those in power.

Jill Abramson

Quotes About The Power Of Stories #735557
#39. STORIES WE TELL is one of the boldest and most exciting films I've seen in the last six months, and the kind of experience that has the power to alter your perception of the world.

A.O. Scott

Quotes About The Power Of Stories #738734
#40. The power of owning our stories, even the difficult ones, is that we get to write the ending.

Brene Brown

Quotes About The Power Of Stories #755379
#41. The power of a glance has been so much abused in love stories, that it has come to be disbelieved in. Few people dare now to say that two beings have fallen in love because they have looked at each other. Yet it is in this way that love begins, and in this way only.

Victor Hugo

Quotes About The Power Of Stories #760737
#42. identity stories have tremendous power over us and over the quality of our lives. We

Aziz Gazipura

Quotes About The Power Of Stories #766078
#43. If there is such a thing as a universal
and I wasn't ready to throw all of mine out the window
it's that there is power in a story. And if someone pays you such a kindness as to make up a tale so you'll enjoy a gingersnap, you go along with that story and enjoy every last bite.

Clare Vanderpool

Quotes About The Power Of Stories #769595
#44. Stories move in from the shadows to the limelight. And though the stage presents the drama of our powerlessness, the shadows offer the secret of our power.

Rebecca Solnit

Quotes About The Power Of Stories #774620
#45. The Christmas story has such power and such appeal every year. There are other stories we get tired of. You think of your favorite movie; you don't want to watch it 15 times.

Frederica Mathewes-Green

Quotes About The Power Of Stories #870669
#46. An arresting testimony to the haunting power of friendships, THE AFTER GIRLS is a story that understands what it is to be passionate, confused, and on the brink. I loved every resonant word.

Micol Ostow

Quotes About The Power Of Stories #872579
#47. The savagery and power of Edith Wharton's ghost stories surprised me.

Michael Dirda

Quotes About The Power Of Stories #903050
#48. Speaking generally, I think it's useful to acknowledge explicitly the power imbalance between a journalist and the protagonists in a story about poor people, even to make that imbalance part of the story - and to redress it, narratively, where you can.

William Finnegan

Quotes About The Power Of Stories #912707
#49. God, I hate Sleeping Beauties." Why that story, out of all the possible stories, should have the sort of staying power it does is beyond me. Centuries of helpless girls, half of them rotting away years before their Prince could come. It makes me sick.

Seanan McGuire

Quotes About The Power Of Stories #918275
#50. Actually, the true story of a person's life can never be written. It is beyond the power of literature. The full tale of any life would be both utterly boring and utterly unbelievable.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

Quotes About The Power Of Stories #958550
#51. The task ahead of you is never as great as the power within you.

Fran 'Mystiblu' Hafey

Quotes About The Power Of Stories #985580
#52. When you feel that unpleasant darkness invading your mind, read this book and these stories will help you return to the light and warmth of life.

Indu Muralidharan

Quotes About The Power Of Stories #988980
#53. Borges said there are only four stories to tell: a love story between two people, a love story between three people, the struggle for power and the voyage. All of us writers rewrite these same stories ad infinitum.

Paulo Coelho

Quotes About The Power Of Stories #1000460
#54. (The short story) is a form that has all the power of the novel - some would say more - but none of the self-importance.

Joseph O'Connor

Quotes About The Power Of Stories #1001284
#55. That poor innocent snake was far more terrified of Nana then she ever was of the snake. Cricket could barely believe her eyes, but when that shotgun went off with a boom so did the snake. Up until yesterday, Cricket had never seen a snake fly!

Darwun St. James

Quotes About The Power Of Stories #1019162
#56. I think the power of Stieg Larsson's stories is that he has the guts to show the hidden spots in the side of Sweden. That gave us a push to say that for the first time. That they can't have with the American version.

Michael Nyqvist

Quotes About The Power Of Stories #1019792
#57. Consciousness begins when brains acquire the power, the simple power I must add, of telling a story.

Antonio Damasio

Quotes About The Power Of Stories #1042819
#58. Writing is powerful. Whether it's a little girl hiding from the Nazis in an attic, or Amnesty International writing letters on behalf of political prisoners, the power of telling stories is usually what causes change.

Erin Gruwell

Quotes About The Power Of Stories #1046383
#59. In the power and splendor of the universe, inspiration waits for the millions to come. Man has only to strive for it. Poems greater than the Iliad, plays greater than Macbeth, stories more engaging than Don Quixote await their seeker and finder.

John Masefield

Quotes About The Power Of Stories #1066394
#60. We need to be critical of the police and power structure, we need to stand back and solve these problems, and films need to point to that. There are too many stories that end happily and say very little about life.

Charles Burnett

Quotes About The Power Of Stories #1096222
#61. The power that comes from knowing the facts of history is dwarfed by the power that comes from being able to shape the stories about how that history is written and told.

Annie Leonard

Quotes About The Power Of Stories #1096357
#62. In many ways, home is an image for the power of stories. With both, we need to live in them if they are to take hold, and we need to stand back from them if we are to understand their power

J. Edward Chamberlin

Quotes About The Power Of Stories #1108202
#63. The point is, stories can be all lengths. Never underestimate the power of less is more.

Darynda Jones

Quotes About The Power Of Stories #1143151
#64. The effects of human rights education can be dramatic in awakening people to the value and power of their own lives, as shown in the following stories.

Daisaku Ikeda

Quotes About The Power Of Stories #1156484
#65. The Christian faith grew through story - not text. Only later did the stories become Scripture. While the Scripture must be held in the highest regard, we must not neglect the power of story.

Erwin McManus

Quotes About The Power Of Stories #1159249
#66. The mainstream media spins stories that are largely racist, violent, and irresponsible - stories that celebrate power and demonize victims, all the while camouflaging its pedagogical influence under the cheap veneer of entertainment.

Henry Giroux

Quotes About The Power Of Stories #1161580
#67. In North Korea, journalism, the job of telling the stories power and money do not want told, of giving a voice to the voiceless, does not exist.

John Sweeney

Quotes About The Power Of Stories #1171350
#68. So I believe in the redeeming power of stories, I believe that stories are incredibly important, possibly in ways we don't understand, in allowing us to make sense of our lives, in allowing us to escape our lives, in giving us empathy and in creating the world that we live in.

Neil Gaiman

Quotes About The Power Of Stories #1223658
#69. Her stories make you believe in the power
of love

Catherine Anderson

Quotes About The Power Of Stories #1240482
#70. In the church we call that the power of the Living Word. In the same way that God creates by speaking God's word, we too co-create (although on a much smaller scale) our church and the world around us by how we perceive it and the kinds of stories we tell about it.

Andrew Doyle

Quotes About The Power Of Stories #1308193
#71. I wanted to hold onto and exploit the power of narrative. This is not only a book about a great storyteller, but there have to be stories about the storyteller.

Stephen Greenblatt

Quotes About The Power Of Stories #1316721
#72. I've thought a lot about the power of empathy. In my work, it's the current that connects me and my actual pulse to a fictional character in a made up story, it allows me to feel, pretend feelings and sorrows and imagined pain.

Meryl Streep

Quotes About The Power Of Stories #1328962
#73. Girls Who Rocked the World is full of inspiring stories about young women who demonstrate that people of all ages have the power to create change in the world.

Midori Goto

Quotes About The Power Of Stories #1375425
#74. Even those, who some time ago believed all the stories about God, that is who believed that divine power exists, have now come to be so ashamed of their own belief, hiding their ignorance, they are now struggling hard to prove those stories as scientifically true.

Periyar E.V. Ramasamy

Quotes About The Power Of Stories #1403893
#75. There are some great stories in The Second Ring of Power about how Don Juan and Don Genaro found their apprentices and what they went through to fool their students into seeking light.

Frederick Lenz

Quotes About The Power Of Stories #1419628
#76. Untold stories have the power to shatter worlds made of glass.

Vanshika Prusty

Quotes About The Power Of Stories #1504591
#77. What I know are simple truths. I know that the fabric of memory is reinforced by stories, rent by silences. I know that power dreads memory. I know that memory outlasts power's viciousness. I know . . . that a voiceless man is as good as dead.

Okey Ndibe

Quotes About The Power Of Stories #1542000
#78. My works are a direct response to the typical space opera. I grew tired of always reading about how the people with power, with agency, get involved in huge sweeping arcs of stories. I wanted stories that dealt with real people, people I could relate to.

Nathan Lowell

Quotes About The Power Of Stories #1563609
#79. In order to tap into the power of dreaming, we must connect not only to the human story, but to all of nature and creation as well

Alberto Villoldo

Quotes About The Power Of Stories #1568060
#80. For me, photographs take their power from memory and emotion. A picture tells its own story, shaped by the mood or insights of the person you are at the time you see it.

Robert Keith Leavitt

Quotes About The Power Of Stories #1575512
#81. The power of pop culture stories should not be underestimated, and there is an enormous potential for inspirational stories that can have a positive, transformative effect on our lives.

Anita Sarkeesian

Quotes About The Power Of Stories #1583354
#82. All the stories we've been telling about the presence of an evil power in the world, all the dark characters that have sent chills down our spines and given us restless nights - they are spoken to us as warnings.
There is evil cast around us ... there is an evil force in this world.

John Eldredge

Quotes About The Power Of Stories #1590391
#83. But what all these responses have in common is that they point to the decisive power of information and stories [ ... ]

Wes Moore

Quotes About The Power Of Stories #1596088
#84. We want to assist China's soft power; we want to develop a vibrant young cinema in China. The average American has no understanding whatsoever of China. We'd like to create a young generation to tell their stories on a world stage. We can make history as well as make money.

Robert Friedland

Quotes About The Power Of Stories #1645733
#85. You know how some people say that they can only read one story a day from this or that collection? If that's simply the result of the great tension and power condensed into each piece, all well and good.

Roy Kesey

Quotes About The Power Of Stories #1681405
#86. I liked stories. I liked the way they had the power to make sense of life.

Candi Sary

Quotes About The Power Of Stories #1703401
#87. Such is the amazing power of stories to link us to our past and lead us all the way back to the present.

Margi Preus

Quotes About The Power Of Stories #1704449
#88. Myth is the system of basic metaphors, images, and stories that informs the perceptions, memories, and aspirations of a people; provides the rationale for its institutions, rituals and power structure; and gives a map of the purpose and stages of life.

Sam Keen

Quotes About The Power Of Stories #1729023
#89. A dramatic, evocative, thoughtful and very accessible account of one of the most important stories of the century - and one of the most ominous, unless citizens are aroused to action to rein in abusive state power.

Noam Chomsky

Quotes About The Power Of Stories #1758451
#90. Stories migrate secretly. The assumption that whatever we now believe is just common sense, or what we always knew, is a way to save face. It's also a way to forget the power of a story and of a storyteller, the power in the margins, and the potential for change.

Rebecca Solnit

Quotes About The Power Of Stories #1767103
#91. There are some stories, some memories, that if you tell them after dark, they seem to gain weight, substance, as if there are things listening, waiting to hear themselves spoken of again. Words have power. But even thinking about them is sometimes enough to make the air in a room heavy.

Laurell K. Hamilton

Quotes About The Power Of Stories #1767497
#92. We've never had a giant circulation. And we've always been a magazine for writers and for sophisticated readers. We've never had to run stories that would appeal to a million people. And what you end up with is a kind of tradition that might have staying power - the cockroach after armageddon.

Lorin Stein

Quotes About The Power Of Stories #1798357
#93. To write a novel is to dream a story and write it down on the page. That's why the power of a really good story is one of true magic. Good stories engage the reader utterly in the writer's dream so the dream becomes theirs, too.

Wendy J. Dunn

Quotes About The Power Of Stories #1803366
#94. It is only in folk tales, children's stories, and the journals of intellectual opinion that power is used wisely and well to destroy evil. The real world teaches very different lessons, and it takes willful and dedicated ignorance to fail to perceive them.

Noam Chomsky

Quotes About The Power Of Stories #1813400
#95. Hallmark makes beautiful films that feel as if they should be watched in a theater. The Hall family knows the power of stories, and they give us unforgettable movies with heart and depth and the resonance of classics.

Luanne Rice

Quotes About The Power Of Stories #1818936
#96. It's a really important thing for Aboriginal people to remember how stories are told and the power of stories, and make it an important feature in our world again.

Alexis Wright

Quotes About The Power Of Stories #1840697
#97. Storytelling? God started that. Discovery. Lust. Murder. Revenge. Power. Sin. Redemption. Forgiveness. Miracles. We simply retell the stories in the language of our generation.

Dennis R. Miller

Quotes About The Power Of Stories #1858865

Famous Authors

Popular Topics

Scroll to Top