Quotes About Narrative

People don't believe what you tell them. They rarely believe what you show them. They often believe what their friends tell them. They always believe what they tell themselves. What leaders do: they give people stories they can tell themselves. Stories about the future and about the change.

All marketers are storytellers. Only the losers are liars.

Marketing is the act of telling stories about the things we make—stories that sell and stories that spread.

4: Stories let us lie to ourselves. And those lies satisfy our desires.

People don't believe what you tell them. They rarely believe what you show them. They often believe what their friends tell them. They always believe what they tell themselves. What leaders do: they give people stories they can tell themselves. Stories about the future and about change.

Stories (not ideas, not features, not benefits) are what spread from person to person.

Your story is a symphony, not a note.

Senator Bill Bradley defines a movement as having three elements: 1. A narrative that tells a story about who we are and the future we're trying to build 2. A connection between and among the leader and the tribe 3. Something to do—the fewer limits, the better Too often organizations fail to do anything but the third.

Good marketers tell a story. Choose your customers. Fire the ones that hurt your ability to deliver the right story to others. Living and breathing an authentic story is the best way to survive in a conversation rich world.

Status is our position in the hierarchy. It's also our perception of that position. Status protects us. Status helps us get what we want. Status gives us the leverage to make change happen. Status is a place to hide. Status can be a gift or a burden. Status creates a narrative that changes our perceived options, alters our choices, and undermines (or supports) our future. And the desire to change our status, or to protect it, drives almost everything we do.

Each person has a story in his or her head, a narrative used to navigate the world. The extraordinary thing is that every person's narrative is different.

Everyone has a problem, a desire, and a narrative. Who will you seek to serve?

Senator Bill Bradley defines a movement as having three elements: 1. A narrative that tells a story about who we are and the future we're trying to build 2. A connection between and among the leader and the tribe 3. Something to do—the fewer limits, the better

Gramps said, 'How about a story? Spin us a yarn.

For any marginalized group to change the story that society tells about them takes courage and perseverance.

As soon as we ask whether or not a story is true in the present moment, we empower ourselves to re-frame it.

When we believe a wounding story, our whole world is diminished.

Our senses are often the gateway to our stories.

The breath is the first tool for opening the space between the story you tell yourself about love.

Mindfulness practice helps create space between our actual experiences and the reflexive stories we tend to tell about them.

We cultivate mindfulness to help us distinguish the actual experience from the story we tell ourselves.

Mahabharata claims that 'if a man has one thousand tongues, lives for a hundred years and does nothing except describing the faults of woman, he will die without finishing the job').

Books about war were written to be read by God Almighty, because no one but God ever saw it that way.

Another version of archaism is political and equally fundamentalist. In the narrative of the political archaist the United States was blessed with a once-and-for-all-time, fixed ideal form, an original Constitution of government created by the Founding Fathers in 1787.