Quotes About Story

Todo aquel que haya leído una novela o haya visto una película sabe que la historia que no sorprende está muerta de antemano.

2. El drama pone en marcha su historia

Una historia con un propósito claro es una llamada a la acción: asegúrese de emitirlo.

Haga que su audiencia se ponga en el lugar de su héroe. • Dirija desde el corazón, no desde la cabeza. • Utilice el factor sorpresa. • Las historias con éxito convierten el «yo» en «nosotros»: ¡armonice sus intereses! • Asegúrese que su historia les deje claro cómo se van a beneficiar.

If your audience has a negative story about you or your product or business, you'd better confront it. As famed author Salman Rushdie once said, "Those who do not have power over the story that dominates their lives, the power to retell it, rethink it, deconstruct it, joke about it, and change it as times change, truly are powerless, because they cannot think new thoughts." Once you lose control of your own story, you'll need double the muscle to get that power back.

Which to me means that one must respect not just the story but the way in which it develops; judging the past by the standards of the present sheds little light on understanding, it represents no more than the I-told-you-sos of history.

But every river story they had ever read was just beneath the surface of their imaginations and must have fired them with extra energy and braced them, too, because at least half of those stories did not have happy endings.

Story--plot--gives meaning to each page. If you could number all the pages so that you knew their exact sequence and which page was yours, life would still be meaningless if you didn't know what the book was about.

The seventh day is not over; the story is not over. We're still being made in the image of God. ... it appears that we are still living in the sixth day.

Even though we wrote ourselves out of the story; even though we cursed the voice; even though we crucified the Plot on the tree; even though we tried to make Him just a fact in our story, even THAT is a story within The Story.

We can write ourselves out of our own story, but not out of God's Story, the Deepest Story.

There has to be some theme to your work - some objective - something you want to know. There has to be a story line.

So when Abram entered Egypt, the Egyptians saw that the woman was very beautiful.

When Laban heard the news about his sisterís son Jacob, he ran out to meet him. He embraced him and kissed him and brought him to his home, where Jacob told him all that had happened.

He said to them, “Listen to this dream I had:

Then she gave birth to another son and named him Shelah; it was at Chezib that she gave birth to him.

When Judah saw her, he thought she was a prostitute because she had covered her face.

When your children ask you, ëWhat does this service mean to you?í

But if you cannot solve it, you must give me thirty linen garments and thirty sets of clothes.” “Tell us your riddle,” they replied. “Let us hear it.”

Now a man named Micah from the hill country of Ephraim

When Ruth returned to her mother-in-law, Naomi asked her, “How did it go, my daughter?” Then Ruth told her all that Boaz had done for her.

While a large crowd was gathering and people were coming to Jesus from town after town, He told them this parable:

Then Jesus told them this parable: