Martha Beck Quotes

The most powerful words in English are, 'Tell me a story.'

Stories are the most primitive and purest form of communication.

Stories match the way our species thinks. Equally important, stories are something we share - everyone everywhere tells stories and oddly enough, in the same way. It all probably started around some campfire a million years ago.

Film is just a different version of what we did round the campfire when we were Neanderthals. We tell stories so people can learn things and relativise things.

Storytelling is a very old human skill that gives us an evolutionary advantage. If you can tell young people how you kill an emu, acted out in song or dance, or that Uncle George was eaten by a croc over there, don't go there to swim, then those young people don't have to find out by trial and error.

All my life I've been interested in other people's stories. I wanted to know them, understand them, feel them.

Storytelling is how we survive, when there's no feed, the story feeds something, it feeds the spirit, the imagination. I can't imagine life without stories, stories from my parents, my culture. Stories from other people's parents, their culture. That's how we learn from each other, it's the best way. That's why literature is so important, it connects us heart to heart.

everybody has a story to tell

Everybody has their story to tell.

It's important for us to tell our stories.

But how could you live and have no story to tell?

I love storytelling. I love stories, and I love the way in which we connect through stories.

At the end of the day, storytelling is actually very simple in its origin as long as there are people who want to tell stories and there are people who want to hear them.

If you put your personal stories out there people always connect.

If stories come to you, care for them. And learn to give them away where they are needed. Sometimes a person needs a story more than food to stay alive.

My story is important not because it is mine, God knows, but because if I tell it anything like right, the chances are you will recognize that in many ways it is also yours.

That’s how people live, by telling stories. What’s the first thing a kid says when he learns how to talk? “Tell me a story.” That’s how we understand who we are, where we come from. Stories are everything.

It's hard to tell what people will do with the word and how they'll be circulating it but I think the storytellers and the stories themselves will always be there.

Stories are the things that allow us to persuade each other that we're human.

I believe sharing stories and experiences is the best way to teach people to empathize!

Stories are made up by people who make them up. If they work, they get retold. There's the magic of it.

Long before writing, people were telling each other stories and the audiobook goes all the way back to that tradition.

The most important thing to realize is that everyone is capable of telling a story.

Story is the language of the heart.

My dad has a great expression. He always says, 'Tell me a fact and I'll learn, tell me the truth and I believe, but tell me a story, and it will live in my heart forever.' Interestingly enough now, my dad's story is going to be in Canton and hopefully that will live forever, too.