Shonda Rhimes Quotes

My name is Bruce Feiler, and I'm an explainaholic. I first heard this word used to describe Isaac Asimov, and I knew instantly that I suffered from the same condition. It's the incurable desire to tell, shape, share, occasionally exaggerate, often elongate, and inevitably bungle a good story.

I've always considered myself, at the end of the day, to be kind of a storyteller.

I know I'm a storyteller at heart, and if there's a platform that needs stories, I'm going be there.

We're all storytellers in this business, and I personally love to sit back and watch someone tell a story. If it's done well, there's nothing like it. It's pure.

I love telling stories, and I'm a born storyteller. That's what I do, and that's what I want to continue to do.

I like storytelling, and I feel more confident as the years have gone on about my ability to do that.

People are interested if you tell stories well and relevantly.

People want to join a great story. If you want to lead, tell one with your life.

Comics are stories; they're like novels or anything else. So the first thing you have to do is become a good storyteller.

Storytelling is the most powerful way to put ideas into the world today.

Leaders use story to author the future.

If you aren't telling a good story, nobody thinks you died too soon; they just think you died.

I like a good story well told. That is the reason I am sometimes forced to tell them myself.

I've always said I have one skill. That skill - if I have it at all - is storytelling.

I love stories - devising them, writing them, reading them, watching them, being a part of them.

I mean, I'm in the business of storytelling, not message making.

In any situation that calls for you to persuade, convince or manage someone or a group of people to do something, the ability to tell a purposeful story will be your secret sauce. Telling to win through purposeful stories is situation, industry, gender, demographic, and psychographic-agnostic. It's an all-purpose, everyone wins tool.

Stories are the single most powerful tool in a leader's toolkit.

It is an ancient need to be told stories. But the story needs a great storyteller. Thanks for all of it, Jo.

I like telling stories.

I think as a kid I always liked to listen to people. I loved hearing stories.

When I was little, I always used to like to tell stories cuz it was entertaining to people.

People love stories. They need stories.

You may not know it now, if you studied communications or engineering, law or medicine, business or classics: you're a storyteller, too.

Those in leadership positions who fail to grasp or use the power of stories risk failure for their companies and for themselves.