Peter Guber Quotes

Stories are verbal acts of hospitality.

It's important to tell your story. It's important to listen.

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

To share our stories is not only a worthwhile endeavor for the storyteller, but for those who hear our stories and feel less alone because of it.

The real business of life is trying to understand each other.

Partnerships are good engines for narrative.

One of the key qualities of all stories is that they are made to be shared.

Anyway, stories bring us together to find common ground, to find our way through life together, or just to entertain us, and I am just thrilled to be a part of that process.

My only job is to write in such a way that the reader gets a new handle on humanity.

I love sharing my stories and experiences with people and connecting to them on both a humorous and emotional level.

The longer you stand with people, the better it becomes.

People can transcend and overcome their differences and be very easily bonded.

I'm trying to make connections. That's all we do as human beings on the planet, isn't it? We try to connect.

Telling your story is transformative. For both the storyteller and their audience, a new bridge to understanding is created.

Because you know what happens when you say 'hello' or 'good morning?' You make a connection. And isn't that what being human is all about?

The music is really about sharing an experience. That's why we call it Stay Human. It's like we're sharing this genuine human exchange.

No story lives unless someone wants to listen. So thank you, all of you.

I suppose there will never be a lack of things to say, of stories to be told and shared.

Tell them stories. They need the truth you must tell them true stories, and everything will be well, just tell them stories.

You have to understand, my dears, that the shortest distance between truth and a human being is a story.

The purpose of fiction is to combat loneliness.

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

Fiction is a particularly effective way for strangers to connect across time and distance

Pretty much always. We need to tell the story of our life to someone.

There was no short answer to this; like so much else, it was a long story. But what really makes any story real is knowing someone will hear it. And understand.