Attention Quote by Johan Coetzer

“The way people interpret a situation often says more about them than it does about the situation.”

— Jill Santopolo

“Pay close attention when people tell you stories. At their core, every story you've ever heard comes down to two things. Someone goes on…

— Morgan Matson

“There is a big difference between listening to an interesting story and recognizing an important one.”

— Lyssa Danehy deHart

“What a storyteller does is *see* more than most of us. We say he's making up his stories, but he—or better yet, *she*—watches more…

— Dean Hughes

“There are more people involved in telling a story than the writer.”

— Cecelia Ahern

“Pay less attention to what people say and more attention to what they do”

— A.J. Martinez

“Knowing the story doesn't make it any better. We get what we're given, nothing more, nothing less.”

— Marjorie Celona

“Sometimes you might make up a story and tell it to other people”

— Joy Berry

“It’s less about the things that happen and more about how you react to them.”

— Robert J. Crane

“We all have our own stories. The story you tell about yourself, even if you only tell it to yourself, drives your actions and…

— Mani S. Sivasubramanian

“He only tells the story once but you see it from about 8 points of view, you have to pay attention the whole time…

— Helen DeWitt

“One may learn a great deal about a people by the stories they tell of others.”

— Timothy Zahn