About Quote by Mona Simpson

What a director does... essentially, it's storytelling, but a director also controls the feeling and the sounds and the texture. It's an act of…

— John Carpenter

There have been many people whom I have admired, emulated and even modeled parts of my life after. I study how they do things,…

— Jack Canfield

“Nobody wants a sales pitch. So instead of trying a hard sell, focus on telling a story that captivates your audience by painting a…

— Ziad K. Abdelnour

In 6,000 years of storytelling, [people have] gone from depicting hunting on cave walls to depicting Shakespeare on Facebook walls.

— Joe Sabia

“Fiction is very, very important," he said, his voice is rising. "Storytelling is how people learn. You get people to understand new cultures and…

— Kristine Grayson

The resilience of narrative storytelling and people's love affair with television is impressive.

— Kevin Reilly

It's often lost in most Silicon Valley startups, the importance of storytelling when most people are thinking about they assemble their team and the…

— Brock Pierce

One of the most intriguing things in management and in business is the role of storytelling - people need the anecdotes to do the…

— Anita Roddick

I feel, in storytelling, people are so afraid that you won't get it unless you pound them over the head.

— David Harbour

The thing that's interesting about storytelling is people will say, "How do I write a movie I can get sold in this category?" For…

— Joan Tewkesbury

First of all, I don't dislike direct storytelling - people seem to think that about my games! Actually, the truth is, I'm just not…

— Hidetaka Miyazaki

I don't have answers for anybody else. What I know is that internal complexity makes for superficiality. There's never essentially a pure story unless…

— Barry Diller

Anybody who is an entrepreneur is a person who essentially has impaired judgment. The odds of success are zilch.

— Tom Peters

Say to yourself: 'Living essentially to please others is a monumental mistake.'

— George Robinson

I guess because we're essentially a two-man band, we're attracting Wham's crowd. But Wham! are more of a businessman's band.

— Curt Smith