Maybe stories are just data with a soul.
~ Brené Brown
Are you using stories to make your data more attractive and effective?
True eloquence consists in saying all that should be said, and that only.
-La Rochefoucauld
“Of all kinds of success, that of an orator is the most pleasing.”
-- Oliver Goldsmith
Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.”
Winston Churchill
A speech is poetry: cadence, rhythm, imagery, sweep! A speech reminds us that words, like children, have the power to make dance the dullest beanbag of a heart.
~Peggy Noonan
It's quite simple. Say what you have to say and when you come to a sentence with a grammatical ending, sit down”
Winston Churchill
"If you want me to speak for an hour, I am ready today. If you want me to speak for just a few minutes, it will take me a few weeks to prepare."
Mark Twain
"He who wants to persuade should put his trust not in the right argument, but in the right word. The power of sound has always been greater than the power of sense."
- Joseph Conrad
Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either.
Gore Vidal
To be a person is to have a story to tell.
-Isak Dinesen