Quotes about Narrative

Unless we identify something our customer wants, they will never feel invited into the story we are telling.

It's the crossing of that distance that makes the story work.

And I found myself wanting even better stories. And that's the thing you'll realize when you organize your life into the structure of story.

What your customer really wants is to be invited into a story. And your explanatory paragraph is going to accomplish exactly that.

Brands that position themselves as heroes unknowingly compete with their potential customers. Every human being wakes up each morning and sees the world through the lens of a protagonist. Regardless, the world revolves around us.

What else changes a person but the living of a story? And what is a story but the wanting for something difficult and the willingness to work for it?

The most powerful tool we can use to organize information so people don't have to burn very many calories is story.

People will always choose a story that helps them survive and thrive.

Remember that your life is a story. Why not write your own ending-and then make it happen.

Luke thus provides the last part of the prophetic pattern, that of rejection by the people. As Simeon foretold, this will be worked out in the subsequent narrative in terms of a division within Israel between those who do and those who do not accept this prophet. But this ominous opening already suggests a reason why many Jews later on in Acts reject the Gospel, precisely because it is meant for all (cf. e.g., Acts 13:44—52).

If we don't open up a way to process our disappointments, we'll be tempted to let Satan rewrite God's love story as a negative narrative, leaving us more than slightly suspicious of our Creator.

We must let God's Word become the words we believe and receive as truth. We must let God's Word become the words of our story.