„I do believe in the power of story. I believe that stories have an important role to play in the formation of human beings, that they can stimulate, amaze and inspire their listeners.“

„I am Tessa Gray,” she said in a low, clear voice. “And I believe in the importance of stories.“

—  Cassandra Clare American author 1973

Quelle: The Whitechapel Fiend

„People tell stories and it's up to those who listen whether to believe or not."

"Shouldn't the storyteller believe it."

"The storyteller should tell it.“

—  Cecelia Ahern Irish novelist 1981

Quelle: The Gift

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

—  Francesca Lia Block American children's writer 1962

Quelle: Baby Be-Bop

„I have been surprised, excited and pleasantly shocked by these comics that are extensions of the songs that I have loved and therefore welcome these amazing stories of pictures and words because they are uncompromisingly inspiring. It shows you thought is a powerful, formidable essence and can have a breathtaking domino effect.“

—  Tori Amos American singer 1963

On Comic Book Tattoo, http://www.toriamos.com/main_comic.asp

„I believe in standardizing automobiles. I do not believe in standardizing human beings.“

—  Albert Einstein German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity 1879 - 1955

1920s, Viereck interview (1929)
Kontext: But to return to the Jewish question. Other groups and nations cultivate their individual traditions. There is no reason why we should sacrifice ours. Standardization robs life of its spice. To deprive every ethnic group of its special traditions is to convert the world into a huge Ford plant. I believe in standardizing automobiles. I do not believe in standardizing human beings. Standardization is a great peril which threatens American culture.

„By telling you anything at all I'm at least believing in you, I believe you're there, I believe you into being. Because I'm telling you this story I will your existence. I tell, therefore you are.“

—  Margaret Atwood, buch Der Report der Magd

Quelle: The Handmaid’s Tale (1985), Chapter 41 (p. 268)
Quelle: The Handmaid's Tale

„Stories are the most important thing in the world. Without stories, we wouldn't be human beings at all.“

—  Philip Pullman English author 1946

„I don't believe you on the 'Jimmy' story. No, I don't, and I'm going to prove it if it's the last thing I do.“

—  Bob Woodward American journalist 1943

Post Reporter's Pulitzer Prize Is Withdrawn; Pulitzer Board Withdraws Post Reporter's Prize (19 April 1981)

„I believe it, Chronicler found himself thinking. Before it was just a story, but now I can believe it. This is the face of a man who has killed an angel.“

—  Patrick Rothfuss, buch Der Name des Windes

Quelle: The Name of the Wind

„What is amazing about the story is that the most fantastic things that occur, that people most don't believe, are absolutely true“

—  Graham Moore (writer) screenwriter 1981

like the Soviet mole that they allowed to operate within British war intelligence — that was all true. … We condensed the timeline, essentially. The process of breaking the code was enormously complicated in real life. So one of things we wanted to do was open up Turing's story to the audience and make a film about these complicated topics, but at the same time create a narrative that the audience understands, without insulting their intelligence. But the on a broad conceptual level, everything is true.
As quoted in "Interview: Morten Tyldum, Graham Moore of The Imitation Game" by PatrickMcD at Hollywood Chicago (11 December 2014)

„I believe there are hundreds and thousands of stories just waiting to be written by organizations and companies who have leaders that inspire people to accomplish things that seem impossible. The only way that can happen, though, is if the leader believes it is possible—has even a mustard seed of faith—and can convince his people that the seemingly impossible is indeed possible.“

—  Don Soderquist 1934 - 2016

Don Soderquist “ The Wal-Mart Way: The Inside Story of the Success of the World's Largest Company https://books.google.com/books?id=mIxwVLXdyjQC&lpg=PR9&dq=Don%20Soderquist&pg=PR9#v=onepage&q=Don%20Soderquist&f=false, Thomas Nelson, April 2005, p. 106.
On Leading Well

„I change my story by changing what I believe about myself.“

—  Miguel Ángel Ruiz Mexican writer and philosopher 1952

Facebook remarks (21 April 2011) http://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=10150164249167771&id=46678187770
Kontext: I change my story by changing what I believe about myself. When I clean up the lies I believe about myself, the lies I believe about other people change. Every time I change myself, my whole story changes to adapt to the new main character.

„I do not believe that any democrat can successfully ride that tiger. But I do believe in the necessity of great powers working together to preserve the human race, or otherwise we can be destroyed.“

—  John F. Kennedy 35th president of the United States of America 1917 - 1963

1963, Address at the Free University of Berlin
Kontext: As I said this morning, I am not impressed by the opportunities open to popular fronts throughout the world. I do not believe that any democrat can successfully ride that tiger. But I do believe in the necessity of great powers working together to preserve the human race, or otherwise we can be destroyed.

„I believe that music can be an inspirational force in all our lives — that its eloquence and the depth of its meaning are all-important“

—  Leopold Stokowski British conductor 1882 - 1977

Music For All Of Us (1943); also quoted as "...Music can be all things to all persons... "
Kontext: I believe that music can be an inspirational force in all our lives — that its eloquence and the depth of its meaning are all-important, and that all personal considerations concerning musicians and the public are relatively unimportant — that music come from the heart and returns to the heart — that music is spontaneous, impulsive expression — that its range is without limit — that music is forever growing — that music can be one element to help us build a new conception of life in which the madness and cruelty of wars will be replaced by a simple understanding of the brotherhood of man.
Music can be all things to all men. It is like a great dynamic sun in the center of a solar system which sends out its rays and inspiration in every direction. … It is as if the heavens open and a divine voice calls. Something in our souls responds and understands. We are speaking here of the most inspired music.

„Dad? Um, listen. I have kind of a crazy story for you….“

—  Sarah Mlynowski Novelist 1977

Quelle: Ten Things We Did

„I don't have labels. I believe in human beings, I believe in a strong national security, I believe in maximizing freedom…“

—  Wesley Clark American general and former Democratic Party presidential candidate 1944

Interview with Laura Knoy, New Hampshire Public Radio (5 November 2003)
Kontext: I don't have labels. I believe in human beings, I believe in a strong national security, I believe in maximizing freedom... I can give you a whole list of things i'm for, but I believe in solving problems. I guess, more than anything else, I'm a pragmatist with strong beliefs in people.

„Many stories matter. Stories have been used to dispossess and to malign. But stories can also be used to empower, and to humanize. Stories can break the dignity of a people. But stories can also repair that broken dignity.“

—  Chi­ma­man­da Ngo­zi Adi­chie Nigerian writer 1977

Quelle: https://www.globalcitizen.org/en/content/15-quotes-from-chimamanda-adichie-that-have-change/

„You have to say I am forgiven again and again until it becomes the story you believe about yourself.“

—  Cheryl Strayed, buch Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar

Quelle: Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar

„...And I have seen stranger things in a long and colorful career. Exactly. So what is the problem in believing my story?“

—  Roger Zelazny, buch Roadmarks

“You’ve nothing to back it up with. Even if you’re right, I’m still right in not believing without evidence.”

Chapter 28 (p. 172)
Roadmarks (1979)