Calvin Niles > Quotes

“It is time you take ownership of your feelings and actions. You can be a cause or you can be an effect—ownership or victimhood.”
― Calvin Niles, The Sun Rises in Eastmoor

“You want her to be the way you want her to be, rather than seeing her the way she is.”
― Calvin Niles, The Sun Rises in Eastmoor

“What will other people think? It reflects the human yearning for belonging versus the imagined harsh reactions of the world. But in reality, people care much less than you think, and that’s the naked truth.”
― Calvin Niles, Mindful Storytelling: A Playbook for Corporate Leaders Who’ve Lost the Narrative Plot

“Not everyone needs to have the rhetorical wizardry of Barack Obama or the wordsmithery of Ernest Hemingway! You just need to be authentic.”
― Calvin Niles, Mindful Storytelling: A Playbook for Corporate Leaders Who’ve Lost the Narrative Plot

“Without the hook, which captures and holds the interest of the audience, your story is irrelevant.​”
― Calvin Niles, Mindful Storytelling: A Playbook for Corporate Leaders Who’ve Lost the Narrative Plot

“Speak your truth and share your story, for you never know the magic that awaits on the other side of authenticity and vulnerability.”
― Calvin Niles, Mindful Storytelling: A Playbook for Corporate Leaders Who’ve Lost the Narrative Plot

“Let yourself feel. You must also allow yourself to grieve. Know that you will move faster through this stage by accepting it.”
― Calvin Niles, The Sun Rises in Eastmoor

“True love is characterized by wishing only the best for her, reflecting the knowledge that what you wish for others you ultimately wish for yourself."​”
― Calvin Niles, The Sun Rises in Eastmoor

“The past is gone, Leo, all you have is now.”
― Calvin Niles, The Sun Rises in Eastmoor

“Your experiences are dictated by your own consciousness. If you start by changing the habit pattern you are in, your experiences will also change.”
― Calvin Niles, The Sun Rises in Eastmoor

“It is not about being the loudest voice in the room; it’s about being the most genuine one.”
― Calvin Niles, Mindful Storytelling: A Playbook for Corporate Leaders Who’ve Lost the Narrative Plot

“Imagine a room of a hundred people huddled around a control panel, doing everything in their power to capture the attention of billions of people at a time. The audience thought it was fiction. But no, it is reality.”
― Calvin Niles, Mindful Storytelling: A Playbook for Corporate Leaders Who’ve Lost the Narrative Plot

“Your message might reach the ears of the audience, barely scratch the surface of their minds, and never get close to their hearts—to what they care about.”
― Calvin Niles, Mindful Storytelling: A Playbook for Corporate Leaders Who’ve Lost the Narrative Plot

“The life cycle of the butterfly is a good example of an analogy for workplace transformation. Its stages of development, the struggle, the growth, and the birth of something completely new!”
― Calvin Niles, Mindful Storytelling: A Playbook for Corporate Leaders Who’ve Lost the Narrative Plot

“A story unfolds over time and often involves characters and events. In the corporate context, they often serve the aim to 'inCITE': connect, inspire, teach, or express.”
― Calvin Niles, Mindful Storytelling: A Playbook for Corporate Leaders Who’ve Lost the Narrative Plot

“Anger is better than apathy. Self-directed anger is self-abuse. Transmutation is the key, and if you are mindful, you will be able to move through these phases of pain even faster.”
― Calvin Niles, The Sun Rises in Eastmoor

“Metaphors introduce symbolic elements that add layers of meaning and depth to how characters feel in any given situation.”
― Calvin Niles, Mindful Storytelling: A Playbook for Corporate Leaders Who’ve Lost the Narrative Plot

“Acknowledging your grief is a good start. Self-honesty, yes, but do not wallow in self-pity, my friend.”
― Calvin Niles, The Sun Rises in Eastmoor

“Your key message is the one thing you want your audience to take away. It is what you want to convey and how it is understood by your audience.”
― Calvin Niles, Mindful Storytelling: A Playbook for Corporate Leaders Who’ve Lost the Narrative Plot

“Love is the beginning and the end, the all-knowing, all-healing, and the freeing essence. It can transcend all boundaries and ills if you let it.”
― Calvin Niles, The Sun Rises in Eastmoor

“True love is characterized by the absence of ulterior motives. There is no secret diary or records to refer to in future arguments.”
― Calvin Niles, The Sun Rises in Eastmoor

“When your partner says 'I love you' 24 times per day but never does anything for you, 'show, don’t tell' becomes a very easy concept to grasp.”
― Calvin Niles

“Emotions are normal and constantly in a state of flux. See them as energy in motion—it will serve you well.”
― Calvin Niles, The Sun Rises in Eastmoor

“You must go towards forgiveness, compassion, and love. That is what Killaby is all about, my friend. That is why you are here.”
― Calvin Niles, The Sun Rises in Eastmoor

“Energy can neither be created nor destroyed, only transformed. If you don’t let this energy flow through you, it will turn into disease.”
― Calvin Niles, The Sun Rises in Eastmoor

“True love is independent of your needs. True love has no conditions.”
― Calvin Niles, The Sun Rises in Eastmoor

“Hope is like a beacon in the darkness. It stands like a lighthouse, guiding lost ships toward safe shores.”
― Calvin Niles, Mindful Storytelling: A Playbook for Corporate Leaders Who’ve Lost the Narrative Plot

“Recognize that love in that instance is conditional. If your love depends upon that person meeting your expectation, then it is not true love.”
― Calvin Niles

“Does it make you feel good to play the victim? Where is the pay-off? You must be getting some satisfaction from playing this role to cling to it this way.”
― Calvin Niles, The Sun Rises in Eastmoor

“The obvious danger for most corporate storytellers is that they see themselves as needing to cast spells of persuasion and enchantment with every phrase.”
― Calvin Niles, Mindful Storytelling: A Playbook for Corporate Leaders Who’ve Lost the Narrative Plot