If you do, I won't go. Productivity depends on trust. Keep a file of stories you like. They can be serious or humorous. They can be newspaper items.
Statistics are figures, which show relationships among phenomena.
Statistics pull together a great number of examples so that many individual items can be dealt with as a collective whole. In the magazine Science , it was reported last year nearly 45,000 people died in auto collisions, the equivalent of a fully loaded passenger jet crashing with no survivors every day for a year. If everyone wore seat belts, more than half of these deaths could have been avoided. Notice the imagery used in conjunction with the statistics. If properly assembled and presented, statistics can be powerful devices.