Quotes About Conflict

When we watch the news, we grieve all of this, but when we go to the movies, we want more of it. Somehow we realize that great stories are told in conflict, but we are unwilling to embrace the potential greatness of the story we are actually in. We think God is unjust, rather than a master storyteller.

La narrativa que sale de una empresa (y, de hecho, también la que circula internamente por ella) debe ser clara. En una historia, el público debe saber en todo momento quién es el héroe, lo que quiere el héroe, a quién tiene que derrotar el héroe para conseguir lo que quiere, la tragedia que se producirá si el héroe no gana y el acontecimiento maravilloso que se producirá en caso contrario.

I knew all about story at this point, about how you have to create a character who wants something and overcomes conflict to get it.

The problem is the hook. If a story doesn't have a problem, the story never gets started.

What you were really waiting for was for something to challenge the protagonist.

Stories live and die on a single question: What's at stake? If nothing can be gained or lost, nobody cares.

The reason stories have dramatic tension is because LIFE has dramatic tension.

This is the Failure section. Stories love tension. A story without stakes is no story at all. For example, let me tell you a story and you try to figure out how we can make the story a little better:

A story that fails to get started always has the same problem: there is no conflict!

In fact, most stories start with a character who wants something followed by a scene in which an enormous challenge is placed between where the character is and what the character wants.

A story doesn't really pick up until the hero needs to disarm a bomb, win someone's heart, defeat a villain, or fight for their emotional or physical survival.

The answer is no, at least not yet. Until we've defined a specific desire and become known for helping people achieve it, we shouldn't add too many conflicting story gaps to our StoryBrand BrandScript.

We don't bring up the negative stakes enough and so the story we're telling falls flat. Remember, if there are no stakes, there is no story.

When we're waiting for a story get started, we're really waiting for a problem the hero has to overcome. We're waiting for something tough or difficult or scary or painful to happen.

At our workshops, I teach that in a story there must always be pain and conflict, and yet when we talk about painful things in our marketing it can feel a little heavy. But don't be tricked into telling a boring story.

Heroes need to be challenged by outside forces.

Secretary of the treasury Albert Gallatin is accused of treason by war enthusiasts merely for suggesting budget adjustments to pay for war measures.

Stalin had always found Gorky unreliable; he had crossed swords with him in 1917, calling his protests "geese cackling in intellectual marshes

bad feelings to you personally or the GPU as an institution....

I'm going to build a great, big, and beautiful wall. I'm going to make Rick Riordan pay for it. Those stupid dorki-gods will pay.

Brunetti didn't like knowing that she was right.

Chiara," he said, speaking very softly, "your mother is a troublemaker, a malcontent, and an agitator.

War? One can lose oneself in the joy of battle, in fighting for a glorious cause, but there are not many glorious causes for which to fight these days.

Um, we don't hit women in America." He scowled, and spit out an apple seed. "No. Americans just persecute smaller countries that believe different from them.