Quotes About Stakes

To do this, we must define the stakes. What's at stake in the customer's story if they do or do not choose to do business with us? If we've not defined the stakes, we've not made the story interesting.

What's at stake? If nothing can be gained or lost, nobody cares. Will the hero disarm the bomb, or will people be killed? Will the guy get the girl, or will he be lonely and filled with self-doubt? These are the kinds of questions in the minds of a story-hungry audience.

Here are some example headlines that work great: "Our customers no longer struggle with . . ." "You don't have to be confused anymore." "The stakes are high!" "Act now and avoid the hassles." "Our heart breaks when we see people struggle with . . .

Most of us struggle with the opposite. 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.

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:

If a storyteller doesn't clearly let an audience know what no-good, terrible, awful thing might befall their hero unless she overcomes her challenge, the story will have no stakes, and a story without stakes is boring.

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.

Why? Because story is a trustworthy guide. And if there are not stakes in a story, there is no story.

After all, the purpose of negative stakes in a story is to contrast with the happy ending we all want to experience.

When CEOs become vampires, Congress outlaws stakes.

When you're dealing with the world of dreams, the psyche, and potential of a human mind, there has to be emotional stakes. You have to deal with issues of memory and desire.

The anonymous1 author wrote, "Wherefore play the game of life warily, for your opponent is full of subtlety, and take abundant thought over your moves, for the stake is your soul.

I think it's one of the main negative emotional ingredients that fuels show business, because there's so much at stake and the fear of failure looms large.

Never gamble, what you can't afford to lose.

When we are fighting for huge stakes - we're fighting for the future - future of the planet in terms of climate change. We're fighting for the future of American democracy.

You cannot love without accepting that there is always a chance of loss or hurt. This is exactly what makes love so powerful, its like playing poker, the stakes are high, and so the reward is higher.

One thing vampire children have to be taught early on is, don't run with wooden stakes.

Twenty-six billion dollars of fraud: no felony cases. But when the stakes are in the hundreds of dollars, we kick in 26,000 doors a year, in just one county.

Part 2: Answer These Questions. Fiction: What is the Big Problem or central conflict? Who are the main characters? What are their goals, their mission? What are they trying to accomplish? What is the catalyst/presenting problem? Who or what are the biggest obstacles the main character has to face? What is at stake?

Gambling is legal and betting is legal, for what I bet.

War is a lottery in which nations ought to risk nothing but small amounts.

The fish might well have disappeared already, but Brody wasn't willing to gamble lives on the possibility: the odds might be good, but the stakes were prohibitively high.

odds might be good, but the stakes were prohibitively high. He

Balzac knew intuitively the need for invented persons to represent life for us, with an enhanced sense of the odds and stakes of life. Representation for Balzac always touched on the theatrical, offering life bathed in starker, more revealing light.