Stakes Quotes - page 4

When you're starting out as an actor, you keep raising the stakes. First, you just want to be a character who comes on stage and gets a laugh or two and exits. Just five minutes on a stage, not even Broadway. But every time you say your little prayer at night, you place more demands. (Charles Kimbrough)
Ultimately, leadership is not about glorious crowning acts. It's about keeping your team focused on a goal and motivated to do their best to achieve it, especially when the stakes are high and the consequences really matter. It is about laying the groundwork for others' success, and then standing back and letting them shine. View quote
Chris Hadfield
I guess I'm attracted and repelled by isolation. It scares me. And it's why I tend to write about older characters, too, because for them the stakes are somewhat higher. View quote
Conor McPherson
Arts and crafts, or getting to be in a play with people, or making a little short film, that's pure sugar, because the stakes are so low. View quote
David Rakoff
The trick to making a story matter is that every now and then, somebody you care about has to go. If it's somebody that you don't care about, then it doesn't really have - the stakes aren't there. But if you do that every now and then, then the story matters to people. And there are actual stakes involved, emotional stakes. View quote
David Simon
I think all villains have something in common: they have something that they need or want very, very badly. The stakes are very high and they are not bound by moral codes or being ethical, so they can do anything and will do anything to get what they want. View quote
Donna Murphy
I think that I have less conviction than ever that poetry matters - that poetry changes or saves anything or anyone. But, in fact, that's tremendously freeing. If it doesn't matter much, the stakes are lower and you can't really fail. It's insurrection. It's a tiny alphabet revolution. A secret. A psalm. View quote
Daphne Gottlieb
It was my proudest moment as a manager when England drew 0-0 with Italy in Rome to qualify for the World Cup finals. Fifteen years later, the stakes are equally high for both countries as they go head-to-head for a semi-final place at the European Championship. View quote
Glenn Hoddle
Every congresswoman surely endures the same strains that drive some of her male colleagues to have affairs: lots of travel, families far away, heady work that makes a domestic routine seem distant and boring. But the stakes are much higher for women, because they are still judged by a different standard. View quote
Hanna Rosin
Cancer is such a wake-up call to remind us how high the cosmic stakes really are and how short and brief and frail life really is. View quote
Joni Eareckson Tada
Rodents can come across as being quite vacant in the personality stakes. (Julian Clary)
Baseball is a little bigger gamble than most, and the stakes are pretty high. View quote
Jacob Ruppert
The emotional stakes a memoirist bets with could not be higher, and it's physically enervating. I nap on a daily basis like a cross-country trucker. View quote
Mary Karr
Software-industry battles are fought by highly paid and out-of-shape nerds furiously pounding computer keyboards while they guzzle diet Coke. The stakes aren't very dramatic. Life? Liberty? The pursuit of happiness? Nope, it's about stock options. View quote
Nathan Myhrvold
Power and wealth are not two of my main stakes. View quote
Ratan Tata
I like to approach comedy from character, to have the stakes for the individuals in the story be very high. View quote
Seth Gordon
I've pretty much given up on the orange. I really have. I just don't even bother. It's just either sour, or woody, or the skin's too thick. It's very nice when you come across the perfect orange, because it's really a beautiful experience. But the stakes are too high. View quote
Scott Thompson
I think when I started to write The Mysterious Benedict Society that I had that kind of thing in mind - the notion of having to be able to solve puzzles and riddles because enormous stakes rode upon your ability to do that. View quote
Trenton Lee Stewart
Responsibility for overseeing the implementation of election law typically resides with partisan officials, many with public stakes in the election outcome. View quote
Thomas E. Mann
With the parties at virtual parity and the ideological gulf between them never greater, the stakes of majority control of Congress are extremely high. View quote
Thomas E. Mann
The stakes are very high for us in Haiti. We have many important interests there. Perhaps the most important to me is our interest in the promotion of democracy in this hemisphere. (Warren Christopher)
The challenge is high. The stakes are important. I think it's manageable. View quote
William Hedgcock Webster
The stuff that I find really intriguing is always how do ordinary people behave in extraordinary circumstances. And that's why we have a lot of cop shows and lawyer shows and medical shows is that you're looking for situations that just always heighten the stakes. View quote
Zeljko Ivanek
Young trees need stakes to support them, but the stakes must be removed once the trees begin to grow, precisely so not to hinder their growth. View quote
Leopold II of Belgium
Nico Perrone, The Strategic Stakes in Mattei's Flight, in EIR, Vol. 20, No. 23, Washington, DC, June 11, 1993 ISSN 0273-6314. View quote
Nico Perrone