#story

Whether things turn out for the better depends on what we do. We ought not spend our time masterminding the future, but recognize our marching orders: to do the best we can for history and the planet. ↗

— Huston Smith

#better #depends #future #history #marching

Finding good players is easy. Getting them to play as a team is another story. ↗

— Casey Stengel

#easy #finding #getting #good #play

The longer the president goes without telling his side of the story, the more unease there will be in the public. ↗

— George Stephanopoulos

#his #longer #more #president #public

For the novels I wrote before selling anything, I didn't outline much. I had a vague idea of the story. ↗

— George Stephen

#before #had #i #idea #much

The benefit of this kind of outlining is that you discover a story's flaws before you invest a lot of time writing the first draft, and it's almost impossible to get stuck at a difficult chapter, because you've already done the work to push through those kinds of blocks. ↗

— George Stephen

#already #because #before #benefit #blocks

Lessons of wisdom have the most power over us when they capture the heart through the groundwork of a story, which engages the passions. ↗

— Laurence Sterne

#engages #groundwork #heart #lessons #most

I am confident that, in the end, common sense and justice will prevail. I'm an optimist, brought up on the belief that if you wait to the end of the story, you get to see the good people live happily ever after. ↗

— Cat Stevens

#am #belief #brought #common #common sense

But I've always felt that the less you know about an actor's personal life, the more you can get involved in the story in which he's playing a character. And I don't like to see movies where you know about everything that happens behind the scenes. I can't engage in the story if I know what's going on in the actor's head. ↗

— Eric Stoltz

#actor #always #behind #character #engage

I can relate to historical characters or imaginary ones. It doesn't matter if a story takes place in the future or in the present, as long as the story is compelling. ↗

— Eric Stoltz

#compelling #future #historical #i #i can

I did a film called 'Fort McCoy,' based on a true story of one of the few internment camps during WWII that was actually in the United States. ↗

— Eric Stoltz

#based #called #camps #did #during