Compelling Quotes
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The question of likability is a bit of a puzzler for me. You know, I don't write people with likability in mind. It's more whether or not I find them compelling.
Patrick deWitt -
I love discovering compelling new ideas and doing what I can to help spread the word about them.
Adam Grant
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Find something that you love to do, and find a place that you really like to do it in. I found something I loved to do. I'm a mechanical engineer by training, and I loved it. I still do. My son is a nuclear engineer at MIT, a junior, and I get the same vibe from him. Your work has to be compelling. You spend a lot of time doing it.
Ursula Burns -
The most compelling narrative, expressed in sentences with which I have no chemical reaction, or an adverse one, leaves me cold.
Jhumpa Lahiri -
Let the good in me connect with the good in others, until all the world is transformed through the compelling power of love.
Nachman of Breslov -
Sometimes you’re loved because of your weaknesses. What you can’t do is sometimes more compelling than what you can.
Melissa Bank -
Diane Cluck is a virtuosic talent with an emotionality that feels at once ancient and alien. Her mastery of her voice as an ecstatic instrument is so compelling.
Antony Hegarty Antony and the Johnsons -
The experience of being understood, versus interpreted, is so compelling you can charge admission.
B. Joseph Pine II
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I think that one of the compelling themes of fiction is this confrontation between good and evil.
William Styron -
When you go into a country like Libya where a large chunk of the population wants the old regime back you could end up with a protracted civil war. That we're now in a stalemate was both entirely predictable, and predicted. That we're now relying on drones is disturbing. How vital can a cause be if we're not willing to risk American lives to defend it, and instead use robots and remote control operators? It gets me back to the larger feeling about the intervention - there's just not a compelling reason for us to be involved.
Michael Hastings -
That's to me what always is compelling about villains. I am much more interested in how they think than in what they even do.
Scott Derrickson -
It's interesting because I don't ever want to ask a better question than I can answer, if that makes sense. I find that frustrating as a viewer. Compelling questions, while not easy, are easier than compelling answers.
Shane Carruth -
I think the idea of having a game based on reality is compelling right off the bat because everyone has some experience with the subject of the game.
Will Wright -
There is nothing more compelling than another person.
Deke Sharon Tufts Beelzebubs
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Mankind are greater gainers by suffering each other to live as seems good to themselves, than by compelling each to live as seems good to the rest.
John Stuart Mill -
Mental disorders don't really live 'out there' waiting to be explained. They are constructs we have made up - and often not very compelling ones.
Allen Frances -
Stories surge up out of nowhere, and if they feel compelling, you follow them. You let them unfold inside you and see where they are going to lead.
Paul Auster -
The purpose of an elevator pitch is to describe a situation or solution so compelling that the person you're with wants to hear more even after the elevator ride is over.
Seth Godin -
He was not hip-hop's most gifted emcee. Still, Shakur may be the most influential and compelling rapper of them all, he was more than the sum of his artistic parts.
Michael Eric Dyson -
It's much easier to spend a lot of time making your microphone louder than it is working on making your message more compelling.
Seth Godin
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Loneliness is the most compelling force in the universe.
Cass McCombs -
Viewing our planet was so compelling. Words like beautiful and awesome just don't do it justice. I felt that I was looking at a paradise. I was looking at heaven. I can't imagine any place being more beautiful than our planet and how lucky we are to be able to live here.
Michael J. Massimino -
A lot of compelling stories in the world aren't being told, and the fact that people don't know about them compounds the suffering.
Anderson Cooper -
The thing about the banjo is when you first hear it, it strikes many people as what's that? There's something very compelling about it to certain people.
Steve Martin