Compelling Quotes

• Wanting something is not enough. You must hunger for it. Your motivation must be absolutely compelling in order to overcome the obstacles that will invariably come your way.

  Les Brown

  Motivational, Order, Overcoming

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• I believe in the compelling power of love. I do not understand it. I believe it to be the most fragrant blossom of all this thorny existence.

  Theodore Dreiser

  Love, Believe, Existence

  Theodore Dreiser (1977). “Theodore Dreiser: a selection of uncollected prose”, Wayne State Univ Pr

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• I will appoint captains to rule my cities, for it is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Life, Creativity, Adventure

  "Citadelle". Book by Antoine de Saint-Exupery, 1948.

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• Within each such social group, a feeling of solidarity prevails, a compelling need to work together and a joy in doing so that represent a high moral value.

  Christian Lous Lange

  Joy, Feelings, Together

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• The paradox of Reality is that no image is as compelling as the one which exists only in the mind's eye.

  Shana Alexander

  Eye, Reality, Mind

  Shana Alexander (1976). “Talking woman”

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• Our faith is stronger than death, our philosophy is firmer than flesh, and the spread of the Kingdom of God upon the earth is more sublime and more compelling.

  Dorothy Day

  Philosophy, Sublime, Stronger

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• Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies; but the compelling force of all times has been the force of originality and creation profoundly affecting the roots of human spirit.

  Ansel Adams

  Fighting, Destiny, Men

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• Compelling reason will never convince blinding emotion.

  Richard Bach

  Compelling Reason, Emotion, Convince

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• A woman's life can really be a succession of lives, each revolving around some emotionally compelling situation or challenge, and each marked off by some intense experience.

  Wallis Simpson

  Challenges, Experience, Intense

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• The most compelling reason for most people to buy a computer for the home will be to link it to a nationwide communications network. We're just in the beginning stages of what will be a truly remarkable breakthrough for most people - as remarkable as the telephone.

  Steve Jobs

  Communication, Home, Compelling Reason

  "Playboy Interview: Steve Jobs". Interview With David Sheff, reprints.longform.org. February 1985.

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• 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

  People, Suffering, Stories

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• In and after 1964 when I began to concern myself with the biological issues, and particularly from 1967 onwards, the extent of the problems over which I felt uneasy increased to such a point that in 1968 I felt a compelling urge to make my views public.

  Andrei Sakharov

  Views, Issues, Problem

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• President Bush's proposal to focus our resources on sending humans to Mars is intriguing, but it is not the most compelling reason that Americans ought to focus our interest on the Red Planet.

  Jay Inslee

  Compelling Reason, Focus, President

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• There was something to me that was really compelling about that woman, already knowing she couldn't get pregnant. When I made that movie I was maybe 24, and to be 24 and already know you can't get pregnant, that was really interesting to me.

  Maggie Gyllenhaal

  Pregnancy, Knowing, Interesting

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• Scientists often have a naive faith that if only they could discover enough facts about a problem, these facts would somehow arrange themselves in a compelling and true solution.

  Theodosius Dobzhansky

  Faith, Science, Naivety

  Theodosius Dobzhansky (1962). “Mankind Evolving: The Evolustion of the Human Species”

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• If you have some magical chemistry that actually find the music you make compelling, that is a big bonus.

  Geddy Lee

  Bonus, Chemistry, Bigs

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• An actress who has the gift of swaying the emotions of an audience, of compelling tribute of tears, or of moving the public to joyous merriment, cannot always be satisfied to set aside her whole career, in the work that she loves, simply because she is married.

  Billie Burke

  Moving, Careers, Tears

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• With such compelling information, the question is why havent we been able to do more to prevent the crisis of underage drinking? The answer is: the alcohol industry.

  Lucille Roybal-Allard

  Drinking, Alcohol, Answers

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• The Olympics remain the most compelling search for excellence that exists in sport, and maybe in life itself.

  Dawn Fraser

  Sports, Excellence, Olympic Spirit

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• If diversity is what is a central value in every selective university in the United States, then it ought to be seen as a compelling interest by the Supreme Court.

  Eleanor Holmes Norton

  Diversity, United States, Court

  "Is affirmative action necessary?", www.cnn.com. December 5, 2002.

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• Thinking has become a superfluous exercise... purely internal, without compelling force, more or less a game.

  Jacques Ellul

  Exercise, Thinking, Games

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• It is quite clear that compelling content, which is made available on economic terms that respect the intellectual rights of owners, can be a tremendous spur to the growth of broadband networks.

  John Doerr

  Rights, Intellectual, Growth

  "Tech leaders: Feds should push broadband" by Patrick Thibodeau, www.cnn.com. January 17, 2002.

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• If the story's interesting and it's a compelling script, I'd be thrilled to be a part of it.

  Andre Braugher

  Interesting, Stories, Scripts

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• I look at life, the experiences I've had, at the human condition, the dynamics between people, the news (world news), and draw from the compelling realities all around us.

  Leslie Banks

  Reality, People, World News

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• Reason gains all people by compelling none.

  Aaron Hill

  People, Gains, Reason

  "Alzira: A Tragedy". Play by Aaron Hill, 1736.

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