Compelling Quotes - Page 11

• All we really want in life is to connect to other human beings, and when you desperately want to connect physically to one specific human being and you can't? That's something I find compelling.

  Lynn Shelton

  Want, Life Is, Humans

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• I'd listen to things that felt really good in the moment and realize they were clouded by enthusiasm or caffeine. And things that I was struggling to get out ended up being really compelling. It's an emotional roller coaster; there's exhilaration and there's shame.

  Annie E. Clark

  Struggle, Emotional, Being Real

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• It was about the compelling need to make countries get along to prevent war, in contrast with the totally petty and selfish bullshit that drives the individuals who are supposedly in charge of these countries. It's hard to believe that these self-centered people have nuclear weapons that they can fire at any moment.

  Jay Roach

  Country, Selfish, War

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• Not an easy story but an important one. Compelling, powerful and engaging.

  Eric Walters

  Powerful, Important, Stories

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• Those who deny human-caused climate change offer no compelling evidence to better explain the undeniable rise in atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases and global temperature.

  Alan Lowenthal

  Temperature, Climate, Deny

  "Climate Change: Case Closed" by Rep. Alan Lowenthal, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 25, 2014.

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• 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

  Waiting, Made, Disorder

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• Prose of the World is an enormously compelling and vivid study. The result is an ambitious, timely, and eloquent account of the relationship between early-twentieth-century fiction and the contemporary global novel in English.

  Rebecca L. Walkowitz

  Ambitious, Vivid, Fiction

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• I feel it's part of my job to make the problems of the poor compelling.

  Paul Farmer

  Jobs, Problem, Poor

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• Some memories come with a very compelling sense of truth about them. And that happens to be the case even with memories that are not true.

  Daniel Kahneman

  Memories, Cases, Happens

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• Together, these advocates create a pro-Israeli case so compelling that the idea and reality of Israel has worked itself deep into American culture, politics and foreign policy. Many American Jews refuse to accept it, but the real debate between Israel’s supporters and detractors in America is all but over.

  Aaron David Miller

  Real, Ideas, America

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• Mr. Kaplan is the first traveler to take us on a journey to the jagged places where these tectonic plates meet, and his argument--that our future is being shaped far away 'at the ends of the earth'--makes his travelogue pertinent and compelling reading.

  Michael Ignatieff

  Reading, Journey, Earth

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• The wildest ride in modern crime novel exoticum. A novel so steeped in milieu that it feels as if you've blasted to mars in the grip of a demon who won't let you go. Read this book, savor the language-it's the last-and the most compelling word in thrillers.

  James Ellroy

  Book, Crime Novels, Mars

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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. Im 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

  Son, Training, Nuclear

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• History or custom or social utility or some compelling sense of justice or sometimes perhaps a semi-intuitive apprehension of the pervading spirit of our law must come to the rescue of the anxious judge and tell him where to go.

  Benjamin Cardozo

  Law, Justice, Judging

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• People ask me all the time how I prepare and, to tell you the truth, I think if what's on the page is rich and compelling, as far as I'm concerned, if it's beautifully presented on the page, all you have to do is put yourself there and pretend, and the rest takes care of itself. That is, unless it's a real stretch with an accent or if history matters where research has to be done.

  Miguel Ferrer

  Real, Thinking, People

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• the more humdrum aspects of life do not make for gripping reading. To render them compelling, a writer must describe the universal in eloquent and evocative prose. Alas, Frey's writing suggests that this was not an option, and he came up with something else.

  Anna Quindlen

  Reading, Writing, Gripping

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• His [Marx's] most explosive and indeed most original contribution to the cause of revolution was that he interpreted the compelling needs of mass poverty in political terms as an uprising, not for the sake of bread or wealth, but for the sake of freedom as well.

  Hannah Arendt

  Uprising, Political, Needs

  Hannah Arendt (2000). “The Portable Hannah Arendt”, Penguin Group USA

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• The wanting of advice is the sign that the Spirit in you has not yet spoken with the compelling voice that you ought to obey.

  Annie Besant

  Voice, Advice, Spirit

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• Sure there's a difference with puppet-craft - who cares? I don't care about the puppet-craft, I care about what works. Who cares about the puppet and craft? It's not about that. It's about compelling an audience, and touching an audience in some way.

  Frank Oz

  Differences, Touching, Who Cares

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, film.avclub.com. August 16, 2007.

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• The Wayshower is a compelling, multi-layered and complex spiritual journey about a guilt-ridden man searching to understand his connection to his guru J-R. Followers of the real-life guru, John-Roger, as well as a segment of new-thought seekers, will resonate with the messages and life lessons shared throughout.

  Arielle Ford

  Spiritual, Real, Life Lesson

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• As long as I can remember, the compelling force behind my calling is a desire to know Jesus more and to make Him known. I believe I was created for a relationship with Jesus, so growing in my relationship with Him and worshiping Him with all my heart and life is preeminent.

  Louie Giglio

  Jesus, Believe, Heart

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• There is a compelling case showing us that we actually change people all the time. And when we fully realize this, we start to see how powerful we are to get others unstuck, see that their behavior matters, and start taking steps to create happiness and success in their lives.

  Michelle Gielan

  Powerful, People, Matter

  Source: www.goodreads.com

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• I think it's just too kinda juicy and compelling to imagine people in their private lives, but then half the time people's private lives are just so much more bizarre and Ted Haggard-like than you could ever imagine. It's almost hard to write fiction anymore.

  Jerry Stahl

  Writing, Thinking, People

  Interview with Jessica Jardine, Travis Hunter, www.avclub.com. March 5, 2009.

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• Compelling spectacles are not to reach a niche market, it could be for reaching a niche marketing but on a grand scale. This is for grand marketing.

  Robert Greene

  Marketing, Niche, Reaching

  Source: www.josephbushnell.com

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• Television's compelling power is its immediacy . .. this immediacy feeds the politics of emotions, gut reactions and impressions rather than the politics of logic, facts and reason; it emphasizes personality rather than issues.

  Hedrick Smith

  Issues, Personality, Television

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