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• I find that many people have a hard time, at first, in painting a compelling image of an achievable future; to envision their legacy, that is. Often this is because they're afraid to commit for fear of failure.

  Stewart D. Friedman

  Hard Times, People, Legacy

  "Stewart D. Friedman on 'Leading the Life You Want'". Interview with Bob Morris, bobmorris.biz. August 22, 2016.

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• For decades, I thought that scientific truth, solid economic case studies, and common sense were enough to bring about change on the environmental front. After all, the data is so compelling! I thought that if people just understood the severity of today's environmental threats and knew about available solutions, those solutions would happen. Not so.

  Annie Leonard

  Data, Common Sense, People

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• 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

  People, Firsts, Banjos

  "Steve Martin: Comedian Takes Banjo Seriously". "All Things Considered" with Melissa Block, www.npr.org. February 4, 2009.

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• I love telling stories. I think of myself as a storyteller, and I don't feel bound by being just a singer or an actress. First, I'm a storyteller, and history is stories - the most compelling stories. There is a lot you can find out about yourself through knowing about history. I have always been attracted to things that are old. I have just always found such things interesting and compelling.

  Zooey Deschanel

  Thinking, Knowing, Interesting

  "She & Him". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. March 15, 2010.

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• What if instead of seeing a neighborhood that reminds you of the place you grew up in, you see your actual neighborhood? The data exists. The technology exists. It's just a matter of sourcing it and processing it in a compelling fashion.

  Chris Milk

  Fashion, Technology, Data

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Some of my favorite moments from The Vampire Diaries were from season 3. I found the storyline between Stefan and Klaus to be extremely compelling. It was a friend/foe type friendship, rooted in depth that took us back to the 1920s.

  Paul Wesley

  Vampire, Depth, Diaries

  Source: www.ew.com

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• We knew Terry Brooks' work, but we hadn't read the Shannara books. So, they sent us the book to read and we just loved the story and the characters. We thought it would make a very compelling season of television. We were like, "Someone is going to make this. Why don't we do it?"

  Miles Millar

  Book, Character, Stories

  Source: collider.com

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• What keeps me awake at night is just, Am I making the best use of the time that remains for me, to both be as good an example as I can in my own daily life, and as compelling as possible a voice for the ways in which we can all work together to tackle these issues.

  Queen Noor of Jordan

  Night, Voice, Issues

  "Her Majesty Queen Noor: Yogi & Devoted Warrior for Peace". Interview with Gina Murdock, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Crossing the Finish Line is a must-read for anyone concerned with the disturbing fact that Americans can no longer count on each generation being better educated than the last. Focusing on public institutions that educate more than three-fourths of U.S. students, Bowen, Chingos, and McPherson provide compelling arguments that institutions and policymakers must find new ways to overcome deeply entrenched patterns if our country is to regain its position as the most educated.

  Molly Corbett Broad

  Country, Overcoming, Three

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• Being effective at social media, whether for business or personal use, means capturing people who have short attention spans. They're only a click away from a picture of a funny cat, so you have to make your thing more compelling than that cat. And that can be a high bar.

  Alexis Ohanian

  Mean, Cat, Media

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• THE POWER OF A COMPELLING CAUSE RESTS IN THE SOUL OF ITS CREATOR, because a cause springs from the soul. It is a spiritual statement from one soul that cannot be the result of many. It comes from a deep place of knowing, some conviction that a richly imagined future could in some way, dramatically and positively, change the world.

  Lance Secretan

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Spring

  Lance Secretan (2004). “Inspire! What Great Leaders Do”, p.68, John Wiley & Sons

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• ... the modern state masks itself in moral ideologies which obscure its actual conduct. One of the most compelling and insidious of these ideologies is the doctrine of natural rights. It was to secure these rights that the modern state was invented in the first place, and it is impossible, especially for Americans, not to be seduced by the doctrine. But it is nonetheless a philosophical superstition.

  Donald Livingston

  Philosophical, Rights, Doctrine

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• Our current draconian laws prohibiting the use of marijuana by responsible adults are doubly flawed. Not only does such prohibition violate fundamental freedoms but also. . . it undermines personal health and public safety. Regardless of your views on the civil liberties issues. . .another compelling justification for marijuana law reform: that it will promote health and safety for all of us, including our nation's children.

  Nadine Strossen

  Children, Marijuana, Law

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• Commitment . . . is a binding, but happy, response to duty. It is at once peaceful yet compelling, for it obligates one to action. It is essential to the good life. It is doing what everyone can do.

  James M. Paramore

  Life, Peace, Commitment

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• The whole point of being alive is to evolve into the complete person you were intended to be. I believe you can only do this when you stop long enough to hear the whisper you might have drowned out, that small voice compelling you toward the kind of work you'd be willing to do even if you weren't paid. Once you tune out the noise of your life and hear that call, you face the biggest challenge of all: to find the courage to seek out your big dream, regardless of what anyone else says or thinks.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Dream, Believe, Thinking

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• Children who remember their past lives offer the most compelling evidence yet for reincarnation.

  Carol Bowman

  Children, Past, Remember

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• You'll attract the employees you need if you can explain why your mission is compelling: not why it's important in general, but why you're doing something important that no one else is going to get done.

  Peter Thiel

  Leadership, Important, Needs

  Peter Thiel, Blake Masters (2014). “Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future”, p.95, Crown Business

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• Because he did not have time to read every new book in his field, the great Polish anthropologist Bronislaw Malinowski used a simple and efficient method of deciding which ones were worth his attention: Upon receiving a new book, he immediately checked the index to see if his name was cited, and how often. The more "Malinowski" the more compelling the book. No "Malinowski", and he doubted the subject of the book was anthropology at all.

  Neil Postman

  Time, Book, Simple

  "Conscientious Objections: Stirring Up Trouble About Language, Technology and Education".

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• I think the mystery of what's out there in the universe is just very compelling.

  Adam Riess

  Thinking, Mystery, Universe

  "Astrophysicist Adam Riess Plays Not My Job". "Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!" with Peter Sagal, www.npr.org. November 24, 2012.

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• SHADOW KNIGHT'S MATE is a compelling story, extremely well-written and alarmingly plausible.  Jay Brandon does for politics what Dan Brown did for religion.

  Sharyn McCrumb

  Knights, Shadow, Doe

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• The Singing of Swans is a remarkable narrative calling--even compelling--us to connect with our own ancestral roots, to seek our own inner wisdom, and to reclaim our own inner voices!

  Margaret Starbird

  Swans, Voice, Roots

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• It is not a medicine. You don't know what's in it. If there were compelling scientific and medical data supporting marijuana's medical benefits that would be one thing. But the data is not there.

  Andrea Barthwell

  Marijuana, Data, Medicine

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• Under the sacred and compelling trust we have as members of the Church of Jesus Christ, ours is a work of redemption, of lifting and saving those who need help. Ours is a task of raising the sights of those of our people who fail to realize the great potential that lies within them.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Jesus, Lying, Sight

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• Clear, crisp, and compelling. . . . Mitzvah Girls is a thoughtful look at the world of Jewish girls who grow up in 21st-century America, but don't really.

  David Wolpe

  Girl, Growing Up, Thoughtful

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• A Killer Brand exists when an entity derives a disproportionate amount of success in its category because of a compelling and differentiated expectation that comes to be associated with its name.

  Frank Lane

  Names, Expectations, Killers

  Frank Lane (2007). “Killer Brands: Create and Market a Brand That Will Annihilate the Competition”, p.5, Adams Media

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