Compelling Quotes - Page 22

• Traditionally, universities have seen size as potentially dilutive to quality. If you doubled the size of campus and faculty, most would argue that you would make it a less compelling school. However, online schools will be as good as their classroom peers only if they are large enough to afford a substantial and ongoing investment.

  John Katzman

  School, Quality, Peers

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• When you look around your life and you notice that something is missing, don't go looking for it -- create it! The key is to design a compelling destination, while enjoying the journey!

  Laura Whitworth

  Journey, Keys, Design

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• God loves atheists. The former ones make the most compelling theists because they're so empirically familiar with how atheists think.

  Criss Jami

  Atheist, Thinking, God Love

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.5, Criss Jami

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• Winners know what makes people tick by effectively tapping into our fears and aspirations. By listening very carefully and then repeating almost word-for-word exactly what they've heard, winners know how to articulate compelling needs—and products to satisfy those needs—that people didn't even know they wanted.

  Frank Luntz

  People, Listening, Needs

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• If you're a fan of American roots music, you won't want to miss 'Awake My Soul--The Story of the Sacred Harp.' Filmmakers Matt and Erica Hinton have done a fine job capturing the history, sound and spirit of this unusual but compelling art form that, trust me, you don't have to be religious to appreciate.

  Eric Zorn

  Religious, Art, Jobs

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• The refunding of the national debt at a lower rate of interest should be accomplished without compelling the withdrawal of the national-bank notes, and thus disturbing the business of the country.

  James A. Garfield

  Country, Money, Withdrawal

  George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James Monroe, John Quincy Adams, Andrew Jackson, Martin Van Buren, William Henry Harrison, James Knox Polk, Zachary Taylor, Franklin Pierce, James Buchanan, Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant, Rutherford B. Hayes, James A. Garfield, Grover Cleveland, Benjamin Harrison, William McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, Woodrow Wilson, Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge, Herbert Hoover, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Baines Johnson, Richard Milhous Nixon, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, George Bush, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Barack Obama (2017). “Inaugural Speeches from the Presidents of the United States - Complete Edition”, p.146, e-artnow sro

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• Of compelling consideration is the fact that words acquire scope and function from the history of events which they summarize.

  Felix Frankfurter

  Events, Facts, Consideration

  "Phelps Dodge Corp. v. NLRB, 313 U.S. 177". U.S. Supreme Court case, supreme.justia.com. April 28, 1941.

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• If you can engage the influencer’s passions, and work with them to craft a compelling logical appeal, then you can leverage the credibility of the influencer to actually sway hearts and minds.

  Tom Webster

  Passion, Heart, Mind

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• With Women, Chloe Caldwell is to Millennials what Anais Nin was to previous generations–a voice that is raw, intimate, thoughtful, compelling. Above all, heartbreakingly real.

  Samantha Dunn

  Real, Thoughtful, Voice

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• Unused power was like a marionette with visible strings, nobody holding them. A compelling attraction: I could make it dance.

  Frank Herbert

  Strings, Visible, Attraction

  Frank Herbert (1987). “Chapterhouse: Dune”, p.388, Penguin

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• Only the Earth can become the central axis around which world peace can be spun, for no religion is more compelling, no single nation larger, and no peoples older than the Earth itself. For that to happen, the collective human consciousness must expand enough so that our highest identification is as Earth-Humans.

  Ilchi Lee

  Axes, World, Earth

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• A label is a mask life wears. We put labels on life all the time. 'Right,' 'wrong,' 'success,' 'failure,' . . . Labeling sets up an expectation of life that is often so compelling we can no longer see things as they really are. This expectation often gives us a false sense of familiarity toward something that is really new and unprecedented. We are in relationship with our expectations and not with life itself.

  Rachel Naomi Remen

  Giving, Expectations, Labels

  Rachel Naomi Remen (2006). “Kitchen Table Wisdom: Stories that Heal, 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.66, Penguin

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• In books and movies infidelity always looks so compelling, so right. Here are people who defy petty convention and are rewarded with only the tastiest bits of human experience.

  David Sedaris

  Book, People, Infidelity

  David Sedaris (2010). “When You Are Engulfed In Flames”, p.139, Hachette UK

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• The pre-scientific age, whatever its deficiencies, had at least offered its members the peace of mind that follows from knowing all man-made achievements to be nothing next to the grandeur of the universe. We, more blessed in our gadgetry but less humble in our outlook, have been left... having no more compelling repository of veneration than our brilliant, precise, blinkered and morally troubling fellow human beings.

  Alain de Botton

  Blessed, Humble, Men

  "The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work". Book by Alain de Botton, 2008.

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• I don't think writers are any smarter than other people. I think they may be more compelling in their stupidity, or in their confusion.

  David Foster Wallace

  Thinking, People, Confusion

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• Love is a very compelling argument.

  Brian Houston

  Love Is, Argument

  Twitter post from Apr 23, 2015

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• I cannot sing the old songs Though well I know the tune, Familiar as a cradle-song With sleep-compelling croon; Yet though I'm filled with music, As choirs of summer birds, I cannot sing the old songs-- I do not know the words.

  Robert Jones Burdette

  Summer, Song, Sleep

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• Compelling a man by law to pay his money to elect candidates or advocate law or doctrines he is against differs only in degree, if at all, from compelling him by law to speak for a candidate, a party, or a cause he is against. The very reason for the First Amendment is to make the people of this country free to think, speak, write and worship as they wish, not as the Government commands.

  Hugo Black

  Country, Party, Writing

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• ... it is because one can build a compelling set of arguments - informed by science and thoroughly compatible with it - that to believe in anything despite the complete lack of evidence is, in fact, irrational.

  Massimo Pigliucci

  Believe, Religion, Atheism

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• What happens is that as the scripts are rewritten and re-edited in order to make the story more compelling, you sometimes end up with what you could call a time singularity - where there's no way for everything that happens to happen in real time. It's something that you need to wink at.

  Michael Loceff

  Real, Order, Needs

  "The Worst Day Ever". Interview with James Surowiecki, www.slate.com. January 17, 2006.

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• The patient typically finds himself impelled by some deep, inner conviction that something is true, or right, or virtuous: a conviction that doesn't seem to owe anything to evidence or reason, but which, nevertheless, he feels as totally compelling and convincing. We doctors refer to such a belief as 'faith'.

  Richard Dawkins

  Doctors, Belief, Patient

  Richard Dawkins (2004). “A Devil's Chaplain”, p.138, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The thing with kids is that you only get one chance to do it right. It's really important to share their gifts while they're discovering them. That's why spelling bees are such a compelling story. They stimulate them intellectually, they awaken their competitive spirit, but it's fun. There's something fun about words.

  Laurence Fishburne

  Fun, Kids, Important

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• In a one-woman show, there must be compelling material that you adore. In both of these there are conversations with you and another character. My Second City (improvisation) background comes in very handy for accent and body posture.

  Valerie Harper

  Character, Cities, Body

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• The thing that drives me and my colleagues at both Apple and Pixar is that you see something very compelling to you, and you don't quite know how to get to it, but you know, sometimes intuitively, it's within your grasp. And it's worth putting in years of your life to make it come into existence.

  Steve Jobs

  Life, Years, Apples

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• Sex is meant to be, if not addictive, at least a very compelling behavior.

  Joy Browne

  Sex, Women, Behavior

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