quotes about Compelling
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The thing about a good podcast is you have to have a good host. If you don't have a compelling host then you have nothing.
-- Adam Carolla -
I think the mystery of what's out there in the universe is just very compelling.
-- Adam RiessSource : "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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Doing life consciously was a compelling notion to me.
-- Allan KaprowSource : Allan Kaprow, Jeff Kelley (2003). “Essays on the Blurring of Art and Life”, p.195, Univ of California Press
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To portray a maniac offers a compelling challenge.
-- Bela Lugosi -
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Love is a very compelling argument.
-- Brian HoustonSource : Twitter post from Apr 23, 2015
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Speaking passionately from the very center of who you are is compelling, forceful, persuasive: that’s what leadership sounds like.
-- Charlotte BeersSource : Charlotte Beers (2012). “I'd Rather Be in Charge: A Legendary Business Leader's Roadmap for Achieving Pride, Power, and Joy at Work”, p.215, Vanguard Press
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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 -
For me, few things are more compelling than watching a great opera.
-- David Rubenstein -
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A compelling story, even if factually inaccurate, can be more emotionally compelling than a dry recitation of the truth.
-- Frank LuntzSource : "Memo exposes Bush's new green strategy". Republican Party Memo, www.theguardian.com. March 04, 2003.
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As a writer, my only responsibility is to tell a compelling story.
-- Jay Asher -
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 -
Denice Franke is a sensitive and compelling singer and songwriter.
-- Lyle Lovett -
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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 -
Controlling others—winning—is more compelling than anything (or anyone) else.
-- Martha Stout -
Sometimes you’re loved because of your weaknesses. What you can’t do is sometimes more compelling than what you can.
-- Melissa Bank -
If it doesn't come through the Internet, it's not really compelling to me.
-- Pete Cashmore -
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It wouldn't kill you to get me an iced coffee." "No, but not getting killed doing something is not a very compelling reason to do it.
-- Peter CameronSource : Peter Cameron (2009). “Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You: A Novel”, p.121, Macmillan
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Compelling a woman to wear a headscarf is against Islam, and compelling her to remove it is against human rights.
-- Tariq Ramadan -
I believe in the compelling power of love.
-- Theodore Dreiser -
The experience of being understood, versus interpreted, is so compelling you can charge admission.
-- B. Joseph Pine II -
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Loneliness is the most compelling force in the universe.
-- Cass McCombs -
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 -
My experience is that an original and compelling idea for a novel is a rare thing.
-- James Thayer