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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• It's difficult to talk to people who whisper even at home, afraid of Americans eavesdropping on them. It's not a figure of speech, not a joke, I'm serious.

  Vladimir Putin

  Home, People, Speech

  "Ask the President! Some of Putin’s Very Best Hotline Answers". Answer during the "Direct Line with Vladimir Putin", sputniknews.com. April 15, 2015.

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• You can talk about Holocaust denial, but it's really marginal for the most part. What is compelling about the Armenian genocide, is how it has been forgotten.

  Atom Egoyan

  Holocaust, Armenia, Denial

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• IBM's long-standing mantra is 'Think.' What has always made IBM a fascinating and compelling place for me, is the passion of the company, and its people, to apply technology and scientific thinking to major societal issues.

  Ginni Rometty

  Passion, Thinking, Technology

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• If you don't pay attention and if your imagination isn't pretty much engaged, you're going to miss things and you're going to miss opportunities for it to be as compelling and as creepy as it can be.

  Bruce Greenwood

  Missing You, Opportunity, Imagination

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• It makes sense that whatever the topic is, it's more compelling if you can provide the audience with a range of perspectives, and you can cross disciplines. And you don't have to control what people take out of it.

  Bernice Johnson Reagon

  Discipline, People, Perspective

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• I think it's impossible for any of us not to find television, and the political process at its best on television, compelling.

  Peter Jennings

  Thinking, Political, Television

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• You can watch any episode you want and have a compelling story being told.

  Christopher Meloni

  Watches, Stories, Want

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• Despite recent media reports that have clouded, or even misrepresented, the facts, there is compelling evidence that al-Qaida and Iraq have been linked for more than a decade.

  Elizabeth Dole

  Media, Iraq, Als

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• To portray a maniac offers a compelling challenge.

  Bela Lugosi

  Challenges, Offers, Maniacs

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• My shorthand answer is that I try to write the kind of book that I would like to read. If I can make it clear and interesting and compelling to me, then I hope maybe it will be for the reader.

  David McCullough

  Book, Writing, Interesting

  Interview with Bruce Cole, www.neh.gov. May/June 2003.

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• I believe that given the audience attention level, we could do an even more compelling 90 minutes.

  Vince McMahon

  Believe, Attention, Levels

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• The heart of Dragon's Lair has always been its compelling story. With Dragon's Lair 3D, we think the team has really created an interactive animated movie.

  Don Bluth

  Teamwork, Heart, Artist

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• It would be hard to find a more compelling example of the American dream than Alberto Gonzales.

  Jon Kyl

  Dream, Example, Would Be

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• A compelling story, even if factually inaccurate, can be more emotionally compelling than a dry recitation of the truth.

  Frank Luntz

  Stories, Dry, Recitation

  "Memo exposes Bush's new green strategy". Republican Party Memo, www.theguardian.com. March 04, 2003.

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• I believe in the compelling power of love.

  Theodore Dreiser

  Believe, Power Of Love, I Believe

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

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• The mountain music... is compelling music in its own right, harking back to a time when music was a part of everyday life and not something performed by celebrities.

  Ethan Coen

  Hiking, Everyday, Mountain

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• The story drove the book. That had a very seminal effect on the way I saw writing and storytelling. If you can set a character in a story that is compelling and has a backbone, you draw people in.

  Dick Wolf

  Book, Writing, Character

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• It is my opinion that everything must be based on a simple idea. And it is my opinion that this idea, once we have finally discovered it, will be so compelling, so beautiful, that we will say to one another, yes, how could it have been any different.

  John Archibald Wheeler

  Beautiful, Simple, Ideas

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• If you feel driven and compelled to make your work and to be fiercely original and have something unique to say, in a compelling way, then chances are the helpers will be there for you the doors will open some, the ice will crack.

  David Knopfler

  Unique, Doors, Ice

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• The basic guarantees of our Constitution are warrants for the here and now, and unless there is an overwhelmingly compelling reason, they are to be promptly fulfilled.

  Arthur Goldberg

  Compelling Reason, Guarantees, Constitution

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• When a man fails to see the truth of certain generally accepted views, there is no law compelling him to provoke animosity by announcing his dissent.

  George Henry Lewes

  Men, Views, Law

  George Henry Lewes (1891). “The Principles of Success in Literature”

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