Compelling Quotes - Page 19

• Dressing badly has been a refuge much of my life, a way of compelling others to engage with my mind, not my physical presence. Page. 283

  Sonia

  Mind, Pages, Way

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• It's much easier to spend a lot of time making your microphone louder than it is working on making your message more compelling.

  Seth Godin

  Messages, Easier, Microphones

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• Innovation must lead infrastructure for a simple but compelling reason: Innovation produces new types of products and markets, and it is virtually impossible to know how to run those markets efficiently before they are created.

  Myron Scholes

  Running, Simple, Compelling Reason

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• It's interesting because I don't ever want to ask a better question than I can answer, if that makes sense. I find that frustrating as a viewer. Compelling questions, while not easy, are easier than compelling answers.

  Shane Carruth

  Interesting, Answers, Want

  "Shane Carruth Explains Why ‘Upstream Color’ Isn’t So Difficult to Understand and Talks About His Next Project". Interview with Eric Kohn, www.indiewire.com. April 3, 2013.

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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

  Want, Life Is, Humans

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• Well,the fun part of being a writer is that it's like making a wonderful film, with no limit on my budget. I can design the sets, the costume, the lightings, I write the script, and then I get to perform all the roles as I step into each character's skin, zip up, and adopt that point of view. So, to me, they are all compelling and fascinating.

  Robin Hobb

  Fun, Writing, Character

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• It [Lincoln movie] had nothing to do with politics. It had nothing to do with holding a mirror up to the way we conduct our business on Capitol Hill. This was meant to be a story, a Lincoln portrait if you will. I think any time is the right time for a very compelling story, any time.

  Steven Spielberg

  Thinking, Mirrors, Portraits

  Source: screenrant.com

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• I think Spider-Man [film], the first one particularly, really figured out the formula of, "Oh, tell the story that they told in the comic. It was compelling. That's why it's iconic."

  Joss Whedon

  Men, Thinking, Spiders

  Source: collider.com

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• Perhaps love is a compelling necessity imposed on man by God that has something to do with suffering

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Love, Men, Suffering

  Zora Neale Hurston (1995). “The Complete Stories”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• In spite of recent trends towards fabricating photographic narratives, I find, more than ever, traditional photographic capture, the 'discovery' of found narratives, deeply compelling.

  Richard Misrach

  Photography, Discovery, Trends

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• I have a feeling-as compelling as a religious conviction-that if industry will constantly pass on to the worker and the customer all the savings of labor-saving machinery and invention, rather than siphon them off into the pools of watered securities, it will by that process keep distribution and production in balance and go as far toward Utopia as our poor human natures will go or be driven.

  Samuel B. Pettengill

  Religious, Feelings, Balance

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• Denice Franke is a sensitive and compelling singer and songwriter.

  Lyle Lovett

  Singers, Sensitive, Songwriters

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• The most dangerous people are always clever, compelling, and charismatic.

  Malcolm McDowell

  Clever, People, Dangerous

  Source: www.gq.com

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• There's something about cats' self-sufficiency and their seemingly individualistic ways that I find compelling.

  Marc Maron

  Cat, Self, Way

  "Marc Maron Off-Screen". Interview with Devon Ivie, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 3, 2015.

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• You have to do three things really well to make a successful film. You have to tell a compelling story that has a story that is unpredictable, that keeps people on the edge of their seat where they can't wait to see what happens next. You then populate that story with really memorable and appealing characters. And then, you put that story and those characters in a believable world, not realistic but believable for the story that you're telling.

  John Lasseter

  Memorable, Character, Successful

  "Interview: We Talk Cars 2 with John Lasseter". MoviesOnline Interview, www.moviesonline.ca.

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• Madness in Civilization is a brilliant, provocative, and hugely entertaining history of the treatment and mistreatment of the mentally ill. Packed with bizarre details and disturbing facts, Andrew Scull's book offers fresh and compelling insights on the way medicine's inability to solve the mystery of madness has both haunted and shaped two thousand years of culture. Required reading for anyone who has ever gone to a shrink!

  Dirk Wittenborn

  Reading, Book, Medicine

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• Aurelie Sheehan's absorbing stories have depth miles beneath their compelling surface. They radiate a wisdom, beauty and originality rare in contemporary fiction.

  Frederic Tuten

  Contemporary Fiction, Depth, Stories

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