Compelling Quotes

434 quotes by 382 authors

We donâ€™t constrain our mental powers when we store new long-term memories. We strengthen them. With each expansion of our memory comes an enlargement of… — Nicholas G. Carr
An atheist is someone who is certain that God does not exist, someone who has compelling evidence against the existence of God. I know of… — Carl Sagan
exile is strangely compelling to think about but terrible to experience. It is the unhealable rift forced between a human being and a native place,… — Edward Said
Yet a personal God can become a grave liability. He can be a mere idol carved in our own image, a projection of our limited… — Karen Armstrong
I look out the window again, taking slow, deep breaths into a body too tense to move. And as I stare out at the land,… — Veronica Roth
Find a subject you care about and which you in your heart feel others should care about. It is this genuine caring, and not your… — Kurt Vonnegut
Our nettlesome task is to discover how to organize our strength into compelling power. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Our job if I can see straight and hear clearly and understand ~ is to make advertising and run advertising that is seen and read… — Fairfax M. Cone
The way to avoid evil is not by maiming our passions, but by compelling them to yield their vigor to our moral nature. — Henry Ward Beecher
Most scientists who are religious look for God in what science does understand and has explained. So the way in which my view is different… — Kenneth R. Miller
Every one knows that the heavenly bodies move in certain paths in relation to each other with seeming consistency and regularity which we call [physical]… — Clarence Darrow
I fell in love with commerce and the opportunities that come with compelling visual storytelling. — Ruzwana Bashir
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… — Myron Scholes
Before I became a full-time writer, I worked in tech support in those giant cubicle farms you see. I was surrounded by people who played… — Ernest Cline
Everyone I knew was a Red Sox fan. Living up there in 1967 - the Impossible Dream season - that moment was incredibly compelling. I… — Bill de Blasio
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… — Ginni Rometty
Every movie has three things you have to do - you have to have a compelling story that keeps people on the edge of their… — John Lasseter
What I find compelling is the moment in which people realize, with suffering and pain, that in the past there was a time when they… — Paolo Sorrentino
Usually in theater, the visual repeats the verbal. The visual dwindles into decoration. But I think with my eyes. For me, the visual is not… — Robert Wilson
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

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