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Quotes About Compelling

The purpose of a pitch isn't necessarily to move others immediately to adopt your idea. The purpose is to offer something so compelling that it begins a conversation, brings the other person in as a participant, and eventually arrives at an outcome that appeals to both of you. In a world where buyers have ample information and an array of choices, the pitch is often the first word, but it's rarely the last.
~ Daniel H. Pink
The idea of having a narrative guiding the viewer through and grasping their attention is a really compelling thing.
~ Justin Peck
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
I really focus on giving the viewers compelling television, and hope that more and more people watch.
~ Brooke Baldwin
In and after 1964 when I began to concern myself with the biological issues, and particularly from 1967 onwards, the extent of the problems over which I felt uneasy increased to such a point that in 1968 I felt a compelling urge to make my views public.
~ Andrei Sakharov
Everybody loves a villain - let's face it.
~ Campbell Scott
The villain of any story is often the most compelling character.
~ John Hodgman
It's a lot harder to write a story that's compelling about identity and sense of self without some villain in the room.
~ Peter Paige
Black Panther is a great film'. It has the most compelling villain of any Marvel movie, and it deals admirably with the issue of diminishing jeopardy in a million superhero films where the world is going to end.
~ Romesh Ranganathan
Evil is relative - and what I mean by that is that our villains are as complex, as deep and as compelling as any of our heroes. Every antagonist in the DC Universe has a unique darkness, desire and drive. And the reason for being of 'Forever Evil' is to explore that darkness.
~ Geoff Johns
We, at one point, had such great villains with shades of grey and a compelling story around them. But Bollywood did see a decline when villains were nothing but aimless goons who had no real purpose to them.
~ Mukesh Rishi
Love is also a very violent thing. Totally violent. Suddenly, you are, like, at this party your friends invite you to, and you meet this person, and your life is turned upside down, and the next day you can't stop thinking about them. That's violent. Hopefully, it's for the better, but it's a violent thing.
~ Edgar Ramirez
I personally am a very big fan of 'Romeo + Juliet.' It had a visceral power to it that I thought was just exhilarating. It was a very arresting and very disturbing and deeply compelling version of the play.
~ George C. Wolfe
The compelling drive to get at the truth is what improves us all as psychologists and is part and parcel of intellectual integrity. But I do urge that we not let the drive for honesty put blinders on us and cut off our range of vision so that we miss the very thing we set out the understand - namely, the living human being.
~ Rollo May
What I've learned is the power of a compelling vision.
~ Alan Mulally
You can't say it wasn't interesting.
~ Roger Ebert, Life Itself
If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!
~ William Bernbach
He was always - I like to say of Malcolm - he was just simply electrical. Everything he did almost was dramatic, and it wasn't that he was trying to be: it was just the nature of him.
~ Alex Haley
The thought was horrible, yet fascinating.
~ Dodie Smith
Stew Friedman at the Wharton School puts it, defining a "compelling image of an achievable future,"1 leaders captivate the imaginations of their audiences.
~ Donald Miller
Now that you've established the first three sections as a positive, negative, and then positive movement in the story, your customers are likely hooked.
~ Donald Miller
you have to ask the right questions—you need some raw materials to work with. The following questions will allow you to build a bank of compelling testimonials that work with nearly any customer quickly and easily.
~ Donald Miller
When Jobs returned to the company after running Pixar, Apple became customer-centric, compelling, and clear in their communication.
~ Donald Miller
Where there's no story, there's no engagement.
~ Donald Miller