Marcel Proust

It is in moments of illness that we are compelled to recognize that we live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom, whole worlds apart, who has no knowledge of us and by whom it is impossible to make ourselves understood: our body.

French Author

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Cosmos' wouldn't deserve its place in primetime evening network television were it not a landscape on which compelling stories were told. People, when they watch TV in the evening, want to see stories, and science simply tells the best stories.

American Scientist

Anais Nin

I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.

American Author

Freddie Wong

I think if you make good, interesting content with compelling story lines and good characters, people will tune into the web for as long as you want them to.

American Director

Thich Nhat Hanh

Meditation is to get insight, to get understanding and compassion, and when you have them, you are compelled to act.

Vietnamese Clergyman

Emily Giffin

I have always been drawn to coming-of-age stories and books and movies featuring compelling young characters.

Ezra Taft Benson

God will have a humble people. Either we can choose to be humble, or we can be compelled to be humble.

American Leader

Jay Asher

As a writer, my only responsibility is to tell a compelling story.

American Writer

John Hodgman

The villain of any story is often the most compelling character.

American Comedian

Jojo Moyes

If the characters are compelling, readers will follow anywhere.

British Journalist

Used to describe the power of laws or policies to demand obedience from people.

Legal Authority

Implies an external force making someone do something they may not want to.

External Pressure

Highlights a situation where there is no other option but to perform the action.

Lack of Choice

Stresses actions taken because of strong feelings or beliefs.

Emotional Motivation

Suggests an inner force that motivates someone to act.

Personal Drive

Implies an action is taken due to a strong sense of right and wrong.

Moral Obligation

Indicates a situation that urgently requires action.

Immediacy

Often used in situations involving official or administrative matters.

Formal Context

Used in scholarly work to signify the necessity of certain actions or conclusions.

Academic Rigor

 of what we do and sharing that with the public and really compelling ways are going to capture their imagination frogs are naturally very sensitive species and the frog species that were working with are extremely rare and endangered so it's really really important that we take extremely good care of them because when they're gone they're gone and we're

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 in which one is compelled to disregard their own perception in place of the officially dictated version of events, leaving the individual completely dependent on the State's definition of reality itself. The result is a world in which even the privacy of one's own thought process is violated,

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 so one explanation for Grizmo's propensity to reach into containers and openings is that she is compelled by the same curiosity that helped ensure the continuation of her species for millions of years before. In the wild, cats needed sharp claws for climbing, hunting, and self-defense.

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 identifying what is compelling from what is chatter? You ask surprising questions. To achieve the complicated, fragile human connection, you regard the stories of every subject as sacred. Realize that an anecdote is oxygen that breathes life into a grey story of exposition,

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 and they proposed that it was actually these germs that cause diseases, hence the name germ theory. Though most people held onto their assumptions and strongly resisted this theory, its supporters were determined to prove them wrong by collecting compelling data.

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 to try to tell the most compelling stories that I can to an audience. And film is this incredible medium that allows us to feel empathy for people that are very different than us and worlds completely foreign from our own. Unfortunately,

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 pregnancy and childbirth now after my own brush with one of the leading causes of preventable maternal death I was compelled to do everything that I could to help and prepare and support other women as I would I was becoming more

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 forgotten as long as the Cubs call their mother is compelled to keep retrieving them but this would try any mother's patience the young Cubs life is very precarious had the mother been away hunting at a moment like this the

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 that's a pretty compelling sign of life. Or, what if, instead of a structure that passively soaked up all the star's energy, like a plant, an alien civilization built one that actively sucked the energy out of the star

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 sanity that doesn't that doesn't sound super wise isn't that like your your your time your your completely sane centered rested time and decision making is more powerful and compelling than

Compel

To force someone to do something.

Often appears as...

To push or encourage strongly to take action.

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To necessitate or demand.

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External Pressure

Lack of Choice

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