Compelling Reason Quotes

#1. It's easy to get rid of things when there is an obvious reason for doing so. It's much more difficult when there is no compelling reason.

Marie Kondo

#2. President Bush's proposal to focus our resources on sending humans to Mars is intriguing, but it is not the most compelling reason that Americans ought to focus our interest on the Red Planet.

Jay Inslee

#3. The most compelling reason for most people to buy a computer for the home will be to link it to a nationwide communications network. We're just in the beginning stages of what will be a truly remarkable breakthrough for most people - as remarkable as the telephone.

Steve Jobs

#4. The most compelling reason for reforming our system is that the system is in no one's interest. It is a suicide machine.

Ronald Wright

#5. 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

#6. It wouldn't kill you to get me an iced coffee."
"No, but not getting killed doing something is not a very compelling reason to do it.

Peter Cameron

#7. Although I've been a longtime Democrat (primarily because, unless there is some very compelling reason to be otherwise, I am always for 'the little guy'), my political orientation is not rigid. For instance, I supported John McCain's run for the presidency in 2000.

Vincent Bugliosi

#8. Compelling reason will never convince blinding emotion.

Richard Bach

#9. When chefs like Wolfgang Puck became household names, that became a compelling reason for an intelligent young person to go into the cooking profession. There have been no waiters who have turned into household names. The service and hospitality aspects have clearly lagged behind the kitchen.

Danny Meyer

#10. You will never find anybody who can give you a clear and compelling reason why we observe daylight savings time.

Dave Barry

#11. But there is a compelling reason to develop a personal strategy for living. Rejecting issues, which often feels liberating, is actually enslavement. Those who do not produce their own solutions must be using someone else's. As Nietzsche warned 'he who cannot obey himself will be commanded'.

Michael Foley

#12. "You only live once" is also an equally compelling reason not to do something

Aaron Karo

#13. Whenever you commend, add a compelling reason for doing so; it is this which distinguishes the approbation of a man of sense from the flattery of sycophants and the admiration of fools.

Richard Steele

#14. I was simply restless, quite likely because of a dissatisfaction with the recent trajectory of my life, and if there is a better, more compelling reason for dropping everything and moving to the end of the world, I know not what it is.

J. Maarten Troost

#15. With 'The Flash' in existence, there's no real compelling reason for us to do superpowers on 'Arrow.'

Marc Guggenheim

#16. Once an object escapes, you have to assume that another class or thread may, maliciously or carelessly, misuse it. This is a compelling reason to use encapsulation: it makes it practical to analyze programs for correctness and harder to violate design constraints accidentally.

Brian Goetz

#17. 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

#18. Research indicates that once an uncommitted couple gets involved in sexual intercourse, the relationship usually begins to end. They have reached the superficial end of the physical aspects of the relationship, and they have no particularly compelling reason to explore its depths.

Chip Ingram

#19. For some reason, the strength and deadliness he keeps so easily leashed make him the most compelling man I've ever met. I envy his self-control.

Amanda Bouchet

#20. In real life, nothing would be more tedious than trailing around after two strangers as they went house-hunting in Hertfordshire. But for some reason, television is more compelling than real life.

Craig Brown

#21. To the soul, memory is more important than planning, art more compelling than reason, and love more fulfilling than understanding.

Thomas Moore

#22. Television's compelling power is its immediacy .. this immediacy feeds the politics of emotions, gut reactions and impressions rather than the politics of logic, facts and reason; it emphasizes personality rather than issues.

Hedrick Smith

#23. Reason gains all people by compelling none.

Aaron Hill

#24. Let's admit the real reason that we ban cell phones is that, given the opportunity to use them, students would vote with their attention, just as adults would 'vote with their feet' by leaving the room when a presentation is not compelling.

Marc Prensky

#25. If you can't write at least a paragraph on your goal then it is clearly not compelling enough. You need to either find the right reason or find the right goal.

Tony Johnson

#26. Without a compelling vision, you will discover there is no reason to go through the pain of change.

Brian P. Moran

#27. Faith is a matter of the will as much as it is of the intellect. I wanted to believe in Jesus. My friend wanted to believe in himself. In spite of how convincing my reason was, my reason was not compelling.

Rich Mullins

#28. 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

#29. Arithmetic has a very great and elevating effect, compelling the soul to reason about abstract number, and rebelling against the introduction of visible or tngible objects into the argument.

Plato

#30. If discrimination based on race is constitutionally permissible when those who hold the reins can come up with "compelling" reasons to justify it, then constitutional guarantees acquire an accordionlike quality.

William O. Douglas

#31. Indeed, there is only one reason for us to take up the challenge of relationship, but it is a compelling one -- we must fully relate if we are to fully live.

Steven Harrison

#32. But kids also make the hard things harder, and the painful things more painful, because you have to see them hurting too. Of course, they also give you a reason, a compelling one, to make it through." "I guess I hadn't

Leta Blake

#33. Information can compel us to want to take action, but information, by itself, is often not enough to motivate action or change.

Sharon Weil

#34. Maybe I'm strange and perverse, but I've always thought there was something sexy about a compelling argument.

Therese Doucet