Top 1200 Asking Questions Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

I began to realize that thinking itself is nothing but the process of asking and answering questions.

But questions that don’t answer themselves at the very moment of their asking are never answered.

Part of being successful is about asking questions and listening to the answers.

It is not a coincidence that we have managed to send rockets into space, but our literacy rate continues to be below the world average. It is because governments don't want an educated electorate. Because if we get educated, we will start asking the right questions. And they don't want the right questions being asked.

Canadians are always asking the questions the rest of us are afraid to ask.

If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about the answers.

And when I started college, I think I was good at two things: arguing and asking questions.

I define coaching as launching the salesperson on a voyage of discovery by asking questions.

Self-awareness involves deep personal honesty. It comes from asking and answering hard questions.

I have always been much better at asking questions than knowing what the answers were.

The act of trying keeps me excited, looking, asking questions and learning.

Selling is nothing more than asking questions and waiting for an answer.

The boldness of asking deep questions may require unforeseen flexibility if we are to accept the answers.

Architecture is a result of a process of asking questions and testing them and re-interrogating and changing in a repetitive way.

Feminists are asking the practical questions about how you want to live your life.

If you dislike the answers you’re getting from life, try asking better questions.

There is no point in asking me general questions because I am always changing my mind.

The great questions are those an intelligent child asks and, getting no answers, stops asking.

I start asking a lot of questions about my own life, and it's not necessarily fun, but it's a good exercise.

Someone who's asking questions of the clergy, that he doesn't have the answers to, I think that's a universal predicament.

Do things that will get people asking questions, the answer to which is the Gospel.

The first time I had a secretary, I was sheepish about being demanding or even asking questions.

The trouble with asking questions is you sometimes get answers you don't wanna hear.

We did that often, asking each other questions whose answers we already knew. Perhaps it was so that we would not ask the other questions, the ones whose answers we did not want to know.

The moment you start asking questions, you become public enemy number one.

Once the law starts asking questions, there's no stopping them.

I found I wasn't asking good enough questions because I assumed I knew something.

Never lie in bed at night asking yourself questions you can't answer.

If my answers frighten you then you should cease asking scary questions.

It really is disgusting when a guy in a ball cap with a high school education is the one asking the tough questions.

Schooling, instead of encouraging the asking of questions, too often discourages it.

Scott Buchanan . . . taught me that the questions that can be answered are not worth asking.

You do not need to justify asking questions. But if you think you have found answers, you do not have the right to remain silent.

By looking at the questions the kids are asking, we learn the scope of what needs to be done.

A journalist finds out things by asking questions of people who know.

If you look at most mainstream filmmaking, to be honest, some of these films aren't even asking questions anymore at all.

Don't you ever get tired of asking questions?' 'Never. They're mother's milk to me.

In mathematics, the art of asking questions is more valuable than solving problems.

One way to solve a mystery is by asking the right questions until answers start to emerge.

Adolescence begins when children stop asking questions-because they know all the answers.

Ignorance is bliss. Oedipus ruined a great sex life by asking too many questions.

We have to find a way to let everyone know when they're watching that we hear them, that we're asking their questions on all ends of the spectrum.

I'm interested in asking: 'What does feminine energy mean?' I don't have answers - I just have questions and interesting examples.

When people asked Socrates, ‘What is wisdom?’ he always gave the same answer: ‘I don’t know’. In fact, Socrates never claimed to know much of anything except how to ask questions. And by asking questions, he would prove to other people that they didn’t know what they thought they knew.

I won't call my work entertainment. It's exploring. It's asking questions of people, constantly. 'How much do you feel? How much do you know? Are you aware of this? Can you cope with this?' A good movie will ask you questions you don't already know the answers to. Why would I want to make a film about something I already understand?

For me, I felt bad for people asking the questions, cause you know their boss sent them out saying, 'Get me something on Mission Impossible.' And you ask the question, and it's just a polite, 'I'm not going to tell you.' Then, every so often, they'd go, 'Well, can't you just tell us a little bit?' I have to say, 'You know what guys, I'm under contract and I'm not going to tell you anything.' So you keep asking the questions and I'm just going to keep smiling. And it's hard, cause I don't want to seem rude, but it's part of my job just like it's part of their job to keep a secret.

The "brightness" of the 15 percent might or might not indicate a profound feeling for the causes of things; it is largely verbal and symbol-manipulating, and is almost certainly partly an obsessional device not to know and touch risky matter, just as Freud long ago pointed out that the nagging questions of small children are a substitute for asking the forbidden questions.

I'm not really good at asking people questions in interviews. I just try to have fun, to talk.

I wouldn't say I'm a religious person, but I am definitely inclined toward asking the big questions.

No man really becomes a fool until he stops asking questions.

It is not only by the questions we have answered that progress may be measured, but also by those we are still asking.

Perhaps depression is caused by asking oneself too many unanswerable questions.

It's about putting the pedal to the metal and not asking any questions at all and just going for it.

Having all the answers just means you've been asking boring questions.

Best strategy for a first date is to ask her questions. Just keeping asking her questions about herself. Her life, her job, her friends, her taste in movies and music and everything. People mostly just want to talk about themselves, so let her do that.

If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers.

If you keep asking me questions, I will continue to find excuses.

With nonfiction, I had to learn how to be a clear communicator, but it was also a relief to be able to articulate some of my political ideas and beliefs. I also try to do that in my fiction, but I'm more interested in asking questions that lead to more questions, mysteries that lead to more mysteries, rather than immediate answers and solutions.

If you get people asking the wrong questions, you don't have to worry about the answers.

I heard you asking questions of each: Who killed the pork chops? What price bananas? Are you my Angel?