Top 1200 Asking The Right Questions Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

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

Going online and asking questions is the best way to learn.

Once you start asking questions, innocence is gone.

The way that you become world-class is... by asking good questions.

I grew a reputation for always asking questions and being nosy.

When I stop asking questions, something's wrong.

I’m sick of asking questions everyone else already knows the answers to.

Philosophers are adults who persist in asking childish questions.

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

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

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?

You go to certain movies where everything will be right and you will be invested in the story, but a movie like 'The Room' affects you instantly, and you are left with asking questions. You're almost like a part of the movie, as its not doing what it's supposed to do, and you become one with the film, and you say what you want.

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

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

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

I joined another circle and the leader gave us a little leaflet in very small print, asking us to read it carefully and then come prepared to ask questions. It was a technical Marxist subject and I did not understand it nor did I know what questions to ask.

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

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

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.

The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge.

We are closer to God when we are asking questions than when we think we have the answers.

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

In studies asking why young people left their family religion, their most frequent response was unanswered doubts and questions. The researchers were surprised: They expected to hear stories of broken relationships and wounded feelings. But the top reason given by young adults was that they did not get answers to their questions.

Even when I was older, I couldn't stop asking questions.

Why do leaders fail? Isolation and inability to learn. They are afraid to express doubt, admit vulnerability or seek advice from subordinates. Leaders must actively work to seek feedback and a reality check. They must be open to asking questions and framing issues. As the world becomes more complex and global, the risk of isolation becomes greater. The need for leaders to be open to learning becomes greater. Great leaders will need to ask the right questions and balance inquiry with advocacy.

Asking good questions is half of learning.

Those who do not stop asking silly questions become scientists.

I read all of the stories that people write about me. The ones that are really interesting are the ones where they actually write their take on me as opposed to just printing what I said, because they're asking similar questions so often, sometimes it just sounds like I'm answering the questions different intentionally.

I remember coming on my first set and it being a playground of things I wanted to ask questions about: cameras and lenses and what the lenses do, what's the focus puller doing and how does that work? Why is there less margin for error when there's less light? I was always asking questions and watching directors closely.

Coming from a sort of very rigid European type of training to this culture which is just a little more open - a lot more open, and kind of curious, and asking different sorts of questions.Because the problem for me was that the European modernist movement in the '70s was all about right or wrong. Some things were right and you were dealing with the truth, as it were, and then some things were wrong and therefore not allowed.

As a director you have to be at 30,000 ft objectively looking at everything, wondering if you're making the right objective, emotional, story, character choices. As the writer, while you're asking all of those same questions, you're also forced by the nature of what writing is to be looking at everything under a microscope. That's the difference between the two jobs.

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

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

The one real goal of education is to leave a person asking questions.

I think it is scary anytime anyone is coming at you asking questions.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

I'm in the business, as a journalist, of asking tough questions.

Who is in your life asking you the tough questions?

Wonder is very important, because if we never wondered, we would never get to the point of asking questions. Yet wonder may lead people to write poetry or to paint pictures or to pray, as well as to ask the kinds of questions about the world and themselves that can be answered by science.

The answers I remember longest are the ones that answer questions that I didn't think of asking.

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

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

My instincts for asking questions is to press but not to be a jerk about it.

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

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

I was asking Charlie the most important questions, and you heard the answers.

Asking questions is one of the best ways to grow as a human being.

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

Getting to a place where I am comfortable saying things was hard-earned for me. I've chewed on the ground glass of my own experience. I saw Gloria Steinem speak, and I was just like, Shut the front door. She was saying that she didn't come into her own until her 40s, and she was asking herself the question, Why should she have to get married? And I just thank God someone asked that question, right? I think we're the first generation of women asking ourselves certain questions and deciding for ourselves.

Asking questions is the first way to begin change.

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.

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