Top 1200 Asking The Right Questions Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

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

I think people have a right to speak. And you have a right if you're on a college campus not to attend. You have a right to ask hard questions about the speaker if you disagree with him or her.

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

People asking questions, lost in confusion, well I tell them there's no problem, only solutions.

One of the reasons that metaphor and symbolism are important in books is because they are also important to life. Like, for example say you're in high school and you're a boy and you say to a girl: "Do you like anyone right now?" - that's not the question you're asking. The question you're asking is, "do you like me right now."

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

Very often kids don't ask questions in class because they don't want to be seen asking a question.

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

Asking a question is the simplest way of focusing thinking...asking the right question may be the most important part of thinking.

Beethoven was a deeply political man in the broadest sense of the word. He was not interested in daily politics, but concerned with questions of moral behaviour and the larger questions of right and wrong affecting the entire society.

A lot of people have been asking me questions about IVF and surrogacy, and I'm glad that I can be a mouthpiece to that.

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

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

Asking a man if he could be trusted was like asking an unwed girl if she was a virgin. The question mattered, but the asking of it was gross insult.

but you can't spend your whole life hoping people will ask you the right questions. you must learn to love and answer the questions they already ask.

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

There's a blessing that you're in a spotlight, but people follow you and want to keep asking you questions - it's just overwhelming sometimes.

I collected child support in Dade County, and they wrote a rap song about me, so the kids knew about it, and they started asking me questions about child support. What happens if she wastes the money? What happens if he doesn't pay? And I answered the questions.

I was nearly as far behind in calculus as I was in physics. But I wasn't the only woman in the class, so I felt more comfortable asking questions.

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

I think, today, television is asking too many loaded questions, pushing further for ratings.

I have tried raising money by asking for it, and by not asking for it. I always got more by asking for it.

I'm a huge Jackie Chan fan, and my boyfriend is Taiwanese, and he doesn't like to read. He had this Jackie Chan book, and I was asking him questions about him, and he didn't know, and I said, 'What do you mean you don't know? You have the Jackie Chan autobiography right there on the bookshelf!'

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

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

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

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

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

I think all good architecture should challenge you, make you start asking questions. You don't have to understand it. You may not like it. That's OK.

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

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.

It's not that I believe women are more ethical. I will say that one of women's greatest weaknesses is probably our greatest strength. We are incredibly hard on each other. We ask all the questions. Men are more easygoing. If you've ever been in a group of women, you'll recognize this: Nobody gives one woman the opportunity to lead the way without asking a whole lot of questions.

Acting, for me, is not an end in itself. It's more a means to asking the questions I'm obsessed with about life.

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

The interesting thing is that you don't have to know the answers - simply asking the questions and your reflection itself causes the rewiring of the brain.

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

I think the problem we have as apes is we're asking far bigger questions than we could possibly process.

The power of Ayasdi is its unique ability to automatically discover insights - regardless of complexity - without asking questions.

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

An English writer telephoned me from London, asking questions. One was, ‘What’s your alma mater?’ I told him, ‘Books.

When I heard his first songs, Dylan was answering certain questions that I had all my life been asking myself.

I don't mind anyone asking me any questions, I've got nothing to hide. I like it to be as real as it is, that's what I call an interview.

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

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

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

Some people are asking me questions like this is a more shocking subject, which is so strange.

When I address admitted students each spring, I ask them to consider two questions: Why would Harvard be the right place for the person I am? Why would it be the right place for the person that I want to become? These questions, in my mind, get at the heart of any admissions process.

Asking questions about why I don't want kids is really none of your business, but at least it's a dialogue.

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

And I like asking questions, to keep learning; people with big egos might not want to look unsure.

Tweeting first and asking questions later is not a good way to make policy - especially in the Middle East.

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

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

The book Forest Dark wants to provoke questions about what is reality and why are we so given to believe that reality is firm and unbendable. There's a whole host of questions that the book is asking about that. Why do we believe that the world is only one way and as we see it? Why are we not open to the ways in which it might be otherwise.

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

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

Look, I'm not asking you to like me, I'm not asking you to put yourself in a position where I can touch your goodies, I'm just asking you to be fair.

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.

All that's different about me is that I still ask the questions most people stopped asking at age five.