Top 1200 Essential Questions Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

When you live a life without questions, you're unprepared for the questions when they come.

Curiosity is the process of asking questions, genuine questions, that are not leading to an ask for something in return.

At a time of multiple calamities in the world, we cannot allow the loss of essential antimicrobials, essential cures for many millions of people, to become the next global crisis.

I ask questions, and a large part of my life has been spent asking questions of Ken Livingstone.

I asked questions when I was a stripling, and it is not my business to ask questions now, but to teach people what I have discovered.

Anthroposophy is a path of knowledge, to guide the spiritual in the human being to the spiritual in the universe... Anthroposophists are those who experience, as an essential need of life, certain questions on the nature of the human being and the universe, just as one experiences hunger and thirst.

When will you start asking different questions? Better questions?

Curiosity is a key building block. The more curious you are, the more creativity you will unleash. A great way to do that is to ask the three "magic questions" again and again... those questions are simply, "Why", "What if?", and "Why not?". Asking these questions constantly focused you on the possibilities and away from how things are at the moment.

I don't mind that people have questions and would look for someone to respond to their questions, particularly if their faith is not terribly well-known.

We're musicians and despite that, we get more political questions than musical questions, which kind of irks me.

There's always going to be questions asked where there is competition, and as long as you can answer those questions, then you're deserving of a place.

I did answer all of the questions put to me today, ... Nothing in my testimony in any way contradicted the strong denials that the president has made to these allegations, and since I have been asked to return and answer some additional questions, I think that it's best that I not answer any questions out here and reserve that to the grand jury.

There are a very small number of doctors in France that use essential oils and herbs as well as conventional drugs in their treatments and sometimes they will use essential oils intensively, usually because they are treating people with cancer or chronic infections that patients have had for years, and ingested essential oils are a really a great choice for treating chronic infections if you're a doctor.

Most of the complexity of the stories has developed as the stories came along (and may be a product of the principle that "nothing is what it seems"). I did start with some essential ambiguousness in the aliens' motivation and the questions this raises in human minds, which I consider to have been disregarded in Contact (novel and film). That, in part, may be what has delayed the writing of the fifth and sixth novelettes in the series.

To ask questions of the universe, and then learn to live with those questions, is the way he achieves his own identity.

But then science is nothing but a series of questions that lead to more questions.

I think the more important task for a young person than developing a personal brand is figuring out what she's great at, what she loves to do, and how she can use that to leave an imprint in the world. Those are tough questions, but essential ones. Answer those - and the personal brand follows.

I never got many questions about my managing. I tried to get twenty-five guys who didn't ask questions.

All essential knowledge relates to existence, or only such knowledge as has an essential relationship to existence is essential knowledge.

Questions are often more effective than statements in moving others. Or to put it more appropriately, since the research shows that when the facts are on your side, questions are more persuasive than statements, don't you think you should be pitching more with questions?

It's great to be in the position of asking questions and not having to answer questions.

When the facts are on your side, there is huge power in pitching with questions. Because questions are active rather than passive. They necessitate a response.

I like to engage the public because when I was in high school, I had all these questions about anti-matter, higher dimensions and time travel. Every time I went to the library, every time I asked people these questions, I would get some strange looks. Nobody could answer any of these questions.

Writers are essential. Readers are essential. Publishers are not.

Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable. How many hours are in a mile? Is yellow square or round? Probably half the questions we ask - half our great theological and metaphysical problems - are like that.

Asking the proper question is the central action of transformation- in fairy tales, in analysis, and in individuation. The key question causes germination of consciousness. The properly shaped question always emanates from an essential curiosity about what stands behind. Questions are the keys that cause the secret doors of the psyche to swing open.

The variety of opinions leads to questions. Questions lead to truth.

I get asked enough questions, I try not to ask too many questions.

No one comes to your website to be entertained. They have questions they think you can answer. Content answers questions.

It is essential to have good tools, but it is also essential that the tools should be used in the right way.

If there are questions then, of course, there are answers, but the final answer makes the questions seem absurd.

Questions are like gifts - it's the thought behind them that the receiver really feels. We have to know the receiver to give the right gift and to ask the right question. Generic gifts and questions are all right, but personal gifts and questions feel better.

Everything we know has its origins in questions. Questions, we might say, are the principal intellectual instruments available to human beings.

Science is very good at answering the 'how' questions. 'How did the universe evolve to the form that we see?' But it is woefully inadequate in addressing the 'why' questions. 'Why is there a universe at all?' These are the meaning questions, which many people think religion is particularly good at dealing with.

Evolution answers some questions but reveals many more questions. Some of these questions at this stage appear to be unanswerable in the light of present scientific knowledge. In common parlance: `The more you know, the more you know you don't know.

So when I say that I think we would have a different ethical level, particularly in corporate America, if there were more women involved, I mean that what women are best at is asking questions. Women ask questions over and over again. It drives men nuts. Women tend to ask the detailed questions; they want to know the answers.

There are always going to be questions - I know that. I'll let my playing answer my questions.

There are always going to be questions asked when there is competition. As long as you can answer those questions, then you are deserving of a place.

Good questions inform, great questions transform

Questions appear real for as long as you consider yourself to be a person. When you realize you are the impersonal presence, all questions vanish.

When you figure it right down, none of us are in a really essential business but the farmer, and he raises so much that even his business is partly non-essential.

Questions that require answers are what keep readers going - and the place to start raising those questions is with your very first sentence.

Most artists I know consider themselves to be phonies, along with the feeling that there's something that you're doing is essential, essential to communicate, and deeply, deeply real.

Quite early on, and certainly since I started writing, I found that philosophical questions occupied me more than any other kind. I hadn't really thought of them as being philosophical questions, but one rapidly comes to an understanding that philosophy's only really about two questions: 'What is true?' and 'What is good?'

Unfortunately, the reporters ask the same questions over and over again. When reporters keep asking the same questions, they've got to recognize I may hear these questions 20 to 30 times in a matter of days. It gets to the point where I think, 'Read the other interviews!'

I feel that life is a series of very interesting questions, and very poor answers. But I myself am willing to settle for the questions. If the questions are interesting, I feel I evoke them in what I do. I feel that should be good enough for everyone else.

Shocking writing is like murder: the questions the jury must decide are the questions of motive and intent.

Like any good shaman, professional baseball player, or politician, my mother always answered questions with questions.

Sometimes God answers our questions with questions.

My view is the questions in Parliament should be the questions that people out there want asked.

The essential difference in service is not machines or 'things.' The essential difference is minds, hearts, spirits, and souls.

I love the early process of asking questions about a story and deciding which questions matter most.

I want people to come away from my book with questions. Questions about virtue and goodness. Not answers.

To seek visions, to dream dreams, is essential, and it is also essential to try new ways of living, to make room for serious experimentation, to respect the effort even where it fails.

Body and soul, Black America reveals the extreme questions of contemporary life, questions of freedom and identity: How can I be who I am?

Even though you can't get along without your smartphone, there are not many essential services on your smartphone. They're mostly convenience; you could live without it. Essential means you die without it. A gadget that warns you're about to have a heart attack - that's essential. We're about to go into that phase with smartphones.

All the questions discussed in the Talmud and related rabbinic literature are normative questions: either they are questions of what one is to think or what one is to do. Every prescribed thought has some practical implication; every prescribed act has some theoretical implication.

Asking the proper questions is the central action of transformation. Questions are the key that causes the secret doors of the psyche to swing open.

In terms of asking questions, I plead guilty. I ask a hell of a lot of questions. That's my job.

Questions for questions. You're a man who's spent time at court.