Top 1200 Pertinent Questions Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

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

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.

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?

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

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

It was from the artists and poets that the pertinent answers came, and I know that panic would have broken loose had they been able to compare notes.

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

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.

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

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

An effective leader develops the ability to correctly identify the pertinent detail or details - incidentals in a market, industry or sport that might create an incremental advantage.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

The message has to go to the streets, it's imperative that we reach those who may not get to a church. We receive their questions, it's important that the world asks questions.

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

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

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 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's fierce competition between all the networks to get the guest who can bring the most pertinent information about whatever the story of the moment happens to be.

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.

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.

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

What is essential is not the answer but the questions; the answers indeed are the death of the life that is in the questions.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

A poor relation is the most irrelevant thing in nature, a piece of non pertinent correspondence, an odious approximation, a haunting conscience, a preposterous shadow, lengthening in the noontide of our prosperity.

Realism in foreign policy means careful consideration of all aspects pertinent to the issue, before taking a decision. This is the only way you can move from where you are to someplace else.

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.

Good questions inform, great questions transform

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

I just use my life story as a kind of device on which to hang comic observations. It's not my interest or instinct to tell the world anything pertinent about myself or my family.

I'm a big believer in pose some questions and then answer a few of them before you move onto the next set of questions.

I very much dislike writing about myself or my work, and when pressed for autobiographical material can only give a bare chronological outline which contains no pertinent facts.

There's a lot of places where the image of a cube as a thing of power is pertinent. I don't know why that is. I don't have any mythic explanation for it, but it seems to work for people.

On certain, delicate subjects, bringing in outsiders to talk about values is pertinent because pupils listen to them more attentively.

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.

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

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

I am excited for the future of the industry, because we're at that point now where digital is becoming pertinent to release and distribution strategy versus releasing on cable or anywhere else.

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

I learned that in order to have a strong and credible voice, I needed to do more research into the history of black people in America while simultaneously digesting new and pertinent news.

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.

When will you start asking different questions? Better questions?

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.

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.

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!'

As you become acquainted with a character you are creating, you add parts of yourself that are pertinent to that character.

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

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

Sometimes God answers our questions with questions.