Top 100 Ask Questions Sayings
#2. If you think you know, you don't ask questions, or if you ask, you don't listen to the answers. Everyone, everything, each thing, is different, so that it isn't safe to know. You - you have to grope.
Rumer Godden
#3. To get answers, ask questions; but to get good answers, ask good questions.
Israelmore Ayivor
#4. Rarely does an interviewer ask questions you did not expect. I have given a lot of interviews, and I have concluded that the questions always look alike. I could always give the same answers.
Italo Calvino
#5. You cannot ask questions about your purpose from to other people; only the creator knows the intention of his creation
Sunday Adelaja
#6. You don't have to know everything in the world. We aren't supposed to. It makes you boring in mixed company if you can't be interested and ask questions of other people.
Angela Johnson
#7. The most subversive people are those who ask questions.
Jostein Gaarder
#8. Our job is to ask questions of children so that children internalize these questions and ask them of themselves and their own emerging drafts.
Lucy Calkins
#10. Along the way I have been able to choose some themes which ask questions - not necessarily force a message on anyone, but at least invite the audience to question things: jury service, dignity in dying, Ireland - and not least because they force me to ask myself questions. Where do I stand?
Julie Walters
#11. Successful selling begins with listening. Your job when you are in front of the prospect is to ask questions and then listen to the answers. Take copious notes about what they tell you; what they say and what they don't say.
Diane Helbig
#12. People have a right to ask questions and dig deep when you're hurting people and things around you.
Layne Staley
#13. Art is not supposed to repeat what you already know. It is supposed to ask questions.
Sarah Thornton
#14. Get involved and learn how to recognise a story happening in front of you. Learn how to ask questions and be curious. That's probably my biggest piece of advice.
Jill Douglas
#15. But it is very foolish to ask questions about any young ladies - about any three sisters just grown up; for one knows, without being told, exactly what they are - all very accomplished and pleasing, and one very pretty. There is a beauty in every family. - It is a regular thing
Jane Austen
#16. From film to film, I realize my strengths and my weakness, and I realize how much better I get. I learn the lingo, I ask questions and I'm on set trying to figure out which shots they're going to use. For me, it's exploring the art. It's not just making a movie.
Naturi Naughton
#18. If one could call Chase Winter a friend. I was still trying to figure him out. All things considered, I had no doubt in my mind that if I told him I needed someone killed, he wouldn't even ask questions. He'd simply ask who and jog away.
Rachel Van Dyken
#19. If you want to go to a place you have never been before, you have to ask questions you have never asked before. Don't feel shy to ask questions about things you don't know!
Israelmore Ayivor
#21. Don't just ask questions. Know how the answers to the questions will change your behavior. In other words, draw a line in the sand before you run the survey.
Alistair Croll
#22. Well, wouldn't it have been easier if she'd just asked me whether I liked her better than you?"
"Girls don't often ask questions like that," said Hermione.
"Well, they should!" said Harry forcefully.
J.K. Rowling
#23. This is your last chance, honey," Brandy says, and her blood is getting all over the place. She says, "Do you love me?" It's when folks ask questions like this that you lose the spotlight.
Chuck Palahniuk
#24. I feel like a good director provokes you to ask questions about your character, but doesn't answer them for you.
Crystal Reed
#25. The democratic race is really boring when the media is basically writing stories and spending money to ask questions in a poll about somebody who is not even a declared candidate.
Dana Perino
#26. I doubt if we'd ever get a complete case tried - the ladies'd be interrupting to ask questions.
Harper Lee
#27. We aren't encouraged to think for ourselves and ask questions. We are expected to accept what they teach us as infallible truths.
Raquel Cepeda
#28. Running through a lot of traditional photojournalism there is an overwhelming sense of ... pictures that say something, that define something. I'm not trying to define things. I'm trying to explore things. I'm trying to ask questions.
Alex Webb
#30. I was overjoyed when I was offered the title role in 'Well Done Abba.' I was ready for the role even before I heard the story because you don't ask questions when it is Shyam Benegal's film. It is the chance of a lifetime.
Boman Irani
#31. Innovation happens when people are given the freedom to ask questions and the resources and power to find the answers.
Richard Branson
#32. Even if sheep could talk, they'd never ask questions.
Andrew Vachss
#33. To ask questions can become the laziest and wobbliest occupation of a mind, but when you must yourself answer the problem that you have posed, you will meditate your question with care and frame it with precision.
James Stephens
#34. To identify your own idols, ask questions like these: What things take the place of God in my life? Where do I find my significance and my confidence? What things make me really angry? Anger usually erupts when an idol gets knocked off the shelf.
Philip Graham Ryken
#35. In Enlad," said Arren after a while, "we have a story about the boy whose schoolmaster
was a stone:'
"Aye? ... What did he learn?"
"Not to ask questions.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#36. If you show people how much you care and ask questions in a non threatening way, you'll be amazed by how much they'll tell you.
John C. Maxwell
#37. I'm not a nosy person, but I'm always thinking 'I wonder why he did that? I wonder why this week he was this much better than last week?' I'm always wanting to ask questions of people. I think my advice would be get involved locally and see where it takes you.
Jill Douglas
#39. It is impossible to experience a person's life, or to be compassionate, if you do not listen to the person or if you do not ask questions.
James Martin
#41. The job is to ask questions-it always was-and to ask them as inexorably as I can. And to face the absence of precise answers with a certain humility.
Arthur Miller
#42. Even if a poem is beautiful and memorable, it's not like an advertising jingle or propaganda, which attempt to convince and control. Poems seek to confuse, disabuse, enlarge understanding, and make people ask questions and think for themselves.
Rachel Zucker
#43. Humans have precious few instincts, but that's because we don't listen to them. We let logic and knowledge get in the way. My dad always said that when instincts are at war with something society has taught you, listen to your instincts first and ask questions later.
Elizabeth Norris
#44. Good books make you ask questions. Bad readers want everything answered.
Scott Westerfeld
#45. Ask questions instead of giving direct orders.
Dale Carnegie
#46. If you do not ask questions, how can you find the answers you seek?
Lailah Gifty Akita
#47. Carter and Helene still ask questions. I used to ask questions, and I got the answer: nothing. The answer is "nothing.
Joan Didion
#48. You have to experience life, make observations, and ask questions.
Mos Def
#49. We saw what happens with Bolsheviks. It was another catastrophe. I don't have the solution. The moviemaker can ask questions but not give solutions.
Costa-Gavras
#50. R.E.A.L. conversation: Recognize judgments. Express thoughts neutrally. Ask questions. Listen for verbal & non-verbal messages.
John Stoker
#51. Tendai remembered his last birthday. It seemed one shouldn't make wishes idly. Who knew which spirits were listening. He considered a moment and then thought, I wish for courage. Because with courage, you weren't afraid to look at the truth. You weren't afraid to ask questions or do the right thing.
Nancy Farmer
#52. God will probably allow us to ask questions about and discover some of the things we've always been curious about. Isn't it marvelous to think about how we will be able to actually meet and talk to people who lived throughout history?
David Berg
#53. if you're stuck on anything...ask Questions
John Bedford
#54. I don't ask questions. I just figure the extra warm days are God's way of rewarding me for Garden State
Zach Braff
#55. One of the best things data can enable us to do is to ask questions we didn't know to ask.
Vinod Khosla
#56. not because they are based on any kind of fact. I'm not that smart, but I'm smart enough to know to ask questions. And sometimes all you have to do is ask questions and things that aren't true fall apart under examination.
Bobby Adair
#57. Get the facts. Ask questions and listen intently to the answers before responding.
Brian Tracy
#58. Ask questions if you really want to know the answers.
Lexi Ainsworth
#59. If somebody takes the time, a: to read a book that I have written, and then to b: care about it enough to write me and ask questions, surely I owe them a response.
Lois Lowry
#60. He [Pigpen] should know better than to ask questions he won't get answers to. He motions to my cell. "I could hack it and just find out."
Proved he could this afternoon after the two of us hacked into emails of someone who's been targeting a client.
Katie McGarry
#61. It is the responsiblity of every human to know their actions and the consequences of their actions and to ask questions and to question things when they are wrong.
Michael Moore
#62. When you ask questions, Lini used to say, then you have to hear the answers whether you want to or not.
Robert Jordan
#63. You can't ask questions like that. Everything has to be done in the right order, or the whole narrative falls to pieces. One thing has to follow another. You can't skip over anything or move things along faster. One step at a time.
Adele Geras
#64. As a science fiction fan, I had always assumed that when computers supplemented our intelligence, it would be because we outsourced some of our memory to them. We would ask questions, and our machines would give oracular - or supremely practical - replies.
Gary Wolf
#65. Chocolate didn't make stupid decisions. Chocolate didn't ask questions. Chocolate was the perfect companion.
Melissa Foster
#66. Science should be the most fun job on the planet. You get to ask questions about the world around you and go out and seek the answers. Not to have fun doing that is crazy.
Craig Venter
#67. I like it when an actor is secure enough to ask questions, and the director is secure enough not to be threatened by that.
Paul Haggis
#68. When in doubt, shoot 1st and ask questions later, but avoid the head, "because they'rea lot more likely to answer if they're not dead.
Lois Greiman
#69. Our real Self does not ask questions, as it does not require answers. It is there, it is present Now. We are only able to find it if we forget about questions and submit to the Self, radiating its light in the Present!
Frank M. Wanderer
#70. Don't be afraid to ask questions. Don't be afraid to ask for help when you need it. I do that every day. Asking for help isn't a sign of weakness, it's a sign of strength. It shows you have the courage to admit when you don't know something, and then allows you to learn something new.
Barack Obama
#71. You must learn that it is not important for you to ask questions. Nobody needs for you to ask questions. Your job is to follow procedure. Following procedure does not require questions.
Noah Cicero
#72. Practice being curious; want to know things; ask questions.
Anders Holm
#73. All the answers are but waiting for us while we, poor fools, ask questions and wait for the secrets of God to open themselves up to us: when they, all the while, are waiting for us to open ourselves up to them ...
Muhammad Asad
#74. I think human beings are almost, by definition, religious people,in the sense that we ask questions of meaning, we anticipate future events, we deal with the issues of mortality from the first time we see a dead bird as a little child.
John Shelby Spong
#75. Just as someone who's been interested in radio and programming for so long, I can usually tell when an interviewer is doing a segment just to fill a programming slot. They ask questions, but they don't care about the answers.
Chris Hardwick
#76. I go into the Upanishads to ask questions.
Niels Bohr
#77. We long for our churches to be safe places to doubt, to ask questions, and to tell the truth, even when it's uncomfortable.
Rachel Held Evans
#78. Most people consider problems whose solutions don't suit them to be insoluble.
And they constantly ask questions to which they don't need truthful answers.
Sergei Dovlatov
#79. It's always easier to ask questions than provide answers. Journalists - and revolutionaries, I assume - know it only too well.
Sudeep Chakravarti
#80. He could ask questions of the sky, and sometimes the sky would whisper answers.
Rick Riordan
#81. Muhammad Ali was a god, an idol and an icon. He was boxing. Any kid that had the opportunity to talk to Ali, to get advice from Muhammad Ali, was privileged. He's always given me time to ask questions, although I was so in awe that I didn't ask questions.
Sugar Ray Leonard
#82. With a feeling of intense disgust you kick the mass of rubbish into a corner and go home, your head full of revolutionary schemes to abolish the divine right of professors to ask questions without the consent of the questioned.
Helen Keller
#83. As far as innovation goes, I can tell you that Korean students are reluctant to step out of line. If I ask questions, nobody raises their hands - not because they don't know the answers, but because they don't want to step out of line.
Dan Shechtman
#84. How are you going to find out about things if you don't ask questions?
L.M. Montgomery
#85. The most remarkable property of the universe is that it has spawned creatures able to ask questions.
Stephen Hawking
#86. Rule One, boy: shoot first then ask questions
Rulw Two, Double tap just for good measure. Better safe then sorry. -Bubba
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#87. I'm a gangster, and gangsters don't ask questions.
Lil' Wayne
#88. A coach should never be afraid to ask questions of anyone he could learn from.
Bobby Knight
#89. It's the nature of man to ask questions.
Belgarath
David Eddings
#90. When your boss assigns you a project, take good notes and ask questions regarding anything you're not sure about. Over the years, I've noticed that junior staffers are often reluctant to ask too many questions about a project - perhaps
Kate White
#92. How hard would it be to ask children what they see in their heads? How big should the house be in comparison to the family standing in front of it? What is it about the anatomy of the people that doesn't look right? Then let them try it again. Teach them to learn how to see and ask questions.
Charles De Lint
#93. I was raised with the notion that it was OK to ask questions, and it was OK to say, I'm not sure. I believe, but I'm not quite so certain about the resurrection.
Peter Jennings
#94. You have to tell your children about the world they live in, about the discrepancies, about the things that don't work ... So you have to bring it up with a scientific orientation so they learn to ask questions, and learn how to say the most difficult thing in the world: 'I don't know'.
Jacque Fresco
#95. When I'm starting to feel, "How many more people are there?" I go slower. I ask questions, and that person engaging with me gives me energy.
Sandra Cisneros
#96. If you are happy, don't analyse your happiness, don't ask questions and don't even think about it; just live it to the fullest!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#97. I want people to start thinking about what it means to be HIV-positive and to ask questions about that.
Annie Lennox
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