Top 100 Ask The Question Quotes
#1. Indeed, the real question is not, "Why greatness?" but "What work makes you feel compelled to try to create greatness?" If you have to ask the question, "Why should we try to make it great? Isn't success enough?" then you're probably engaged in the wrong line of work.
James C. Collins
#2. Be sure you want the answer before you ask the question.
Carolyn McBride
#3. I often ask the question: Is it impossible to have a simple life?
The world is not simple, Claire said.
The world is not simple. Joe repeated the phrase like the line of a great poem.
Elizabeth Brundage
#4. Let such a person rejoice even to ask the question, "What does this mean?" Yes, let him rejoice in that, and choose to find by not finding rather than by finding fail to find you.
Augustine Of Hippo
#6. If you don't know what to do with an answer, don't ask the question.
Elif Shafak
#7. It is not the question, what am I going to be when I grow up; you should ask the question, who am I going to be when I grow up.
Goldie Hawn
#8. Look: Words did not frighten my father. They scared the shit out of me. I almost couldn't believe I'd worked up the guts to ask the question and not choke to death in the process. But words were the atoms in my father's universe, and he was their destroyer and their creator.
Andrew Smith
#9. Do angels take the Lord's name in vain? The idea is so ridiculous that we scarcely like to ask the question ... How dare we do that which angels dare not do? Is it possible for us to argue that that which is forbidden in heaven is praiseworthy on earth?
George Q. Cannon
#10. I feel that we don't have the luxury of asking whether or not the Palestinians and Israelis can achieve peace. I think we have to just ask the question of when and how.
Queen Rania Of Jordan
#11. My experience tells me, unfortunately, that so many people ask the question about 'The Smiths' reforming without really caring about the answer. They just really want to ask the question.
Johnny Marr
#12. If the show encourages an audience to ask the question, "Is this character's emotional response to this situation valid?," then that's a really good question to ask.
Charlie Cox
#13. They get up every day and go work for money, not taking the time to ask the question, 'Is there another way?
Robert T. Kiyosaki
#14. Stick me in a confessional and ask the question: Sir, if you had the authority, would you forbid smoking in America? You'd get a solemn and contrite, Yes.
William F. Buckley Jr.
#15. Let Lady Glyde's maid come in, Louis. Stop! Do her shoes creak?
I was obliged to ask the question. Creaking shoes invariably upset me for the day. I was resigned to see the Young Person, but I was NOT resigned to let the Young Person's shoes upset me. There is a limit even to my endurance.
Wilkie Collins
#16. Why is failure the first thing I think of when I find myself in this sort of situation? Why can't I just enjoy myself? But if you have to ask the question, then you know you're lost: self-consciousness is a man's worst enemy. Already I'm wondering whether she's as aware of my erection as I am ...
Nick Hornby
#17. If you have competence, you pretty much know its boundaries already. To ask the question (of whether you are past the boundary) is to answer it.
Charlie Munger
#18. There are so many games where you fight aliens or zombies, and they have very high-fidelity graphics, but they don't ask the question of why the events are happening.
Hideo Kojima
#19. Our model of the cosmos must be as inexhaustible as the cosmos. A complexity that includes not only duration but creation, not only being but becoming, not only geometry but ethics. It is not the answer we are after, but only how to ask the question.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#20. People ask the question, 'If you're offered VP, would you take it?' No, I won't take it.
Nikki Haley
#21. Sometimes we get so caught up in appearing smart that we become afraid to ask the question that will actually make us smart.
John Hawkins
#22. Questions are places in your mind where answers fit. If you haven't asked the question, the answer has nowhere to go. It hits your mind and bounces right off. You have to ask the question - you have to want to know - in order to open up the space for the answer to fit.
Clayton Christensen
#23. In your relationship, you should not have to play the detective to get to the truth; you should be able to ask the question and he give you the answer. It should be as simple as that.
Amari Soul
#24. And no one rose to ask the question: Good?-by what standard?
John Galt
Ayn Rand
#25. Read and admire, but then go back to first principles and ask the question yourself, in your own way. Dare to disagree.
David Whyte
#26. When you're experiencing that year-in, year-out challenge of being on your own, it's easy to ask the question "What does everyone else know that I don't?" I suggest you flip that around.
Sara Eckel
#28. As a yoga practitioner with some understanding of how karma works, you have to ask the question, "If I am seeking liberation, will it serve my purpose to rob other beings of their freedom?"
Sharon Gannon
#29. Sometimes you know the answer to a question deep down but you ask the question for some other reason.
Allan Dare Pearce
#30. I can't say when we will have a cure, but we now know through our findings how to ask the question of what is going wrong at the earliest stage of Alzheimer's.
John O'Keefe
#31. I always say that you can't be afraid to ask the question. What's the worst that could happen? The answer could be "no" and you go on.
Susan Stroman
#32. But Tolkien doesn't ask the question: What was Aragorn's tax policy?
George R R Martin
#33. If Russia is prepared to run the risk of cutting off supplies to its neighbors if they have a disagreement, how reliable are they as a supplier? You have to ask the question.
William Ramsay
#34. ... only in the few universes that are like ours would intelligent beings develop and ask the question: "Why is the universe the way we see it?" The answer is then simple: If it had been any different, we would not be here!
Stephen Hawking
#35. Life in itself is so beautiful that to ask the question of the meaning of life is simply nonsense.
Rajneesh
#36. If one really knew what one was doing, why do it? It seems to me if you had the answer why ask the question? The thing is there are so many questions.
Lee Friedlander
#37. Ask the question, receive the answer; don't ask the question, don't receive the answer.
D.R. Silva
#38. We ourselves need love; it's not only society, the world outside, that needs love. But we can't expect that love to come from outside of us. We should ask the question whether we are capable of loving ourselves as well as others.
Nhat Hanh
#39. I always ask the question, Is this what I want in my life?
Kathy Ireland
#40. You get towards the end of life - no, not life itself, but of something else: the end of any likelihood of change in that life. You are allowed a long moment of pause, time enough to ask the question: what else have I done wrong?
Julian Barnes
#41. Review our priorities, ask the question; what's the best use of our time right now?
Alan Lakein
#42. If you ask the question "What can I do for you?", you will always have work, you will always have friends, and your life will always have meaning.
Dick Foth
#43. If you ask the question of Americans, should we pay our bills? One hundred percent would say yes. There's a significant misunderstanding on the debt ceiling. People think it's authorizing new spending. The debt ceiling doesn't authorize new spending; it allows us to pay obligations already incurred.
Peter Welch
#44. Only those ignorant of what poetry means will ask the question: what is it good for?
Orson F. Whitney
#45. Once I asked my dad how you know when you're in love. He said you just know, and that if you have to ask the question then you haven't been in love yet. And he's right. Because there aren't words for this. No combination of letters could ever represent what she is to me.
Mindy McGinnis
#46. If he is old enough to ask the question he is old enough to receive true answers. I am not putting the thoughts into his head, but helping him unfold those already there.
Louisa May Alcott
#47. Many people think of Jesus as our Savior, as the one who will get us into heaven. So the question often is "Have I accepted Jesus as my Savior?" But we never ask the question "Have I accepted Jesus as my teacher?
Dallas Willard
#48. Sometimes you have to ask the question as if it's going to be your last question - as if it's going to be the last time you talk to that person.
Jorge Ramos
#49. You can either ask the question or experience the answer ...
Kalki Bhagavan
#50. Every scene is a love scene. The actor should ask the question: 'Where is the love?'
Michael Shurtleff
#51. Logical Tom begs emotional stupid dickhead Tom not to ask the question.
'Are you alone?' he asks quietly.
He hears her breathing so close to his ear.
'Yes.'
'Good,' he says, his voice croaky. 'I'll sleep like a baby.
Melina Marchetta
#52. If you want the answer - ask the question.
Lorii Myers
#53. For some reason, dying men always ask the question they know the answer to. perhaps it's so they can die being right.
Markus Zusak
#54. I was asked in an interview which was more important: money or love?
I told the interviewer that if he had to ask the question, he wouldn't understand the answer.
John Lennon
#55. Ask yourself, 'what's more important - being real and being myself, or becoming successful? And ask the question knowing that you never actually have to choose between being real and being successful. You simply have to choose between being realand striving to be successful. Get the difference?
Thomas Leonard
#56. Zentangling creations may seem really intricate and intimidating. However, when you learn the basics, you will realize it is simple. It is like learning the secret to a magic trick. In Zentangling, you ask the question "So what else can I not do?
Valerie Coven
#57. You see, my friends ... you begin to ask the questions, 'Who owns the oil?' You begin to ask the question, 'Who owns the iron ore?' You begin to ask the question, 'Why is it that people have to pay water bills in a world that is two-thirds water?'
Martin Luther King Jr.
#58. The answer is already no, if you don't ask the question.
Darryl Hurd
#59. How we ask the question is extremely important to how we find the answer.
C. K. Prahalad
#60. Who am I, and where am I going? You are the answer to this question. You are here to ask the question, and to be the answer.
Michael Beckwith
#61. When you ask for help listen. It's one thing to ask the question and it's another thing to listen to the answer. Many people ask questions but they do not like what they hear and so they pretend that they heard nothing at all.
Gary Zukav
#62. Science is wonderfully equipped to answer the question 'How?' but it gets terribly confused when you ask the question 'Why?'
Erwin Chargaff
#63. One has to always ask the question: Where can one be most effective in helping shape policies? It is always difficult when you're inside because you're very constrained.
Joseph Stiglitz
#64. The President of the United States, if you remove his blackness, then just ask the question, is he a good President or is he a bad President for the United States? Just remove the blackness and make that decision.
Ken Hutcherson
#65. If you can't handle the answer, then don't ask the question.
T.A. Uner
#66. I think having a term for a condition that is prevalent is useful, because then people understand it as something not particular to them. It allows you not to ask the question, "What's wrong with me?" and begin to ask the question, "What's wrong with this place that I'm in?"
Claudia Rankine
#67. I play basketball for love and money, and they come in interchangeable order, depending on how things are going when you ask the question.
Tom Heinsohn
#68. I'm the problem of anxiety we must, therefore, always ask the question of what vital value is being threatened
Rollo May
#69. For businesses to be successful, they need to constantly ask the question: 'How can we provide value to our customers?' At the end of the day, that is what matters.
Eli Broad
#70. Her grandmother had once told her that one of life's best lessons was not being afraid to look foolish
to just ask the question.
Melissa Senate
#71. Before you embark on it you ask the question: Does this path have a heart? If the answer is no, you will know it, and then you must choose another path.
Carlos Castaneda
#72. Are you my mentor? If someone has to ask the question, the answer is probably no. When someone finds the right mentor, it is obvious. The question becomes a statement.
Sheryl Sandberg
#74. In these writings, and in all my teaching work, I continue to ask the question, "What about the children?
Albert J. LaChance
#76. If you really know how to ask the question 'Who am I?' you will inevitably be delivered into that state of silence and pure consciousness that is your true Being. The question 'Who am I?' will ultimately deliver you into the 'I am' of you.
Leonard Jacobson
#77. Man is the only one in whom the instinct of life falters long enough to enable it to ask the question Why?
Joseph Wood Krutch
#78. We tend to think that employment is employment, and we don't ask the question: is this rewarding employment? Research establishes pretty clearly that typical notions of happiness - that more is better - really don't correspond to the way people think and feel.
Michael Spence
#79. There is no point of space, whether inside or outside the bounds of creation, where God is not present. That is why when we ask the question, "Who's in control?" we can answer without equivocation, "God is!
Billy Graham
#80. When man meets himself upon the reflexion of the mirror, it is always advisable to ask the question "Who are you?". If an unsatisfactory answer comes forth, then one must delve into the far reaches of Self and understand why he failed to answer this simple, yet transcending question.
P.A. Wunderlich
#81. Having kids certainly gets me to ask the question, 'Who is the adult here, and who is the kid?'
Christian Slater
#82. Being certain one is alive isn't something to which one pays mind. If you could ask the question, you were fine. If you could not, hopefully you had a cozy coffin.
Thomm Quackenbush
#83. But that's the wrong question. Ask why everyone else is so pathetically stupid and why they're always whining about detention, I should get a medal for not slapping people in the face every day.
Laurie Halse Anderson
#84. One of the problems with being a witch is when you ask the universe a question, it generally give you an answer.
Christiana Miller
#85. A lot of people have this strategy where if they have a hard question they wait to ask it to the end of the interview because they think the person is going to walk out. But what they have to realize is, is that if the person walks out, they have a pretty successful story.
Chuck Klosterman
#86. There are interviewers who try to trip up the candidate," says Hanold. "If you make people do intellectual gymnastics, you're not getting their true self. There is no right answer to any question I ask. I want an authentic response." To
Ethan F. Becker
#87. Where does the road goes? Sometimes it is better not to ask this question and take a chance! This kind of courage can create a wonderful magic!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#88. It is a mistake to imagine that you can awaken in any kind of permanent way. There is only NOW and so you can only be awake now. Even the idea of permanence is an illusion. The question to ask is 'Am I awake and fully present NOW?' That question arises and is answered in perfect silence.
Leonard Jacobson
#89. Donovan Caine wanted me, but he wasn't strong enough to accept me. Not my past, not my strength, not the woman I was. Bitter disappointment filled me, replacing my rage, but I forced myself to ask the final question I wanted an answer to ...
Jennifer Estep
#90. Some songs you get. Some songs you may not. And I think that's the beauty of art: to question and to ask, to understand the deeper meaning after two or three or four listenings.
Janelle Monae
#91. The greatest tragedy in life is not to die, it is to live as if dead, to let the life within us wither. Toward what goal or achievement are we striving in life? This is the important question to ask ourselves.
Daisaku Ikeda
#92. This is why, in a nutshell, advice is overrated. I can tell you something, and it's got a limited chance of making its way into your brain's hippocampus, the region that encodes memory. If I can ask you a question and you generate the answer yourself, the odds increase substantially.
Michael Bungay Stanier
#93. The question is, do you have deliberate plans for your life? Do you have intentions with you time? God planned that there should be a time for everything and for every season, meaning you can plan for everything and every season in your life! You may ask, 'Is that possible?" I say, "It's up to you!
Archibald Marwizi
#94. If you don't ask the right questions, I can't give you the answers, and if you don't know the right question to ask, you're not ready for the answers
Ed Parker
#95. But the question we should ask ourselves is, who is the next visionary leader of America? How do we have the aspiration and inspire Americans to reach their highest level? We need a president that does so.
Tim Scott
#96. People ask how I feel about getting old. I tell them I have the same question. I'm learning as I go.
Paul Simon
#97. To be able to ask a question clearly is two-thirds of the way to getting it answered.
John Ruskin
#98. I'd like to ask you a question, if I may."
"What?"
"All these poems you've written and hidden - so many poems. Why?"
While she thought, morning broke and the birds sang in the garden. "Because I could not stop.
Jeffrey Ford
#99. What's working, and how can we do more of it?" Sounds simple, doesn't it? Yet, in the real world, this obvious question is almost never asked. Instead, the question we ask is more problem focused: "What's broken, and how do we fix it?
Chip Heath
#100. Look at every path closely and deliberately, then ask ourselves this crucial question: Does this path have a heart? If it does, then the path is good. If it doesn't then it is of no use to us.
Carlos Castaneda
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