Most Important Question Quotes

#1. The most important question in the world is, 'Why is the child crying?'

Alice Walker

#2. Talent alone won't make you a success. Neither will being in the right place at the right time, unless you are ready. The most important question is: 'Are your ready?'

Johnny Carson

#3. The most important question we must ask ourselves is, 'Are we being good ancestors?'

Jonas Salk

#4. The most important question we have to deal with is a combination of population control and the control of our environment - how to utilize the world in as effective a way as we can for the future of mankind.

David Packard

#5. The most important question a seminary student must answer about his professor is not, 'Is he orthodox?,' but 'Is he honest?

William E. Nix

#6. If you focus on near-term growth above all else, you miss the most important question you should be asking: will this business still be around a decade from now?

Peter Thiel

#7. Geoff Nelder's ARIA has the right stuff. He makes us ask the most important question in science fiction-the one about the true limits of personal responsibility.

Brad Linaweaver

#8. I think we're avoiding the most important question here. What matters most. What means the most to men like us."
Conall growled at Billy Dunwich's sincere face. "I am not telling you if she swallows."
Dunwich smiled. "Just tell me if she's a good girl ... or if she's a very good girl?

Shelly Laurenston

#9. Often in life, the most important question we can ask ourselves is: do we really have the problem we think we have?

Sheri Fink

#10. Maybe the most important question was the one that burned bright, the one that nagged, the one that promised Christian could never be scraped from my consciousness. No blade was sharp enough. No cut could ever go deep enough.

A.L. Jackson

#11. The most important question of the 21st century is not what or how much, it is 'How?' How do you propose to turn your good ideas into positive changes in other people's lives? You must be the 'how generation.'

William J. Clinton

#12. The most important question a human being has to face ... What is it? The question, Why are we here?

Elie Wiesel

#13. when we do science or are confronted with data the most important question to ask about the results is always whether some bias is present that leads us preferentially to draw one conclusion rather than another from the evidence.

Anonymous

#14. The most important question is, 'Am I asking the most important question?' The second most important question is, 'Am I asking the most important question in the most important way?'

John Paul Caponigro

#15. The most important question to ask is "What am I becoming?"

Jim Rohn

#16. The most important question anyone can ask is: What myth am I living?

Carl Jung

#17. What shall I do, then, with Jesus who is called
the Christ? (Matthew 27:22 NIV). This is the most important question that has ever been asked. It is also the question you must ask yourself.

Billy Graham

#18. The most important question a person can ask is, Is the Universe a friendly place?

Albert Einstein

#19. Refinancing your mortgage usually makes sense if you can lower your interest rate by at least two points. But the most important question to ask yourself is, how long will it take you to break even?

Barbara Corcoran

#20. If you are not moving closer to what you want, you probably aren't doing enough asking. And you're probably not asking the single most important question that can help you achieve a higher level of success and personal fulfillment: How am I doing?

Jack Canfield

#21. Uncertain of uncertainty, skeptical of skepticism, it seems that the most important question is whether there is an important question.

Mitchell Heisman

#22. The most important question in American cinema, I've learned, is 'When is lunch?'

Tommy Lee Jones

#23. The most important question to ask on the job is not 'What am I getting?' The most important question to ask on the job is 'What am I becoming?'

Jim Rohn

#24. The most important question that we should ask is, "How can I serve?

Debasish Mridha

#25. I ask her the most important question anybody has ever asked here or ever will: Did you ever fall in love with an Israeli man? "No. I couldn't." Why not? "I am a Palestinian. It is the same as a Jew falling in love with a German Nazi officer.

Anonymous

#26. In the long term the most important question for a company is not what you are but what you are becoming.

Gary Hamel

#27. The most important question regarding Big Data at almost any company is: How much are your customers really worth?

Bill Lee

#28. This might be the most important question for every creator and maker in the world: how do you make something new if most people just like what they know? Is it possible to surprise with familiarity?

Derek Thompson

#29. I grew up so thoroughly imbued with women's rights that it was the most important question of my life from a very early day.

Lucretia Mott

#30. The most important question is, what is really most important for you in life and how to get there.

Debasish Mridha

#31. The most important question any human being will ever face: 'Who do you say that Jesus is?'

Keith Mathison

#32. I asked Dalai Lama the most important question that I think you could ask - if he had ever seen Caddyshack.

Jesse Ventura

#33. The most important question facing the planet is: Is it worth it?

Robert Bateman

#34. the most important question is not whether the government has the power to incarcerate a person - almost invariably, it does. The proper question is whether that power has been exercised lawfully.

Joseph Margulies

#35. The most important question I ever asked a priest was where are the Bingo Dobbers at?

Stabley Victor Paskavich

#36. I think that most writers who are trying to write important and difficult books are in many ways putting their own humanity into question. Sometimes the journey is finding out where you stand in relationship to your own humanity and to the humanity of others.

Chris Abani

#37. Who we are? Us!Right? What kind of people are we? What kind of person are you? Isn't that the most important thing of all? Isn't that the kind of question we shloud be asking ourselves all the time? 'What kind of person am I?

R.J. Palacio

#38. Whether the British ruling class are wicked or merely stupid is one of the most difficult questions of our time, and at certain moments a very important question.

George Orwell

#39. The question I ask myself like almost every day is, 'Am I doing the most important thing I could be doing?' ... Unless I feel like I'm working on the most important problem that I can help with, then I'm not going to feel good about how I'm spending my time. And that's what this company is.

Mark Zuckerberg

#40. Ari Shavit's My Promised Land is without question one of the most important books about Israel and Zionism that I have ever read ... This is the book that has the capacity to reinvent and reshape the long-overdue conversation about how Israel's complex past ought to shape its still-uncertain future.

Daniel Gordis

#41. The most important thing I found out from [my father] is that if you asked any question and pursued it deeply enough, then at the end there was a glorious discovery of a general and beautiful kind.

Richard P. Feynman

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

Edward De Bono

#43. It answers the question that was tormenting you: my love, you are not 'one thing in my life' - not even the most important - because my life no longer belongs to me because ... you are always me.

Jean-Paul Sartre

#44. Sometimes the ethical - the most important ethical question sometimes is the one you ask not at the moment of crisis, but the duty you have to anticipate certain kinds of crises and avoid them.

Sheri Fink

#45. But let there be no doubt: he'd prefer to be handling those challenges adaptively because doing well is preferable. And because - and this is, without question, the most important theme of this entire book - kids do well if they can.

Ross W. Greene

#46. If you said, 'What is the most important aspect of winning football games?' I don't think I could give you an answer to that question.

Cris Collinsworth

#47. Strive For Excellence
Perhaps the most
Important single cause of
A person's success or
Failure educationally has
To do with the question
Of what he believes about
Himself

Arthur W. Combs

#48. One of the most important things one can do in life is to brutally question every single thing you are taught.

Bryant McGill

#49. [Question: What do you think was the most important physics idea to emerge this year?]
We won't know for a few years.

Stephen Hawking

#50. Many, if not most, Christians begin with the wrong question of who they should vote for rather than the more important question of how they should vote.

Tony Evans

#51. Without question, the single most important attribute of a successful entrepreneur is integrity. And that's not some philosophical or theoretical malarkey; it's hard-nosed fact.

David S. Rose

#52. I don't care if people hate my guts; I assume most of them do. The important question is whether they are in a position to do anything about it.

William S. Burroughs

#53. Science, its imperfections notwithstanding, is the sword in the stone that humanity finally pulled. The question it poses, of universal and orderly materialism, is the most important that can be asked in philosophy and religion.

Edward O. Wilson

#54. One of the most important elements in the evolution of human institutions is the emergence of the difficult customer within the system itself, the radical who starts to question its very being, the reformer who calls for changes in the way it runs.

Richard Holloway

#55. It is important to understand the continuing, confused fascination with the Second World War. For most of us, the great unspoken question is how would we have behaved in the face of danger and when forced to make major moral choices.

Antony Beevor

#56. Without question, the Red Ryder BB gun is the most important gun in the history of American weaponry.

Ted Nugent

#57. The most important responsibility we have as journalists is to question those who are in power. I honestly believe that.

Jorge Ramos

#58. At this point the question of Ukraine is the most important. The situation in Ukraine is very bad. If we don't take steps now to improve the situation, we may lose Ukraine. The objective should be to transform Ukraine , in the shortest period of time, into a real fortress of the U.S.S.R.

Joseph Stalin

#59. Injuries are not only a physical question, which is the most important thing, of course, but also a question of your mind. If you're thinking: 'I'm not going to make it', 'I can't cope', 'it hurts', 'it's never going to get better', then it won't.

Luis Suarez

#60. I think there are a lot of pictures to make. I sometimes question whether I'm even an artist or just a painter. To me, the making of the pictures is the most important thing.

Martin Mull

#61. A Good Man. Every night, like a question-and-answer prayer, my son and I recite ... What are you going to be? And he says ... An honest man. A fair man. A courageous man. And a good man. That's the most important thing, Papa. And my job is finally done. For the night.

Carew Papritz

#62. Being a father is the greatest achievement and the most important thing about me. I have two great kids, no question.

Ryan Phillippe

#63. Often, in great discovery the most important thing is that a certain question is found.

Max Wertheimer

#64. Belief?" "Yes," Sazed said. "Tell me, Mistress. What is it that you believe?" Vin frowned. "What kind of question is that?" "The most important kind, I think.

Brandon Sanderson

#65. Whether we're talking about fish species, pigs, or some other eaten animal, is such suffering the most important thing in the world? Obviously not. But that's not the question. Is it more important that sushi, bacon, or chicken nuggets? That's the question.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#66. I think that probably the most important thing about our education was that it taught us to question even those things we thought we knew. To say you've got to inquire, you've got to be testing your knowledge all the time in order to be more effective in what you're doing.

Thabo Mbeki

#67. The polls undoubtedly help to decide what people think, but their most important long-term influence may be on how people think. The interrogative process is very distinctly weighted against the asking of an intelligent question or the recording of a thoughtful answer.

Christopher Hitchens

#68. I think most people have creative ideas and have very strange, unorthodox impulses of things that they can do with their lives. I've had many of these over the years, but I decided the more important question was, 'When did I start calling this art?'

Vik Muniz

#69. One of the most important decisions you'll ever make is choosing the kind of universe you exist in: is it helpful and supportive or hostile and unsupportive? Your answer to this question will make all the difference in terms of how you live your life and what kind of Divine assistance you attract.

Wayne Dyer