Top 100 Quotes About Asking Questions
#1. I see all these people talking about acting as a great spiritual thing. It's not. There's no great mystery to acting. It's a very simple thing to do, but you have to work hard at it. It's about asking questions and using your imagination.
Eddie Marsan
#2. G.E. doesn't pay any taxes, and we are asking college kids to take on even more debt to get an education and asking seniors to get by on less. These aren't just economic questions. These are moral questions.
Elizabeth Warren
#3. Laying down a challenge means more than directing people to do it. It includes asking the hard questions that no one yet has the answers to and then backing off so that the people within the organization have the space to think through the questions, take ownership, and find the answers.
Liz Wiseman
#4. He had a talent for asking exactly the right questions to lead me to my own answers. Just being near him made things clearer.
K.D. Sarge
#5. I suspect that had my dad not been president, he'd be asking the same questions: How'd your meeting go with so-and-so? . How did you feel when you stood up in front of the people for the State of the Union Address-state of the budget address, whatever you call it.
George W. Bush
#6. ... That little narrative is an example of the mathematician's art: asking simple and elegant questions about our imaginary creations, and crafting satisfying and beautiful explanations. There is really nothing else quite like this realm of pure idea; it's fascinating, it's fun, and it's free!
Paul Lockhart
#7. Faith doesn't run deep because one is stuffed with right answers. It is cultivated by asking the right questions.
Josh Ross
#8. I don't need to be liked, but I need to be vital - on set or on stage - and I think that probably would be my advice: Stay vital. It's about saying 'no' and asking the tough questions and believing in yourself when no one else will, but you have to know the rules to break them.
Logan Marshall-Green
#9. Asking the questions - that's what changes lives. Every cell in your body is awake with inquiry. And you cannot believe the old thoughts again.
Byron Katie
#10. A tingle ran down her back. This was so strange. Him, asking her this. Far more intimate than it should have felt. Because she knew he wanted to know. He didn't ask empty questions or waste words.
Veronica Rossi
#11. Father laughed, which upset Bruno even more; there was nothing that made him more angry than when a grown-up laughed at him for not knowing something, especially when he was trying to find out the answer by asking questions.
John Boyne
#12. I am a person who believes in asking questions, in not conforming for the sake of conforming. I am deeply dissatisfied - about so many things, about injustice, about the way the world works - and in some ways, my dissatisfaction drives my storytelling.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
#13. We can only continue to promote invention, creativity and success by asking of ourselves, our situations and problems some key questions. What questions are you asking today?
Archibald Marwizi
#14. If my answers frighten you then you should cease asking scary questions.
Quentin Tarantino
#15. I'm friends with Taylor Swift, and I am tired of people asking me questions about our friendship. When I post a picture of us on Instagram, I'm posting a picture of me and my friend.
Sarah Hyland
#16. Some people are asking me questions like this is a more shocking subject, which is so strange.
Daniel Radcliffe
#17. In an honest effort to gain understanding, asking questions do not, necessarily, imply a conclusion has been determined. They can be used to avoid making the wrong judgement. If building trust is the ultimate goal - there is no need to be defensive, or feel threatened by any inquiry.
T.F. Hodge
#18. So quit asking everybody else questions, unless you're ready to answer some questions yourself.
Carolee Dean
#19. We did that often, asking each other questions whose answers we already knew. Perhaps it was so that we would not ask the other questions, the ones whose answers we did not want to know.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
#21. In terms of asking questions, I plead guilty. I ask a hell of a lot of questions. That's my job.
Dick Cheney
#22. Asking questions, demanding explanations - these things always led to trouble
Jennifer Donnelly
#23. And my heart is breaking
My heart is lying on the floor in a pool of tears
I keep asking the same questions only to have them unanswered
Paula Heller Garland
#24. Very often kids don't ask questions in class because they don't want to be seen asking a question.
Nicholas Negroponte
#25. Monsters exist, but they are too few in number to be truly dangerous. More dangerous are the common men, the functionaries ready to believe and to act without asking questions.
Primo Levi
#26. 'Presence of God' is really that understanding that sometimes when you step out of your own shoes and just open your ears and listen to what's going on around you, you get answers to the questions you were asking.
Dave Gahan
#27. The quality of your life is a direct reflection of the quality of the questions you are asking yourself
Anthony Robbins
#28. Every time I ask questions about sex, I always end up asking questions about death.
Christian Boltanski
#29. I was looking for myself and asking everyone except myself questions which I, and only I, could answer.
Ralph Ellison
#30. We have to keep asking ourselves: 'What does it all mean? What is God trying to tell us? How are we called to live in the midst of all this?' Without such questions our lives become numb and flat.
Henri J.M. Nouwen
#31. Most of the people I've encountered are looking not for a religion to answer all their questions but for a community of faith in which they can feel safe asking them.
Rachel Held Evans
#32. I am atheist in a very religious mould. I'm always asking myself the big questions. Where did we come from? Is there a meaning to all of this? When I find myself in church, I edit the hymns as I sing them.
Mark Haddon
#33. Lorcan rubbed his head. "Am I asking too much to want the little bitch dead? Am I?" It seemed Hefaidd-Hen learned long ago not to answer certain questions. "All I want is for her to suffer a painful, horrifying death. And for her head to be on a spike in front of my castle. That's all I want.
G.A. Aiken
#34. Ignorance is bliss-Oedipus ruined a great sex life by asking too many questions.
Stephen Colbert
#35. I love doing what I do. I love asking questions. I love being in the mix.
Larry King
#36. I start asking a lot of questions about my own life, and it's not necessarily fun, but it's a good exercise.
Brad Pitt
#37. The boldness of asking deep questions may require unforeseen flexibility if we are to accept the answers.
Brian Greene
#38. It's about putting the pedal to the metal and not asking any questions at all and just going for it.
Brandon Thomas
#39. If you start looking up, they start asking questions.
Susan Juby
#41. And for any agents or proxy of the regime interested in asking me questions face to face, I've got some bullets slathered in pork fat to make you feel extra special welcome.
Eric S. Raymond
#42. The way that you become world-class is ... by asking good questions.
Tim Ferriss
#43. I think sometimes I get carried away, like I'm speaking to an imaginary audience rather than just trying to figure something out for myself. Ideally, I try to balance that - that I'm asking these questions of myself, how does this work, why does this happen, what's going on here.
David Byrne
#44. Ky still looks at me and I wonder for a moment if he is going to ask me what I am thinking about. But of course, he doesn't. He doesn't learn things by asking questions ... He learns by watching.
Ally Condie
#45. Do you connect to your customers by asking questions and genuinely listening to the answers? And if so, do you take the extra step to connect those customers to expertly personalized solutions? Do you take time to drastically adjust your message to meet each individual customer's needs?
Darren Hardy
#46. I think that stories, and the telling of stories, are the foundations of human communication and understanding. If children all over the country are watching films, asking questions and telling their stories, then the world will eventually be a better place.
Beeban Kidron
#47. Stop asking yourself questions that have no meaning. Or if they have, you'll find out when you need to
find out both the questions and the answers.
Thomas Merton
#48. Well, before you start asking questions, you should do some goddamn research," Blake said.
Robert Blake
#49. I wrote the song "Show Me" as a prayer to God asking simple, honest questions about life and death and why there is so much suffering in the world. As I grew with the song I realized I shouldn't limit these questions solely to God; I should ask those questions of others and of myself.
John Legend
#50. He is a cat, Miss Lancaster. Asking him such questions is an exercise in futility.
Jim Butcher
#51. Good science is done by being curious in general, by asking questions all around, by acknowledging the likelihood of being wrong and taking this in good humor for granted, by having a deep fondness for nature, and by being made jumpy and nervous by ignorance.
Lewis Thomas
#52. If collapse is anything, it is a planetary immersion in the maelstrom of
paradox. Unless we understand and honor paradox, we will end up, like all of
the mainstream media on earth, asking all of the wrong questions.
Carolyn Baker
#53. Such questions as "Why this universe?" are a kind of intellectual neurosis, a
misuse of words in that the question sounds sensible but is actually as
meaningless as asking "Where is this universe?
Alan W. Watts
#54. Children whose curiosity survives parental discipline and who manage to grow up before they blow up are invited to join the Yale faculty. Within the university they go on asking their questions and trying to find the answers ... it is a place where the world's hostility to curiosity can be defied.
Edmund Morgan
#55. I'm asking about the kid," Root said. "What does she get out of it?"
"My fist in her ear if she asks as many questions as you do," Pennant said. "You worry too much. Well, what do you say, Sultan?
Walter Kaylin
#56. Heaven is full of answers for which nobody ever bothered to ask.
Billy Graham
#57. Not everything needs to be said. The silences, the words that aren't spoken, lead us to the questions we should be asking.
David Powning
#58. I'm determined, and I'm passionate and driven about whatever I commit myself to do. If I don't know something, I'm going to ask, and I've got no problems in asking questions. I never have. People ask me, "Are you nervous when you go on the runway? You don't look it." Yes, I am.
Naomi Campbell
#59. Going online and asking questions is the best way to learn.
Tom Felton
#60. Asking questions were the most important thing.
Franz Kafka
#61. Why are you carrying rope around with you?" I asked skeptically.
"Stop asking me dirty questions," he said with a smirk.
Brodi Ashton
#62. To go beyond the mind, you must be silent and quiet. Peace and silence, silence and peace - this is the way beyond. Stop asking questions.
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
#63. It is, indeed, time to start asking the hard questions.
Leviak B. Kelly
#64. Without curiosity we failed to unearth the greatest potential inherent within each of us.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#65. Once you start asking questions, innocence is gone.
Mary Astor
#66. We face a dark future if children stop asking questions, Susanna, Goody Alsop remarked.
Deborah Harkness
#67. Asking a question simply implies that you already know the answer. However, the question that you are asking may simply be an illusion. The beauty of the answer truly blooms, when you ask the right question.
Lionel Suggs
#68. I think all good architecture should challenge you, make you start asking questions. You don't have to understand it. You may not like it. That's OK.
Thom Mayne
#69. Asking questions opens up new doors, new opportunities, and new ideas. It helps you think, create, and discover.
Farshad Asl
#70. In mathematics, the art of asking questions is more valuable than solving problems.
Georg Cantor
#71. It is not only by the questions we have answered that progress may be measured, but also by those we are still asking.
Freda Adler
#72. Asking yourself deeper questions opens up new ways of being in the world. It brings in a breath of fresh air. It makes life more joyful. The real trick to life is not to be in the know, but to be in the mystery.
Fred Alan Wolf
#73. Since 1970, I've been using text and ephemera as well as photographs in order to tell stories of one kind or another. There's a thread that runs through all the work that is to do with bearing witness. The photographs are about asking questions, though, not answering them.
Jim Goldberg
#74. Examinations consist of the foolish asking questions the wise cannot answer
Oscar Wilde
#75. [T]he unknown should not be a source of suspicion, fear, or retreat to superstition, but motivation to continue asking questions and seeking answers.
Neil Shubin
#76. Telling is not selling. Only asking questions is selling.
Brian Tracy
#77. You know that thing where you repeat a word over and over until it just sounds like utter gibberish? That's what doing a day of press on a film is like. Ten interviews in a row, all asking pretty much the same questions until you find yourself giving pretty much the same answers.
John Niven
#78. And I like asking questions, to keep learning; people with big egos might not want to look unsure.
Heston Blumenthal
#79. As one reads mathematics, one needs to have an active mind, asking questions, forming mental connections between the current topic and other ideas from other contexts, so as to develop a sense of the structure, not just familiarity with a particular tour through the structure.
William Thurston
#80. People in business are uniquely unqualified to see their own companies and product objectively. Too much product knowledge causes them to instinctively answer questions no one is asking.
Roy H. Williams
#81. But questions that don't answer themselves at the very moment of their asking are never answered.
Franz Kafka
#82. Ultimately, we are seeking a better understanding of what is means to be human. In this quest, progress is not made by finding the "right" answers, but by asking meaningful questions.
Terry Winograd
#83. I cannot expect even my own art to provide all of the answers, only to hope it keeps asking the right questions.
Grace Hartigan
#84. We are closer to God when we are asking questions than when we think we have the answers.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
#85. When society puts some small fraction of its wealth into asking and answering big questions, it reminds us all of the curiosity we have about our universe. And that leads to all sorts of good places.
Sean Carroll
#86. Does your friend ever say anything?' the fat man asked. Aloom set down the piece of bread he had just rolled round several chunks of meat and gave an exasperated sigh.
'I heard him say oops! once, when he cut the ears off someone who was asking too many questions.
John Flanagan
#87. John Seely Brown, the former director of Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center, once said, The essence of being human involves asking questions, not answering them.
Eric Schmidt
#88. Jesus never asked a question because HE needed to know the answer.
Christopher Bozung
#89. I can get very philosophical and ask the questions Keats was asking as a young guy. What are we here for? What's a soul? What's it all about? What is thinking about, imagination?
Jane Campion
#90. People say to me so often, 'Jane how can you be so peaceful when everywhere around you people want books signed, people are asking these questions and yet you seem peaceful,' and I always answer that it is the peace of the forest that I carry inside.
Jane Goodall
#91. Truly smart technologies will remind us that we are not mere automatons who assist big data in asking and answering questions.
Evgeny Morozov
#92. Inventiveness depends upon two habits of mind, which we can adopt and develop: attention and
curiosity.
Attention means paying attention.....
Curiosity means just that. Endlessly curious. Endlessly asking questions. Endlessly wanting to know
how, and why?
Richard N. Bolles
#93. Wise are those who keep asking questions when everyone around them think they know the answers.
J. Bartell
#94. I've given up asking questions. l merely float on a tsunami of acceptance of anything life throws at me ... and marvel stupidly.
Terry Gilliam
#95. Philosophy, if it cannot answer so many questions as we could wish, has at least the power of asking questions which increase the interest of the world, and show the strangeness and wonder lying just below the surface even in the commonest things of daily life.
Bertrand Russell
#96. Instead of asking, "WHAT should we do to compete?" the questions must be asked, "WHY did we start doing WHAT we're doing in the first place, and WHAT can we do to bring our cause to life considering all the technologies and market opportunities available today?
Simon Sinek
#97. She said, 'This will be a time of asking questions and not rushing to answer them. A time of poking holes in your own theories. A time of thinking and not knowing.
A.S. King
#98. Even when I was older, I couldn't stop asking questions.
Anne Frank
#99. May we be the kind of good faith Christians who shape the future by asking the right questions and then confronting what is wrong, clarifying what is confused, celebrating what is good, and creating what the world is missing.
David Kinnaman
#100. By the time the people asking the questions are ready for the answers, the people doing the work have lost track of the questions.
Norman Ralph Augustine
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