Quotes About Asking Yourself Questions

#1. Never lie in bed at night asking yourself questions you can't answer.

Charles M. Schulz

#2. Again the important point to remember is that you should keep asking yourself questions. Do not make statements. Ask questions to yourself. The mind hates that.

Robert Adams

#3. The golden rule is work fast. As for framing, composition, focus-this is no time to start asking yourself questions: you just have to trust your intuition and the sharpness of your reflexes.

Jacques-Henri Lartigue

#4. Self-reflection entails asking yourself questions about your values, assessing your strengths and failures, thinking about your perceptions and interactions with others, and imagining where you want to take your life in the future.

Robert L. Rosen

#5. 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

#6. 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

#7. 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

#8. 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

#9. 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

#10. 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

#11. The way that you become world-class is ... by asking good questions.

Tim Ferriss

#12. 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

#13. We can find the answers will seek in books.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#14. If you start looking up, they start asking questions.

Susan Juby

#15. It's about putting the pedal to the metal and not asking any questions at all and just going for it.

Brandon Thomas

#16. The boldness of asking deep questions may require unforeseen flexibility if we are to accept the answers.

Brian Greene

#17. 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

#18. I love doing what I do. I love asking questions. I love being in the mix.

Larry King

#19. Ignorance is bliss-Oedipus ruined a great sex life by asking too many questions.

Stephen Colbert

#20. I'm not seeing tough questions asked on American television. I'm not seeing those correspondents that would question those in power. It's like a club. We are not asking the tough questions.

Jorge Ramos

#21. Well, before you start asking questions, you should do some goddamn research," Blake said.

Robert Blake

#22. 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

#23. He is a cat, Miss Lancaster. Asking him such questions is an exercise in futility.

Jim Butcher

#24. 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

#25. 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

#26. 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

#27. 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

#28. 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

#29. You read the pragmatists and all you know is: not Descartes, not Kant, not Plato. It's like aspirin. You can't use aspirin to give yourself power, you take it to get rid of headaches. In that way, pragmatism is a philosophical therapy. It helps you stop asking the unhelpful questions.

Richard Rorty

#30. Each new day brings new opportunities. You have to search to be able to find these opportunities.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#31. If you can dedicate yourself to asking questions to reveal your potential, you will discover your potentials and start to fulfil your mission

Sunday Adelaja

#32. You need philosophy. It sounds a little pompous but I think when you direct a film, the only way to find a response to the questions you keep asking yourself is to have a philosophy.

Michel Gondry

#33. When somebody has an enormous success in this culture, people start asking two questions, which are 'What are you doing now?' and 'How are you going to beat that?' And I have to say, I love the assumption that your intention is to beat yourself constantly - that you're in battle against yourself.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#34. watching TV and playing solitaire is not a proper life. It's not living. It's killing time, and that's hardly the same. You start asking yourself too many questions when your day is reduced to these rote activities that accomplish nothing. You start to wonder

Catherine Ryan Hyde

#35. You write to please yourself, you write to move yourself, to engage yourself in the asking of questions that are important to you.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#36. Some people are asking me questions like this is a more shocking subject, which is so strange.

Daniel Radcliffe

#37. 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

#38. 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

#39. 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

#40. 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

#41. 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

#42. ... 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

#43. Faith doesn't run deep because one is stuffed with right answers. It is cultivated by asking the right questions.

Josh Ross

#44. 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

#45. 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

#46. 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

#47. 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

#48. 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

#49. 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

#50. If my answers frighten you then you should cease asking scary questions.

Quentin Tarantino

#51. 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

#52. 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

#53. 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

#54. So quit asking everybody else questions, unless you're ready to answer some questions yourself.

Carolee Dean

#55. 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

#56. Truth always leaves a pleasure asking questions.

Allan Gurganus

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

Dick Cheney

#58. Asking questions, demanding explanations - these things always led to trouble

Jennifer Donnelly

#59. 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

#60. Very often kids don't ask questions in class because they don't want to be seen asking a question.

Nicholas Negroponte

#61. 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

#62. The quality of your life is a direct reflection of the quality of the questions you are asking yourself

Anthony Robbins

#63. Every time I ask questions about sex, I always end up asking questions about death.

Christian Boltanski

#64. I was looking for myself and asking everyone except myself questions which I, and only I, could answer.

Ralph Ellison

#65. 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

#66. 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