Top 100 Quotes About Good Questions
#1. Goodbyes are not easy, but I'm ready to move on. I'm not reluctant, Emma, not holding back. I don't have answers to the questions, but I have some good questions. I have loved life, but I believe that life is to be loved, it is a gift.
Madeleine L'Engle
#2. The word 'question' is derived from the Latin quaerere 'to seek,' which is the same root as the word for quest. A creative life is a continued quest, and good questions are useful guides.
Paul A. Kaufman
#3. Those are good questions. I recognize good questions, because I can come up with them myself.
Steven Brust
#4. Instead of concentrating just on finding good answers to questions, it's more important to learn how to find good questions!
Donald E. Knuth
#5. The way that you become world-class is ... by asking good questions.
Tim Ferriss
#6. As a leader, these attributes - confidence, perseverance, work ethic and good sense - are all things I look for in people. I also try to lead by example and create an environment where good questions and good ideas can come from anyone.
Heather Bresch
#7. Good question, but no answer. Good questions never have answers.
Haruki Murakami
#8. When someone offers me a job or a project, I always ask myself, "What does it tell me about the world?" and "Have I seen it before?" Two good questions.
Thomas Bidegain
#9. Communicating is about asking good questions and engaging with each other.
Michele Jennae
#10. The South: What is this place? What's different about it? Is it different anymore? Good questions. Old ones, too. People have been asking them for decades. Some of us even make our living by asking them, but we still don't agree about the answers.
John Shelton Reed
#11. Good questions work on us, we don't work on them. They are not a project to be completed but a doorway opening onto greater depth of understanding, actions that will take us into being more fully alive.
Peter Block
#12. To get answers, ask questions; but to get good answers, ask good questions.
Israelmore Ayivor
#13. My university teacher and mentor Kenneth Arrow remembers me as a student who asked good questions. Although I had not previously thought of myself in that way, on reflection I think that Arrow was right.
Oliver E. Williamson
#14. Good questions are to be appreciated, not answered.
Raheel Farooq
#15. People like to know you're listening, and something as simple as a clarification question shows not only that you are listening but that you also care about what they're saying. You'll be surprised how much respect and appreciation you gain just by asking good questions.
Travis Bradberry
#16. You have to ask good questions. "What can I do to improve?" or "How can I find a better job?" or "How can I be grateful that I lost this job?" Because inside of every problem is the seed of a "difficult gratitude problem" and it always improves your life to solve those problems.
James Altucher
#17. I think what I love about the documentary process is that you bring yourself to the documentary. And hopefully that makes you ask good questions, and hopefully that makes you reveal a little bit about yourself as well.
Soledad O'Brien
#19. My job is not to produce answers. My job is to produce good questions.
Glenn Ligon
#20. This morning I watched a Diane Sawyer interview where there wasn't one awkward pause. The trick is to pose good questions. "So how was being in the war?" I ask. I'm always saying the wrong thing.
Kathleen Hale
#21. Many leading educators and psychologists believe that it is the ability to ask good questions that characterizes both intelligence and creativity.
Madeline Levine
#22. Love is the answer, but while you are waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good questions.
Woody Allen
#23. In 50 years - or 20 years, or 200 years - our current epistemic horizon (the Big Bang, roughly) may look as parochial as the horizon Newton had to settle for in his day, but no doubt there will still be good questions whose answers elude us.
Daniel Dennett
#24. Only good questions deserve good answers.
Oscar Wilde
#25. My work is more about trying to ask good questions and not trying to come up with big shows. Every fashion company is doing that, every car company is doing that.
Laurie Anderson
#27. But I believe that good questions are more important than answers, and the best children's books ask questions, and make the reader ask questions. And every new question is going to disturb someone's universe.
Madeleine L'Engle
#28. Good questions inform, great questions transform
Ken Coleman
#29. Our lives are shaped by the questions we ask. Good questions lead to good outcomes. Bad questions lead to bad outcomes.
Michael Hyatt
#30. Good art and a good life answers questions. Great art and a great life asks questions.
Richard Blanco
#31. The head has no answers, and the heart has no questions, Jack would say.
Quoting his teacher and good friend Jack Kakakaway
Richard Wagamese
#32. When I meet successful people I ask 100 questions as to what they attribute their success to. It is usually the same: persistence, hard work and hiring good people.
Kiana Tom
#33. A coach is someone skilled at unlocking your ideas with the right questions. A good coach knows that the answer to everything you need is within you.
Farshad Asl
#34. The people who are the best in the world specialize at getting really good at the questions they don't know.
Seth Godin
#35. A good cause is often injured more by ill-timed efforts of its friends than by the arguments of its enemies. Persuasion, perseverance and patience are the best advocates on questions depending on the will of others.
Thomas Jefferson
#36. Larry Grobel senses there are no answers in life, only questions. Good ones.
Robert Towne
#37. So with each advance in understanding come new questions. So we need to be very humble. We shouldn't have hubris and think that we can understand everything. But history tells us that there is good reason to believe that we will continue making fantastic progress in the years ahead.
Max Tegmark
#38. We may still have as many questions after the game as we did before the game. But that's OK. Good teams answer their questions as they go, but they do it with wins. We didn't get it done last week - we found a way to get it done this week.
Greg Schiano
#39. The old huntsman was a surprisingly good teacher. He didn't belabor his points, didn't talk down to us, and didn't mind questions. Even Tempi's trouble with the language didn't frustrate him. Even
Patrick Rothfuss
#40. 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
#41. The one thing I seek above all else is understanding. Sometimes I'm so frustrated and I don't get it. But I'm lucky to have a good management team and people around me who explain things and answer my questions.
Justin Guarini
#42. Most propositions and questions, that have been written about philosophical matters, are not false, but senseless ... (They are of the same kind as the question whether the Good is more or less identical than the Beautiful.)
Ludwig Wittgenstein
#43. Like any good shaman, professional baseball player, or politician, my mother always answered questions with questions.
Sherman Alexie
#44. In the beginning I thought, and still think, he did great good in giving support and encouragement to this movement. But I did not believe then, and have never believed since, that these ills can be settled by partisan political methods. They are moral and economic questions.
Ray Stannard Baker
#45. So if you aspire to be a good conversationalist, be an attentive listener. To be interesting, be interested. Ask questions that other persons will enjoy answering. Encourage them to talk about themselves and their accomplishments. Remember
Dale Carnegie
#46. You know, how much order is good? And when does order become too restrictive? Is a little bit of chaos okay, or is chaos always an evil force? I mean, these are questions that any kid who's ever been in a school cafeteria can relate to.
Rick Riordan
#48. The problem would not exist if I asked beforehand. Hence, it is vital to ask honest questions (even if it sounds "stupid") rather than making assumptions. Everybody makes mistakes; the good news is that everything can be fixed.
Anna Agoncillo
#49. 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
#50. Be sceptical, ask questions, demand proof. Demand evidence. Don't take anything for granted. But here's the thing: When you get proof, you need to accept the proof. And we're not that good at doing that.
Michael Specter
#51. Librarians were somewhat on a par with God-who else could be bothered with, and better yet, know the answers to so many different types of questions? Knowledge was power, but a good librarian did not hoard the gift. She taught others how to find, where to look, how to see.
Jodi Picoult
#52. Because I was big, I didn't have to listen to anyone doubting me. I was just considered good at football or whatever, there were no questions about it.
Idris Elba
#53. Advocacy groups and voters are not wrong to push candidates to declare their position clearly on policy issues. That is good citizenship. Hard questions should be asked of every candidate, every politician. And those public servants should be prepared to answer, but in their own words.
Mark McKinnon
#54. Our relationship with the United States is not reduced to questions of fighting terrorism and the Iraq war. German-American relations were so good for so many years because they extended deeply into the normal lives of people.
Angela Merkel
#55. 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
#56. The kind of problem that literature raises is not the kind that you ever 'solve'. Whether my answers are any good or not, they represent a fair amount of thinking about the questions.
Northrop Frye
#57. Tell you what, you let me go, and I'll ask you plenty of questions about your race. Until then, I'm slightly distracted with how this little vacation on the good ship Holy Sh*t is going to pan out for me.
J.R. Ward
#58. thousand CEOs, business owners, and highly successful entrepreneurs about their businesses and how they lead companies through good times and bad. One of the most important questions I ask them is "What's the biggest worry keeping you awake at night?
Jason Jennings
#59. I believe in individual rights so much that I don't like any sort of 'what's good for the cause'-type questions.
Penn Jillette
#60. 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
#61. It's just so fragile. The growing sense of 'Oh, God, what am I doing? Am I any good? Will I ever work again?' All those questions of self doubt, they do creep in.
Jacqueline McKenzie
#62. My public life is before you; and I know you will believe me when I say, that when I sit down in solitude to the labours of my profession, the only questions I ask myself are, What is right? What is just? What is for the public good?
Joseph Howe
#63. Good design begins with honesty, asks tough questions, comes from collaboration and from trusting your intuition.
Freeman Thomas
#64. 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
#65. It's good to ask questions that make people uncomfortable.
Benjamin DeHaven
#66. 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
#67. The key questions will be: Are you good at working with intelligent machines or not? Are your skills a complement to the skills of the computer, or is the computer doing better without you? Worst of all, are you competing against the computer?
Tyler Cowen
#68. Why is it that the people who are very good at answering difficult questions never get asked difficult questions, while people like me are always being forced to do things that are seemingly impossible?
Matthew Quick
#69. You defy questions;
You defy other godhood.
I walk dry on your kingdom's border,
Exiled to no good.
Sylvia Plath
#70. When things went right, it was generally because the woman had cleverly manipulated the guy into good dating behavior. He'd call when he said he would. Put some thought into dates. He'd ask questions about her life because she didn't vomit up all her personal history in the first ten minutes.
Kristan Higgins
#71. Life is not about good answers, it is about interesting questions.
Paulo Coelho
#72. You've got a fairly good idea as to what the questions are going to be. But how to record the best answer is another matter.
Nick Faldo
#73. Good question to ask yourself: How would the person I would like to be do what I'm about to do?
Jim Cathcart
#74. One of the great things about having good players in your band is that you just ask them questions. You can pick up some good information that way.
Bill Bruford
#75. What are your goals? Where are you going? Why are you here? What are you? Scientology has answers to these questions, good answers that are true, answers that work for you. For the subject matter of Scientology is you.
L. Ron Hubbard
#76. That's the way of all good explanations. The better they are, the more questions they raise.
John Brockman
#77. Productivity is for robots. What humans are going to be really good at is asking questions, being creative, and experiences." Kevin Kelly
Timothy Ferriss
#78. If there is such a simple argument for physicalism, how come everybody hasn't always been a physicalist? That's a good question, and there is a good answer. The 'causal completeness of physics' wasn't widely accepted until recently.
David Papineau
#79. Every good educator knows that true teaching is to teach kids how to ask the right questions.
Utah Phillips
#80. As a teenager, I increasingly had questions about religion to which I found no good answers.
Julian Baggini
#81. And before long , the msuic , the views rushing past the window , my fathers voice and the narrow cobblestone streets all merged into one , and it seemed to me that while we would never find answers to these fundamental questions , it was good for us to ask them anyway .
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Orhan Pamuk
#82. The problem is there are no simple "right" answers for most Web design questions (at least not for the important ones). What works is good, integrated design that fills a need - carefully thought out, well executed, and tested.
Steve Krug
#83. He made me feel wanted - good about myself, even. Like he immediately accepted me for me, no questions asked.
Faith Sullivan
#84. My brother's death: wise, good, serious, he fell ill while still a young man, suffered for more than a year, and died painfully, not understanding why he had lived and still less why he had to die. No theories could give me, or him, any reply to these questions during his slow and painful dying.
Leo Tolstoy
#85. I got my Backstage Bistro Award, I should just retire. You know, that's a good question and I guess it's really really different for everybody.
Jason Graae
#86. Child's evidence is always the best evidence there is. I'd rely on it every time. No good in court, of course. Children can't stand being asked direct questions. They mumble or else look idiotic and say they don't know. They're at their best when they're showing off.
Agatha Christie
#87. Answers do not matter so much as questions, said the Good Fairy. A good question is very hard to answer. The better the question the harder the answer. There is no answer at all to a very good question.
Flann O'Brien
#88. That's a rhetorical question, and trying to answer rhetorical questions instead of being cowed by them is a good habit to cultivate.
Daniel C. Dennett
#89. Good science fiction is intelligent. It asks big questions that are on people's minds. It's not impossible. It has some sort of root in the abstract.
Nicolas Cage
#90. Everyone is gonna have a bad day, everyone is gonna have a bad game. The questions are: How do you recover? What builds your character? I decided one day early on in high school that I wanted to be great at basketball, not just a good basketball player.
Gilbert Arenas
#91. If America leads a blessed life, then why did God put all of our oil under people who hate us?
Jon Stewart
#92. Faith does not inquire whether there are good works to be done, but even before asking questions, faith has done the works already.
Martin Luther
#93. If explicit metadata is a real problem, it raises problems that just can't be solved. It's not that we're not good at it; it's the problems cannot be solved because we're not going to agree about these deep questions of how we organize.
David Weinberger
#94. Answers to leading questions under torture naturally tell us nothing about the beliefs of the accused; but they are good evidence for the beliefs of the accusers.
C.S. Lewis
#95. Science doesn't have all the answers, but it is good at spotting the important questions when they are camouflaged against a background of common sense.
Richard Dawkins
#96. We can judge our progress by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers, our willingness to embrace what is true rather than what feels good.
Carl Sagan
#97. Designing a winning strategy is the art of asking questions, experimenting and then constantly renewing the thinking process by questioning the answers. No matter how good today's strategy is, you must always keep reinventing it.
Constantinos C. Markides
#98. Siri, what is the meaning of life? She answers: To think about questions like this. Huh. Good one.
Kim Wright
#99. I know that big people don't like questions from children. They can ask all the questions they like, How's school? Are you a good boy? Did you say your prayers? but if you ask them did they say their prayers you might be hit on the head.
Frank McCourt
#100. Explaining the unknown should be left to science, questions of good and bad behavior can be answered by ethics, and inspiration is often found in the arts. There's no longer a need for the social construct of religion.
David G. McAfee
