Top 100 Right Answer Quotes
#1. There is one "right answer" to any question, and it is in the book to be read.
Joseph Barrell
#2. 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
#3. And the maestro surely wielded the chairman's baton with extraordinary skill. His stellar record suggests that the only right answer to the age-old question of whether it is better to be lucky or good may be: both.
Alan Blinder
#4. But in the new (math) approach, the important thing is to understand what you're doing, rather than to get the right answer.
Tom Lehrer
#5. Why is it our business whether Sarah Palin returned to her job as governor three days after her son was born, or three months? Is there a right answer?
Susan Estrich
#6. Art has no right answer. The best we can hope for is an interesting answer.
Seth Godin
#7. Sometimes you have to learn how to give the right answer to the wrong question.
Warren Christopher
#8. She felt as she often did in class when she was nearly sure she had the right answer, but could not always make herself raise her hand.
Catherynne M Valente
#9. Our job is not to answer questions, its to ask the right questions ... that get us to the right answer.
Bill Buxton
#10. Initiative and starting are about neither of these. They are about "let's see" and "try." If there's no clear right answer, perhaps the thing you ought to do is something new. Something new is often the right path when the world is complicated.
Seth Godin
#11. The best way to get the right answer on the Internet is not to ask a question, it's to post the wrong answer.
Ward Cunningham
#12. The condition of all development is not to be content with the present, but to have the courage to ask how everything can be made better and the good fortune to find a right answer to this question in thought or in action.
Ellen Key
#13. As in arithmetic-there is only one right answer to a sum, and all other answers are wrong; but some answers are much nearer being right than others.
C.S. Lewis
#14. If you ask the wrong question, of course, you get the wrong answer.
We find in design it's much more important and difficult to ask the right question.
Once you do that, the right answer becomes obvious.
Amory Lovins
#15. Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future.
John F. Kennedy
#16. Whilst people wholeheartedly talk wrongly about you openly, wholeheartedly talk rightly to God in silence and in faith! He knows everything! He sees everything! He hears everything! And He has the very right answer to everything!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#17. Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.
Cesare Pavese
#18. Science doesn't care, by and large, what the answers are. It's only interested in getting the right answer. And journalism should be very much that way.
Scott Pelley
#19. When you use Google, do you get more than one answer? Of course you do. Well, that's a bug. We have more bugs per second in the world. We should be able to give you the right answer just once. We should know what you meant.
Eric Schmidt
#20. Science seeks the right answer, humor the right wrong answer.
Brian Spellman
#21. A problem isn't finished just because you've found the right answer.
Yoko Ogawa
#22. To get the right answer, it helps to ask the right question.
John Capozzi
#23. People who knew themselves, got the right answer.
Innasafa
#24. Music is not a language. Any musical piece is akin to a boulder with complex forms, with striations and engraved designs atop and within, which men can decipher in a thousand different ways without ever finding the right answer or the best one ...
Iannis Xenakis
#25. Falling in love is easy, letting that love go, is hard. But your heart will always have the right answer. You just have to listen to it and figure out what it's telling you
Marie Coulson
#26. I'll never know the right answer for sex and marriage, sense and mirage.
James Thurber
#27. The right answer is seldom as important as the right question.
Kip Thorne
#28. I said yes, which turned out to be the right answer.
Pat Sajak
#29. Well, the correct answer is he is not a Muslim, he's a Christian. He's always been a Christian. But the really right answer is, what if he is? Is there something wrong with being a Muslim in this country?
Colin Powell
#30. Violence is never the right answer, unless used against heathens and monsters.
Alexander Anderson
#31. There is no right answer except to play and experiment.
Jonathan Adler
#32. Truthiness is what you want the facts to be as opposed to what the facts are. What feels like the right answer as opposed to what reality will support.
Stephen Colbert
#33. I've seen how the issues that come across a president's desk are always the hard ones - the problems where no amount of data or numbers will get you to the right answer.
Michelle Obama
#34. Thought is the supreme power. The right question will have the right answer.
Debasish Mridha
#36. When we teach kids to follow the rules that there's only one right answer & to avoid mistakes at all costs, we're resigning them to average.
Josh Linkner
#37. My father always said never offer a choice if there's only one right answer
Stacey Kade
#38. I think health care is more about love than about most other things. If there isn't at the core of this two human beings who have agreed to be in a relationship where one is trying to help relieve the suffering of another, which is love, you can't get to the right answer here.
Donald Berwick
#39. The only "right" answer is one that can be questioned.
Dean Cavanagh
#40. Of all the virtues related to intellectual functioning, the most passive is the virtue of knowing the right answer. Knowing the right answer requires no decisions, carries no risks, and makes no demands. It is automatic. It is thoughtless
Eleanor Duckworth
#41. I believe very strongly that staying in is the right answer for Britain. And I haven't pulled my punches, I've fought this campaign the only way I know how, which is to lead from the front, to be clear about what I believe, to be clear about what the consequences are.
David Cameron
#42. I like for people to figure things out for themselves. It's not like I have the right answer, but if I have a visceral reaction to something, I'm sure that other people will, too.
Charlie Kaufman
#43. An overly expansive virtual 'toll' for the Internet that blocks consumers' and competitors' access to the e-commerce superhighway is not the right answer.
Marsha Blackburn
#44. There is no single right answer or path forward, but there is one right way to frame the problem.
Clayton Christensen
#46. Given a test question, every wrong answer you eliminate from options A - E increases your chances of getting the right answer by 20percent.
The more you identify what you should not be doing, the closer you get to the things you should do.
Olaotan Fawehinmi
#47. The search for the right answer is the enemy of art.
Seth
#48. There is always a right answer for every question, even for the wrong ones.
M.F. Moonzajer
#49. I like to study the question or the problem or the opportunity in hand, work with the team to come with the right answer, make a decision, and act upon it. Some people have said that, actually, today they pretty much like their bankers dull.
Michael Corbat
#50. There is something embarrassing about someone else's grief. It is hard to know what to do around it. The right answer, always, is hugs.
Adam Gidwitz
#51. There's not always one right answer. The only thing I can tell you is everything that goes on back there is consensual. ~Dylan
Sloan Johnson
#52. As I celebrated what was right with the world, I began to build a vision of possibility, not scarcity. Possibility ... always another right answer.
Dewitt Jones
#53. The day-to-day making of policy is arguing all the time. You're trying to get the right approach and the right answer, and there are moments that aren't very pleasant. But in the end, you look at the overall product.
Madeleine Albright
#54. In the course of your education you have always been taught to look for the right answer - but you must also know that in life, sometimes the right answer is that there isn't one.
William Daniels
#55. I actually think Bill Gates is conventionally smarter, even though it's a dumb word, but mental processing power - I've watched him use four different screens, process information, get to the right answer, boom boom boom.
Walter Isaacson
#56. Of course. Ask your librarian. Always the right answer.
Marilyn Johnson
#57. The only acceptable response to the threat of lethal violence is immediate and savage counterattack. If you resist, you just may get killed. If you don't resist you almost certainly will get killed. It is a tough choice, but there is only one right answer.
Jeff Cooper
#58. When I say something, I mean it, whether or not it's the right answer. When I tell you I love you I mean it.
Louisa Hall
#59. The truth is that this universe is gassy and unpredictable.
It still has not said excuse me for The Big Bang.
Sometimes we expect too much instead of practicing enough
or receiving in us just the right answer.
You, the Staggering Answer
Buddy Wakefield
#60. Parents - and teachers too - are woefully short-sighted when they try to protect the child from his mistakes, when they make the "right answer" more important than the quest for knowledge and good judgment. For what is not learned within one's self cannot be learned from another.
Sydney J. Harris
#61. A clear right answer and the opportunity to change the options? This is the chooser's dream.
Sheena Iyengar
#62. There's no right answer
to the wrong question.
Now what do we do?
Ursula K. Le Guin
#63. Everyone matures. When I was Newt's age, I thought I had the right answer to things. The baby-boomers as political leaders are still on trial by the American people.
Pete Du Pont
#64. The idea that everyone should slavishly work so they do something inefficiently so they keep their job - that just doesn't make any sense to me. That can't be the right answer.
Larry Page
#65. Once my mother had asked me, "Is it better to burn to death or freeze to death?" and the right answer was freeze because at the very end there was a trick that made you think you were warm.
Jenny Offill
#66. Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly sets for each individual.
John Chaffee
#67. Shall I tell you why young men love war? ... In peace, there are a hundred questions with a thousand answers! In war, there is only one question with one right answer ... Going to war makes you a man. It is emotionally exciting and morally restful.
Mary Doria Russell
#68. Self-inquiry is a spiritually induced form of wintertime. It's not about looking for a right answer so much as stripping away and letting you see what is not necessary, what you can do without, what you are without your leaves.
Adyashanti
#69. It is a mistake to hire huge numbers of people to get a complicated job done. Numbers will never compensate for talent in getting the right answer (two people who don't know something are no better than one), will tend to slow down progress, and will make the task incredibly expensive.
Elon Musk
#70. in business doing nothing is often the hardest thing. (And not just in business. Harold Macmillan, prime minister during the Cuban missile crisis, mused then 'on the frightful desire to do something, with the knowledge that not to do anything was prob. the right answer'.)
Simon Kuper
#71. If I'm ever unsure as to the correct course of action, I'll think, "What would a ferret do?" or, "How would a salamander respond to this situation?" Invariably, I find the right answer. I
Gail Honeyman
#72. God calls us to duty, and the only right answer is obedience ... whether we ourselves get enjoyment and blessing from the task or not, the call must be obeyed ... It is better to obey blunderingly than not to obey at all.
George Hodges
#73. The wrong answer is the right answer to a different question.
Paul Sloane
#74. I don't need every answer. Just the right answer.
Garrett McCoy
#75. It was of course Jefferson's gift at one time or another to put with eloquence the "right" answer to every moral question. In practice, however, he seldom deviated from an opportunistic course, calculated to bring him power.
Gore Vidal
#76. Being silent and doing nothing is never the right answer. What happens in one state can happen in another.
Alan Wilson
#77. Newton had a very good description of gravity, back in the day, and then Einstein came along and dug a little bit deeper. Science is like peeling an onion. You go deeper and deeper and deeper, and it doesn't stop. It's not like you will get to a right answer.
Dallas Campbell
#78. Your mom's not that bad," said Jim. "Are you trying to make me mad?" "Okay she is." "I knew it. You've never liked her." "What's the right answer?" "So you're just telling me what I want to hear?" Jim reached over and put a hand on his wifes. "I love you.
Tim Dorsey
#79. In politics there is no right answer - and no final answer.
Ann Widdecombe
#80. I know when I have a problem and have done all I can to figure it, I keep listening in a sort of inside silence 'til something clicks and I feel a right answer.
Conrad Hilton
#81. As simple as that, Conrad had finally done it. For the first time in his life he had the right answer. It wasn't the best decision and certainly wasn't a logical one, but it was the right one.
Victoria Forester
#82. The university... has intimidated her so that she will always give the "right" answer instead of the Christian answer, regardless of what she really believes.
Anna Sofia Botkin
#83. Sasha tipped back her head to look at him. She made a point of doing this now and then, just to remind Coz that she wasn't an idiot - she knew the question had a right answer. She and Coz were collaborators, writing a story whose end had already been determined: she would get well.
Jennifer Egan
#84. I never thought that I will be famous in math with this that with wrong solving the problems in math I get the right answer. But it looks I'm now Famous!
Deyth Banger
#85. Now, we don't teach children in schools to be creative. We don't teach them to experiment. We want them to fill in the right answer, tick the right answer in the box.
James Dyson
#86. It has taken my whole life thus far to see how being brave enough to hold on to a question, brave enough to never stop looking for answers, and brave enough to take action even when I didn't know the right answer, was as brave as I needed to be to succeed and to succeed with love.
Andrea T. Goeglein
#87. The fact is, there aren't just two sides to any issue, there's almost always a range of responses, and "it depends" is almost always the right answer in any big question.
Linus Torvalds
#88. In Detroit, Ned [Harkness] kept talking about a new concept, and when I'd ask him what he meant he never gave me the right answer. Now, take Bobby Hull. Give him a puck, a stick and a pair of skates and put him on your team. Do you need a new concept?
Frank Mahovlich
#89. I like Math because there's only one right answer.
Brendan Fehr
#90. When you're dealing with subjective matters, there's no wrong or right answer, it's just, "What do we think is best for the show?"
Rob McElhenney
#91. I don't have the delusion that I'm the best or have the right answer. Whenever someone is out there pissed at you or me, they don't even know you or I. What they are really pissed at is themselves. You might have total respect for them but they don't respect themselves.
Tony Robbins
#92. Ever notice how 'What the hell' is always the right answer?
Marilyn Monroe
#93. Fighting with him was like trying to solve a crossword and realizing there's no right answer
Taylor Swift
#94. So many things begin to change when you come at the world from that perspective of more than one right answer.
Dewitt Jones
#95. Experiments show that children in unsupervised groups are capable of answering questions many years ahead of the material they're learning in school. In fact, they seem to enjoy the absence of adult supervision, and they are very confident of finding the right answer.
Sugata Mitra
#96. I am not interested in coming to a conclusion or finding the "right" answer, I'm interested in going on a lifelong journey with this God who decided he wanted to walk this same journey with me.
Ricky Maye
#97. Everyone has obstacles, and you're not going to have the right answer or do the right thing every single time.
Shannon Miller
#98. President Clinton says he looks forward to the day a citizen can call the IRS and get the right answer to a question. I look forward to the day I can call the IRS and get a voice that says, 'Sorry, that number has been disconnected.'
Jay Leno
#99. You can choose who you want to be the hero [in Hard Candy], but youll be second-guessing yourself
theres just no right answer. Our society is obsessed with finding good and finding evil, but I think were all capable of anything.
Ellen Page
#100. But if we can work with people in other parties to get the right answer for the country we'll do that.
Francis Maude
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