Top 77 Simple Questions Quotes
#1. Sometimes I felt like I would go insane not having the answers to such simple questions. Of course, it was always hardest during the night, then the darkness stole away any signs of hope.
Gail Tsukiyama
#2. The paradox of questioning is that simple questions can lead to detailed, on-target answers, but complicated questions get you single-word answers from a subject who doesn't want to talk, and unrestrained answers from a person who does.
James Pyle
#3. Simple questions
and simple answers
were what we needed in life. That was what Mma Ramotswe believed. Yes.
Alexander McCall Smith
#5. Between the semi-educated, who offer simplistic answers to complex questions, and the overeducated, who offer complicated answers to simple questions, it is a wonder that any questions get satisfactorily answered at all.
Sydney J. Harris
#6. Where did it all begin? These are simple questions, but just as the humid summer air that can be felt but not touched, the answers are elusive.
Elmer Seward
#7. Call me idealistic, but the genesis of great companies is answering simple questions that change the world, not the desire to become rich.
Guy Kawasaki
#8. In my world, there are no simple questions, and precious few answers of any kind. If you are going to write about me, you must resign yourself to that.
John Banville
#9. I became very interested in the Islamic question, and thought I would try to understand it from the roots, ask very simple questions and somehow make a narrative of that discovery.
V.S. Naipaul
#10. We need to challenge our own theology, challenge the curriculum of our Bible schools and our seminaries, and ask simple questions. Are we teaching and producing ministers who have the right message?
Myles Munroe
#11. Einstein was a man who could ask immensely simple questions. And what his work showed is that when the answers are simple too, then you can hear God thinking.
Jacob Bronowski
#13. For the ability to answer three simple questions: 'what to change?', 'what to change to?', and 'how to cause the change?' Basically what we are asking for is the most fundamental abilities one would expect from a manager.
Eliyahu M. Goldratt
#14. Such simple questions as How many feet are in a mile? or What's the number of square feet in an acre? produce the not-so-simple answers of 5,280 and 43,560.
John Bemelmans Marciano
#15. My physics teacher, Thomas Miner was particularly gifted. To this day, I remember how he introduced the subject of physics. He told us we were going to learn how to deal with very simple questions such as how a body falls due to the acceleration of gravity.
Steven Chu
#16. Please ... tell me who you are and what you want. And if you think those are simple questions, keep in mind that most people live their entire lives without arriving at an answer.
Gary Zukav
#17. Our whole journey into authentic masculinity centers around those cool-of-the-day talks with God. Simple questions change hassles to adventures; the events of our lives become opportunities for initiation.
John Eldredge
#18. My basic approach to interviewing is to ask the basic questions that might even sound naive, or not intellectual. Sometimes when you ask the simple questions like 'Who are you?' or 'What do you do?' you learn the most.
Brian Lamb
#19. Eighty percent of American managers cannot answer with any measure of confidence these seemingly simple questions: What is my job? What in it really counts? How well am I doing?
W. Edwards Deming
#20. If you struggle with putting things into perspective, just ask yourself two simple questions: What's the worst thing that could happen as a result of this? Will this matter in five years? Your answers should put a stop to cataclysmic thinking.
Travis Bradberry
#21. I know that scenario... that "You are going to die"... bullshit and bullshit I was next to you what did I fucking get?
- Simple answers of so complex questions... So simple questions and so complex answers... I never mean that and I never wanted that to happen.
Deyth Banger
#22. What if we started every decision by asking some simple questions: What are we giving up by making this choice? What else could we do with the same time and money?
Chip Heath
#23. Luisa rolls her napkin into a compact ball. I ask three simple questions. How did he get that power? How is he using it? And how can it be taken off the sonofabitch?
David Mitchell
#24. As a teenager I wrote to R.A. Lafferty. And he responded, too, with letters that were like R.A. Lafferty short stories, filled with elliptical answers to straight questions and simple answers to complicated ones.
Neil Gaiman
#25. The question that I started off with was, I thought, very simple. It was just 'Is there a massive black hole at the center of the Milky Way?' But one of the things I love about science is that you always end up with new questions.
Andrea M. Ghez
#26. [On Archimedes mathematical results:] It is not possible to find in all geometry more difficult and intricate questions, or more simple and lucid explanation ... No investigation of yours would succeed in attaining the proof, and yet, once seen you immediately believe you would have discovered it.
Proclus
#27. Don't ask me silly questions I won't play silly games I'm just a simple choo choo train And I'll always be the same. I only want to race along Beneath the bright blue sky And be a happy choo choo train Until the day I die.
Stephen King
#28. People often make very bad mistakes because people often don't ask very simple crucial questions before their actions!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#29. Going Home
Take a step towards home.
It is always the most simple
and
direct path.
Let the questions fall away.
The answers don't matter.
Just carry what you are given
and start walking.
Shelley Richardson
#30. Clear content, simple navigation and answers to customer questions have the biggest impact on business value. Advanced technology matters much less.
Jakob Nielsen
#31. There are some questions, there are some answers, the simple ones, the most important ones, that cannot be approached or even seen, until we go out looking for something else entirely.
Carrie Newcomer
#32. I am not a genius, I am just curious. I ask many questions. and when the answer is simple, then God is answering.
Albert Einstein
#33. 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
#34. Should we play Twenty Questions?"
"How would that work in this situation?"
"I could try to guess your preferences."
"My preferences in a kiss?"
I nodded, our faces still very close together.
"My preference is simple - you.
Kasie West
#35. It's always wise to raise questions about the most obvious and simple assumption
C. West Churchman
#36. And so you ask a very good question. Why go on? Why even start off on such a path? What is to be gained from embarking on such a journey? Where is the incentive? What is the reason? The reason is ridiculously simple. There is nothing else to do.
Neale Donald Walsch
#37. One conversation! One simple, honest, true conversation, and all your questions would be answered, all your problems solved! Really, man, is it that difficult? Then you'd be free to fall into each other's arms and live your Happily Ever After. Why make it so complicated?
Eanrin
Anne Elisabeth Stengl
#38. To try to be authentic these days, to ask questions of the people in power - it's difficult. This administration has evolved new techniques to handle people like me. Their strategy, in a word, is simple: ignore them.
Ron Suskind
#39. Difficult questions, simple answers. What is a community?
It is the sum total of our choices.
Fredrik Backman
#40. At the end of our life our questions are simple: Did I live fully? Did I love well?
Jack Kornfield
#41. Life comes with problems, you have to accept that. And you have to try to lead the simple life; to not constantly ask questions about the whys and the wherefores of everything.
Elizabeth Berg
#42. Even when the truth is in fact simple, simplicity is still relative.
Criss Jami
#43. The closing of our earthly eyes is such a simple event. The shedding of the physical body does not solve the fundamental problems of enlightenment, just as changing ones clothes has nothing to do with the deep questions of life and destiny.
Andre Luiz Moreira
#44. No one doubts that pure libertarianism is simple, but that's just why it remains on the ideological fringe - because it boils down the most difficult questions in human affairs to a simple equation, a What Would the Market Do bumper sticker.
Ross Douthat
#45. Here is a very simple and trustworthy saying that deserves full acceptance: If it's not about Christ, it's not Christianity.
D.R. Silva
#46. You are very familiar with Western ways, but you are too young. You go everywhere to follow the big news, but the questions you ask are too simple
sometimes naive.
Jiang Zemin
#47. Why was it he was more comfortable with the dead than the living? The answer was relatively simple. The dead conveniently never asked questions.
David Baldacci
#48. I can't write. I can handle bits of simple-minded advert copy or a poster slogan, so answering questions is about all I'm good for.
Charles Saatchi
#49. God's reply to Job makes one simple point: while human beings may have questions about how the Lord rules His world, they have no justification for demanding answers from Him. He is the Creator, but we are the creatures.
Anonymous
#50. But there is merit even in the mentally retarded legislator. He asks the questions that everyone is afraid to ask for fear of seeming simple.
John Kenneth Galbraith
#51. I remain a simple man who has more questions than answers. Please join me as I seek to turn that tide.
Bill Duke
#52. 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
#53. Beware of those who try to sell you simple answers to complex questions.
Scott Adams
#54. ... 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
#55. The problem is that we attempt to solve the simplest questions cleverly, thereby rendering them unusually complex. One should seekthe simple solution.
Anton Chekhov
#56. 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
#57. Cure is one of the most precious words in the English language. It's a short word. A clean and simple word. But it isn't so easy a thing as it sounds. There are questions like: How will this affect us in ten years? In twenty? What will it do to our children? Our children's children?
Lauren DeStefano
#58. I follow a simple formula when I compose. I ask myself, 'What would the audience want to hear?' and 'Why would they buy my CDs?' And the process of answering these questions through music follows. Sometimes, it works. Sometimes, it backfires.
A.R. Rahman
#59. Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.
Dr. Seuss
#60. Feminism starts out being very simple, and it ends up being a world view that questions hierarchy altogether.
Gloria Steinem
#61. The purpose of philosophy isn't complex theorizing, it is simple and clear thinking in relation to life's big questions.
Steven Colborne
#62. She studied my face for a long minute. "Are you going to help my mom?" It was a simple question. But how do you tell a child that things just aren't that simple, that some questions don't have simple answers
or any answer at all?
Jim Butcher
#63. Alpha was the best thing I ever did. It helped answer some huge questions and to find a simple empowering faith in my life.
Bear Grylls
#64. The sword has to be more than a simple weapon; it has to be an answer to life's questions.
Miyamoto Musashi
#65. The questions asked at the end of lie are very simple ones: Did I love well? Did I love the people around me, my community, the earth, in a deep way? And perhaps, Did I live fully? Did I offer myself to life?
Jack Kornfield
#66. 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
#67. It is amazin, she thinks, how simple appearances can be created - a rush, a smile, a new coat of paint, a slow, calm voice, a hug, a new dress - a resolve to keep out questions and cling to secrets
Mary E. Pearson
#68. 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
#69. The technical definition of heuristic is a simple procedure that helps find adequate, though often imperfect, answers to difficult questions. The word comes from the same root as eureka.
Daniel Kahneman
#70. We must not expect simple answers to far-reaching questions. However far our gaze penetrates, there are always heights beyond which block our vision.
Alfred North Whitehead
#71. We're in the explanation business, and if the answers to the questions we explore got too simple, we'd be out of work.
Michael Pollan
#73. Life is as simple as these three questions: What do I want? Why do I want it? And, how will I achieve it?
Shannon L. Alder
#74. And here it is that I miss my Watson. By cunning questions and ejaculations of wonder he could elevate my simple art, which is but systematized common sense, into a prodigy. When I tell my own story I have no such aid.
Arthur Conan Doyle
#75. Residues arise ... naturally in several branches of analysis ... Their consideration provides simple and easy-to-use methods, which are applicable to a large number of diverse questions, and some new results ...
Augustin-Louis Cauchy
#76. For if there is one lesson worth retaining from the travails of the Cold War and the miseries it brought in its wake, it is the folly of seeking simple answers to complicated questions. It is a lesson which governments still show no sign of learning.
Philip Short
