Asking Questions Quotes - Page 3

• I love the early process of asking questions about a story and deciding which questions matter most.

  Diane Sawyer

  Stories, Literature, Matter

  9 Copy quote

• Do things that will get people asking questions, the answer to which is the Gospel.

  Lesslie Newbigin

  Christian, Prayer, People

  40 Copy quote

• 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

  Believe, Sake, Way

  "Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Continental Divides". Interview with Joseph Klarl, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 14, 2013.

  16 Copy quote

  Show source

• Monsters exist, but they are too few in numbers to be truly dangerous. More dangerous are…the functionaries ready to believe and act without asking questions.

  Primo Levi

  Believe, Numbers, Holocaust

  141 Copy quote

• At the start of any program, asking questions is the most important part of the process. If you get [the customer's] requirements wrong, then you don't have a successful product.

  Joe Sutter

  Successful, Important, Requirements

  Source: archive.is

  15 Copy quote

  Show source

• You don't have to stop thinking and asking questions to believe in God, child. If He'd wanted a flock of eight billion sheep, He wouldn't have given us opposable thumbs, much less free will.

  Hillary Jordan

  Children, Believe, Thinking

  4 Copy quote

• 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

  Hard Work, Simple, Imagination

  "Eddie Marsan: 'There's no great mystery to acting'". Interview with Elzabeth Day, www.theguardian.com. October 03, 2010.

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• Going online and asking questions is the best way to learn.

  Tom Felton

  Way, Online, Asking

  "Tom Felton: I'm a little bit of a geek". Interview with Stuart O'Connor, www.theguardian.com. November 27, 2009.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• When you stop learning, stop listening, stop looking and asking questions, always new questions, then it is time to die.

  Lillian Smith

  Time, Diversity, Listening

  17 Copy quote

• Once you start asking questions, innocence is gone.

  Mary Astor

  Gone, Asking, Innocence

  Mary Astor (1971). “A life on film”

  17 Copy quote

  Show source

• Learn From Yesterday, Live for Today, hope for tomorrow.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Cute, Positive, Leadership

  156 Copy quote

• When people asked Socrates, ‘What is wisdom?’ he always gave the same answer: ‘I don’t know’. In fact, Socrates never claimed to know much of anything except how to ask questions. And by asking questions, he would prove to other people that they didn’t know what they thought they knew.

  Jim Rohn

  People, Answers, Facts

  5 Copy quote

• I don't think you'll ever replace human judgment and human inspiration and creativity because, at the end of the day, you need to be asking questions like, O.K., the system says this. Is this really what we want to do? Is that the right thing?

  Laszlo Bock

  Inspiration, Creativity, Thinking

  11 Copy quote

• Beware of anyone who calls you bad names merely for asking honest questions. Beware of anyone who insists on reframing your sincere curiosity as a character defect. Beware of anyone who questions your motives while ignoring your facts. When someone calls you bad names merely for asking questions, it suggests they know the answer but are terrified to admit it.

  Jim Goad

  Character, Names, Curiosity

  42 Copy quote

• What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about nature in the language that we possess and trying to get an answer from experiment by the means that are at our disposal.

  Werner Heisenberg

  Nature, Mean, Science

  38 Copy quote

• The trouble with asking questions is you sometimes get answers you don't wanna hear.

  Nikki Sixx

  Answers, Sometimes, Trouble

  Nikki Sixx (2007). “The Heroin Diaries: A Year in the Life of a Shattered Rock Star”, p.176, Simon and Schuster

  62 Copy quote

  Show source

• Mastering the art of asking questions is essential to creativity and innovation. A More Beautiful Question should be standard reading for all aspiring design thinkers as well an inspiration to those searching for a life of curiosity and meaning.

  Tim Brown

  Beautiful, Art, Inspiration

  13 Copy quote

• 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

  Faith, Doe, Done

  4 Copy quote

• Let's never stop asking questions. Questions give us a harbor to remember where we once lived mentally. They remind us of the possibilities that can be born out of thoughts and musings, and they link together pattern that define our lives.

  Luci Swindoll

  Giving, Together, Links

  Luci Swindoll (2003). “I Married Adventure”, p.121, Thomas Nelson Inc

  21 Copy quote

  Show source

• Adolescence begins when children stop asking questions-because they know all the answers.

  Evan Esar

  Funny, Children, Answers

  8 Copy quote

• Don't wait for mentors to seek you out. Don't ever wait for your phone calls to be returned, your letters to be answered, your faxes to be responded to. Keep going out and asking question.

  Denis Waitley

  Phones, Waiting, Mentor

  23 Copy quote

• The act of trying keeps me excited, looking, asking questions and learning.

  Doug Dawson

  Effort, Trying, Excited

  7 Copy quote

• Even when I was older, I couldn't stop asking questions.

  Anne Frank

  Asking

  Anne Frank (2008). “Anne Frank's Tales from the Secret Annex: A Collection of Her Short Stories, Fables, and Lesser-Known Writings, Revised Edition”, p.139, Bantam

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

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

  Christian Boltanski

  Sex, Ends, Asks

  "To die is very strange". Interview with Caia Hagel, logger.believermag.com. March 12, 2014.

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• The best educators I have met never stop asking questions. Some of them have taught for forty years and continue to be energized by new possibilities.

  Carol Ann Tomlinson

  Years, Taught, Possibility

  Source: blogs.edweek.org

  7 Copy quote

  Show source