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• I certainly wasn't seeking any degree, the way a college confers a status symbol upon its students. My homemade education gave me, with every additional book that I read, a little bit more sensitivity to the deafness, dumbness and blindness that was afflicting the black race in America. Not long ago, an English writer telephoned me, asking questions. One was, "What's your alma mater?" I told him, "Books.

  Alex Haley

  Book, College, Race

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• What's the ultimate price I'll pay if I don't stop this indulgence now? By asking questions like this, they'll associate pain to overeating, and their behavior will change immediately.

  Tony Robbins

  Pain, Loss, Pay

  Tony Robbins (2012). “Awaken The Giant Within”, p.219, Simon and Schuster

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• Your teacher cannot bridge the gap between what you know and what you want to know. For his words to ‘educate' you, you must welcome them, think about them, find somewhere for your mind to organize them, and remember them. Your learning is your job, not your teacher's job. And all you need to start with is desire. You don't need a schoolteacher to get knowledge - you can get it from looking at the world, from watching films, from conversations, from reading, from asking questions, from experience.

  Grace Llewellyn

  Teacher, Jobs, Reading

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• Just keep asking questions. Does this job allow me to be myself? Does it make me smarter? Does it open doors? Does it represent a compromise I accept? Does it touch my inner being?

  Suzy Welch

  Jobs, Doors, Doe

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• At first, I see pictures of a story in my mind. Then creating the story comes from asking questions of myself. I guess you might call it the 'what if - what then' approach to writing and illustration.

  Chris Van Allsburg

  Writing, Illustration, Creating

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• You force people to stop asking questions, and before you know it they have auctioned off the question mark, or sold it for scrap. No boldness. No good ideas for fixing what's broken in the land. Because if you happen to mention it's broken, you are automatically disqualified.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Land, Ideas, People

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• The most valuable thing a teacher can impart to children is not knowledge and understanding per se but a longing for knowledge and understanding, and an appreciation for intellectual values, whether they be artistic, scientific, or moral. It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge. Most teachers waste their time by asking questions that are intended to discover what a pupil does not know, whereas the true art of questioning is to discover what the pupil does know or is capable of knowing.

  Albert Einstein

  Appreciation, Teacher, Art

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• When employees tell you about their good ideas for the business, don't limit your response to asking questions, taking notes and following up. If you can, ask those people to lead their projects and take responsibility for them. From those experiences, they will then have built the confidence to take on more and you can take a further step back.

  Richard Branson

  Responsibility, Ideas, People

  "How To Turn Your Idea Into Reality – The Richard Branson Interview". Interview with Nathan Chan, foundr.com. May 30, 2018.

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• How scientists go about their job: and it's a process, it's a question of asking questions, respecting observation, respecting experiment, having tentative explanations and then testing them.... There is a problem sometimes with how we teach science at schools. Because we sometimes teach it as if it has been chiseled in stone.

  Paul Nurse

  Jobs, School, Stones

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• I can't make wine simple. But I can make it fun and beautiful, instead of esoteric and intimidating. The minute you realize it's OK to stumble along like the rest of us, asking questions and paying attention to your own reactions, then you'll begin what I hope will be a lifelong love affair with wine.

  Jennifer Rosen

  Beautiful, Fun, Wine

  Jennifer Rosen (2006). “The Cork Jester's Guide to Wine: An Entertaining Companion for Tasting It, Ordering It and Enjoying It”, p.15, Clerisy Press

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• As one reads mathematics, one needs to have an active mind, asking questions, forming mental connections between the current topic and other ideas from other contexts, so as to develop a sense of the structure, not just familiarity with a particular tour through the structure.

  William Thurston

  Teaching, Math, Ideas

  William P. Thurston (2014). “Three-Dimensional Geometry and Topology, Volume 1”, p.9, Princeton University Press

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• We have a word game in English called "Twenty questions." To play Twenty Questions, one player imagines some object, and the other players must guess what it is by asking questions that can be answered with a "yes" or a "no." I imagine every language has a similar game, and, for those of us who speak the language of science, the game is called The Scientific Method.

  Karl Barry Sharpless

  Player, Games, Scientific Method

  Speech at the Nobel Banquet, www.nobelprize.org. December 10, 2001.

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• I've always been really curious about things and slightly confused by the world, and I think someone who feels that way is in a good position to be the one asking questions.

  Terry Gross

  Confused, Thinking, World

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• So when I say that I think we would have a different ethical level, particularly in corporate America, if there were more women involved, I mean that what women are best at is asking questions. Women ask questions over and over again. It drives men nuts. Women tend to ask the detailed questions; they want to know the answers.

  Vicki Donlan

  Business, Women, Mean

  Interview with Erik Hansen, tompeters.com.

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• There are six stages to knowledge: Firstly: Asking questions in a good manner. Secondly: Remaining quiet and listening attentively. Thirdly: Understanding well. Fourthly: Memorising. Fifthly: Teaching. Sixthly- and it is its fruit: Acting upon the knowledge and keeping to its limits.

  Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

  Teaching, Understanding, Good Man

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• I've given up asking questions. l merely float on a tsunami of acceptance of anything life throws at me ... and marvel stupidly.

  Terry Gilliam

  Acceptance, Given, Tsunami

  "What *Should* We Be Worried About?". The Edge Interview, www.edge.org. 2013.

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• I've played journalists before Elles, and I have good friends who are journalists. I think being an actor is not very far from being a journalist. Because you investigate, you try to understand, you're asking questions, you're interested in the other.

  Juliette Binoche

  Good Friend, Thinking, Trying

  "Juliette Binoche: 'These tabloid stories, it feels like being in a bad soap opera'". Interview with Killian Fox, www.theguardian.com. September 22, 2012.

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• Art is about asking questions and engaging a dialog. By challenging or investigating conventions contemporary art helps promote an on-going sense of discovery, contemplation, and understanding. I think these are all important things.

  Kim Anderson

  Art, Thinking, Discovery

  "Interview with Kim Anderson: Material Matters". Sarasota Visual Art Interview, sarasotavisualart.com.

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• I'm an entertainer and I entertain people and they entertain me back by asking questions. And some of them I answer.

  Carl Reiner

  People, Answers, Entertainers

  "Carl Reiner on writing a children's book, tweeting, and joking around with Mel Brooks". Interview with Katherine Brodsky, tv.avclub.com. June 23, 2015.

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• People don't know what Kabbalah is, and so they jump to conclusions. For me, studying Kabbalah is studying - is just - is asking questions. And I encourage all of my children to be that way, and I think people don't understand that. And so they make assumptions and they judge.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Children, Thinking, People

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• Having an answer is a comfort. It's when you start asking questions and those questions pull threads in the larger fabric, you're forced to wonder what you're left with. And for people of any age, it's scary to think the fabric of the universe - or the universe as you've always believed it existed - can just unwind, you know?

  Robin Epstein

  Thinking, People, Scary

  Robin Epstein (2010). “God Is in the Pancakes”, p.68, Penguin

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• Asking questions in therapy would be so helpful if anyone ever answered them accurately. But no one ever does.

  Virginia Axline

  Doe, Would Be, Helpful

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• I, as a storyteller, was asking questions no one in science had apparently asked. What happens in a nest of tyrannosaurs? They're precocial, meaning when they hatch, they're ready to feed and move about. My questions are "Hmm, if there's a nest of tyrannosaurs, and there's three siblings that survive, would they try to eat each other?"

  Stephen R. Bissette

  Sibling, Moving, Trying

  Interview with Chris Dahlen, www.avclub.com. July 23, 2009.

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

  Dick Cheney

  Jobs, Hell, Guilty

  "Meet the Press" with Tim Russert, www.nbcnews.com. September 14, 2003.

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• And when I started college, I think I was good at two things: arguing and asking questions.

  Karen Hughes

  College, Thinking, Two

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