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• I think kids want the same thing from a book that adults want - a fast-paced story, characters worth caring about, humor, surprises, and mystery. A good book always keeps you asking questions, and makes you keep turning pages so you can find out the answers.

  Rick Riordan

  Book, Character, Kids

  Rick Riordan, James Dashner, Brandon Mull (2014). “The 39 Clues, Infinity Ring, and Spirit Animals Powerpack”, p.614, Scholastic Inc.

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• Atheists who keep asking for evidence of God's existence are like a fish in the ocean wanting evidence of water.

  Ray Comfort

  Atheist, Ocean, Water

  FaceBook post by Ray Comfort from Feb 21, 2013

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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, Asking Questions

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• Every character is asking: Whats my place? Why am I here? I dont want the answer to be Just because. You find your own purpose. Each finds the reason to be here and how to contribute.

  Sharon Creech

  Character, Purpose, Answers

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• Lack of clarity is the number-one time-waster. Always be asking, 'What am I trying to do? How am I trying to do it.

  Brian Tracy

  Numbers, Trying, Clarity

  FaceBook post by Brian Tracy from Feb 08, 2010

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• I encourage film students who are interested in cinematography to study sculpture, paintings, music, writing and other arts. Filmmaking consists of all the arts combined. Students are always asking me for advice, and I tell them that they have to be enthusiastic, because it's hard work. The only way to enjoy it is to be totally immersed. If you don't get involved on that level, it could be a very miserable job. I only have one regret about my career: I'm sorry that we are not making silent movies any more. That is the purest art form I can imagine.

  Vilmos Zsigmond

  Movie, Music, Art

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• I respect the office of the presidency, but I never worship at the shrines of our public servants...The Washington press corps has the privilege of asking the president of the United States what he is doing and why.

  Helen Thomas

  Office, President, Privilege

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• Prayer has been hedged about with too many man-made rules. I am convinced that God has intended prayer to be as simple and natural, and as constant a part of our spiritual life, as the intercourse between child and parent in the home. And as a large part of that intercourse between child and parent is simply asking and receiving, just so is it with us and our Heavenly Parent.

  Rosalind Goforth

  Spiritual, Prayer, Children

  Rosalind Goforth (2016). “How I Know God Answers Prayer”, p.5, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• We have to design a health delivery system by actually talking to people and asking, 'What would make this service better for you?' As soon as you start asking, you get a flood of answers.

  Paul Farmer

  Talking, People, Design

  "The Human Element: Melinda Gates and Paul Farmer on Designing Global Health". Interview with Caitlin Roper, www.wired.com. November 12, 2013.

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• If a potato can produce vitamin C, why can't we? Within the animal kingdom only humans and guinea pigs are unable to synthesize vitamin C in their own bodies. Why us and guinea pigs? No point asking. Nobody knows.

  Bill Bryson

  Animal, Pigs, Body

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• Leadership is all about taking people on a journey. The challenge is that most of the time, we are asking people to follow us to places we ourselves have never been.

  Andy Stanley

  Journey, People, Challenges

  Andy Stanley (2011). “Next Generation Leader”, p.87, Multnomah

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• I was with the 101st Airborne Division in Iraq, really in the middle of nowhere, about 80 miles south of Baghdad. And it was almost midnight, and I got a computer message from the home office of the Washington Post asking me to call them. I did call them and was told that I'd won the Pulitzer Prize.

  Rick Atkinson

  Home, Iraq, Office

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• We keep asking for answers; God keeps sending us people.

  Bob Goff

  People, Answers

  FaceBook post by Bob Goff from May 05, 2014

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• Learning is the new skill. Imagination, creation and asking new questions are at its core.

  Sugata Mitra

  Skills, Imagination, Creation

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• You cant legislate into existence an act of forgiveness and a true confession; those are mysteries of the human heart, and they occur between one individual and another individual, not a panel of judges sitting asking questions, trying to test your truth.

  Athol Fugard

  Heart, Asking Questions, Judging

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• What Plato was really asking was perhaps why a horse was a horse, and not, for example, a cross between a horse and a pig.

  Jostein Gaarder

  Horse, Plato, Pigs

  Jostein Gaarder (2010). “Sophie's World”, p.76, Hachette UK

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• People are always asking me what the world will be like economically in the year 2000. I do know this: in the year 2000, no matter what else happens, there will still be good food in France.

  Guy de Rothschild

  Travel, Home, Years

  "A Baron Reflects" by Charlotte Curtis, www.nytimes.com. October 5, 1982.

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• When we have done our very, very best, papa, and that is not enough, then I think the right time must have come for asking help of others.

  Charles Dickens

  Thinking, Words Of Wisdom, Papa

  Charles Dickens, Peter Preston (1998). “The Mystery of Edwin Drood and Other Stories”, p.388, Wordsworth Editions

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• The mechanic, when a wheel refuses to turn, never thinks of dropping on his knees and asking the assistance of some divine power. He knows there is a reason. He knows that something is too large or too small; that there is something wrong with his machine; and he goes to work and he makes it larger or smaller, here or there, until the wheel will turn.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Thinking, Atheism, Machines

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.196, Library of Alexandria

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• So many people have said this, but it's true: 95 percent of what I do as a director is casting and getting people who can bear the load of what you're asking them to do and creating this emotionally safe environment.

  Lynn Shelton

  Safe Environment, Creating, People

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• The greatest players fit with the team. They play within the team's style, rather than asking the team to change its style.

  Patrick Ewing

  Team, Player, Style

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• My advice is don't keep asking yourself if you can do something. Just get out there and do it. You can really surprise yourself.

  Roz Savage

  Advice, Surprise, Can Do Something

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• People are always asking me how much I'm worth. Well, all I can say is, I've got enough money to last me the rest of my life. As long as I die in the next 20 minutes.

  George Burns

  Long, People, Lasts

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• Few people asking about my post Westlife plans!? I'll be making a solo album of course! The process has already started actually ;)

  Mark Feehily

  People, Albums, Process

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• CEOs of top companies could probably use a dose of not-asking-for-raise behavior and less self-entitlement, rather than us trying to change girls in order to fit into the common mold of what we think a CEO looks like.

  Adora Svitak

  Girl, Thinking, Self

  "It’s Not Girls’ Fault" by Adora Svitak, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 23, 2011.

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