Asking Quotes - Page 25

• For all prayer is answered. Don't tell God how to answer it.

  Edgar Cayce

  Prayer, Answers

  Edgar Cayce (2010). “Meditation, Prayer & Affirmations”, p.108, ARE Press

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• Franz Kafka is dead. He died in a tree from which he wouldn't come down. "Come down!" they cried to him. "Come down! Come down!" Silence filled the night, and the night filled the silence, while they waited for Kafka to speak. "I can't," he finally said, with a note of wistfulness. "Why?" they cried. Stars spilled across the black sky. "Because then you'll stop asking for me."

  Nicole Krauss

  Stars, Night, Sky

  Nicole Krauss (2006). “The History of Love: A Novel”, p.116, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Whatever we owe, it is our part to find where to pay it, and to do it without asking, too; for whether the creditor be good or bad, the debt is still the same.

  Seneca the Younger

  Debt, Pay, Creditors

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• That comes too late that comes for the asking.

  Seneca the Younger

  Too Late, Charity, Late

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• The subject for which I am asking your attention deals with the foundations of mathematics. To understand the development of the opposing theories existing in this field one must first gain a clear understnding of the concept "science"; for it is as a part of science that mathematics originally took its place in human thought.

  L. E. J. Brouwer

  Foundation, Attention, Development

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• Our American past always speaks to us with two voices: the voice of the past, and the voice of the present. We are always asking two quite different questions. Historians reading the words of John Winthrop usually ask, What did they mean to him? Citizens ask, What do they mean to us? Historians are trained to seek the original meaning; all of us want to know the present meaning.

  Daniel J. Boorstin

  Wisdom, Reading, Creativity

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• New Year, the season for changes in positions and advances in salaries, approaches. If you have in your employ some who deserve more salary, do not compel them to go through the unpleasant ordeal of asking a raise, but, rather, voluntarily increase their remuneration. A raise that comes from the boss without asking is worth a lot more than one that has to be gouged out of him. Is it not true that a great many employers who would not dream of overcharging their customers have no qualms whatever about underpaying their employees if the latter will submit without protest?

  B. C. Forbes

  Dream, New Year, Deserve More

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• I can't figure out why anyone invests in active management, so asking me about hedge funds is just an extreme version of the same question. Since I think everything is appropriately priced, my advice would be to avoid high fees. So you can forget about hedge funds.

  Eugene Fama

  Thinking, Advice, Would Be

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• Let each person in relationship worry about Self-what Self is being, doing, and having; what Self is wanting, asking, giving; what Self is seeking, creating, experiencing, and all relationships would magnificently serve their purpose-and their participants!

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Inspirational, Religious, Self

  Neale Donald Walsch (1996). “Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue”, p.100, Penguin

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• I could see that making judgments about people so that they are tried and sentenced in your head, without asking them for their perspective, is both unethical and unproductive. So I learned to love real integrity and to despise the lack of it.

  Ray Dalio

  Life, Integrity, Real

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• Even when I interviewed bands, it was about asking them about writing songs, so it was more for me than anybody else.

  Benjamin Booker

  Song, Writing, Band

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• there is probably no such thing as an innocent question, at least not when a parent is doing the asking.

  Phyllis Grissim-Theroux

  Parent, Innocent

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• If men were ever to lose the appetite for meaning we call thinking, they would lose the capacity for asking all the unanswerable questions upon which every civilization is founded.

  Hannah Arendt

  Men, Thinking, Civilization

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• Beneath the surface of repartee and mock seriousness, [Plato's Phaedrus] is asking whether we ought to prefer a neuter form of speech to the kind which is ever getting us aroused over things and provoking an expense of spirit.

  Richard M. Weaver

  Plato, Speech, Spirit

  Richard M. Weaver (1985). “The Ethics of Rhetoric”, p.5, Psychology Press

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• Just do your best to keep yourself in balance. One of the first things that causes Energy misalignment, is asking or demanding too much of yourself in terms of time and effort. In other words, you just cannot burn the candle at both ends, so that you are physically tired, and then expect yourself to have a cheerful attitude. So, the rule of thumb has to be: "I'm going to be very, very, very happy, and then do everything I have time to do after that.

  Esther Hicks

  Attitude, Healing, Tired

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• Find something to feel good about and get out of the way, and allow the cells to receive what they've been asking for. That is the key to healing.

  Esther Hicks

  Healing, Keys, Cells

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• A man asking for help ought to at least give directions.

  Barbara Mertz

  Men, Asking For Help, Giving

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• I'm getting less good at faking it. People in my family are noticing and asking what's wrong. My friends give me invitations to talk, to cry. I love them for their caring, but I want to run from it. I have lost their language, their facility with words that convey feelings. I am in new territory and feel like a foreigner in theirs.

  Martha Manning

  Depression, Running, Caring

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• Solutions come through evolution. They come through asking the right questions, because the answers pre-exist. It is the questions that we must define and discover. You don't invent the answer-you reveal the answer.

  Jonas Salk

  Teaching, Over You, Answers

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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

  Asking Questions, Doe, Would Be

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• If you write a post and put it on a blog, that's a historical document. If you change your template, then that entry looks completely different. It's the same words, but not the same meaning. This all depends on what historical questions that people will be asking and we can't know what they will want.

  Joshua Greenberg

  Writing, People, History

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• Children whose curiosity survives parental discipline and who manage to grow up before they blow up are invited to join the Yale faculty. Within the university they go on asking their questions and trying to find the answers ... it is a place where the world's hostility to curiosity can be defied.

  Edmund Morgan

  Children, Growing Up, Men

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• Fearing no insult, asking for no crown, receive with indifference both flattery and slander, and do not argue with a fool.

  Alexander Pushkin

  Crowns, Fool, Arguing

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• One of the best aids to freedom is asking God for a lot of help-and asking often.

  Joyce Meyer

  Helping, Aids, Asking God

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• A key to improved prayer is to learn to ask the right questions. Consider changing from asking for the things you want to honestly seeking what He wants for you. Then as you learn His will, pray that you will be led to have the strength to fulfill it.

  Richard G. Scott

  Prayer, Keys, Want

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