Asking Quotes - Page 26

• The office is the laboratory and meeting your users is like going into the field. You can't just stay in the lab. And it's not just asking users what they want, it's about seeing what they're doing.

  Brian Chesky

  Office, Want, Labs

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• Whatever the press is talking about, they want to keep talking about it. So instead of asking yourself, 'How can I get them to start talking about me?', figure out a way to get yourself involved in what they're already talking about.

  Brian Chesky

  Talking, Want, Way

  "INSTANT MBA: If You've Just Solved A Problem, You May Have Solved It For Millions" by Patricia Laya, www.businessinsider.com. August 4, 2011.

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• I'm not asking people to feel sorry for me.

  Jack Abramoff

  Sorry, People, Feels

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• For me, writing is an experience. It's an exercise in which I want to discover myself by taking my characters to the edges of human experience, to the edges of themselves and then, asking certain questions - about love, what does it mean to love? What's beauty? What is true beauty?

  Ted Dekker

  Writing, Character, Mean

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• My children are the focal point of my life. I was asking for a little more time to spend with them.

  Hunter Tylo

  Children, Littles, More Time

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• There are many types of preventive health care services that are covered, things like blood pressure medication, for example. And women are merely asking that their health be taken just as seriously.

  Sandra Fluke

  Taken, Blood, Example

  "CNN’s Will Cain Grills Sandra Fluke Over Contraception Op-Ed", www.huffingtonpost.com. March 13, 2012.

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• Five common traits of good writers: (1) They have something to say. (2) They read widely and have done so since childhood. (3) They possess what Isaac Asimov calls a "capacity for clear thought," able to go from point to point in an orderly sequence, an A to Z approach. (4) They're geniuses at putting their emotions into words. (5) They possess an insatiable curiosity, constantly asking Why and How.

  James J. Kilpatrick

  Writing, Asking Why, Childhood

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• If you create something that is asking for people to respond as they're going to respond, you have to allow them to respond as they're going to respond. Some of the people are going to be uninterested and some people are going to be mad for some reason, which is their business. That's just the way the world is.

  Charlie Kaufman

  People, Mad, World

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• The smartest thing I did in law school: asking my future wife to go out dancing with me. The smartest thing I did when practicing law: quitting. The smartest thing I've done in writing: following my own head and writing what I wanted to write, and nothing but.

  Ben Fountain

  Writing, School, Law

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• I don't think a movie today that captured all the things that we did in the seventies could come close, because it's like asking to recreate the seventies and the audience sensibilities and that's impossible.

  Paul Michael Glaser

  Thinking, Today, Impossible

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• By asking a novel question that you don't know the answer to, you discover whether you can formulate a way of finding the answer, and you stretch your own mind, and very often you learn something new.

  Walter Gilbert

  Mind, Answers, Way

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• It is hot in Tokyo, it’s humid, I’m tired, all of these backs are in front of you, I’m not going to make the team anyway so screw it. I remember going back and I called down to the desk. I was asking about some flights out of there.

  Terrell Davis

  Team, Tired, Hot

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• I had a vague idea of the song's impact in the '60s, but that was tempered by the hate mail and threats I was receiving. It was only about ten years ago, when I finally put it back in my show because so many people were asking for it, that I understood 'Society's Child' real impact.

  Janis Ian

  Song, Children, Hate

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• I think I've been asked just about every question under the sun. I'm just really honored that people are even interested in asking me questions.

  Ken Jeong

  Thinking, People, Sun

  "Ken Jeong of "The Hangover Part II" The funniest doctor in America makes a house call". Interview with Kam Williams, www.philasun.com. May 30, 2011.

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• You're trying to find new ideas in people. I always think to myself, what question I am least comfortable asking the person? And then I make sure I ask it early in the interview.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Thinking, Ideas, People

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• Any actress will tell you - it's really hard. If you're not an A-list Hollywood movie star, if you're in the middle, there are people who assume you wouldn't do certain things without even asking you, when actually you probably would. And there are people who always think you are busy doing something else.

  Martine McCutcheon

  Stars, Thinking, People

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Customers don't know what they want. There's plenty of good psychology research that shows that people are not able to accurately predict how they would behave in the future. So asking them, 'Would you buy my product if it had these three features?' or 'How would you react if we changed our product this way?' is a waste of time. They don't know.

  Eric Ries

  People, Psychology, Want

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• There are directors who, their direction is high, but then when you challenge it, it crumbles. They can't back up what they're asking.

  Michael Pitt

  Challenges, Directors

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• I don't want you fellows sitting around asking me what to do. I want you to tell me what to do.

  George C. Marshall

  Sitting, Want, Fellows

  "General of the Army : George C. Marshall, Soldier and Statesman" by Ed Cray, (p. 591), 1991.

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• In many instances the conduct of colored workmen, and those who have spoken for them, has not been in asking or demanding that equal rights be accorded to them as to white workmen, but somehow conveying the idea that they are to be petted and coddled and given special consideration and special privilege. Of course that can't be done.

  Samuel Gompers

  Rights, Ideas, White

  "The Samuel Gompers Papers: The American Federation of Labor and the Great War, 1917-18". Book by Samuel Gompers, edited by Peter J. Albert and Grace Palladino, p. 348, 2006.

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• A word must become a friend or you will not understand it. Perhaps you do well to be cool and detached when you are seeking information, but I remind you of the wife who complained, 'When I ask John if he loves me, he thinks I am asking for information'.

  Edward Coke

  Thinking, Wife, Information

  Case of Swans, 7 Rep. 15, 17, 1592.

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• You have to make changes before people are clamoring for changes. If people are asking for changes, it's too late.

  David Shore

  People, Too Late, Making Changes

  Source: collider.com

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• When we were in the design studio I always was pretending like I was in a closet asking my friend before I step out into the world what do I look like? And everybody wants that honest friend before they go and go to dinner or go to an event.

  Nicole Richie

  Design, Events, Looks

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• I checked to see if there’d been a really good book published in the last few decades. Then I started with what Cleopatra would have read, asking myself, “What can we know about her education?” It turns out to be a very great deal, and bizarrely, no one had written about that before.

  Stacy Schiff

  Book, Lasts, Deals

  Interview with James Mustich, www.barnesandnoble.com. November 2, 2010.

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• I am not asking for government censorship or any other kind of censorship. I am asking whether a kind of censorship already exists when the news that forty million Americans receive each night is determined by a handful of men responsible only to their corporate employers and filtered through a handful of commentators who admit to their own set of biases.

  Spiro T. Agnew

  Night, Men, News

  John R. Coyne, Spiro T. Agnew (1972). “The Impudent Snobs: Agnew Vs. the Intellectual Establishment”, New Rochelle, N.Y. : Arlington House

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