Asking Quotes - Page 35

• Asking for financial advice from a financial planner is like asking a barber if you need a hair cut.

  Warren Buffett

  Cutting, Hair, Advice

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• Asking Wall Street to provide financial education is the same as asking a fox to raise your chickens.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Wall, Financial Education, Foxes

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• In the same period that the Americans have lived under one constitution our French friends notched up five. A Punch cartoon has a 19th century Englishman asking a librarian for a copy of the French constitution, only to be told: 'I am sorry Sir, we do not stock periodicals.'

  Margaret Thatcher

  Sorry, Cartoon, Constitution

  Margaret Thatcher, Iain Dale (1997). “As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations”, Robson Book Ltd

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• The asking and the answering which history provides may help us to understand, even to frame, the logic of experience to which we shall submit. History cannot give us a program for the future, but it can give us a fuller understanding of ourselves, and of our common humanity, so that we can better face the future.

  Robert Penn Warren

  Common Humanity, Giving, Understanding

  Robert Penn Warren (1961). “The Legacy of the Civil War”, p.100, U of Nebraska Press

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• I'm asking Muslims in the West a very basic question: Will we remain spiritually infantile, caving to cultural pressures to clam up and conform, or will we mature into full-fledged citizens, defending the very pluralism that allows us to be in this part of the world in the first place? My question for non-Muslims is equally basic: Will you succumb to the intimidation of being called "racists," or will you finally challenge us Muslims to take responsibility for our role in what ails Islam?

  Irshad Manji

  Responsibility, Challenges, Islam

  "Irshad Manji: The Trouble with Islam Today". www.pbs.org. August 18, 2006.

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• It seems to me that the orthodox religions always know more about the Devil than I do and can describe him in more detail, and if I hadn't a nice type of mind I'd begin to wonder what company they keep when the moon rides high in the sky and good witches are doing simple little incantations and asking for spiritual guidance.

  Sybil Leek

  Spiritual, Nice, Moon

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• Because we can expect future generations to be richer than we are, no matter what we do about resources, asking us to refrain from using resources now so that future generations can have them later is like asking the poor to make gifts to the rich.

  Julian Simon

  Using Resources, Generations, Matter

  Julian Lincoln Simon (1998). “The Ultimate Resource 2”, p.295, Princeton University Press

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• Somebody asked me a question. It was a defining question: 'What type of legacy do you want to leave?' We ask that question a lot later in life, but we need to start asking it to young people.

  Marc Kielburger

  Later In Life, People, Legacy

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• Every time we open the Bible, let's stop and pray, whether for fifteen seconds or fifteen minutes, asking the Spirit to teach us. When I read the Bible, I want God to talk to my soul.

  Jim Cymbala

  Soul, Fifteen, Want

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• All we are asking for is balance. I would like to think that I could walk into a public library and find not only works by Gloria Steinem but also those of Phyllis Schlafly. I would like to think a teenager could be taught in sex education that a serious alternative to abortion is teenage abstinence, or should pregnancy occur, that adoption might be preferable. I am not trying, as the ad says, to shove religion down anyone's throat. But I do think everyone has a right, and that the Christian voice is being chocked off.

  Cal Thomas

  Christian, Sex, Teenage

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• I recall asking the late eminent liberal historian Arthur Schlesinger, in a public forum in Los Angeles in the late 1970s, if he would say that America was, all things considered, a better, i.e., more moral, society than Soviet society. He said he would not.

  Dennis Prager

  America, Moral, Arthur

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• Scott Buchanan . . . taught me that the questions that can be answered are not worth asking.

  Milton Mayer

  Taught

  Milton Mayer (1969). “Man v The State”

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• Maybe philosophical problems are hard not because they are divine or irreducible or meaningless or workaday science, but because the mind of Homo sapiens lacks the cognitive equipment to solve them. We are organisms, not angels, and our minds are organs, not pipelines to the truth. Our minds evolved by natural selection to solve problems that were life-and-death matters to our ancestors, not to commune with correctness ot to answer any question we are capable of asking.

  Steven Pinker

  Philosophical, Angel, Mind

  "How the Mind Works". Book by Steven Pinker, 1997.

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• People are so afraid of hearing "No" that they often don't even try. You have nothing to lose by just asking! A good friend of mine once told me, "Harv, a closed mouth won't get fed." Open your mouth! Say something if negotiations aren't going the way you'd like.

  T. Harv Eker

  Good Friend, People, Trying

  FaceBook post by T. Harv Eker from Dec 11, 2013

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• In attempting to understand 9/11, the first question asked by the world's elites - as exemplified by leading media and academics - was, 'What did America do to provoke such hatred?' Ten years later, the same people are still asking the same question. And it is as morally repulsive now as it was then. It was always on par with 'What did the Jews do to antagonize the Germans? Or 'What did blacks do to enrage lynch mobs?'

  Dennis Prager

  Media, Years, America

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• I never ask if the market is going to go up or down because I don't know, and besides it doesn't matter. I search nation after nation for stocks, asking: 'Where is the one that is lowest-priced in relation to what I believe it's worth?' Forty years of experience have taught me you can make money without ever knowing which way the market is going.

  John Templeton

  Believe, Years, Knowing

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• I was really intrigued by them, became fascinated by them because they were asking questions that couldn't be answered almost, or were making statements that you couldn't quite understand. Like, 'I'm investigating things that begin with the letter M.' That took me through a whole stratosphere of possibilities, and doing a little research and discovered that the M is mercury.

  Johnny Depp

  Asking Questions, Littles, Mercury

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• But I think for me, why I was drawn to the piece is, at the core of the story, it's a love story to me - between Ed and Lorraine, between these two families who are asking for help and us who are in the business of giving help.

  Vera Farmiga

  Thinking, Two, Asking For Help

  "Vera Farmiga and Paranormal Investigator Lorraine Warren Talk THE CONJURING, the Nature of Evil, Their Relationship, and More". collider.com. July 17, 2013.

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• If you're having a bad day already and everybody is just asking you petty questions, it drives people to the edge, or something really small will have a really large effect.

  Jess Weixler

  Bad Day, People, Effects

  Source: collider.com

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• And then simultaneously I don't think they're asking you to necessarily write in stone that this is what you're going to do or what you have to do.

  Bryan Burk

  Writing, Thinking, Stones

  Source: collider.com

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• I often hear from new graduates that it's better to wait until you have more experience.... But I'm a big believer in the power of inexperience.... The world needs you before you stop asking naive questions and while you have the time to understand the true nature of the complex problems we face and take them on.

  Wendy Kopp

  Waiting, Faces, Inexperience

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• The more energy you spend worrying about the people who didn't get on your bus, the less you will have for the people who are on your bus. And if you are worrying about the people who didn't get on your bus you won't have the energy to keep on asking new people to get on.

  Jon Gordon

  People, Worry, Energy

  Jon Gordon (2015). “The Energy Bus: 10 Rules to Fuel Your Life, Work, and Team with Positive Energy”, p.71, John Wiley & Sons

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• Prayer is listening as well as speaking, receiving as well as asking; and its deepest mood is friendship held in reverence. So the daily prayer should end as it begins - in adoration.

  George Arthur Buttrick

  Prayer, Listening, Receiving

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• Asking for other's guidance helps you see what you may not be able to see. It's always important to check your ego and ask for help.

  Ken Blanchard

  Ego, Important, May

  Twitter post from Jan 30, 2015

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• 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, Asking Questions, Names

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