Asking Quotes - Page 9

• The Saint finds her true reason for living in unconditional love and in her ability to give without asking anything in return.

  Paulo Coelho

  Women, Unconditional Love, Giving

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• Ultimately, we are seeking a better understanding of what is means to be human. In this quest, progress is not made by finding the "right" answers, but by asking meaningful questions.

  Terry Winograd

  Meaningful, Understanding, Progress

  Terry Winograd, Fernando Flores (1986). “Understanding Computers and Cognition: A New Foundation for Design”, p.13, Intellect Books

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• Is it not better to fail after asking advice than to risk acting on our own?

  Vincent de Paul

  Wisdom, Advice, Risk

  Saint Vincent de Paul, Pierre Coste (1992). “Correspondence, conferences, documents”, New City Pr

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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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• The great questions are those an intelligent child asks and, getting no answers, stops asking.

  George Wald

  Children, Intelligent, Answers

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• All this is a dream to me. Everything, the applause, the fans asking for autographs, the trips, all that is a dream.

  Selena

  Dream, Fans, Applause

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• If we're going to ask our kids at age 18 to go off to war and die for their country, I don't see any problem with asking them at age 16 to think about what that might mean.

  Matthew Tobin Anderson

  Country, War, Mean

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• I have written to Minister of State for Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions, asking him to consider 'staggered office timings' for government offices, which will help in decongesting road traffic during peak hours.

  Veerappa Moily

  Government, Office, Helping

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• God of our fathers,
  you chose Abraham and his descendants
  to bring your Name to the Nations:
  we are deeply saddened by the behaviour of those
  who in the course of history
  have caused these children of yours to suffer,
  and asking your forgiveness we wish to commit ourselves
  to genuine brotherhood
  with the people of the Covenant.

  Pope John Paul II

  Children, Father, Names

  Pope John Paul II's Written prayer placed by the pope into the Western Wall in Jerusalem, during his apostolic journey to the Holy Land, w2.vatican.va. March 26, 2000.

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• There is no point in asking me general questions because I am always changing my mind.

  Michel Houellebecq

  Mind, Changing My Mind, No Point

  "Houellebecq acquitted of insulting Islam". www.theguardian.com. October 22, 2002.

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• Take charge of hidden, sneaky sources of chronic inflammation that can trigger illness and disease by wearing comfortable shoes daily, getting an annual flu vaccine, and asking your doctor why you're not on a statin and baby aspirin if you're over the age of forty.

  David Agus

  Baby, Flu Vaccine, Shoes

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• A Canadian is someone who keeps asking the question, 'What is a Canadian?

  Irving Layton

  Irving Layton, Howard Aster (1977). “Taking Sides: The Collected Social and Political Writings of Irving Layton, 1935-1977”, Mosaic Pr

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• Our minds, bodies, feelings, relationships are all informed by our questions. What you ask is who you are. What you find depends on what you search for. And what shapes our lives are the questions we ask, refuse to ask, or never think of asking.

  Sam Keen

  Thinking, Feelings, Mind

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• Prepare for every negotiation... 1) Focus on Outcomes. What is it that you want to walk away with? Being as specific as possible also increases the likelihood of negotiation success. 2) Support your desired outcome with data that points to its reasonableness. 3) Writing down your key points in advance - and practicing them - enables you to stay focused on what's most important and avoid going off on tangents. 4) Err on the side of asking for more, rather than less [of what you really want]. 5) Be willing to walk away.

  Lois P Frankel

  Writing, Keys, Data

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• Inside any deep asking is the answering.

  Rumi

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• Are you asking me or telling me?

  Irvine Welsh

  Irvine Welsh (2010). “Filth”, p.152, Random House

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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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• 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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• Asking someone in the media about liberal bias is like asking a fish about water. 'Huh, what are you talking about? Where is it?'

  John Stossel

  Media, Talking, Water

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• ...nobody would think of asking the U.N. General Assembly what it thinks because it is dominated by nations with no power and less legitimacy

  Dick Morris

  Thinking, Politics, Assembly

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• Prayer is asking for rain and faith is carrying the umbrella.

  Barbara Johnson

  Faith, Prayer, Rain

  Barbara Johnson (1996). “I'm So Glad You Told Me What I Didn't Wanna Hear”, p.98, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• No person is free until he or she is free at the center. When we let go there, we are free indeed. When the self is renounced, then one stands utterly disillusioned, apart, asking for nothing. If anything comes to us, it is all sheer gain. Then life becomes one constant surprise.

  E. Stanley Jones

  Letting Go, Freedom, Self

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• Earth gets its price for what Earth gives us; The beggar is taxed for a corner to die in, The priest hath his fee who comes and shrives us, We bargain for the graves we lie in; Each ounce of dross costs its ounce of gold... 'T is heaven alone that is given away, 'T is only God may be had for the asking; There is no price set on the lavish summer, And June may be had by the poorest comer.

  James Russell Lowell

  Summer, Money, Lying

  James Russell Lowell, Nathan Haskell Dole (1893). “The Early Poems of James Russell Lowell: With Biographical Sketch”

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• You spend the first two-thirds of your life asking to be left alone and the last third not having to ask.

  Robert Breault

  Two, Lasts, Firsts

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• The curse which lies upon marriage is that too often the individuals are joined in their weakness rather than in their strength - each asking from the other instead of finding pleasure in giving.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Marriage, Lying, Giving

  "The Second Sex". Book by Simone de Beauvoir, translated by H. M. Parshley. Book 2, Part 5, Chapter 2: "The Mother", p. 522, 1972.

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