Asks Quotes - Page 17

• I learned, when hit by loss, to ask the right question: "What next?" instead of "Why me?" . . . Whenever I am willing to ask "What is necessary next?" I have moved ahead. Whenever I have taken no for a final answer I have stalled and gotten stuck.

  Julia Cameron

  Taken, Loss, Finals

  Julia Cameron (2002). “The Artist's Way: 25th Anniversary Edition”, p.179, Penguin

  12 Copy quote

  Show source

• There is one aspect of happiness that's been well studied, and it's the notion of flow. Ask yourselves, when for you does time stop? When are you truly at home, wanting to be no place else?

  Martin Seligman

  Home, Doe, Flow

  18 Copy quote

• Over and over one must ask oneself the queston, 'What do I want to express? What is the thought behind the saying? What is my ideal, what my objective? What? Why? Why? What?

  Emily Carr

  Want, Behinds, Ideals

  Emily Carr (2009). “Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr”, p.293, D & M Publishers

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• Before you go alter body, do some research and find out how many women have major life-threatening complications from nose jobs. Ask about how many nose jobs gone terribly wrong, and if you thought your face was wrong before, look what happens after. The more we start augmenting our bodies, the more and more we start to look alike, then nobody is special anymore.

  Halle Berry

  Jobs, Special, Looks

  54 Copy quote

• The Conservative Party have got to ask themselves, 'How do we persuade people who at the moment are voting Labour and Liberal Democrat to vote Conservative

  Kenneth Clarke

  Party, People, Voting

  7 Copy quote

• I always ask the question, "Is this what I want in my life?

  Kathy Ireland

  Want

  4 Copy quote

• I ask the Lord in Heaven above / What is this thing called Love?

  Cole Porter

  Heaven, Lord

  Song: What Is This Thing Called Love

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Compare constantly, lines and angles... Hold looking-glass before your model and your drawing. Take a second's glance only, and see if the impression be the same. If it be not, ask, 'What is the difference?

  William Morris Hunt

  Drawing, Differences, Glasses

  William Morris Hunt (1976). “William Morris Hunt on painting and drawing”, Dover Pubns

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Ask almost anybody if they think the climate?s changed in the last couple of decades and they will all say ?yes? and give you lots of examples.

  James Lovelock

  Couple, Reality, Thinking

  4 Copy quote

• The man who is fond of complaining likes to remain amid the objects of his vexation. He will most strongly revolt against every means proposed for his deliverance. This is what suits him. He asks nothing better than to sigh over his position and to remain in it.

  Francois Guizot

  Mean, Responsibility, Men

  15 Copy quote

• It's unnecessary and destructive to think of oneself at all. People ask me, 'What do you think of yourself as?' My answer is, 'Nothing.

  Paul Bowles

  Thinking, People, Ego

  15 Copy quote

• Some of the lowest-paid workers in this nation are people that we ask to watch the next generation of Americans. We do a better job insisting that your pets are cared for in this country than your children are, and there ought to be a sense of outrage about that.

  Christopher Dodd

  Country, Jobs, Children

  7 Copy quote

• It was a lifetime occupation that kept us too busy to stop and ask if we were happy or not

  Ossie Davis

  Occupation, Busy, Lifetime

  23 Copy quote

• Learn to ask, "If this is the only thing I accomplish today, will I be satisfied with my day?"

  Tim Ferriss

  Work, Today, Accomplish

  7 Copy quote

• I'm familiar to people. They feel comfortable with me. I started in live television. I perform live all the time. I sing with the piano. I sing with a symphony. I can sit and ask questions. I can listen. I'm very comfortable in most situations.

  Florence Henderson

  Symphony, Piano, People

  13 Copy quote

• But when that information travels only to a privileged few, when it is used to profit at the expense of the investing public, when that information comes by way of favored access rather than by acumen, insight or diligence, we must ask, 'Whose interest is really being served?'.

  Arthur Levitt Jr

  Acumen, Investing, Information

  7 Copy quote

• Charters give public school teachers the flexibility to design programs to the individual student needs. They no longer have to go to a distant bureaucracy to ask for permission. By being allowed to make their own decisions the teachers are able to create strong partnerships with parents.

  Gary Larson

  Teacher, Strong, School

  20 Copy quote

• I ask a lot because I'm very curious - especially about ex-girlfriends. I'm pretty good at getting the answers, too.

  Brittany Murphy

  Girlfriend, Answers, Curious

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

  52 Copy quote

  Show source

• The history of science knows scores of instances where an investigator was in the possession of all the important facts for a new theory but simply failed to ask the right questions.

  Ernst Mayr

  Important, Facts, Theory

  Ernst Mayr (1982). “The Growth of Biological Thought: Diversity, Evolution, and Inheritance”, p.29, Harvard University Press

  22 Copy quote

  Show source

• Whenever I meet someone new, I always ask the same question... 'So, what do you do?

  Daniel H. Pink

  4 Copy quote

• It's a question we all ask ourselves. What have we done lately? It rattles us each birthday.

  Daniel H. Pink

  Done

  "What kind of genius are you?" by Daniel H. Pink, www.wired.com. July 1, 2006.

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• Ask many of us who are disabled what we would like in life and you would be surprised how few would say, 'Not to be disabled.' We accept our limitations.

  Itzhak Perlman

  Would Be, Accepting, Disabled

  32 Copy quote

• Please, accept the most sincere words of sympathy over the natural disaster that affected the United States . I know that hurricane Katrina that hit the US south-western coast led to casualties, left homeless dozens of thousands of US citizens and inflicted a strong damage to the economy of this region. I ask you to convey my condolences to the next of kin of those killed,.

  Vladimir Putin

  Strong, Condolences, Hurricanes

  5 Copy quote

• They want you to believe the Sun is hot. I urge you to ask yourself 'Have they ever touched it? Think about it.

  Jaden Smith

  Believe, Thinking, Hot

  55 Copy quote

• If someone asks me a question, there might be a truthful answer and a correct answer.

  Tim Henman

  Answers, Might, Truthful

  4 Copy quote