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• Your school may have done away with winners and losers, but life HAS NOT. In some schools they have abolished failing grades and they'll give you as MANY TIMES as you want to get the right answer. This doesn't bear the slightest resemblance to ANYTHING in real life.

  Bill Gates

  Life, Education, Real

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• Parents - and teachers too - are woefully short-sighted when they try to protect the child from his mistakes, when they make the "right answer" more important than the quest for knowledge and good judgment. For what is not learned within one's self cannot be learned from another.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Teacher, Children, Mistake

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• Self-inquiry is a spiritually induced form of wintertime. It's not about looking for a right answer so much as stripping away and letting you see what is not necessary, what you can do without, what you are without your leaves.

  Adyashanti

  Self, Inquiry, Answers

  Adyashanti (2009). “Emptiness Dancing: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.54, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly sets for each individual.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Mean, Responsibility, Growth

  Viktor E. Frankl (2006). “Man's Search for Meaning”, p.82, Beacon Press

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• Ask the right questions if you're going to find the right answers.

  Vanessa Redgrave

  Asking Questions, Asking The Right Questions, Answers

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• It is the function of a liberal university not to give right answers, but to ask right questions.

  Cynthia Ozick

  Giving, Justice, Diversity

  Cynthia Ozick (1983). “Art & ardor: essays”, Alfred A. Knopf

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• There is no right answer except to play and experiment.

  Jonathan Adler

  Play, Answers, Experiments

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• It taught me that Clinton's instinct to make this about your life as a citizen, rather than his as a human being, was the right answer to these things.

  Paul Begala

  House, Citizens, Answers

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• As I celebrated what was right with the world, I began to build a vision of possibility, not scarcity. Possibility... always another right answer.

  Dewitt Jones

  Vision, Scarcity, Answers

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• By the time the average person finishes college, he or she will have taken over 2,600 tests, quizzes, and exams. The right answer approach becomes deeply ingrained in our thinking. This may be fine for some mathematical problems where there is in fact only one right answer. The difficulty is that most of life isn’t this way. Life is ambiguous; there are many right answers- all depending on what you’re looking for. But if you think there is only one right answer, then you’ll stop looking as soon as you find one.

  Roger von Oech

  Life, Taken, College

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• The most common source of mistakes in management decisions is the emphasis on finding the right answer rather than the right question.

  Peter Drucker

  Mistake, Decision, Answers

  Peter Drucker (2012). “The Practice of Management”, p.304, Routledge

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• The best way to get the right answer on the Internet is not to ask a question, it's to post the wrong answer.

  Ward Cunningham

  Wrong Answers, Way, Computer

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• One of the big misapprehensions about mathematics that we perpetrate in our classrooms is that the teacher always seems to know the answer to any problem that is discussed. This gives students the idea that there is a book somewhere with all the right answers to all of the interesting questions, and that teachers know those answers. And if one could get hold of the book, one would have everything settled. That's so unlike the true nature of mathematics.

  Leon Henkin

  Teacher, Book, Math

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• So many things begin to change when you come at the world from that perspective of more than one right answer.

  Dewitt Jones

  Perspective, Answers, World

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• There are usually half a dozen right answers to what needs to be
  done. Yet, unless a person makes the risky and controversial choice of only one, he will achieve nothing.

  Peter Drucker

  Choices, Needs, Done

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• Look for the second right answer.

  Roger von Oech

  Looks, Answers

  Roger Von Oech (1986). “A Kick in the Seat of the Pants: Using Your Explorer, Artist, Judge, & Warrior to Be More Creative”, Harper Perennial

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• A clear right answer and the opportunity to change the options? This is the chooser’s dream.

  Sheena Iyengar

  Dream, Opportunity, Answers

  Sheena Iyengar (2010). “The Art Of Choosing: The Decisions We Make Everyday of our Lives, What They Say About Us and How We Can Improve Them”, p.176, Hachette UK

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• Properly speaking, global thinking is not possible... Look at one of those photographs of half the earth taken from outer space, and see if you recognize your neighborhood. The right local questions and answers will be the right global ones. The Amish question, what will this do to our community? tends toward the right answer for the world.

  Wendell Berry

  Taken, Thinking, Space

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• That's all managing is: just coming up with the right questions and getting the right answers.

  Jack Welch

  Asking Questions, Answers, Right Questions

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• You can't get right answers if you're asking the wrong questions.

  Mark Victor Hansen

  Asking, Answers, Problem

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• There is one "right answer" to any question, and it is in the book to be read.

  Joseph Barrell

  Educational, Book, Answers

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• There's always another right answer.

  Dewitt Jones

  Answers, Celebration

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• It is a mistake to hire huge numbers of people to get a complicated job done. Numbers will never compensate for talent in getting the right answer (two people who don't know something are no better than one), will tend to slow down progress, and will make the task incredibly expensive.

  Elon Musk

  Inspirational, Jobs, Mistake

  Wired Science Interview, 2007.

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• We're teaching a generation of students who've been schooled to produce quick, right answers on demand. They are not comfortable with ambiguity. The implications of that in the long term are discomforting.

  Carol Ann Tomlinson

  Teaching, Long, Generations

  Source: blogs.edweek.org

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• In Detroit, Ned [Harkness] kept talking about a new concept, and when I'd ask him what he meant he never gave me the right answer. Now, take Bobby Hull. Give him a puck, a stick and a pair of skates and put him on your team. Do you need a new concept?

  Frank Mahovlich

  Team, Talking, Giving

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