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• 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

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• An almost indispensable skill for any creative person is the ability to pose the right questions. Creative people identify promising, exciting, and, most important, accessible routes to progress - and eventually formulate the questions correctly.

  Lisa Randall

  Skills, People, Creative

  "Mozart, Newton and You?" by Lisa Randall, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 5, 2012.

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• Your most important task as a leader is to teach people how to think and ask the right questions so that the world doesn't go to hell if you take a day off.

  Jeffrey Pfeffer

  Inspirational, Leadership, Business

  "Why Aren’t You Delegating?" by Amy Gallo, hbr.org. July 26, 2012.

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• People often ask themselves the right questions. Where they fail is in answering the questions they ask themselves, and even there they do not fail by much...But it takes time, it takes humility and a serious reason for searching.

  William Maxwell

  Humility, People, Serious

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• but you can't spend your whole life hoping people will ask you the right questions. you must learn to love and answer the questions they already ask.

  Elizabeth McCracken

  People, Answers, Whole Life

  Elizabeth McCracken (2013). “The Giant's House”, p.85, Random House

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• The value of the security analyst to the investor depends largely on the investor's own attitude. If the investor asks the analyst the right questions, he is likely to get the right or at least valuable answers.

  Benjamin Graham

  Attitude, Answers, Analysts

  Benjamin Graham (1959). “The Intelligent Investor: A Book of Practical Counsel”

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• Good teaching is more a giving of right questions than a giving of right answers.

  Josef Albers

  Inspirational, Education, Appreciation

  Josef Albers (2006). “Interaction of Color”, p.70, Yale University Press

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• I don't know where we should take this company, but I do know that if I start with the right people, ask them the right questions, and engage them in vigorous debate, we will find a way to make this company great.

  James C. Collins

  People, Way, Debate

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• To ask the 'right' question is far more important than to receive the answer. The solution of a problem lies in the understanding of the problem; the answer is not outside the problem, it is in the problem.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Lying, Understanding, Important

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (1973). “Flight of the Eagle”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• Our job is not to answer questions, its to ask the right questions...that get us to the right answer.

  Bill Buxton

  Jobs, Answers, Asks

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• Knowing the right questions is better than having all the right answers.

  Tyler Blackburn

  Knowing, Answers, Right Answers

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• Most people believe that great leaders are distinguished by their ability to give compelling answers. This profound book shatters that assumption, showing that the more vital skill is asking the right questions…. Berger poses many fascinating questions, including this one: What if companies had mission questions rather than mission statements? This is a book everyone ought to read—without question.

  Adam Grant

  Book, Believe, Skills

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• It is not that we don't know the right answers, it is just that we don't ask the right questions.

  Tony Robbins

  Answers, Knows, Asks

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• Daymark asks the right question. So we get it right the first time. We didn't want to overbuy or underbuy. They understood our business and our data. Daymark knew exactly which models we should order - not too much, not too little.

  Mike Michaud

  Data, Order, Want

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• Every good educator knows that true teaching is to teach kids how to ask the right questions.

  Utah Phillips

  Teaching, Kids, Educator

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• Part of the role of a thought leader is not to necessarily have all the answers - I certainly don't - but it's to be able to ask the right questions and the privilege of being able to lead the conversation.

  Michael Hyatt

  Leader, Roles, Answers

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• Data is the new science. Big Data holds the answers. Are you asking the right questions?

  Patrick P. Gelsinger

  Data Collection, Asking, Answers

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• In the old economy, it was all about having the answers. But in today’s dynamic, lean economy, it’s more about asking the right questions. A More Beautiful Question is about figuring out how to ask, and answer, the questions that can lead to new opportunities and growth.

  Eric Ries

  Beautiful, Opportunity, Growth

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• I have been asked this question over and over again: 'Dr. Jeremiah, do you think God is finished with America?' But that is the wrong question. The right question is: 'Is America finished with God?'

  David Jeremiah

  Thinking, America, Drs

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• Knowing the right questions is better than knowing all the right answers" Caleb from Pretty Little Liars (TV Show)

  Sara Shepard

  Liars, Tv Shows, Knowing

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• He did it (listened) as the world's most charming and magnetic people do, always asking the right question at the right time, never fidgeting or taking his eyes from the speaker's face, making the other guy feel like the most knowledgeable, brilliant, and intellectually savvy person on the planet.

  Stephen King

  Eye, People, Guy

  Stephen King (2016). “11/22/63: A Novel”, p.637, Simon and Schuster

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• I'd asked around 10 or 15 people for suggestions. Finally one lady friend asked the right question, 'Well, what do you love most?' That's how I started painting money.

  Andy Warhol

  Money, People, Suggestions

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• Far better an approximate answer to the right question, which is often vague, than the exact answer to the wrong question, which can always be made precise.

  John Tukey

  Answers, Statistics, Made

  Annals of Mathematical Statistics, Mar. 1962

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• I believe the right question to ask, respecting all ornament, is simply this; was it done with enjoyment, was the carver happy while he was about it?

  John Ruskin

  Believe, Ornaments, Done

  Seven Lamps of Architecture "The Lamp of Life" sec. 24 (1849)

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• In my life the right question is simply this: What can I do to be happy today?

  Joshua Mohr

  Today

  Source: therumpus.net

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