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• Someone has to ask you a question," George continues meaningly, "before you can answer it. But it's so seldom you find anyone who'll ask the right questions. Most people aren't that much interested.

  Christopher Isherwood

  People, Answers, Asks

  Christopher Isherwood, Don Bachardy, James P. White (1989). “Where Joy Resides: An Isherwood Reader”, Vintage

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• Our life is a faint tracing on the surface of mystery, like the idle curved tunnels of leaf miners on the face of a leaf. We must somehow take a wider view, look at the whole landscape, really see it, and describe what's going on here. Then we can at least wail the right question into the swaddling band of darkness, or, if it comes to that, choir the proper praise.

  Annie Dillard

  Tunnels, Views, Darkness

  "Pilgrim at Tinker Creek". Book by Annie Dillard, books.google.ru. January 1, 2011.

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• If you don't ask the right question, every answer seems wrong -

  Ani DiFranco

  Inspiring, Answers, Asks

  Song: Hell Yeah

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• I pray to the God within me that He will give me the strength to ask Him the right questions.

  Elie Wiesel

  Giving, Praying, Give Me Strength

  Elie Wiesel (1982). “Night”, New York, Bantam

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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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• We hear only those questions for which we are in a position to find answers.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Asking Questions, Answers, Hearing Loss

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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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• My greatest strength as a consultant is to be ignorant and ask a few questions.

  Peter Drucker

  Asking Questions, Ignorant Masses, Asking Too Many Questions

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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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• A key to improved prayer is to learn to ask the right questions. Consider changing from asking for the things you want to honestly seeking what He wants for you. Then as you learn His will, pray that you will be led to have the strength to fulfill it.

  Richard G. Scott

  Prayer, Keys, Asking

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• Effective management always means asking the right question.

  Robert Heller

  Mean, Risk, Asking

  Robert Heller (1984). “The supermanagers: managing for success, the movers and the doers, the reasons why”, McGraw-Hill Companies

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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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• It's better to ask the right questions than accept the status quo

  Phil Harding

  Business, Management, Economics

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• The most successful scientists in the history of the world are those who posed the right questions

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Business, Successful, World

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• One of the things that Ivar knew about Mrs. Walker was that she would only tell him what she knew if he asked the right question, so he spent a portion of his time meditating over what he might ask Mrs. Walker and how he might phrase the question.

  Jane Smiley

  Intellectual, Intelligence, Might

  Jane Smiley (1995). “Moo”, Knopf

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• Never ask, "Who is my real friend?" Ask, "Am I a real friend to somebody?" That is the right question. Always be concerned with yourself.

  Rajneesh

  Love, Real, Concerned

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• Feynman's cryptic remark, "no one is that much smarter ...," to me, implies something Feynman kept emphasizing: that the key to his achievements was not anything "magical" but the right attitude, the focus on nature's reality, the focus on asking the right questions, the willingness to try (and to discard) unconventional answers, the sensitive ear for phoniness, self-deception, bombast, and conventional but unproven assumptions.

  Philip Warren Anderson

  Nature, Attitude, Science

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• The secret of science is to ask the right question, and it is the choice of problem more than anything else that marks the man of genius in the scientific world.

  Henry Tizard

  Science, Men, Choices

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• Half of science is putting forth the right questions.

  Francis Bacon

  Science, Half

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• I cannot expect even my own art to provide all of the answers, only to hope it keeps asking the right questions.

  Grace Hartigan

  Art, Asking, Answers

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• In school, we're rewarded for having the answer, not for asking a good question.

  Richard Saul Wurman

  School, Asking Questions, Good Questions

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• What people think of as the moment of discovery is really the discovery of the question.

  Jonas Salk

  Thinking, Discovery, People

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