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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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• If you don't ask the right questions, I can't give you the answers, and if you don't know the right question to ask, you're not ready for the answers

  Ed Parker

  Giving, Answers, Ready

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• There's nothing like having a sympathetic reader who asks the right questions, who understands what you're trying to achieve and only wants to make it better.

  Donna Tartt

  Trying, Want, Achieve

  Interview with Michael Pietsch, www.slate.com. October 11, 2013.

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• Any leader who asks the right questions of the right people has the potential to discover and develop great ideas.

  John C. Maxwell

  Ideas, People, Leader

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• To get the right answer, it helps to ask the right question.

  John Capozzi

  Answers, Helping, Asks

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• All of life is iterative. It goes back to the point I made earlier, which is you can't a priori know enough to even ask the right questions.

  Grady Booch

  Life Is, Enough, Made

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• Some of my greatest role models are the young children who ask the right questions - who will sit down and share their concerns. They're not just learning from me - they're educating me. That's what drives me.

  Jerome Ringo

  Children, Role Models, Roles

  "The Pioneer". Interview with Erik Kancler, www.motherjones.com. April 25, 2005.

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• It's not enough to have the right answers. You have to have the right questions.

  Tim Ferriss

  Answers, Enough, Right Answers

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• If you ask the wrong question, of course, you get the wrong answer.
  We find in design it's much more important and difficult to ask the right question.
  Once you do that, the right answer becomes obvious.

  Amory Lovins

  Inspirational, Business, Design

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• To gain knowledge, we must learn to ask the right questions; and to get answers, we must act, not wait for answers to occur to us.

  Anatol Rapoport

  Knowledge, Waiting, Answers

  "Modern Systems Theory - An Outlook for Coping with Change". "Revue Francaise de Sociologie", (p. 16), October 1969.

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• How do we attack important problems? Pose the right question.

  Donald Sadoway

  Important, Problem

  "Innovating Dirt Cheap: What Sadoway Can Teach Us About The Future Of Clean Energy" by Loukia Papadopoulos, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 15, 2016.

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• When things get too complicated, it sometimes makes sense to stop and wonder: Have I asked the right question?

  Enrico Bombieri

  Math, Sometimes, Wonder

  "The Myth of Executive Functioning". Book by Leonard F. Koziol, p. 1, 2014.

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• When people ask me what philosophy is, I say philosophy is what you do when
  you don't know what the right questions are yet. Once you get the questions
  right, then you go answer them, and that's typically not philosophy, that's
  one science or another. Anywhere in life where you find that people aren't
  quite sure what the right questions to ask are, what they're doing, then,
  is philosophy.

  Daniel Dennett

  Philosophy, People, Answers

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• One finds oneself saying: 'I know the right question, but ... this is not exactly the right time to ask it.'

  Dan Rather

  Right Time, Oneself, Knows

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• Much of the world is focused on answers. This unfortunate. Situations change, the earth turns, and our needs fluctuate. Focusing on static answers puts one at a disadvantage. Empower yourself by searching for the right question as if it were a buried treasure and treasures will find you.

  John Fairclough

  Empowering, Needs, Answers

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

  Jack Welch

  Asking Questions, Answers, Right Answers

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• An expert is not someone who gives you the answer, it is someone who asks you the right question.

  Eliyahu M. Goldratt

  Giving, Experts, Answers

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• Biblical social scientists have an advantage because they know truths about human nature. Those who dismiss the Bible and create surveys that don't measure crucial factors are the ones who have closed minds. Sometimes the Bible gives us clear answers and sometimes it doesn't, but it always helps us to ask the right questions.

  Marvin Olasky

  Biblical, Giving, Mind

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• You have to trust your instincts and know that the right question or the right answer will come to you. You don’t always have to have the solution to the problem; sometimes it’s very interesting to watch somebody go through the process of solving the problem, but it’s got to be truthful.

  Cat Deeley

  Interesting, Answers, Watches

  "Tim Gunn and Cat Deeley on Good Hosts, Bad Reality Shows and Unfair Judges". Interview with Debra Birnbaum, variety.com. August 5, 2014.

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• The answers are all out there, we just need to ask the right questions.

  Oscar Wilde

  Wisdom, Needs, Answers

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• Solutions come through evolution. They come through asking the right questions, because the answers pre-exist. It is the questions that we must define and discover. You don't invent the answer-you reveal the answer.

  Jonas Salk

  Teaching, Over You, Asking

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• The art of clinical diagnosis lies in the ability to ask the right questions.

  Harriet B. Braiker

  Art, Lying, Psychology

  Harriet B. Braiker (2002). “The Type E* Woman: How to Overcome the Stress of Being Everything to Everybody”, p.19, iUniverse

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• I wish that we worried more about asking the right questions instead of being so hung up on finding answers.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Wish, Asking, Answers

  Twitter post from Aug 03, 2012

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• The wrong question to ask of a myth is whether it is true or false. The right question is whether it is living or dead, whether it still speaks to our condition.

  Richard Holloway

  True Or False, Speak, Myth

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