“What would have to be true for the option under consideration to work out fantastically?”
Source: Questions Are the Answer: A Breakthrough Approach to Your Most Vexing Problems at Work and in Life
“What more can I be doing to facilitate the team's progress and minimize its setbacks?”
Source: Questions Are the Answer: A Breakthrough Approach to Your Most Vexing Problems at Work and in Life
“Imagination has brought mankind through the Dark Ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus to discover America. Imagination led Franklin to discover electricity. Imagination has given us the steam engine, the telephone, the talking-machine and the automobile, for these things had to be dreamed of before they became realities. So I believe that dreams - day dreams, you know, with your eyes wide open and your brain-machinery whizzing - are likely to lead to the betterment of the world. The imaginative child will become the imaginative man or woman most apt to create, to invent, and therefore to foster civilization.”
Source: The Lost Princess of Oz
“Once, a leader convinced others to act in the absence of information. Today, there’s simply too much information available. We don’t need to guess—we need to know where to focus. We need a disciplined approach to growth that identifies, quantifies, and overcomes risk every step of the way. Today’s leader doesn’t have all the answers. Instead, today’s leader knows what questions to ask.
Go forth and ask good questions.”
Source: Lean Analytics: Use Data to Build a Better Startup Faster
“The only way to break free is to ask questions.”
Source: Why We Follow: Natural Followership in a World Obsessed with Leadership
“The answers are easy if you have the right questions.”
“The key to everything in life is not to seek The answer but to ask the right question. The answer lies within the question, the questioner itself is an answerer.”
“Science is like a candle, it can light up a room or it can burn down a house - in the hands of the responsible scientist it lights up the world but in the hands of the empty scientist it'll burn the whole world to ashes.”
Source: Good Scientist: When Science and Service Combine
“Ten average scientists with a strong sense of humanity can do more good to the world than a hundred brilliant scientists with weak humanity.”
Source: Good Scientist: When Science and Service Combine
“Just because you are on a path to damnation, doesn’t mean you’re going to get there. Be willing to change your travel plans.”
Source: Jona: Autobiography of an Exorcist