Q Quotes
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“Questions about acting are difficult.”
“Questions about form seem as hopelessly inadequate as questions about content.”
Source: Robert Smithson, the Collected Writings
“Questions about political theatre always overlook America's most powerful and effective political theatre, which is always thriving: the American musical. The politics is conservative but, to my mind, effective and insidious.”
“Questions about the validity of violence should have been directed to those institutions that held and continue to hold a monopoly on violence: the police, the prisons, the military.”
Source: Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine and the Foundations of a Movement
“Questions after a fatal fall of a giant are like lighting a fire by a breeze laden sea.”
“Questions and answers:
“I always feel fear."
“Everybody does.”
“Even you?”
“Yes.”
“If everyone feels fear, what differentiates a coward from a brave person?”
“The decisions they make in the state of fright.”
Source: The Blue Susurration
“Questions and debates related to the distinction between primary and secondary qualities, starting with Galileo, Descartes, Newton, Boyle, and culminating with Locke, Berkeley, and Hume, although we can go back to Democritus and his conventions, arise not only from these qualities per se but also from the lack of clear and precise definitions of these terms, including the terms “sensibles” (“sensible qualities”) and “proper and common sensibles.” For the philosophers of old, since Aristotle, proper sensibles were the same as secondary qualities for the philosophers since Locke. Common sensibles would be primary qualities based on Locke’s classification. The main distinction shall be sought between the essence of the Being as a singularity, in its ultimate mode, and its manifestation, appearance, in and through plurality. We can further postulate that there is a distinction between the essence of singularity and its appearance or manifestation in (through) plurality.
The next question is whether Plurality saves the essence of singularity. Although singularity is saved even in plurality, this essence hides beyond appearance, and the senses cannot experience it. The senses experience only the appearance of plurality, not its essence as a singularity.”
Source: ABSOLUTE
“Questions appear real for as long as you consider yourself to be a person. When you realize you are the impersonal presence, all questions vanish.”
“Questions are a burden to others; answers are a prison for oneself.”
“Questions are creative acts of intelligence.”
“Questions are far more effective than defensive statements. They do not imply agreement, but they do convey interest and a desire to understand and facilitate an environment for peak performance, a central thread of effective leadership.... The next time someone accuses you of virtually anything, ask some questions. Resolving the situation may take more time, but the outcome will likely be more productive for both of you.”
Source: Micromessaging: Why Great Leadership is Beyond Words: Why Leadership is Great Beyond Words
“Questions are for the benefit of every student, not just the one raising his hand.”
Source: State of Wonder
“Questions are great, but only if you know the answers. If you ask questions and the answers surprise you, you look silly.”
Source: Burnt Offerings: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel
“Questions are like the knocks of beggarmen, and should not be minded.”
Source: The Third Policeman: A Novel
“Questions are more important than answers. Answers take you down a path. Questions determine what path you take. The more questions you ask, the more answers you get.”
“Questions are more true than answers : this is the beginning of wisdom”
“Questions are never indiscreet, answers sometimes are.”
Source: An Ideal Husband
“Questions are not an act of rebellion, but not questioning is an act of submissive conditioning.”
“Questions are not happenstance thoughts nor are questions common problems of today which one picks up from hearsay and booklearning and decks out with a gesture of profundity questions grow out of confrontation with the subject matter and the subject matter is there only where eyes are, it is in this manner that questions will be posed and all the more considering that questions that have today fallen out of fashion in the great industry of problems. One stands up for nothing more than the normal running of the industry. Philosophy interprets its corruption as the resurrection of metaphysics.”
“Questions are not scary. What is scary is when people don’t have any. What is tragic is faith that has no room for them.”
Source: The Complete Rob Bell: His Seven Bestselling Books, All in One Place
“Questions are often more effective than statements in moving others. Or to put it more appropriately, since the research shows that when the facts are on your side, questions are more persuasive than statements, don't you think you should be pitching more with questions?”
“Questions are only offensive to those who have something to hide”
“Questions are places in your mind where answers fit. If you haven't asked the question, the answer has nowhere to go.”
“Questions are places in your mind where answers fit. If you haven't asked the question, the answer has nowhere to go. It hits your mind and bounces right off. You have to ask the question - you have to want to know - in order to open up the space for the answer to fit.”
“Questions are the heart of a functioning society.” She wondered if she’d read that somewhere or had just invented it. She rather liked it.”
Source: The Spellshop
“Questions are the important thing, answers are less important. Learning to ask a good question is the heart of intelligence. Learning the answer-well, answers are for students. Questions are for thinkers.”
Source: The Connoisseur's Guide to the Mind: How We Think, How We Learn, and What It Means to Be Intelligent
“Questions are the seeds of wisdom. Reframing an uncertainty can reveal a better truth”
Source: Where the Cuckoo Lives: Other Tales Not about the Cuckoo
“Questions are usually more beautiful, more significant than their resolutions, which in fact never resolve them, are never sufficient to satisfy us, whereas from a question streams a wonderful fragrance.”
Source: Masquerade and other stories
“QUESTIONS are valiant. Partially confrontational. Because a question is asked, the assumption is that an answer is unknown. A stimulate for a discussion. When a question is posed, so is a requirement. You’re either going to answer or elude. Lie or tell your truth. Elaborate or give short answers. There is an opening for logic or emotion. Or both.”
Source: A Book That I Would Read
“Questions are vehicles to the future. Answers are milestones along the way.”
Source: the human key condensed: master
“Questions do not offend me, but I can't guarantee that the answers won't offend you.”
Source: The Best of Randall Garrett
“Questions don't change the truth. But they give it motion.”
“Questions don't have to make sense, Vincent," said Miss Susan. "But answers do.”
“Questions draw us together. Answers push us apart.”
“Questions for questions. You're a man who's spent time at court.”
“Questions for the lord, why he don't like me, guard my soul, Though my life was hard with no remorse.”
“Questions from earlier circle like buzzards. Am I running away or moving forward?”
Source: Outside In
“Questions have also arisen about AIDS being transmitted to hemophiliacs via blood transfusions.”
Source: Challenges
“Questions have arisen about the policing of science. Who is responsible for the policing? My answer is: all of us.”
Source: Challenges
“Questions, I've got some questions
I want to know you
But what if I could ask you only one thing
Only this one time, what would you tell me?
Well maybe you could give me a suggestion
So I could know you, what would you tell me?
Maybe you could tell me what to ask you
Because then I'd know you, what would you tell me
Please tell me that there's time
To make this work for all intents and purposes
And what are your intentions, will you try?
Impressions, you've made impressions
They're going nowhere
They're just going to wait here if you let them
Please don't let them
I want to know you
And if they're going to haunt me
Please collect them
Please just collect them
And now I'm begging
I'm begging you to ask me just one question
One simple question
Because then you'd know me
I'll tell you that there's time
To make this work for all intents and purposes
At least for my own
What is a heart worth if it's just left all alone?
Leave it long enough and watch it turn into stone
Why must we always be untrue?”
Source: Curious George: Jack Johnson and Friends - Guitar Recorded Version
“Questions invaded my mind and I was young and skeptical, wanting to believe in the power of the mind, wanting to believe in the power of intellectual force, terribly afraid of sentimentality in myself and others.”
Source: A Story Teller's Story
“Questions lead to further questions, and inquiry breeds insight. Gathering expertise brings both confidence and consolation. E. O. Wilson wrote: "You start by loving a subject. Birds, probability theory, stars, differential equations, storm fronts, sign language, swallowtail butterflies....The subject will be your lodestar and give sanctuary in the shifting mental universe.”
Source: Crow Planet: Essential Wisdom from the Urban Wilderness
“Questions like “Is this normal?” or “Am I weird?” reveal how deeply the concept of being “normal” is embedded in the subconscious of the ordinary majority. They don’t mean “Is this ordinary?” or “Am I a product of a photocopy?” when they ask these things, of course. In fact, they are not even consciously trying to conform to norms, even if their words might suggest otherwise. It is simply that they have internalized the association of the word “normal” with the idea of “good.”
“Questions like, "Is my suit OK?", or "Is my job performance satisfactory?", are impossible to think about in the absence of a suitable frame of reference. For an interview suit to serve its purpose, it must make you look good relative to other candidates for the job you want. For your job performance to be satisfactory, it must compare favorably with the performance of others who want the same promotion you do. As Charles Darwin saw clearly, much of life is graded on the curve, and conventional economic models completely ignore that fact.”
“Questions loosen ligaments of cramped minds. Spirited inquiry releases us from trying to solve a problem with the same thinking that caused the problem.”
“Questions need places to flourish”
Source: Questions Are the Answer: A Breakthrough Approach to Your Most Vexing Problems at Work and in Life
“Questions of absolute good and evil are much better not opened to public debate these days, when so few people are sure of their absolutes”
“Questions of natural right are triable by their conformity with the moral sense and reason of man.”
Source: The writings of Thomas Jefferson
“Questions of personal priority, however interesting they may be to the persons concerned, sink into insignificance in the prospect of any gain of deeper insight into the secrets of nature.”
“Questions of such gravity go down to the very foundations of the government. If the provisions of the Constitution can be set aside by an act of Congress, where is the course of usurpation to end?”