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“Get people talking. Learn to ask questions that will elicit answers about what is most interesting or vivid in their lives. Nothing so animates writing as someone telling what he thinks or what he does - in his own words. His own words will always be better than your words, even if you are the most elegant stylist in the land.”

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Author:William Zinsser

“Let the parent ask "Why?" and the child produce the answer, if he can. After he has turned the matter over in his mind, there is no harm in telling him - and he will remember it - the reason why.”

Ifs Mind Children Matter Reason Remember Asks Parent Answers Produce Harm Reason Why Homeschooling

Book:The Original Home School Series

Source: The Original Home School Series

“Blake expressed some doubt as to whether God had made the tiger. But the tiger is in many ways an admirable animal. We have now to ask whether God made the tapeworm. And it is questionable whether an affirmative answer fits in either with what we know about the process of evolution or what many of us believe about the moral perfection of God.”

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Author:John B. S. Haldane

“If some of these answers seem radical or far-fetched today, then I say wait until tomorrow. Soon it will be abundantly clear that it is business as usual that is utopian, whereas creating something very new and different is a practical necessity.”

Ifs Different Seems Today Waiting Answers Clear Tomorrow Creating Practicals Radical Usual Utopian Creating Something

Author:James Gustave Speth

“If you were to hire household staff to cook, clean, drive, stoke the fire, and answer the door, can you imagine suggesting that they not talk to each other, not see what each other is doing, not coordinate their functions?”

Ifs Answers Fire Imagine Doors Function Clean Cooks Household Staff Suggesting Coordinates Stoke

Author:Nicholas Negroponte

“...Mama used to say that when you don't know what to do, do nothing. She meant you can try too hard to solve a problem. If you give it a little time, the answer might just come to you plain as day.”

Ifs Knows Giving Trying Littles Hard Problem Might Used Answers Solve Mama Little Time

Book:Miss Dreamsville and the Collier County Women's Literary Society: A Novel

Source: Miss Dreamsville and the Collier County Women's Literary Society: A Novel

“Don't freight your answers with any notions of what you're "supposed" to do, and just see where your feelings point you. It can feel weird to be so formal about it, but if you're not used to doing it, then there's no shame in retraining yourself.”

Ifs Feels Feelings Used Answers Shame Notion Formal

Author:Carolyn Hax

“Money is very difficult to think about. So, we think about money as the opportunity cost of money. So, we at some point went to a Toyota dealership and we asked people, what will you not be able to do in the future if you bought this Toyota? Now, you would expect people to have an answer. But people were kind of shocked by the question. They never thought about it before. So, the most we got was people said, "Well, if I can't buy this Toyota, if I buy this Toyota, I can't buy a Honda." What is this thing? What is this value of price? Very hard to think about it.”

People Ifs Thinking Wells Kind Said I Can Hard Able Values Opportunity Difficult Answers Cost Shocked Toyota Opportunity Cost Honda

Author:Dan Ariely

“Start by putting yourself in your users' shoes. Why are they coming to your site? If you look at most Web sites, you'd presume that the answer is "User is extremely bored and wishes to stare at a blank screen for several minutes while a flashing icon loads, then stare at the flashing icon for a few more minutes."”

Ifs Looks Wish Answers Minutes Shoes Screens Bored Staring Users Load Blank Site Icons

Author:Philip Greenspun

“If I was asked what is the greatest treasure which India possesses and what is her finest heritage, I would answer unhesitatingly that it is the Samskrit language and literature and all that it contains. This is a magnificent inheritance and so long as this endures and influences the life of our people, so long will the basic genius of India continue. If our race forgot the Buddha, the Upanishads and the great epics (Ramayana and Mahabharata), India would cease to be India .”

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Author:Jawaharlal Nehru

“Christian, take good care of thy faith; for recollect faith is the only way whereby thou canst obtain blessings. If we want blessings from God, nothing can fetch them down but faith. Prayer cannot draw down answers from God's throne except it be the earnest prayer of a man who believes. Faith is the angelic messenger between the soul and the Lord Jesus in glory.”

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Book:Morning by Morning

Source: Morning by Morning

“We can work out anything if we put our mind to it, study it, do hard work instead of finding simple answers”

Ifs Mind Hard Simple Answers Study Hard Work Findings Work Out

Author:Jacque Fresco

“While testimonies can come as dramatic manifestations, they usually do not. Sometimes people think they need to have an experience like Joseph Smith's vision before they gain testimonies. If we have unrealistic expectations of how, when, or where answers come, we risk missing the answers which come as quiet, reassuring feelings and thoughts that most often come after our prayers, while we are doing something else. These answers can be equally convincing and powerful.”

“You can't find the answers on the bottom of a whiskey glass, but if you look hard enough you'll forget the questions.”

Ifs Looks Hard Enough Answers Forget Bottom Glasses Whiskey

Author:George Patterson

“If I answer questions every time you ask one, expectations would be high. And as you know, I like to keep expectations low.”

Ifs Knows Would Be Asks Answers Lows Expectations

Author:George W. Bush

“The Christian faith is the most exciting drama that ever staggered the imagination of man-and the dogma is the drama ... The plot pivots upon a single character, and the whole action is the answer to a single central problem: 'What think ye of Christ?'... He was emphatically not a dull m an in his human lifetime, and if he was God, there can be nothing dull about God either.”

Ifs Thinking Men Humans Whole Character Problem Action Christian Christ Imagination Answers Drama Exciting Lifetime Dull Plot Dogma Christian Faith

Author:Dorothy L. Sayers

“If you listen carefully to what a child is saying to you, you'll see that he has a point to make. So I listen. And I answer them just as seriously as possible. And if I don't know the answer, I'll tell them I don't know.”

Ifs Knows Children Answers

Author:Bill Cosby

“If you ask: What is the good of education? The answer is easy: Education makes good men and good men act nobly.”

Ifs Men Asks Easy Answers Good Man

Author:Plato

“Is there water still on Mars? I don't have a view on that because we don't have good data to answer that question. One of the biggest mistakes you can make if you're a scientist is to think you know the answer, or wish for a certain answer, before you actually have it.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Stills Certain Wish Water Answers Views Mistake Scientist Data Mars Biggest Mistake

Author:Steve Squyres

“There is no true prayer without confession. As long as we have unconfessed sin in our soul, we are not going to have power with God in prayer. He says if we regard iniquity in our hearts, He will not hear us, much less answer. As long as we are living in any known sin, we have no power in prayer. God is not going to hear it.”

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Author:Dwight L. Moody

“If there's anything you want to do and you can't figure out why you're not doing it, there's a simple answer: you link more pain to doing it than not doing it. Hey, if you don't have enough money, for example I know that's an issue for a lot of people. It was for a good deal of my life. If you don't have money there's only one reason: you link more pain to having more money than to not having it.”

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Author:Tony Robbins

“The worst thing the federal government could do is to increase the size, reach and cost of government. If government failed in its response to the hurricane, the answer is not more inefficient government.”

Ifs Government Answers Worst Cost Increase Response Size Worst Things Federal Government Hurricanes

Author:Cal Thomas

“You have to ask yourself a question: "What's the purpose of the private sector - to support government?" And if the answer is, "Yes, it is," then you're a Democrat.”

Ifs Government Purpose Asks Answers Support Democrat Private Sector

Author:Rush Limbaugh

“There is no question that if one were to ask whether we Americans are moving towards more liberty or more government control over our lives, the answer would unambiguously be the latter - more government control over our lives. We might have reached a point where the trend is irreversible and that is a true tragedy for if liberty is lost in America, it will be lost for all times and all places.”

Ifs Government Might America Moving Asks Lost Answers Liberty Our Lives Tragedy All Time Latter Trends Irreversible

Author:Walter E. Williams

“How well I remember the aged poet Sophocles, when in answer to the question, "How does love suit with age, Sophocles - are you still the man you were?" he replied, "Peace, most gladly have I escaped the thing of which you speak; I feel as if I had escaped from a mad and furious master."”

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Author:Plato

“If you can look at a crime where everything points to one answer and not see it, you're a dumb-ass. And if you can look at the deficit and not see that the problem is that the rich stopped paying taxes, you're a Republican.”

Ifs Looks Problem Answers Rich Crime Republican Taxes Ass Dumb Deficit Paying Taxes Dumb Ass

Author:Bill Maher

“With a profession such as investing, people see the 'doing' as the buying and selling. It is difficult to come home from work, and answer your spouse's question, 'what did you do today?' with 'well, I read a lot, and I talked a little.' If you're not buying or selling, you may feel you aren't doing anything.”

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Author:Dave Abrams

“If you said, 'What is the most important aspect of winning football games?' I don't think I could give you an answer to that question.”

Ifs Thinking Giving Said Important Games Winning Answers Football Aspect Football Game Winning Football

Author:Cris Collinsworth

“If you are asking the wrong question, it doesn't matter how good the answer is, you aren't going to get where you want to go.”

Ifs Want Matter Answers Asking

Book:Rediscovering Values: On Wall Street, Main Street, and Your Street

Source: Rediscovering Values: On Wall Street, Main Street, and Your Street

“If some should accuse us as if we held that people born before the time of Christ were not accountable to God for their actions, we shall anticipate and answer such a difficulty. We have been taught that Christ is the first-begotten of God, and we have declared him to be the Logos of which all mankind partakes. Those, therefore, who lived according to reason (logos) were really Christians, even though they were thought to be atheists, such as, among the Greeks, Socrates, Heraclitus and others like them.”

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Author:Justin Martyr

“There's an answer, if you reach into your soul, and the sorrow that you know will melt away.”

Ifs Knows Soul Answers Sorrow Your Soul

Author:Mariah Carey

“(in the film "That's Entertainment!" - 1974) Thank God for film, it can capture a moment and hold it there forever. If anyone ever asks you: "Who were they?" or "What made them so good?" I think a reel of film answers that question.”

Ifs Thinking Made Moments Film Asks Answers Forever Entertainment Capture Thank God

Author:Liza Minnelli

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