“I am constantly asked why I never made other films after 'There's No Business Like Show Business,' the answer is I was never asked.” MadeShowsFilmAnswersShow Business Author:Johnnie Ray
“If some woman tells me how she feels about something, my immediate assumption is that she wants an answer, or that she wants me to solve her problem. In fact, all she wants to do is share, or show how she feels.” IfsWantFeelsFactsShowsProblemAnswersShareSolveAssumptionWant MeHe Wants Me Author:Fred Ward
“There are a lot of shows that have secrets and string people along and use the secrets of the narrative engine to keep people coming back every week. I don't know if those programs even have an answer. I don't know how they build their shows.” PeopleIfsKnowsUseShowsAnswersSecretKnow HowWeekProgramNarrativeStringsEnginesComing Back Author:J.H. Wyman
“When you're dealing with subjective matters, there's no wrong or right answer, it's just, "What do we think is best for the show?"” ThinkingMatterShowsAnswersSubjectiveRight AnswersWrong Or Right Author:Rob McElhenney
“The history of science shows that great mysteries get solved. It may be that there's an answer that humans are too stupid to understand. I'm intrigued by that possibility.” HumansMayShowsAnswersMysteryStupidPossibilityIntriguedHistory Of Science Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson
“Great Love has many attributes, and shrines For varied worshippers, but his force divine Shows most its many-named fulness in the man Whose nature multitudinously mixed-- Each ardent impulse grappling with a thought-- Resists all easy gladness, all content Save mystic rapture, where the questioning soul Flooded with consciousness of good that is Finds life one bounteous answer.” MenLoveSoulShowsForceEasyAnswersConsciousnessDivineHe ManImpulseAttributesQuestioningGreat LoveMysticRaptureArdentGladnessShrinesWorshippersGrappling Book:Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated) Source: Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)
“I think that the task of philosophy is not to provide answers, but to show how the way we perceive a problem can be itself part of a problem.” ThinkingWayPhilosophyShowsProblemAnswersTasksPerceive Author:Slavoj Žižek
“What is art?... From a strictly logical point of view, a question with no clear answer comes under the suspicion of being meaningless. But a strictly logical point of view never shows us much about art.” ArtShowsAnswersViewsClearPoint Of ViewLogicalMeaninglessSuspicionBeing MeBeing Mean Author:Carter Ratcliff
“Be undeniably good. When people ask me how do you make it in show business or whatever, what I always tell them & nobody ever takes note of it 'cause it's not the answer they wanted to hear-what they want to hear is here's how you get an agent, here's how you write a script, here's how you do this-but I always say, “Be so good they can't ignore you.” If somebody's thinking, “How can I be really good?” people are going to come to you. It's much easier doing it that way than going to cocktail parties.” PeopleIfsThinkingWayWantWritingShowsWantedAsksCausesAnswersPartyEasierNotesScriptsAgentsAsk MeGood PeopleShow BusinessCocktailsCocktail Parties Author:Steve Martin
“Many people can't deal with unanswered questions, which religion exploits by providing answers, even if they are just made up by someone. This is also why we love TV shows and movies that neatly wrap up everything in exactly an hour or two.” PeopleIfsMadeTwoShowsHoursAnswersDealsTvsProvidingTv ShowsWrapsExploitsUnanswered QuestionsUnanswered Author:Bill Maher
“I certainly relate to Ygritte in the fact that she is so strong and also ruthless as well and I feel that especially within Game of Thrones, I think that as a show, it is one of the frontrunners for showing dominant female characters and making sure that men answer to women rather than the other way around.” ThinkingMenWayFeelsWellsCharacterFactsShowsGamesStrongAnswersFemaleRelateThronesDominantRuthlessFemale CharactersStrong Female Characters Author:Rose Leslie
“Philosophy, if it cannot answer so many questions as we could wish, has at least the power of asking questions which increase the interest of the world, and show the strangeness and wonder lying just below the surface even in the commonest things of daily life.” IfsWorldPhilosophyShowsLyingWishInterestAnswersWonderIncreaseAskingSurfaceDaily LifeAsking QuestionsStrangenessBelow The Surface Book:The Problems of Philosophy Source: The Problems of Philosophy
“Experiments show that children in unsupervised groups are capable of answering questions many years ahead of the material they're learning in school. In fact, they seem to enjoy the absence of adult supervision, and they are very confident of finding the right answer.” YearsChildrenFactsShowsSeemsSchoolEnjoyAnswersGroupsMaterialsFindingsCapableAdultsAbsenceExperimentsRight AnswersSupervisionAnswering Questions Author:Sugata Mitra
“Several weeks of summer vacation in the Thirties I spent working at $15 a week in the FORBES office.... I worked in the mail cage, where envelopes were slit and subscription payments extracted. Dad used to come pounding down the office aisle and pause long enough to ask, How much today? Inevitably the answer was inadequate-except once. That day the controller said excitedly, Mr. Forbes, the ledger shows a slight profit this month! ... My father turned to him and said, Young man, I don't give a damn what your books show. Do we have any money in the bank?” MenGivingLongSaidBookEnoughShowsTodayYoungUsedAsksFatherAnswersWeekMonthsDadOfficeSummerProfitDamnYoung ManVacationMailPausesCagesPaymentInadequateEnvelopesAisleSlitsForbesDon't Give A DamnControllersI Don't Give A DamnSubscriptionSummer Vacation Author:Malcolm Forbes
“There must be limits, somewhere, to the human footprint on this earth. When the whole of the world is reduced to nothing but human product, we will have lost the map that can show us how we got here, and can offer our spirits an answer when we ask why. Surely we are capable of declaring sacred some quarters that we dare not enter or possess.” WorldHumansWholeShowsEarthSpiritAsksLostAnswersProductsOffersLimitsCapableSacredEnvironmentalDareMapsQuartersStewardshipFootprintDeclaring Book:Small Wonder Source: Small Wonder
“All joking aside, I'm a television watcher and I get frustrated with shows sometimes when they set up puzzles and then they don't give answers. It's just more questions and more questions.” GivingSometimesShowsAnswersTelevisionFrustratedPuzzlesWatchers Author:Sarah Michelle Gellar
“I think the most important key to quality communication and interaction is developing an interest in the person you`re talking with. Most women know the secret to a quality conversation is to ask quality questions and have a sincere interest in hearing the answers. In fact, the best communicators very often say the least. It`s not the extrovert who dominates the conversation that a client feels most connected with, but rather the individual who shows a real and sincere interest in knowing about the life of the person they`re talking with.” ThinkingKnowsFeelsPersonsImportantRealFactsShowsAsksIndividualInterestAnswersSecretQualityTalkingKnowingCommunicationKeysConversationConnectedHearingDevelopingSincereInteractionClientsCommunicatorsExtroverts Author:Tony Robbins
“There are barbarians who seize this dog, who so prodigiously surpasses man in friendship, and nail him down to a table, and dissect him alive to show you the mezaraic veins... Answer me, Machinist, has Nature really arranged all the springs of feeling in this animal to the end that he might not feel? Has he nerves that he may be incapable of suffering?” MenInspirationalFeelsMayEndsShowsFeelingsMightMotivationalSufferingAnswersAnimalAliveDogSpringTablesNervesNailsIncapableVeinsBarbarians Author:Voltaire
“Perhaps our most debilitating rut as a culture is a dependence on experts. Until we kick this dependency, how can we rise above the statistics and become a nation of entrepreneurs and leaders? The answer, as challenging as it is, is for entrepreneurs to show us the way, and to keep at it until more of us start to heed.” WayShowsCultureNationsChallengesAnswersLeaderEntrepreneurExpertsKicksStatisticsDependenceRise AboveHeedDependencyRuts Author:Oliver DeMille
“In this fight I want to show people who are in poverty, downtrodden or denied that you can succeed. I want my performance to be an inspiration to people. You have to stay in the moment and keep moving ahead. I just want to show everyone that you can find answers to your problems and afflictions with hard work and perseverance.” PeopleWantHardMomentsShowsProblemInspirationMovingFightingAnswersPovertyHard WorkSucceedPerformancesPerseveranceDeniedAfflictionKeep MovingMoving AheadDowntrodden Author:Tavoris Cloud