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“Asking good questions is half of learning.”

Spiritual Half Asking Sufi Wisdom Good Questions

“In 1979, I received a phone call from Ansel Adams asking me if I would be willing to consider coming to work for him. I was teaching photography in Southern California at that point.”

Ifs Would Be Teaching Willing Photography Asking Photographer Phones California Southern Phone Calls Southern California

Author:John Sexton

“Never stop asking yourself whether you can do things better. Keep testing every aspect of your business to the nth degree, and challenge every one of your assumptions. The tougher you are on yourself now, the tougher your business will be out there in the real world.”

World Real Can Do Challenges Degrees Aspect Asking Assumption Real World Testing

Author:James Caan

“It's a long haul bringing up our children to be good; you have to keep doing that — bring them up — and that means bringing things up with them: Asking, telling, sounding them out, sounding off yourself — finding, through experience, your own words, your own way of putting them together. You have to learn where you stand, and make sure your kids learn [where you stand], understand why, and soon, you hope, they'll be standing there beside you, with you.”

Way Mean Children Long Kids Together Parent Findings Standing Asking Our Children Parenting Be Good Standing There Haul Beside You Long Haul Where You Stand

Author:Erik Erikson

“Everything I write is personal, really. Even when I'm sarcastic, it's quite personal. And on this record, from the production to the singing to the performances, I got it really honest. To the modern ear, it seems soft. When you hear it against other things, it seems vulnerable. Lyrically and musically, though, this is more subtle. And, yes, it's asking a lot of someone who's used to being hit over the head with bright neon to listen to this.”

Writing Seems Used Records Modern Honest Singing Performances Ears Asking Productions Vulnerable Subtle Sarcastic Neon

Author:Ben Folds

“To understand political power right, and derive it from its original, we must consider, what state all men are naturally in, and that is, a state of perfect freedom to order their actions, and dispose of their possessions and persons, as they think fit, within the bounds of the law of nature, without asking leave, or depending upon the will of any other man.”

Thinking Men Persons States Action Law Political Order Perfect Fit Asking Originals Bounds Possession Laws Of Nature Political Power

Book:Two treatises of government

Source: Two treatises of government

“The reason I do workshops is so I can learn, and I am fortunate that I've probably gained more from the whole experience of teaching than any one participant has. It is all about asking.”

I Can Reason Whole Teaching Photography Asking Photographer Fortunate Participants Workshops

Author:John Sexton

“We get wise by asking questions, and even if these are not answered we get wise, for a well-packed question carries its answer on its back as a snail carries its shell.”

Ifs Wells Answers Wise Asking Carrie Shells Asking Questions Snail

Book:Irish Fairy Tales

Source: Irish Fairy Tales

“Instead of asking, 'What should a woman do—what is her role?' it would be far more helpful to ask, 'What is a woman—what is her design?' and, 'Why did God place Woman in our midst?”

Should Would Be Asks Roles Design Asking Helpful Midst Captivating

Book:Captivating Revised and Updated: Unveiling the Mystery of a Woman's Soul

Source: Captivating Revised and Updated: Unveiling the Mystery of a Woman's Soul

“Of course, none of this can happen for us until we give our lives back to God. We cannot know the joy or the life or the freedom of heart I've described until we surrender our lives to Jesus and surrender them totally... We turn, and give ourselves body, soul, and spirit back to God, asking him to cleanse our hearts and make them new. And he does. He gives us a new heart. And he comes to dwell there, in our hearts.”

Knows Giving Heart Doe Soul Body Happens Joy Spirit Turns Courses Jesus Our Lives Asking Surrender Body Soul And Spirit

Author:John Eldredge

“Effective management always means asking the right question.”

Mean Risk Asking Management Time Management Risk Management Right Questions Asking The Right Questions

Book:The Supermanagers: Managing for Success, the Movers and the Doers, the Reasons Why

Source: The Supermanagers: Managing for Success, the Movers and the Doers, the Reasons Why

“I think cheese smells funny, but I feel bananas "are" funny. I'm assuming Swamp told the whole story of the executives seriously asking us to replace the banana with cheese because they thought it was funnier.”

Thinking Feels Whole Stories Asking Assuming Smell Executives Cheese Bananas Cheesy Swamps

Author:Joe Murray

“I always found the extraordinary loss of life in the First World War very moving. I remember learning about it as a very young child, as an eight- or nine-year-old, asking my teachers what poppies were for. Every year the teachers would suddenly wear these red paper flowers in their lapels, and I would say 'What does that mean?'”

“Asking in prayer helps you to see your problem in the light of God's power.”

Helping Problem Light Prayer Asking

Author:Elizabeth George

“Your character is your destiny. Building character is a task for the brave and dedicated. There are no shortcuts when it comes to building character. If you wish to cure minimalism in your own life, to develop a complete commitment to excellence and an absolute rejection of mediocrity, the question you need to start asking yourself is, "What is the most I can do?"”

Source: The Rhythm of Life: Living Every Day with Passion and Purpose

“It was a wrong number that started it, the telephone ringing three times in the dead of night, and the voice on the other end asking for someone he was not.”

Ends Night Three Voice Numbers Asking Telephones Three Times Wrong Number

Book:The New York Trilogy

Source: The New York Trilogy

“It was a struggle financing CNN, but I did it without ever asking the government for a nickel.”

Government Struggle Asking Cnn Financing Nickels

Author:Ted Turner

“They have it wrong in asking if Schroeder favors Britain over France, or France over Britain. Schroeder favors Germany. That is what we all have to understand.”

Ifs Understanding Asking Favors France Germany Britain

Author:Gerhard Schroder

“The "brightness" of the 15 percent might or might not indicate a profound feeling for the causes of things; it is largely verbal and symbol-manipulating, and is almost certainly partly an obsessional device not to know and touch risky matter, just as Freud long ago pointed out that the nagging questions of small children are a substitute for asking the forbidden questions.”

Knows Children Long Matter Feelings Might Causes Percent Asking Profound Symbols Devices Substitutes Long Ago Forbidden Brightness Small Child Nagging

Author:Paul Goodman

“You've got to be happy if they get your facts right. Since January I don't think I've recognized a damned thing that I've filed. I just pour everything out of the boot. Otherwise you get a phone call at three in the morning asking why you left out that the candidate had his teeth drilled that morning.”

Ifs Thinking Facts Three Left Morning Media Asking Phones Teeth Candidates Boots January Phone Calls Left Out Asking Why

Author:John Lindsay

“I have so fixed the habit in my own mind that I never raise a glass of water to my lips without a moment's asking of God's blessing. I never seal a letter without putting a word of prayer under the seal. I never take a letter from the post without a brief sending of my thoughts heavenward. I never change classes in the section room without a minute's petition on the cadets who go out and those who come in.”

“The 70s were a wonderful time to be young. I think most young people at that time were pushing the boundaries, asking all sorts of questions of society, of life and of themselves. They were very politicised. It was part of the air that we breathed.”

People Thinking Young Wonderful Air Asking Boundaries Pushing Be Young Wonderful Times

Author:Robyn Davidson

“Everyone is always asking me about clothes.”

Clothes Asking

Author:Paul F. Tompkins

“When I start asking my friends, "What do you think this means?" And it leads to way more interesting conversations than what it actually ends up meaning in the dictionary. Like "apocryphal," for instance.”

Thinking Way Mean Ends Interesting Conversation My Friends Asking Instance Dictionary Interesting Conversation

Author:Andrew Bird

“Asking for forgiveness from others in a scriptural manner involves acknowledging that you have sinned against them and that you desire mercy and pardon (not to be given what you deserve). Asking for forgiveness is vital for reconciliation and may lead to the difference in the relationship.”

May Desire Given Differences Forgiveness Deserve Mercy Asking Reconciliation Pardon Asking For Forgiveness What You Deserve

Author:John C. Broger

“If you're asking yourself why I have this success and you don't, don't be angry with me-stop and ask yourself what your issues are that are holding you back.”

Ifs Success Asks Issues Asking Angry Asking Yourself Why

Book:I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down

Source: I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down

“I thought one way to try to hold on to the power was to write the script myself. That way, I could say to filmmakers, "I'm not asking you to hire me unseen. I'm just saying, 'Here's my script. Can we work together?'" So that worked out well.”

Way Writing Trying Wells Together Asking Scripts One Way Filmmaker Working Together Unseen Just Saying

Author:Emma Donoghue

“When doing a revival, you have a lot of people asking you questions about someone who played it before, and to me that's neither here nor there - it has no bearing on the material that I have to use. The material that is written down in a score and script that the writers originally used is what I use.”

People Use Used Written Materials Asking Scripts Score Revival

Author:Kelli O'Hara

“I'm not a psychologist, and I don't know how to play a more sophisticated role than the one that I have played for quite a few years, and that is spending a lot of time with these hard-working scientists in the various fields of expertise that relate to the climate crisis, learning as fully as I can the truths they are discovering, asking them to explain it in language that's simple enough for me to understand and then use that language to convey the essence of it, and then letting the chips fall where they may.”

“Whether that's speaking up in your job or asking for a promotion or saying, 'I think I can do that.' Using your voice in ways that might initially scare you. That can be being an architect of change.”

Thinking Way I Can Might Jobs Voice Can Do Asking Scare Architect Promotion Speaking Up

Author:Maria Shriver

“People think, 'Oh my goodness! I have to do something really big.' You don't. Do what you love. There's a great quote from a poet I use all the time: 'Instead of asking what the world needs, ask yourself what you love,' because what the world needs is more people doing what they love.”

People Thinking World Needs Use Bigs Asks Poet Goodness Asking What You Love

Author:Maria Shriver

“I walked around my apartment with food in my mouth asking myself: "How do I come up with this voice?" Then I found the voice. I called the director and said on the phone: "Guess who you're talking to Chris? Sid, that's right Sid!" And that's how I came up with the voice. That's a true story.”

Said Stories Found Voice Talking Directors Mouths Asking Phones Come Up Apartment True Story Sids

Author:John Leguizamo

“I got a phone call from George Miller [the director] asking me to play this role. We sat down and he showed me on his computer a documentary-type montage sequence of real penguins swimming, in an Esther Williams synchronized sort of way, and doing things I have never seen them do. Then he explained his vision of the film, asked me to read the script and to voice the character. I was cast a little bit later, and he let me do the singing as well!”

“We're not allowed in the cutting room - and that's extraordinary. So, when a director is asking for certain nuances and colours and we feel that they're phoney, but we do it because the director asks for it, that's the one that they pick in the cutting room. And I contend that when you see a movie with bad acting, don't blame the actor... blame those guys in the cutting room because they like that take.”

Feels Guy Certain Actors Asks Rooms Acting Cutting Directors Picks Asking Blame Extraordinary Colour Nuance Bad Acting

Author:Dustin Hoffman

“Okay well - no that is a very real thing seven-year-olds asking for BlackBerrys and cell phones and things like that. And that's one of the things I love most about the show [The Starter Wife] is the social satire.”

Years Wells Real Shows Social Okay Asking Seven Phones Cells Satire Seven Years Real Things Cell Phone Things I Love

Author:Debra Messing

“I don't have any simple things. I only have things like a gold-studded leather jacket. Then I'm going to Hawaii and I'm asking myself "Do I pack it? It could be cold." I'm inventing scenarios where I could wear it.”

Simple Cold Gold Asking Packs Hawaii Jackets Scenarios Leather Inventing Simple Things Leather Jackets

Author:Shaun White

“He who wishes for anything but Christ, does not know what he wishes; he who asks for anything but Christ, does not know what he is asking; he who works, and not for Christ, does not know what he is doing.”

Knows Doe Asks Wish Christ Asking

Book:The Maxims and Sayings of St Philip Neri

Source: The Maxims and Sayings of St Philip Neri

“We are all "conservatives" in some sense, because we want to "conserve" some things while changing others. We are all "liberals" because we all want to be "free" in some respects. We are all "progressives" because we want to progress towards something: the question is, towards what? So instead of asking someone, are you conservative or liberal, right-wing or left-wing, why don't I ask what you want to conserve, and what to change, and why? Then we might finally have an intelligent debate about politics.”

Want Might Asks Left Progress Intelligent Asking Wings Conservative What You Want Debate Right Wing Left Wing

Author:Stratford Caldecott

“True prayer is asking God what He wants.”

Want Prayer Asking Asking God

Author:William Barclay

“If you are asking me what the individual can do right now, in a political sense, I'd have to say he can't do all that much. Speaking for myself, I am more concerned with the transformation of the individual, which to me is much more important than the so-called political revolution.”

Ifs Important Political Individual Can Do Revolution Right Now Concerned Transformation Asking Political Revolution

Author:William S. Burroughs

“Increasingly, people perceive no difference between the narcissistic self-serving reporters asking questions, and the narcissistic self-serving politicians who evade them.”

People Self Differences Politician Asking Perceive Serving Reporters Narcissistic Asking Questions Self Serving

Author:Michael Crichton

“As 99 per cent of English authors and 100 per cent of American ones [authors] are just such imbeciles, managers and publishers make a practice of asking for every right the author possesses.”

Practice Asking Managers Cents Publishers Imbeciles

Author:George Bernard Shaw

“People keep asking me if I'll marry again. It's as if after you've had one car crash you want another.”

People Ifs Want Car Asking Crash Car Crash

Author:Stephanie Beacham

“Your boyfriend had a dream about potatoes and you're asking me to interpret it? I'm just old. Being old doesn't mean you know more; it means you ate enough fiber.”

Knows Mean Enough Dream Asking Potatoes Fiber Your Boyfriend Being Old

Book:The Marriage of Sticks

Source: The Marriage of Sticks

“Scandal is great entertainment because it allows people to feel contempt, a moral emotion that gives feelings of moral superiority while asking nothing in return. With contempt you don't need to right the wrong (as with anger) or flee the scene (as with fear or disgust). And the best of all, contempt is made to share. Stories about the moral failings of others are among the most common kinds of gossip, they are a stable of talk radio, and they offer a ready way for people to show that they share a common moral orientation.”

Source: The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom

“What a waste of an education Rick Santorum is! ... Let's just pray that none of his home-schooled kids grow up to be an airline pilot, okay? That's all I'm asking. Please dear God, do not let any of these home-schooled kids grow up to be a surgeon, an airline pilot, or a nurse. Or somebody that's in charge of my trans-vaginal mandatory ultrasound. Seriously, no science-y things for them, you know, just religion, let them be all preachers or something.”

Knows Home Kids Grows Growing Up Praying Please Waste Okay Asking Dear Nurse Pilots Preacher Airline Surgeons Trans Schooled Dear God Ultrasounds Airline Pilots

Author:Randi Rhodes

“I'm determined, and I'm passionate and driven about whatever I commit myself to do. If I don't know something, I'm going to ask, and I've got no problems in asking questions. I never have. People ask me, "Are you nervous when you go on the runway? You don't look it." Yes, I am.”

People Ifs Knows Looks Problem Asks Goes On Asking Passionate Determined Driven Commit Nervous Ask Me No Problem Asking Questions Runway

Author:Naomi Campbell

“The president of the United States is supposed to lead the free world and not follow it. Other nations have been more outspoken. So, I hope that we'll hear more of this because young men and women taking to the streets in Tehran need our support. The signs are in English. They're basically asking for us to speak up on their behalf.”

Men World Needs Has Beens States Young Speak Nations President United United States Support Streets Men And Women Asking Young Man Behalf Outspoken Free World Tehran

Author:Barack Obama

“People who aren't addicts want to know why I became one. They ask whether I had a midlife crisis. I'm only speaking for myself now, but I've stopped asking why and how. It's all about surrender and acceptance. It doesn't matter why I am an addict.”

People Knows Want Matter Asks Acceptance Asking Crisis Surrender Addict Midlife Midlife Crisis Asking Why

Author:Kevin Sessums

“I'm amazed at what I have taken for granted. How to truly take in our situation I don't know, but I wish I had started asking myself that question earlier than I did.”

Knows Wish Situation Taken Asking Granted Amazed Taken For Granted

Author:Marilynne Robinson

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