Best asking & doe Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“The mind is a machine that is constantly asking: What would I prefer? Close your eyes, refuse to move, and watch what your mind does. What it does is become discontent with that-which-is. A desire arises, you satisfy that desire, and another arises in its place.”

Mind Doe Eye Moving Desire Watches Machines Asking Refuse Arise Discontent

Book:The Brain-Dead Megaphone

Source: The Brain-Dead Megaphone

“Everyone today is like, 'Shailene, you're getting so much buzz. How does the feel?' It's the most odd question because it's like asking a kid who got into Cornell how it feels to be the top of your class at one of the Ivy League schools. How do you answer that? You just go, 'I don't know.”

Knows Feels Doe Kids Today School Answers Class Asking Odd League Ivy Buzz Ivy League Ivy League Schools

Author:Shailene Woodley

“The marvelous thing about a good question is that it shapes our identity as much by the asking as it does by the answering.”

Doe Identity Shapes Asking Marvelous Good Questions Marvelous Things

Author:David Whyte

“Henry James proposed asking of art three modest and appropriate questions: What is the artist trying to do? Does he do it? Was it worth doing?”

Trying Doe Art Artist Three Asking Photographer Appropriate Modest

Book:Beauty in photography: essays in defense of traditional values

Source: Beauty in photography: essays in defense of traditional values

“He who chooses to be a master never does 'just enough' to get by - nor does he cut corners or attempt to cheat the system. He who chooses mastery lives his life asking, 'How can I do more, give more, be more, and thereby accelerate the achievement of my ultimate destiny?”

Giving Doe Enough Destiny Cutting Masters Achievement Ultimate Asking Corners Mastery Cheat Accelerate

Author:James Arthur Ray

“About the book of Job: If it were today, God might be asking "How does DNA carry traits? How are instincts passed on in animals? How does consciousness arise in the human body and brain, and what is consciousness? What is dark matter? How did the big bang happen? Why does the speed of light appear to be absolute? Is cold fusion possible? How do you program a TV remote control?”

“The question is absurd: when you ask, 'If God is both all good and all powerful, why then does He allow suffering?', what you are really asking is, 'If God is both all good and all powerful, why then can He not make me (the questioner) - who is just as much a part of a universe in which there is suffering as is any other part - be at the same time the exact same questioner, but one who is now part and parcel of a universe in which there is no suffering?' Which, reduced down, is the same thing as asking, 'Why can there not be, at the same time, X and the preclusion of X?'”

Ifs Doe Suffering Universe Asks Powerful Asking Absurd Parcel Asking Why

Author:Emo Philips

“Start simply everyday by asking yourself, "What is the dharma today? What should I do? What is right? What does the universe want from me?"”

Want Should Doe Today Universe Buddhism Asking Everyday Should I Dharma

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Away with the one who is always seeking, for he never finds anything; for he is seeking where nothing can be found. Away with the one who is always knocking, for he knocks where there is no one to open; away with the one who is always asking, for he asks of one who does not hear.”

Thinking Doe Asks Found Asking Seeking Knocking

Author:Tertullian

“Over time, you'll find that the more you trust your intuition and allow it to set your direction, the more you build that trust. Develop a habit of continually checking in with your intuition by asking yourself: Does this feel right to me?”

Feels Doe Habit Asking Intuition Feels Right Trust Your Intuition

Author:Lauren Mackler

“Journalists are more powerful now than they've ever been, and we all know what power does. Anyone who disses the media is really asking for it. But it is the case that the journalists are what they are - world famous for vulgarity, alcoholism, spite.”

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Author:Charles McGrath

“In the long run the answer to all those who object to the doctrine of hell, is itself a question: What are you asking God to do? To wipe out their past sins and, at all costs, to give them a fresh start, smoothing every difficulty and offering every miraculous help? But He has done so, on Calvary. To forgive them? They will not be forgiven. To leave them alone? Alas, I am afraid that is what He does.”

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Author:C. S. Lewis

“People try to reconcile you to a disappointment in love by asking why you should cherish a passion for an object that has proved itself worthless. Had you known this before, you would not have encouraged the passion; but that having been once formed, knowledge does not destroy it. If we have drank poison, finding it out does not prevent its being in our veins: so passion leaves its poison in the mind!”

Source: The Round Table. A collection of Essays ... By W. H. and Leigh Hunt

“I think sometimes I get carried away, like I'm speaking to an imaginary audience rather than just trying to figure something out for myself. Ideally, I try to balance that - that I'm asking these questions of myself, how does this work, why does this happen, what's going on here.”

Thinking Trying Doe Sometimes Happens Audience Figures Balance Asking Imaginary Carried Away

Author:David Byrne

“I've been around the government system and believe me it's built to spend. You've got to change the system, otherwise it's like asking a cultivator to do what a combine does, it just doesn't fit, it won't get it done. You've got to change the system.”

Believe Doe Done Government Fit Built Asking Believe In Me Get It Done

Author:Sam Brownback

“You ask yourself "What is love? Am I in love?", when what you should be asking is, "What is not love?", ma petite. What is it that this man does for you that is not done out of love?”

Men Should Doe Done Asks Asking What Is Love Petite

Book:Incubus Dreams: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel

Source: Incubus Dreams: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel

“Why this strange indifferences to missions? Why these scant contributions? Why does money fail to be forthcoming when approved men and women are asking to be sent to proclaim the “unsearchable riches of Christ” to the heathen?”

Men Doe Christ Failing Strange Men And Women Asking Missions Riches Indifference Contribution Approved Heathen Forthcoming

Book:Send the Light: Lottie Moon's Letters and Other Writings

Source: Send the Light: Lottie Moon's Letters and Other Writings

“We can do whatever we wish to do provided our wish is strong enough. But the tremendous effort needed- one doesn't always want to make it-does one? ... But what else can be done? What's the alternative? What do you want most to do? That's what I have to keep asking myself, in the face of difficulties.”

Want Doe Done Enough Faces Strong Wish Can Do Effort Needed Difficulty Asking Alternatives Strong Enough

Book:The Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield: 1922-1923

Source: The Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield: 1922-1923

“Most people think leadership is about being in charge. Most people think leadership is about having all the answers and being the most intelligent person or the most qualified person in the room. The irony is that it is the complete opposite. Leadership is about empowering others to achieve things they did not think possible. Leadership is about pointing in the direction, articulating a vision of the world that does not yet exist. Then asking help from others to insure that vision happens.”

“The question "From where does the poet get it?" addresses only the what, nobody learns anything about the how when asking that question.”

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Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“It used to be said that, socially speaking, Philadelphia asked who a person is, New York how much is he worth, and Boston what does he know. Nationally it has now become generally recognized that Boston Society has long cared even more than Philadelphia about the first point and has refined the asking of who a person is to the point of demanding to know who he was. Philadelphia asks about a man's parents; Boston wants to know about his grandparents.”

Knows Men Want Firsts Persons Long Doe Said Used Asks Parent New York Asking Used To Be Grandparent Boston Refined Philadelphia

Author:Cleveland Amory

“The most valuable thing a teacher can impart to children is not knowledge and understanding per se but a longing for knowledge and understanding, and an appreciation for intellectual values, whether they be artistic, scientific, or moral. It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge. Most teachers waste their time by asking questions that are intended to discover what a pupil does not know, whereas the true art of questioning is to discover what the pupil does know or is capable of knowing.”

“Asking questions in therapy would be so helpful if anyone ever answered them accurately. But no one ever does.”

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Author:Virginia Axline

“A lot of people think that Jesus is coming back. That's fine, it's your right. But you know, I live in New York, and I think he's running a little late. I'm asking myself, 'Alright, what happens if Jesus comes back tomorrow? What - does he make rounds to churches?' 'OK, everyone who's been good, buses leave in 10 minutes. I'll meet you in front of the post office. I gotta go. Oh, don't tell the Jews I'm back.'”

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Author:Marc Maron

“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

“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?'”

“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

“I remember coming on my first set and it being a playground of things I wanted to ask questions about: cameras and lenses and what the lenses do, what's the focus puller doing and how does that work? Why is there less margin for error when there's less light? I was always asking questions and watching directors closely.”

Firsts Doe Light Wanted Remember Asks Focus Directors Asking Cameras Errors Lenses Margins Asking Questions Playgrounds

Author:Paul Bettany

“I think that young people are going to continue on with the work on pluralism for two reasons, really. One is because it's the reality of the world that they live in, and I think young people from different backgrounds are asking themselves, what does it mean for me to be a Buddhist and friends with a Baptist?”

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Author:Eboo Patel

“I am proud to say that the Federalist Society was founded in part at the University of Chicago, and one of its best characteristics has been an attack on liberal shibboleths by looking at real consequences and specific problems and by asking what law actually does.”

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Author:Cass Sunstein

“I have found it helpful to say a prayer asking to understand the scriptures when I read them. Then I ask, "What does Heavenly Father want me to learn from this scripture?" He always helps.”

Want Doe Helping Asks Found Father Prayer Asking Scripture Heavenly Helpful Want Me Heavenly Father

Author:Allan F. Packer

“You know when you do 25 or 30 movies and people are still asking you how does it feel making the transition? you know youre not communicating correctly.”

People Knows Feels Doe Stills Asking Communicate Transition

Author:LL Cool J

“Talking about freedom, about ethical issues, about responsibilities as well as convenience, is asking people to think about things they might prefer to ignore, such as whether their conduct is ethical. This can trigger discomfort, and some people may simply close their minds to it. It does not follow that we ought to stop talking about these things.”

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Author:Richard Stallman

“When the Irish nun said to me, "Speak your name loud and clear so that all the boys and girls can hear you," she was asking me to use language publicly, with strangers. That's the appropriate instruction for a teacher to give. If she were to say to me, "We are going to speak now in Spanish, just like you do at home. You can whisper anything you want to me, and I am going to call you by a nickname, just like your mother does," that would be inappropriate. Intimacy is not what classrooms are about.”

“The question becomes, because we're remotely far away from the territory we're about to bomb, does it make it easier to do it? That it is an important question, and the military is asking those questions.”

Doe Important Military Easier Asking Bombs Territory Far Away Important Questions

Author:Gavin Hood

“There's this overly friendly sense of community built up by very isolated people, and there's this Lutheran humbleness that keeps people from talking about their own feelings and asking about yours. What does that do in this modern age where everyone takes pictures of their food, and they share every thought they've ever had in real time?”

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Author:Noah Hawley

“Theirs is the party that ... responds to the death of Americans at Benghazi by asking, What difference does it make?”

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Author:Ted Cruz

“The point is Hillary Clinton's campaign is the first one to ask about Barack Obama legitimity because all she does is engage in negative campaigning against Barack Obama and against Donald Trump.”

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Author:Rudy Giuliani

“Because of my experience in Occupy, instead of asking the question, "Who will benefit from this system I'm implementing with the data?" I started to ask the question, "What will happen to the most vulnerable?" Or "Who is going to lose under this system? How will this affect the worst-off person?" Which is a very different question from "How does this improve certain people's lives?"”

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Author:Cathy O'Neil

“I remember asking my mother if she believed in reincarnation and she said that that sounded very sensible, and I thought, yes, it does to me too. So I always believed in it. I can't remember when I didn't.”

Ifs Doe Said I Can Remember Mother Asking Sensible Reincarnation Remember When Always Believe

Author:Tenzin Palmo

“Puerto Rico is a government that is spending money that it doesn't have. What's coming in and what's going out don't match. That is, what they are receiving in taxes is not sufficient to cover the spending that they are taking on. And any entity that does that, whether a family, a business, a government, is going to go broke and bankrupt. They are asking to be given the right to declare bankruptcy, which I think should be an option, as a last resort, if there is no other resource.”

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Author:Marco Rubio

“Leadership is about pointing in the direction, articulating a vision of the world that does not yet exist. Then asking help from others to insure that vision happens.”

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Author:Simon Sinek

“Sometimes when you read the Bible, you find yourself asking, "How does this book know that about me? How does it know that about our world - especially when it was written so long ago?"”

Knows World Long Doe Book Sometimes Written Asking Finding Yourself Our World Long Ago

Author:Max Lucado

“A man I know who writes and aspires to be a novelist does very little reading, and he's not that successful. But I think it's because he's like the kid who wants to be a ballplayer and never goes to the ballpark or tries to hit a ball. So I'd say reading is the most important thing that I do, besides the actual writing. I'm always asking as I read, "How did the writer do this? Why do I suddenly have tears in my eyes? Why am I crying?"”

Thinking Knows Men Want Writing Trying Littles Doe Important Eye Kids Reading Successful Cry Tears Balls Asking Important Things Novelists Aspire Ballparks Tears In My Eyes

Author:Robert Cormier

“The question I'm always asking myself is: are we masters or victims? Do we make history, or does history make us? Do we shape the world, or are we just shaped by it? The question of do we have agency in our lives or whether we are just passive victims of events is, I think, a great question, and one that I have always tried to ask.”

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Author:Salman Rushdie

“No; we have been as usual asking the wrong question. It does not matter a hoot what the mockingbird on the chimney is singing. The real and proper question is: Why is it beautiful?”

Doe Has Beens Real Matter Beautiful Wonder Beauty Mystery Singing Asking Usual Chimneys Hoot Mockingbird

Author:Bertrand Russell

“'Long Black Train' was inspired by a vision that I had of a long, black train running down this track way out in the middle of nowhere. I could see people standing out to the sides of this track watching this train go by. As I was walking, experiencing this vision, I kept asking myself, 'What does this vision mean and what is this train?'”

People Way Mean Long Doe Running Sides Black Vision Middle Walking Standing Asking Train Inspired Track Standing Out Middle Of Nowhere

Author:Josh Turner

“The police are asking through the bedroom door, why did I make a batch of strawberry daiquiris before I called them? Because we were out of raspberries. Because, can't they see, it just does not matter. Time was not of the essence.”

Doe Matter Doors Essence Asking Police Bedroom Strawberries Raspberries Daiquiris

Author:Chuck Palahniuk

“God does not begin by asking us about our ability, but only about our availability, and if we then prove our dependability, he will increase our capability.”

Ifs Doe Ability Prove Increase Asking Capability Availability Dependability

Author:Neal A. Maxwell

“Have you been asking God what He is going to do? He will never tell you. God does not tell you what He is going to do; He reveals to you Who He is.”

Doe Asking Asking God Utmost For His Highest

Book:The Quotable Oswald Chambers

Source: The Quotable Oswald Chambers

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