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“Where there are problems, there are angels hovering about just waiting for us to ask them to help us transform our suffering into blessings. I'm not being religious, I'm telling you the truth as I have experienced it. ... And I'm not being trendy either. I was talking to angels long before they got fashionable. ... So maybe you don't believe in angels, that's all right, they don't care. They're not like Tinkerbell, you know, they don't depend on your faith to exist. A lot of people didn't believe the earth was round either, but that didn't make it any flatter.”

People Knows Believe Long Helping Problem Care Earth Suffering Asks Waiting Religious Talking Depends Blessing Angel Rounds Don't Believe Don't Care Fashionable Trendy Hovering Tinkerbell

Author:Nancy Pickard

“Error ... is less an intellectual problem than an existential one - a crisis not in what we know, but in who we are. We hear something of that identity crisis in the questions we ask ourselves in the aftemath of error: What was I thinking? How could I have done that?”

Thinking Knows Done Problem Asks Identity Intellectual Crisis Errors Who We Are Existential Identity Crisis

Book:Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error

Source: Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error

“Because the truth is, nobody knows what's best for you better than you do. You have to really sit still and ask yourself: What do I want? Does this feel right? What should I do? I realized I had to go back and do what I had always done. Listening to my gut was just as important as listening to the advice of others, and only I knew what was best for me.”

Knows Want Feels Should Doe Stills Important Done Asks Advice Listening Truth Is I Realized Guts Should I Better Than You Nobody Knows Feels Right

Book:True Love

Source: True Love

“I am not interested in being vice president of the United States. I've let the candidate know. If the candidate asks me to be vice president, the answer is I got to say yes. But he's not going to ask me.”

Ifs Knows States Asks President Answers United United States Vices Ask Me Candidates Not Interested Vice President

Author:Brian Williams

“I would ask, "How can one have a technological society without research? How can one have research without researching dangerous areas? How can one research dangerous areas without uncovering dangerous information? How can you uncover dangerous information without it falling into the hands of insane people who will sooner or later destroy the human race, if not the whole of life on earth?" Who knows? God only knows!”

People Ifs Knows Humans Whole Hands Earth Fall Asks Race Dangerous Information Research Areas Insane Human Race Sooner Or Later Technological Knowing God Uncovering

Author:Pete Seeger

“I ask two questions when I am confronting life on a moment to moment basis when something important is happening. (1) What is factually happening right now? (2) What does my soul know about this and want me to know about this? It is amazing that when I give myself 20-25 seconds to seriously consider these questions, almost instantly I will arrive at a deeper awareness and a richer understanding of what is happening right now - from the soul's level of awareness.”

Knows Want Giving Doe Two Important Soul Moments Asks Understanding Levels Awareness Right Now Happenings Bases Deeper My Soul Seconds Want Me Confronting

Author:Neale Donald Walsch

“A lot of my books deal with very controversial issues that most people often don't want to talk about, issues that, in my country, are more likely to get put under the carpet than get discussed. And when you talk about moral conundrums, about shades of gray, what you're doing is asking the people who want the world to be black and white to realize instead that maybe it's all right if it isn't. I know you'll learn something picking up my books, but my goal as a writer is not to teach you but to make you ask more questions.”

“I get paid to ask questions I don't know the answers to and to complain about the things that bother me.”

Knows Asks Answers Paid Complaining Bother

Author:Jack Cafferty

“it isn't good tactics to ask for something that you know will be refused.”

Knows Asks Favors Tactics

Author:Patricia Wentworth

“You can't expect people to give you the things you love, unless you know how to ask.”

People Knows Giving Asks Know How Things You Love

Book:The Girls at the Kingfisher Club: A Novel

Source: The Girls at the Kingfisher Club: A Novel

“People don't ask Andre Agassi, 'You know you're the No. 1 tennis player in the world... have you thought about polo?'”

People Knows World Asks Player Tennis Tennis Player Polo

Author:Rob Schneider

“So when people ask me if there's another one, I say, "You know, I don't think so, but I don't know, and I kind of don't understand why."”

People Ifs Thinking Knows Kind Asks Ask Me

Author:Sean Maher

“Absolutely. I am a father, and I know best. If there's any question, just ask me.”

Ifs Knows Asks Father Ask Me

Author:Rainn Wilson

“The crowds treat me like my last name. When I go onstage people usually stand up, I never ask them to, but they do. They stand up and they don't know how much I appreciate it.”

People Knows Lasts Asks Names Know How Appreciate Treats Crowds

Author:B. B. King

“What people ask for has nothing to do with the value of a property. You might see a listing for $300,000 and think you should make a $250,000 bid. But hyper-focus on what the house is worth. You should know what the house is worth by looking at comparable properties. Base your bid on that.”

People Thinking Knows Should Might Values Asks House Focus Property Hyper

Author:Barbara Corcoran

“I always give books. And I always ask for books. I think you should reward people sexually for getting you books. Don't send a thank-you note, repay them with sexual activity. If the book is rare or by your favorite author or one you didn't know about, reward them with the most perverted sex act you can think of. Otherwise, you can just make out.”

People Ifs Thinking Knows Giving Should Book Asks Sex Activity Notes Rewards Sexually Your Favorite Make Out Thank You Note

Author:John Waters

“Americans are so direct. They'd ask me, 'What's your five-year plan? Do you have a five-year plan?' I don't know what I'm having for my tea tonight let alone a five-year plan.”

Knows Years Asks Five Plans Direct Tea Ask Me Five Years Tonight Five Year Plans

Author:Ashley Jensen

“If you would know the political and moral condition of a people, ask as to the position of its women.”

People Ifs Knows Political Asks Women Moral Conditions Position Men Women

Author:Aime Martin

“Change depends on people knowing the truth. Change depends on people speaking that truth out loud. That's what movements do. Movements educate people to the truth. They pass along information and ideas that many others do not know, and they cause them to ask questions, to challenge their own long-held beliefs. ... Movements are the way ordinary people get more freedom and justice. Movements are how we keep a check on power and those who abuse it.”

“[After her 18-day disappearance in 1974:] I love my husband very, very much, but he didn't ask me when he ran for mayor and he didn't consult me about running for governor. It would be nice to be asked. ... You know, I've been my mother's daughter, my father's daughter, the wife of my husband, the mother of my six children, and grandmother to my eleven grandchildren, but I have never been me. But I am now because I went away. I am a changed woman.”

“We never really know what we want until after we get it. If after we get it, it makes life more miserable, we know that isn't what we wanted. If it makes our life wonderful, we know this is a strategy which will meet out need. That's why Paul Tillich, the theologian says we need to sin courageously. You ask for what you want, hoping to meet your needs. If you get it and it makes life worse, you learn that this isn't what I want.”

Ifs Knows Want Needs Wanted Asks Sin Our Lives Wonderful Communication Strategy What You Want Miserable Theologian Want U Nonviolent Communication

Author:Marshall B. Rosenberg

“There are only so many letters in the alphabet. When I talk to young musicians or authors and they ask for advice, I say, You gotta learn all the letters of your own personal alphabet. With music, you need to know all the different kinds of music and everything in and around your given instrument.”

Knows Needs Kind Different Young Asks Given Advice Musician Letters Instruments Different Kinds Alphabet Different Kinds Of Music Letters Of The Alphabet

Author:David Lee Roth

“If my grandchildren were to look at me and say, 'You were aware species were disappearing and you did nothing, you said nothing', that I think is culpable. I don't know how much more they expect me to be doing, I'd better ask them.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Looks Said Asks Know How Species Disappear Look At Me Grandchildren My Grandchildren

Author:David Attenborough

“I tell my students one of the most important things they need to know is when they are at their best, creatively. They need to ask themselves, What does the ideal room look like? Is there music? Is there silence? Is there chaos outside or is there serenity outside? What do I need in order to release my imagination?”

Knows Needs Looks Doe Important Order Asks Imagination Rooms Silence Students Music Is Ideals Important Things Chaos Release Serenity Silence Is My Imagination

Author:Toni Morrison

“When I give a speech at a corporate event, I often ask those in attendance, 'Do you know how to tell if you're doing the job?' As heads start whispering back and forth, I provide these clue: 'If you're up at 3 A.M. every night talking into a tape recorder and writing notes on scraps of paper, have a knot in your stomach and a rash on your skin, are losing sleep and losing touch with your wife and kids, have no appetite or sense of humor, and feel that everything might turn out wrong, then you're probably doing the job.'”

Source: The Score Takes Care of Itself: My Philosophy of Leadership

“In Washington, a confidential assistant is someone who, if you don't want to know something, you go and ask him and he won't tell you.”

Ifs Knows Want Government Asks Assistants Confidential

Author:Andy Rooney

“People ask me how did you choose the part and how did you prepare for this work? I just learned the lines and showed up; I don't know what else to say because that's all I know how to do.”

People Knows Asks Lines Know How Ask Me You Choose

Author:Anthony Hopkins

“People are always talking about the first church. The real first church was that gaggle of people who followed Jesus around. We don't know anything about them. But he apparently didn't ask them what creed they subscribed to, or what their sexual preference was, or any of that. He fed them. He healed them. He forgave them. He is clear about sin, but he was also for forgiveness.”

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Author:Wendell Berry

“"Where do you get your ideas?" That's the one question I'm genuinely sick of being asked, and also genuinely fascinated by. What fascinates me is not that people ask the question, but what kind of answer are they really looking for? Because if I tell them the truth, which is "I make them up," they seem very disappointed. They want to know about the trek I do once a year to the mountain.”

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Author:Neil Gaiman

“When people ask me what I miss most about the game, it's being in the locker room and getting to know the guys. Back in those days, we had roommates. We had to talk basketball and that was a great way to understand the game itself and form those lasting relationships.”

People Knows Way Form Guy Asks Games Rooms Missing Basketball Ask Me Lasting Lockers Locker Room Roommate Lasting Relationship

Author:Earl Monroe

“I have pictures of me sitting in the racquetball court in my pajamas with an acoustic guitar, and Wolfgang is probably just two-and-a-half-feet tall. I'll never forget the day I saw his foot tapping along in beat! I knew then, I couldn't wait for the day I'd be able to make music with my son. I don't know what more I could ask for.”

Knows Two Able Asks Waiting Forget Half Saws Feet Son Beats Sitting Court Guitar My Son Never Forget Tall Acoustics Pajamas Tapping Acoustic Guitar Racquetball

Author:Eddie Van Halen

“To get a person's real opinion, ask what she thinks everyone else believes... If people truly hold a particular belief, they are more likely to think that others agree or have had similar experiences. [People] tend to assume that other people have had life histories at least somewhat similar to their own. When we talk about other people, we are often talking about ourselves, whether we know it ourselves.”

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Author:Tyler Cowen

“If your project or organization depends on knowing things that other people don't know (but could find out if they wanted to), your days are probably numbered. Ask a travel agent The alternative, while difficult, is obvious. Provide enough non-commodity service and customization that it doesn't matter if the ideas spread. In fact, it will help you when they do.”

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Author:Seth Godin

“When you think of it, really there are four fundamental questions of life. Youve asked them, Ive asked them, every thinking person asks them. They boil down to this; origin, meaning, morality and destiny. How did I come into being? What brings life meaning? How do I know right from wrong? Where am I headed after I die?”

Thinking Knows Persons Dies Asks Destiny Four Morality Fundamentals Meaning Of Life Life Means Thinking Person

Author:Ravi Zacharias

“I have but one request to ask at my departure from this world; it is-THE CHARITY OF ITS SILENCE. Let no man write my epitaph; for as no man who knows my motives dare now vindicate them, let not prejudice or ignorance asperse them. Let them and me rest in obscurity and peace, and my name remain uninscribed, until other times and other men can do justice to my character. When my country takes her place among the nations of the earth, then, and not till then, let my epitaph be written.”

Source: Irish eloquence: The speeches of the celebrated Irish orators, Philips, Curran and Grattan

“I think if you ask people why they watch me, there would be some common thread among all of them that I'm somewhat of an awkward older sister. I have a teen, mostly female demographic. How that happened, I don't know. But I think they see me as some sort of bizarre role model, and I'll keep trying to do that for them.”

People Ifs Thinking Knows Trying Would Be Asks Common Roles Watches Happened Models Female Role Models Awkward Thread Bizarre Keep Trying Demographics Watch Me Older Sister Common Threads

Author:Grace Helbig

“If you want to know if racism is a problem in your country, you might not want to ask white people.”

People Ifs Knows Want Country Problem Might Asks White Racism

Author:Tim Wise

“I don't know if people realize how hard I work, because sometimes people ask me for my secret. The truth is that I don't have any secrets apart from the fact that I've been directing theater and film for twenty years and trying at every stage to make my work better.”

People Ifs Knows Trying Years Sometimes Hard Facts Film Asks Realizing Secret Stage Truth Is Twenties Theater Ask Me

Author:Lucy Walker

“Empty heads, cognitive science has taught us, learn nothing. The powerful cultural and personal flexibility of our species is owed at least in part to our starting off so well-informed; we are good learners because we know what to pay attention to and what questions are the right ones to ask.”

Knows Wells Asks Powerful Pay Attention Taught Empty Species Starting Pay Attention Flexibility Cognitive Taught Us Learners Cognitive Science Empty Heads

Author:Paul Bloom

“They say kids today don't know the value of a dollar. They certainly do know the value of a dollar. That's why they ask for five.”

Knows Kids Today Values Asks Five Modern Dollars Modern Life

Author:Robert Orben

“It's a question I often ask myself: what would I do with me? And I don't know the answer. I don't know what I'd do, except run away.”

Knows Running Asks Answers Running Away

Author:Alexander Masters

“The fewer species there are and the fewer species we know about, the fewer questions we even know to ask.”

Knows Asks Species Fewer

Author:Lynn Margulis

“When Allah inspires your tongue to ask, know that He wants to give”

Knows Want Giving Asks Inspire Tongue

Author:Ibn Ata Allah

“Does it follow from: 'turn ye' that therefore you can turn? Does it follow from "'Love the Lord thy God with all thy heart' (Deut 6.5) that therefore you can love with all your heart? What do arguments of this kind prove, but the 'free-will' does not need the grace of God, but can do all things by its own power....But it does not follow from this that man is converted by his own power, nor do the words say so; they simply say: "if thou wilt turn,telling man what he should do. When he knows it, and sees that he cannot do it, he will ask whence he may find ability to do it..." 164”

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Author:Martin Luther

“I never know tomorrow what I might be doing. I just ask God to lead me and show me and direct me and help me and support me in it. So I just wait to hear the call.”

Knows Helping Shows Might Asks Waiting Support Tomorrow Direct Help Me Show Me Leading Me Support Me

Author:Dolly Parton

“My experience over the years with working with people who are not actors or not trained actors is that you have to get to know them well enough to see what they have that's translatable onto the screen. So you're constantly calibrating to play to their strengths. And the key is to never ask them to do things that are beyond their abilities or are really far away from who they are at their core.”

People Knows Years Wells Enough Play Actors Asks Ability Keys Screens Core Far Away

Author:Steven Soderbergh

“I can't cook, at all. I would not know how to make coffee. I took cooking classes, so I know how to make chocolate soufflé, but ask me if I want to make soufflé. I let somebody else make the chocolate soufflé, and I eat it. I found that, when I took cooking classes and tried to cook, I didn't want to eat it. The joy was gone. I was always filthy with the stuff, and then had to clean it up. I don't like that.”

Ifs Knows Want I Can Joy Asks Found Stuff Class Know How Gone Cooking Clean Coffee Cooks Ask Me Chocolate Filthy Cooking Classes

Author:Barbra Streisand

“People always ask, 'Was it fun? Was it fun working on a movie?' I don't know if that's the operative word. It is challenging and interesting and all those other things, but fun isn't always.”

People Ifs Knows Asks Fun Challenges Interesting

Author:Leonardo DiCaprio

“The smart ones ask when they don't know. And, sometimes, when they do.”

Knows Sometimes Asks Smart

Author:Malcolm Forbes

“The good diarist writes either for himself alone or for a posterity so distant that it can safely hear every secret and justly weigh every motive. For such an audience there is need neither of affectation nor of restraint. Sincerity is what they ask, detail, and volume; skill with the pen comes in conveniently, but brilliance is not necessary; genius is a hindrance even; and should you know your business and do it manfully, posterity will let you off mixing with great men, reporting famous affairs, or having lain with the first ladies in the land.”

Source: Collected essays

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