“You would have thought that our first priority would be to ask what the ecologists are finding out, because we have to live within the conditions and principles they define. Instead, we've elevated the economy above ecology.” FirstsWould BeAsksPrinciplesEconomyConditionsFindingsPrioritiesEcology Author:David Suzuki
“The first principle, when you don't know anything about the subject of a thesis, is to let the candidate talk, nodding now and then with an ambiguous smile. He thinks you know, and are counting his mistakes, and it unnerves him... the second principle of conducting an oral, ... is to pretend ignorance, and ask for explanations of very simple points. Of course your ignorance is real, but the examinee thinks you are being subtle, and that he is making an ass of himself, and this rattles him.” ThinkingKnowsFirstsRealCoursesAsksSimpleMistakePrinciplesSubjectsIgnoranceAssExplanationCandidatesSubtleNow And ThenCountingAmbiguousConductingThesisNodding Author:Robertson Davies
“Let’s not ask Barbara Walters about how Muslim women feel. Let’s not ask Tom Brokaw how Muslim women feel. Let’s not ask CNN, ABC, FOX, The London Times, or the Australia Times. Let’s not ask non-Muslims how Muslim women feel, how they live, what are their principles, and what are their challenges. If you want to be fair, ask a Muslim woman. Ask my wife. Ask my mother. Ask a Muslim woman who knows her religion, who has a relationship with her Creator, who is stable in her society, understands her responsibilities. Ask her.” IfsKnowsWantFeelsMotherAsksChallengesResponsibilityPrinciplesWifeFairsCreatorMy WifeLondonAustraliaStableTomsFoxesCnnBarbaraMuslim Women Author:Khalid Yasin
“Why are some people highly principled and willing to do anything for their principles, while most of us are not? And I am willing to not only ask, but also answer the question.” PeopleAsksAnswersPrinciplesWillingPrincipled Author:David Bezmozgis
“The final moment of success is often no more thrilling than taking off a heavy backpack at the end of a long hike. If you went on the hike only to feel that pleasure, you are a fool. Yet people sometimes do just this. They work hard at a task and expect some special euphoria at the end. But when they achieve success and find only moderate and short-lived pleasure, they ask is that all there is? They devalue their accomplishments as a striving after wind. We can call this the progress principle: Pleasure comes more from making progress toward goals than from achieving them.” PeopleIfsFeelsLongEndsSometimesHardMomentsHappinessAsksGoalPleasurePrinciplesProgressAchieveSpecialWindHard WorkFoolTasksStriveFinalsHeavyAccomplishmentModeratesThrillingEuphoriaShort LivedDevalue Author:Jonathan Haidt
“The House, being strong, should be generous ... but the constituents have a right to more than generosity.... The law gives me my seat. In the name of the law I ask for it. I regret that my personality overshadows the principles involved in this great struggle; but I would ask those who have touched my life, not knowing it, who have found for me vices which I do not remember in the memory of my life, I would ask them whether all can afford to cast the first stone ... then that, as best judges, they will vacate their own seats, having deprived my constituents of their right here to mine.” GivingShouldFirstsRememberLawAsksFoundHouseNamesStrongMemoriesPrinciplesStruggleKnowingAtheismMinesJudgingRegretPersonalityInvolvedStonesGive MeCastsVicesPositive AtheismGenerosityGenerousSeatsTouchedNot KnowingDeprivedI RegretConstituents Author:Charles Bradlaugh
“Sir, I wish to understand the true principles of the Government. I wish them carried out. I ask nothing more.” GovernmentAsksWishPrinciplesPatriotic Author:Benjamin Harrison
“When I am weaker than you, I ask you for freedom because that is according to your principles; when I am stronger than you, I take away your freedom because that is according to my principles.” AsksPrinciplesStrongerYour Freedom Book:Children of Dune Source: Children of Dune
“Our search for such [moral] principles can start with . . . the unconditional imperative to acknowledge every person as a person. If we ask for the contents given by this absolute, we find, first, something negative-the command not to treat a person as a thing. This seems little, but it is much. It is the core of the principle of justice.” IfsFirstsLittlesPersonsSeemsAsksGivenJusticeMoralPrinciplesNegativeTreatsAbsolutesCoreCommandAcknowledgeUnconditionalImperativesMoral PrinciplesCommand Not Author:Paul Tillich
“Curiosity and listening [are the principles to an excellent interview]. I never go into an interview with a dedicated list of questions in which I will not deviate. You must be curious about the subject and listen to his answer and ask the next question off that rather than the next question on your list.” NextAsksAnswersPrinciplesSubjectsListeningCuriosityListsCuriousExcellentInterviewsDedicatedDeviate Author:Michael Kay