Asking Questions Quotes (page 8)

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• using people
• work
• moving on

ask yourself the following question: "Is this person in between me and what I want to do?" If the answer is no, ignore it and move on. Your energy is better used doing work and outpacing people that way. Tina Fey

• lies
• question
• you me

Ask me no questions, and I'll tell you no lies. Oliver Goldsmith

• lies
• question
• no question

ask no questions and you'll be told no lies Charles Dickens

• question
• asks
• answering

Ask a burning question, get a burning answer Lynda Barry

• humanity
• forever
• question

Ask yourself this question. Do we have to be humans forever? Consciousness is exhausted. Back now to inorganic matter. This is what we want. We want to be stones in a field. Don DeLillo

• attitude
• question
• worth

Ask yourself a question: Is my attitude worth catching? Zig Ziglar

• lies
• question
• asks

Ask us no questions and we’ll tell you no lies. J. K. Rowling

• she
• job
• question

Asked at the hearing why she hadn't pressed the FBI more closely about what it knew, or didn't know, about domestic terrorist threats, Rice acted as though the question was an odd one: it wasn't her job. Well, in retrospect, it was and now certainly is. Howard Fineman

• giving
• question
• questions

Asking the right questions takes as much skill as giving the right answers. Robert Half

• question
• finds
• right questions

Ask the right questions if you're to find the right answers. Vanessa Redgrave

• question
• popular
• conscience

Cowardice asks the question, 'Is it safe?' Expediency asks the question, 'Is it politic?' Vanity asks the question, 'Is it popular?' But, conscience asks the question, 'Is it right?' And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but one must take it because one's conscience tells one that it is right Martin Luther King jr.

• one day
• question
• poor people

And one day we must ask the question, "Why are there forty million poor people in America?" And when you begin to ask that question, you are raising questions about the economic system, about a broader distribution of wealth. When you ask that question, you begin to question the capitalistic economy. Martin Luther King jr.

• trip
• question
• mindfulness

Bigger questions, questions with more than one answer, questions without an answer are the hardest to cope with in silence. Once asked they do not evaporate and leave the mind to its serener musings. Once asked they gain dimension and texture, trip you on the stairs, wake you at night-time. A black hole sucks up its surroundings and even light never escapes. Better then to ask no questions? Better then to be a contented pig than an unhappy Socrates? Since factory farming is tougher on pigs... Jeanette Winterson

• look
• motorcycle
• question

There is a perennial classical question that asks which part of the motorcycle, which grain of sand in which pile, is the Buddha. Obviously to ask that question is to look in the wrong direction, for the Buddha is everywhere. But just as obviously to ask the question is to look in the right direction, for the Buddha is everwhere. Robert M. Pirsig

• respect yourself
• saying
• teacher

If you ask a living teacher a question, he will probably answer you. If you are puzzled by what he says, you can save yourself the trouble of thinking by asking him what he means. If, however, you ask a book a question, you must answer it yourself. In this respect a book is like nature or the world. When you question it, it answers you only to the extent that you do the work of thinking an analysis yourself. Mortimer Adler