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Once you start asking questions, innocence is gone. -- Mary Astor
I'm always looking, and I'm always asking questions. -- Anne Rice
Going online and asking questions is the best way to learn. -- Tom Felton
When you stop learning, stop listening, stop looking and asking questions, always new questions, then it is time to die. -- Lillian Smith
No man really becomes a fool until he stops asking questions. -- Charles Proteus Steinmetz
Asking questions is one of the best ways to grow as a human being. -- Michael Hyatt
We hear only those questions for which we are in a position to find answers. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
My greatest strength as a consultant is to be ignorant and ask a few questions. -- Peter Drucker
People asking questions, lost in confusion, well I tell them there's no problem, only solutions. -- John Lennon
That's all managing is: just coming up with the right questions and getting the right answers. -- Jack Welch
I love the early process of asking questions about a story and deciding which questions matter most. -- Diane Sawyer
By questioning all the aspects of our business, we continuously inject improvement and innovation into our culture. -- Michael Dell
We are closer to God when we are asking questions than when we think we have the answers. -- Abraham Joshua Heschel
Increasingly, people perceive no difference between the narcissistic self-serving reporters asking questions, and the narcissistic self-serving politicians who evade them. -- Michael Crichton
I've given up asking questions. l merely float on a tsunami of acceptance of anything life throws at me ... and marvel stupidly. -- Terry Gilliam
There's no great mystery to acting. It's a very simple thing to do but you have to work hard at it. It's about asking questions and using your imagination. -- Eddie Marsan
Just keep asking questions. Does this job allow me to be myself? Does it make me smarter? Does it open doors? Does it represent a compromise I accept? Does it touch my inner being? -- Suzy Welch
This is not a day for asking questions, not a day on any calendar. This day is conscious of itself. This day is a lover, bread, and gentleness, more manifest than saying can say. -- Rumi
Don't wait for mentors to seek you out. Don't ever wait for your phone calls to be returned, your letters to be answered, your faxes to be responded to. Keep going out and asking question. -- Denis Waitley
If you don't ask the right questions, you don't get the right answers. A question asked in the right way often points to its own answer. Asking questions is the ABC of diagnosis. Only the inquiring mind solves problems. -- Edward Hodnett
Philosophy, if it cannot answer so many questions as we could wish, has at least the power of asking questions which increase the interest of the world, and show the strangeness and wonder lying just below the surface even in the commonest things of daily life. -- Bertrand Russell
If you don't understand, ask questions. If you're uncomfortable about asking questions, say you are uncomfortable about asking questions and then ask anyway. It's easy to tell when a question is coming from a good place. Then listen some more. Sometimes people just want to feel heard. Here's to possibilities of friendship and connection and understanding. -- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Many of us knock on the door but remain outside, because knocking and entering are entirely different actions. Knocking is necessary, consisting of reading books, attending meetings, asking questions. But entrance requires much bolder action. It requires one to enter into himself, to uncover hidden motives, to see contradictions, and to realize his actual power for self-change. -- Vernon Howard
The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge. -- Thomas Berger
I have always been much better at asking questions than knowing what the answers were. -- Bill James
I love doing what I do. I love asking questions. I love being in the mix. -- Larry King
And I like asking questions, to keep learning; people with big egos might not want to look unsure. -- Heston Blumenthal
I think all good architecture should challenge you, make you start asking questions. You don't have to understand it. You may not like it. That's OK. -- Thom Mayne
Asking questions is an essential part of police investigation. In the ordinary sense a police officer is free to ask a person for identification without implicating the Fourth Amendment. -- Anthony Kennedy
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. -- James Stephens
I've always been really curious about things and slightly confused by the world, and I think someone who feels that way is in a good position to be the one asking questions. -- Terry Gross
In my own experience as a C.E.O., I would find myself laying awake at 3 A.M. asking questions about my business, and there weren't management books out there that could help me. -- Ben Horowitz
Asking questions is what brains were born to do, at least when we were young children. For young children, quite literally, seeking explanations is as deeply rooted a drive as seeking food or water. -- Alison Gopnik
I realized if I didn't start talking to my relatives, asking questions, thinking back to my own beginnings, there would come a time when those people wouldn't be around to help me look back and remember. -- Jacqueline Woodson
At first, I see pictures of a story in my mind. Then creating the story comes from asking questions of myself. I guess you might call it the 'what if - what then' approach to writing and illustration. -- Chris Van Allsburg
By reading a lot of novels in a variety of genres, and asking questions, it's possible to learn how things are done - the mechanics of writing, so to speak - and which genres and authors excel in various areas. -- Nicholas Sparks
I've played journalists before, and I have good friends who are journalists. I think being an actor is not very far from being a journalist. Because you investigate, you try to understand, you're asking questions, you're interested in the other. -- Juliette Binoche
You can't legislate into existence an act of forgiveness and a true confession; those are mysteries of the human heart, and they occur between one individual and another individual, not a panel of judges sitting asking questions, trying to test your truth. -- Athol Fugard
I am a person who believes in asking questions, in not conforming for the sake of conforming. I am deeply dissatisfied - about so many things, about injustice, about the way the world works - and in some ways, my dissatisfaction drives my storytelling. -- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Like most people - unless they're very practised at it or have no warm blood at all in their veins - I feel a little apprehensive about the red carpet. It's always a bit bewildering when people are taking pictures and asking questions before the ceremony. -- Viggo Mortensen
I think kids want the same thing from a book that adults want - a fast-paced story, characters worth caring about, humor, surprises, and mystery. A good book always keeps you asking questions, and makes you keep turning pages so you can find out the answers. -- Rick Riordan
The best scientists and explorers have the attributes of kids! They ask question and have a sense of wonder. They have curiosity. 'Who, what, where, why, when, and how!' They never stop asking questions, and I never stop asking questions, just like a five year old. -- Sylvia Earle
In general, questions are fine; you can always seize upon the parts of them that interest you and concentrate on answering those. And one has to remember when answering questions that asking questions isn't easy either, and for someone who's quite shy to stand up in an audience to speak takes some courage. -- Vikram Seth
As a mom, you have all these situations you go through, and you're like, 'What is going on? Is this normal? Is this a phase? Or what is this?' and then you feel silly for asking questions because you think, 'I'm a mom - I'm supposed to know these things,' but you don't. -- Britney Spears
I won't call my work entertainment. It's exploring. It's asking questions of people, constantly. 'How much do you feel? How much do you know? Are you aware of this? Can you cope with this?' A good movie will ask you questions you don't already know the answers to. Why would I want to make a film about something I already understand? -- John Cassavetes
Asking good questions is half of learning. -- Elijah Muhammad
When I stop asking questions, something's wrong. -- Rene Marie
Half of science is asking the right questions. -- Roger Bacon
When will you start asking different questions? Better questions? -- Shah Rukh Khan
Philosophers are adults who persist in asking childish questions. -- Isaiah Berlin
Telling is not selling. Only asking questions is selling. -- Brian Tracy
Asking the right questions is as important as answering them -- Benoit Mandelbrot
Those who do not stop asking silly questions become scientists. -- Leon M. Lederman
Once the law starts asking questions, there's no stopping them. -- William S. Burroughs
Even when I was older, I couldn't stop asking questions. -- Anne Frank
Who is in your life asking you the tough questions? -- Jeff Henderson
I'm in the business, as a journalist, of asking tough questions. -- David Gregory
Communicating is about asking good questions and engaging with each other. -- Michele Jennae
You can't get right answers if you're asking the wrong questions. -- Mark Victor Hansen
The way that you become world-class is... by asking good questions. -- Tim Ferriss
Perhaps depression is caused by asking oneself too many unanswerable questions. -- Miriam Toews
Having all the answers just means you've been asking boring questions. -- Joey Comeau
Adolescence begins when children stop asking questions-because they know all the answers. -- Evan Esar
It takes asking many questions from many perspectives to truly understand something. -- John Paul Caponigro
The act of trying keeps me excited, looking, asking questions and learning. -- Doug Dawson
If you keep asking me questions, I will continue to find excuses. -- Gordon Strachan
If my answers frighten you then you should cease asking scary questions. -- Quentin Tarantino
A journalist finds out things by asking questions of people who know. -- Steig Larsson
Never lie in bed at night asking yourself questions you can't answer. -- Charles M. Schulz
Too many people asking too many questions in tennis. Golf is better. -- Ivan Lendl
Selling is nothing more than asking questions and waiting for an answer. -- Jack White
I was asking Charlie the most important questions, and you heard the answers. -- Edgar Bergen
Ignorance is bliss-Oedipus ruined a great sex life by asking too many questions. -- Stephen Colbert
If you dislike the answers you're getting from life, try asking better questions. -- Steve Pavlina
In mathematics, the art of asking questions is more valuable than solving problems. -- Georg Cantor
Self-awareness involves deep personal honesty. It comes from asking and answering hard questions. -- Stephen Covey
Asking the right questions takes as much skill as giving the right answers. -- Robert Half
Iâ??m sick of asking questions everyone else already knows the answers to. -- Ann Aguirre
The one real goal of education is to leave a person asking questions. -- Max Beerbohm
Canadians are always asking the questions the rest of us are afraid to ask. -- Tucker Carlson
I found I wasn't asking good enough questions because I assumed I knew something. -- Alan Alda
The trouble with asking questions is you sometimes get answers you don't wanna hear. -- Nikki Sixx
I define coaching as launching the salesperson on a voyage of discovery by asking questions. -- Chris Lytle
Don't bother asking God for answers about life. Most likely you're asking the wrong questions. -- Josh Kilmer-Purcell
Scott Buchanan . . . taught me that the questions that can be answered are not worth asking. -- Milton Mayer
The great questions are those an intelligent child asks and, getting no answers, stops asking. -- George Wald
Learning is the new skill. Imagination, creation and asking new questions are at its core. -- Sugata Mitra
I'm good at asking other people questions, but I'm not really good at answering questions. -- Samantha Bee
Don't you ever get tired of asking questions?' 'Never. They're mother's milk to me. -- Tamora Pierce
Every time I ask questions about sex, I always end up asking questions about death. -- Christian Boltanski
Do things that will get people asking questions, the answer to which is the Gospel. -- Lesslie Newbigin
If you get people asking the wrong questions, you don't have to worry about the answers. --
If we shall take the good we find, asking no questions, we shall have heaping measures. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers. -- Thomas Pynchon
There is no point in asking me general questions because I am always changing my mind. -- Michel Houellebecq
Leadership isn't answering the questions others ask. Leadership is asking others to answer their own questions. -- Simon Sinek
Data is the new science. Big Data holds the answers. Are you asking the right questions? -- Patrick P. Gelsinger
But questions that don't answer themselves at the very moment of their asking are never answered. -- Franz Kafka
The answers I remember longest are the ones that answer questions that I didn't think of asking. -- Jonathan Kozol
Carrying the weight of a conditioned mind leaves little opportunity for the questions you should be asking. -- RJ Clawson
I began to realize that thinking itself is nothing but the process of asking and answering questions. -- Tony Robbins
The first time I had a secretary, I was sheepish about being demanding or even asking questions. -- Bing Gordon
A well-trained man knows how to answer questions; an educated man knows what questions are worth asking. -- E. Digby Baltzell
Some people are asking me questions like this is a more shocking subject, which is so strange. -- Daniel Radcliffe
And when I started college, I think I was good at two things: arguing and asking questions. -- Karen Hughes
If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about the answers. -- Thomas Pynchon
The boldness of asking deep questions may require unforeseen flexibility if we are to accept the answers. -- Brian Greene
We need to pay attention to the questions non-Christians are asking, and the conversations that Christians are having. -- Mark Driscoll
When you love something, you'll always come back to it. You'll always keep asking questions, and finding answers. -- Kobe Bryant
Double check answers to questions shared online for proper Netiquette because people are asking for leadership. NetworkEtiquette.net -- David Chiles
Never stop asking questions. Always take time to reflect and find answers. Stop, Think and Use Your Brain! -- Archibald Marwizi
I ask questions, and a large part of my life has been spent asking questions of Ken Livingstone. -- Trevor Phillips
I was looking for myself and asking everyone except myself questions which I, and only I, could answer. -- Ralph Ellison
Very often kids don't ask questions in class because they don't want to be seen asking a question. -- Nicholas Negroponte
I heard you asking questions of each: Who killed the pork chops? What price bananas? Are you my Angel? -- Allen Ginsberg
All that's different about me is that I still ask the questions most people stopped asking at age five. -- Albert Einstein
Asking questions in therapy would be so helpful if anyone ever answered them accurately. But no one ever does. -- Virginia Axline
By looking at the questions the kids are asking, we learn the scope of what needs to be done. -- Buffy Sainte-Marie
Management teams aren't good at asking questions. In business school, we train them to be good at giving answers. -- Clayton Christensen
Being a philanthropist doesn't mean necessarily writing a huge check. It can mean mobilizing your community to start asking questions. -- Kavita Ramdas

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