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The most important question in the world is, 'Why is the child crying?' -- Alice Walker
The most important question in American cinema, I've learned, is 'When is lunch?' -- Tommy Lee Jones
'What am I missing?' is a much more important question than 'How cool am I?' -- Paul Singer
I asked Dalai Lama the most important question that I think you could ask - if he had ever seen Caddyshack. -- Jesse Ventura
It's not about HTML 5 vs Flash. They're mutually beneficial. The more important question is the freedom of choice on the web. -- Kevin Lynch
For me, what's a more important question is how we get at least the option of more diverse experiences in this media. -- Will Wright
The important question is not, what will yield to man a few scattered pleasures, but what will render his life happy on the whole amount. -- Joseph Addison
Talent alone won't make you a success. Neither will being in the right place at the right time, unless you are ready. The most important question is: 'Are your ready?' -- Johnny Carson
Refinancing your mortgage usually makes sense if you can lower your interest rate by at least two points. But the most important question to ask yourself is, how long will it take you to break even? -- Barbara Corcoran
The most important question we have to deal with is a combination of population control and the control of our environment - how to utilize the world in as effective a way as we can for the future of mankind. -- David Packard
If you are not moving closer to what you want, you probably aren't doing enough asking. And you're probably not asking the single most important question that can help you achieve a higher level of success and personal fulfillment: How am I doing? -- Jack Canfield
I think most people have creative ideas and have very strange, unorthodox impulses of things that they can do with their lives. I've had many of these over the years, but I decided the more important question was, 'When did I start calling this art?' -- Vik Muniz
What is it about animation, graphics, illustrations, that create meaning? And this is an important question to ask and answer because the more we understand how the brain creates meaning, the better we can communicate, and, I also think, the better we can think and collaborate together. -- Tom Wujec
The question is just as important as the answer. -- Charlie Rose
The important question is, How many hands have I shaked? -- George W. Bush
How do we attack important problems? Pose the right question. -- Donald Sadoway
The right answer is seldom as important as the right question. -- Kip Thorne
The right question is usually more important than the right answer. -- Plato
With MOOCs, "the real question becomes, where is human intervention important? -- Shirley Ann Jackson
It's so important to consider this question: What do I desire? -- Alan Watts
The question you're not supposed to ask is the important one. -- Mason Cooley
The most important question to ask is "What am I becoming?" -- Jim Rohn
The most important question facing the planet is: Is it worth it? -- Robert Bateman
The most important question anyone can ask is: What myth am I living? -- Carl Jung
The question of how things will settle down is the only important question... -- Leo Tolstoy
How we ask the question is extremely important to how we find the answer. -- C. K. Prahalad
We oft question and compare.... Is the journey so important or the getting there? -- John McLeod
Being alone in our present society raises an important question about identity and well-being. -- Sara Maitland
Often, in great discovery the most important thing is that a certain question is found. -- Max Wertheimer
The really important thing is learning how to sceptically question and rely on empirical evidence. -- Lawrence M. Krauss
Dear Daddy-Long-Legs, You never answered my question and it was very important. ARE YOU BALD? -- Jean Webster
The most important question we must ask ourselves is, 'Are we being good ancestors?' -- Jonas Salk
An important question to ask is, 'Where and when did decoration and utility first meet? -- Edward J. Fraughton
The most important question a person can ask is, "Is the Universe a friendly place? -- Albert Einstein
Is it music? ... This is not the important question. The important question is, is it interesting? -- Mark Applebaum
People keep asking "Jacob or Edward?" when the really important question is "Diamond Dave or Sammy? -- Ysabeau S. Wilce
One of the very important characteristics of a student is to question. Let the students ask questions. -- A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
The important question to ask is not 'Will we surivive?' but 'What if we survive?' -- Werner Erhard
What am I missing?' is a much more important question than 'How cool am I?' -- Paul Singer
One of the very important characteristics of a student is to question. Let the students ask questions. -- A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
How much do you engage yourself in what's truly real and important in life? That's the individual question. -- Ted Danson
The important question is, what will your wear for a wedding dress, Alexia? You look horrible in white. -- Gail Carriger
While the question of who killed President Kennedy is important, the question 'what killed him' is more important. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Without question, the Red Ryder BB gun is the most important gun in the history of American weaponry. -- Ted Nugent
The most important question any human being will ever face: 'Who do you say that Jesus is?' -- Keith Mathison
The most important question a human being has to face... What is it? The question, Why are we here? -- Elie Wiesel
Nothing generates more heat in the government than the question of who is chosen to participate in important meetings. -- Richard Holbrooke
The most important question regarding Big Data at almost any company is: How much are your customers really worth? -- Bill Lee
The important question is whether [a theory] is true, not whether envisioning an alternative is too intellectually painful to bear. -- J. D. Trout
It's very important to always put things in their historical contexts. It teaches important lessons about the country in question. -- Warren Christopher
I love data. I think it's very important to get it right, and I think it's good to question it. -- Mary Meeker
When we encounter suffering, it is important to respond w/ compassion rather than to question the politics of those we help. -- Dalai Lama
Being a father is the greatest achievement and the most important thing about me. I have two great kids, no question. -- Ryan Phillippe
One of the most important things one can do in life is to brutally question every single thing you are taught. -- Bryant H. McGill
In the long term the most important question for a company is not what you are but what you are becoming. -- Gary Hamel
One of the most important things one can do in life is to brutally question every single thing you are taught. -- Bryant H. McGill
The question I ask myself like almost everyday is 'Am I doing the most important thing I could be doing?' -- Mark Zuckerberg
I think it is an important question of our lives - what is the meaning of literature to us as humans. -- Robert Dessaix
I think it's really important to give yourself a very big question that you're working on that you can come home to -- Anna Deavere Smith
[Question: What do you think was the most important physics idea to emerge this year?] We won't know for a few years. -- Stephen Hawking
Often in life, the most important question we can ask ourselves is: do we really have the problem we think we have? -- Sheri Fink
More important than the curriculum is the question of the methods of teaching and the spirit in which the teaching is given -- Bertrand Russell
It is important to realize that our inability to answer a question says nothing about whether the question itself has an answer. -- Sam Harris
Asking a question is the simplest way of focusing thinking...asking the right question may be the most important part of thinking. -- Edward de Bono
What happens to us in life is less important; the real question can be whether or not we use the experience to grow. -- John Templeton
If we agree that the world is not what it seems, then we have an important question: What shall we do about it? -- Richard Bach
The question of manuscript changes is very important for literary criticism, the psychology of creation and other aspects of the study of literature. -- Umberto Eco
Without question, the single most important attribute of a successful entrepreneur is integrity. And that's not some philosophical or theoretical malarkey; it's hard-nosed fact. -- David S. Rose
There is no question that we must do more to secure our borders - but how we go about securing them is also important. -- Mark Udall
I grew up so thoroughly imbued with women's rights that it was the most important question of my life from a very early day. -- Lucretia Mott
It is a very great thing to be able to think as you like; but, after all, an important question remains: what you think. -- Matthew Arnold
I think that probably the most important thing about our education was that it taught us to question even those things we thought we knew. -- Thabo Mbeki
It's very important to make the man believable so that you can stretch the fantasy. Whether people like this kind of Bond is another question. -- Timothy Dalton
Geoff Nelder's ARIA has the right stuff. He makes us ask the most important question in science fiction-the one about the true limits of personal responsibility. -- Brad Linaweaver
To date or not to date that is the question. It's almost as important as Shakespeare's to be or not to be which deals with death. -- Al Goldstein
Science is meaningless because it gives no answer to our question, the only question important for us: 'what shall we do and how shall we live -- Leo Tolstoy
The topic of compassion is not at all religious business; it is important to know it is human business, it is a question of human survival. -- Dalai Lama XIV
If you said, 'What is the most important aspect of winning football games?' I don't think I could give you an answer to that question. -- Cris Collinsworth
It's not so much a question of whether we've shot it through 35mm or digital video; what is important is whether the audience accepts it as real. -- Abbas Kiarostami
I am deeply aware of the dimension of luck. It's so important to be prepared to receive it, but it is a major factor. There's no question. -- J. Carter Brown
I don't think where people come from is that important. It doesn't matter if you come from reality TV. The question is whether you can inspire people. -- Kinky Friedman
Many, if not most, Christians begin with the wrong question of who they should vote for rather than the more important question of how they should vote. -- Tony Evans
Belief?" "Yes," Sazed said. "Tell me, Mistress. What is it that you believe?" Vin frowned. "What kind of question is that?" "The most important kind, I think. -- Brandon Sanderson
It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it. -- Jacob Bronowski
The ancient human question 'Who am I?' leads inevitably to the equally important question 'Whose am I?' - for there is no self outside of relationship. -- Parker J. Palmer
The matter of fees is important, far beyond the mere question of bread and butter involved. Properly attended to, fuller justice is done to both lawyer and client. -- Abraham Lincoln
Just like all great stories, our fears focus our attention on a question that is as important in life as it is in literature: What will happen next? -- Karen Thompson Walker
The big question isn't whether you have problems; the all-important factor is your attitude toward problems. How you think of the problem is more important than the problem itself. -- Norman Vincent Peale
I appreciate that question because I, in the state of Texas, had heard a lot of discussion about a faith-based initiative eroding the important bridge between church and state. -- George W. Bush
I think investment psychology is by far the more important element, followed by risk control, with the least important consideration being the question of where you buy and sell. -- Tom Basso
I don't care if people hate my guts; I assume most of them do. The important question is whether they are in a position to do anything about it. -- William S. Burroughs
If you believe everything comes from God, how can you say this is more important than that? Some things make more lasting impressions, but that's a whole nother question. -- Jai Uttal
If you focus on near-term growth above all else, you miss the most important question you should be asking: will this business still be around a decade from now? -- Peter Thiel
... but to remain historically accurate, I would have had to leave out an important question that I felt needed to be addressed, which is, 'What if Jesus had known kung fu? -- Christopher Moore
The most important question to ask on the job is not 'What am I getting?' The most important question to ask on the job is 'What am I becoming?' -- Jim Rohn
[James] Baldwin said the real question is not when there will be the first Negro president in this country. The important question is what country he's going to be the president of. -- Raoul Peck
The most important question is, 'Am I asking the most important question?' The second most important question is, 'Am I asking the most important question in the most important way?' -- John Paul Caponigro
The best things in life are gifts from the One who steadfastly loves us. But an important question to ask ourselves is this: are we in love with God or just His stuff? -- Francis Chan
Donald Trump's campaign has raised about $100,000 in donations during the second quarter. Which raises an important question: Who is giving Donald Trump money? That's like giving your money to a pile of money. -- Jimmy Fallon
Arguments cannot be answered with insults. . . . Kindness is strength. . . . Anger blows out the lamp of the mind. In the examination of a great and important question, every one should be serene, slow-pulsed, and calm. -- Robert Green Ingersoll

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