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Effective management always means asking the right question. -- Robert Heller
If you do not know how to ask the right question, you discover nothing. -- W. Edwards Deming
An approximate answer to the right question is worth far more than a precise answer to the wrong one. -- John Tuley
The dog is a reflection of your energy, of your behavior. You have to ask, 'What am I doing?' That's the right question to ask. -- Cesar Millan
I believe the right question to ask, respecting all ornament, is simply this; was it done with enjoyment, was the carver happy while he was about it? -- John Ruskin
Far better an approximate answer to the right question, which is often vague, than the exact answer to the wrong question, which can always be made precise. -- John Tukey
I'd asked around 10 or 15 people for suggestions. Finally one lady friend asked the right question, 'Well, what do you love most?' That's how I started painting money. -- Andy Warhol
They're all focusing on how John Roberts is going to decide Roe v. Wade. That isn't even the right question. I don't even know of a case in the (court) system that addresses it. -- Jay Alan Sekulow
I have been asked this question over and over again: 'Dr. Jeremiah, do you think God is finished with America?' But that is the wrong question. The right question is: 'Is America finished with God?' -- David Jeremiah
The right question to ask from a Darwinian prospective is what was it about bipedalism that was so advantageous? Why did it lead to a - why did that adaptation ultimately lead to a species Homo sapiens that has come to dominate the planet today with six and a half billion people? -- Donald Johanson
Liberty is about the right to question everything. -- Ai Weiwei
How do we attack important problems? Pose the right question. -- Donald Sadoway
No question is ever settled until it is settled right. -- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
The right question is usually more important than the right answer. -- Plato
If you don't ask the right question, every answer seems wrong - -- Ani DiFranco
To ask the right question is harder than to answer it. -- Georg Cantor
The right answer is seldom as important as the right question. -- Kip Thorne
To get the right answer, it helps to ask the right question. -- John Capozzi
I always question whether it's the right time for anything I do. -- Bruce Willis
It's hard to answer the question "what's wrong?" when nothing is right. -- Anonymous
There is not a right and a wrong answer to every question. -- Dallin H. Oaks
The church alone beyond all question Has for ill-gotten goods the right digestion. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
It's a moral question about whether we have the right to exterminate species. -- David Attenborough
The wrong answer is the right answer in search of a different question. -- Bruce Mau
To ask the right question is already half the solution of a problem. -- Carl Jung
Honesty is a question of right and wrong, not a matter of policy -- Michel de Montaigne
Thought is the supreme power. The right question will have the right answer. -- Debasish Mridha
Freedom is the right to question and change the established way of doing things. -- Ronald Reagan
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Sometimes you have to learn how to give the right answer to the wrong question. -- Warren Christopher
I like entertaining. I adore it. I feel I'm in the right place. Without question. -- John Hurt
Review our priorities, ask the question; what's the best use of our time right now? -- Alan Lakein
Of course I'm not a racist, but I'm certainly right wing, there's no question about that. -- Nigel Short
How much harm does a company have to do before we question its right to exist? -- Paul Hawken
I don't tend to question things that much. If it feels right, I go for it. -- Sarah McLachlan
The size of your body is just right. The only question is whether you're big enough inside. -- Patrick Carman
There is one "right answer" to any question, and it is in the book to be read. -- Joseph Barrell
The question of the right to privacy must be one of the defining issues of our time. -- Salil Shetty
If you can answer the question of why you're doing it, it's the right thing to do. -- Justin Timberlake
Liberalism is the right to question without being called a heretic. That's what America did for the world. -- Jack Nicholson
When things get too complicated, it sometimes makes sense to stop and wonder: Have I asked the right question? -- Enrico Bombieri
An expert is not someone who gives you the answer, it is someone who asks you the right question. -- Eliyahu M. Goldratt
The way to develop decisiveness is to start right where you are, with the very next question you face. -- Napoleon Hill
Examine each question in terms of what is ethically and aesthetically right, as well as what is economically expedient. -- Aldo Leopold
Life gives meaning to life. The answer to the meaning of life is hidden right there inside the question. -- Wendy Mass
Sometimes the closest-held secrets in the world can be pried out by the right question at the right time. -- Lisa Kleypas
Painting' and 'religious experience' are the same thing. It is a question of the perpetual motion of a right idea. -- Ben Nicholson
If we do not show love to one another, the world has a right to question whether Christianity is true. -- Francis Schaeffer
I love data. I think it's very important to get it right, and I think it's good to question it. -- Mary Meeker
You question, as anybody should, the overarching worth of your profession, right? So that's a question I've often asked myself. -- Theo James
My father said, Politics asks the question: Is it expedient? Vanity asks: Is it popular? But conscience asks: Is it right? -- Dexter Scott King
I believe that it is my right and responsibility as an American to question our government when our government is wrong. -- Cindy Sheehan
There's no question that Roberts will vote like William Rehnquist... If he swings, it will be from right to far right. -- Jonathan Turley
The way a question is asked limits and disposes the ways in which any answer to it-right or wrong-may be given. -- Susanne Katherina Langer
One finds oneself saying: 'I know the right question, but ... this is not exactly the right time to ask it.' -- Dan Rather
I never question a success, any more than I do the right of a bulldog to lie in his own gateway. -- Josh Billings
The executive has no right, in any case, to decide the question, whether there is or is not cause for declaring war. -- James Madison
for some reason, dying men always ask the question they know the answer to. perhaps it's so they can die being right. -- Markus Zusak
A process of reason is a process of constant choice in answer to the question: True or False? - Right or Wrong? -- Ayn Rand
The key question to keep asking is, Are you spending your time on the right things? Because time is all you have. -- Randy Pausch
The most common source of mistakes in management decisions is the emphasis on finding the right answer rather than the right question. -- Peter Drucker
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
My question right now would be to Colonel Gaddafi, which is: 'What on earth do you think you are doing? Stop it.' -- David Cameron
You might question a winkle - a feeling that came to you right out of the blue - but you didn't question knowing. -- Stephen King
If I could ask Ken Lay one question right now, do you know what it would be? "Does the Devil really wear Prada?" -- Jay Leno
What's wrong vs Right with you It's not a question of what's wrong with you, it's a question of what's right with you. -- Al Duncan
The best way to get the right answer on the Internet is not to ask a question, it's to post the wrong answer. -- Ward Cunningham
The question of whether a thing is right or wrong, good or bad, must always be considered in relation to a persons needs. -- Jostein Gaarder
Pop music can play a large part in the way numerous young people determine their right to desire and their need to question. -- Paul Morley
I think it's my job to make any question interesting by coming up with a jazzy answer, otherwise I hardly deserve the spotlight, right? -- Michelle Tea
At any given moment there is an orthodoxy, a body of ideas which it is assumed that all right-thinking people will accept without question. -- George Orwell
The question is whether any civilization can wage relentless war on life without destroying itself, and without losing the right to be called civilized. -- Rachel Carson
Look in; and learn the wrong, and right, From your own soul's unwritten laws. And when you question, or demur, Let Love be your Interpreter. -- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Just as the left has to be more willing to question 'Government knows best,' the right has to rethink its laissez-faire attitude toward government. -- Jack Kemp
Never ask, "Who is my real friend?" Ask, "Am I a real friend to somebody?" That is the right question. Always be concerned with yourself. -- Rajneesh
sometimes we avoid the right question,not because we do not know the answer,it is because - we do not want finishthe relate subject. -- lity munshi
When you get your,'Who am I?', question right, all of your,'What should I do?' questions tend to take care of themselves -- Richard Rohr
Every human being has the right to ask the reason, why, and to have his question answered by himself, if he only takes the trouble. -- Swami Vivekananda
I support anyone's right to be who they want to be. My question is: to what extent do I have to participate in your self-image? -- Dave Chappelle
To see what is right and not to do it is cowardice. It is never a question of who is right but what is right. -- John Buchan
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
You are right to demand that an artist engage his work consciously, but you confuse two different things: solving the problem and correctly posing the question. -- Anton Chekhov
The question is not whether you have a right to render people miserable, but whether it is not in your best interest to make them happy. -- Edmund Burke
I think it's harder to avoid reflection on those larger patterns of history or society when they so insistently call into question your right to exist. -- Garth Greenwell
You didn't answer my question. Are you all right?" I didn't do anything" Yeah. You did." He looked at me. "You did a lot" -Chloe & Derek- -- Kelley Armstrong
People say, 'Surely there's the right reasons for going to war?' And my perspective is, 'Surely there's a better way of asking that question?' -- Russell Crowe
Right, as the world goes, is only in question between equals in power, while the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must. -- Thucydides
Increasingly, the central question is becoming who will have access to the information these machines must have in storage to guarantee that the right decisions are made. -- Jean-Francois Lyotard
The question isn't so much, Are you parenting the right way? as it is: Are you the adult you want your child to grow up to be? -- BrenÃ© Brown
Perhaps the very best question that you can memorize and repeat, over and over, is, 'what is the most valuable use of my time right now?' -- Brian Tracy
The Pertinent Question is NOT how to do things right - but how to find the right things to do, and to concentrate resources and efforts on them. -- Peter Drucker
Is it right to probe so deeply into Nature's secrets? The question must here be raised whether it will benefit mankind, or whether the knowledge will be harmful. -- Pierre Curie
It's not always the case that doing what's right is also doing what's smart, but when it is, the question of 'what to do' should be pretty simple. -- Gerald Chertavian
One Mormon raised the question with his spouse, who minched no words in replying, 'All right Jody - you get another wife and I'll get another husband!' -- Leonard J. Arrington
If you don't ask the right questions, I can't give you the answers, and if you don't know the right question to ask, you're not ready for the answers -- Ed Parker
The question is not what I should do in the future to get it, but rather, what am I presently doing that prevents me from realizing it right now? -- Alan Watts
I don't believe he had a responsibility to even answer that question - you have no responsibility to answer personal questions that people have no right to ask you. -- Chris Matthews
There's no question that we need tougher drunk-driving laws for repeat offenders. We need to take a lesson from European countries where driving isn't a right but a privilege. -- Jesse Ventura
Now go back and meet all those people who you think know everything. Convince yourself that they're right, because we all know everything, it's merely a question of believing. -- Paulo Coelho
Go your own way. Question everything. Accept nothing. Accept no dogma, no can't. There are too many people walking around thinking they're sacred cows, and they're only half right -- Rosie DiManno
The secret of science is to ask the right question, and it is the choice of problem more than anything else that marks the man of genius in the scientific world. -- Henry Tizard
The wrong question to ask of a myth is whether it is true or false. The right question is whether it is living or dead, whether it still speaks to our condition. -- Richard Holloway
Philosophy may be defined as the art of asking the right question...awareness of the problem outlives all solutions. The answers are questions in disguise, every new answer giving rise to new questions. -- Abraham Joshua Heschel
Derek Bok asks the right question, 'What policies would produce the greatest happiness?' and he gives great and often startling answers, combining his deep knowledge of politics with the new findings of happiness research. -- Richard Layard, Baron Layard

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