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Once you start asking questions, innocence is gone. -- Mary Astor
I ask questions, and a large part of my life has been spent asking questions of Ken Livingstone. -- Trevor Phillips
In terms of asking questions, I plead guilty. I ask a hell of a lot of questions. That's my job. -- Dick Cheney
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
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
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
No man really becomes a fool until he stops asking questions. -- Charles Proteus Steinmetz
Adolescence begins when children stop asking questions-because they know all the answers. -- Evan Esar
The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge. -- Thomas Berger
In mathematics, the art of asking questions is more valuable than solving problems. -- Georg Cantor
I define coaching as launching the salesperson on a voyage of discovery by asking questions. -- Chris Lytle
I have always been much better at asking questions than knowing what the answers were. -- Bill James
People asking questions, lost in confusion, well I tell them there's no problem, only solutions. -- John Lennon
I love doing what I do. I love asking questions. I love being in the mix. -- Larry King
I love the early process of asking questions about a story and deciding which questions matter most. -- Diane Sawyer
The first time I had a secretary, I was sheepish about being demanding or even asking questions. -- Bing Gordon
And when I started college, I think I was good at two things: arguing and asking questions. -- Karen Hughes
Never stop asking questions. Always take time to reflect and find answers. Stop, Think and Use Your Brain! -- Archibald Marwizi
And I like asking questions, to keep learning; people with big egos might not want to look unsure. -- Heston Blumenthal
We are closer to God when we are asking questions than when we think we have the answers. -- Abraham Joshua Heschel
I heard you asking questions of each: Who killed the pork chops? What price bananas? Are you my Angel? -- Allen Ginsberg
Management teams aren't good at asking questions. In business school, we train them to be good at giving answers. -- Clayton Christensen
When you stop learning, stop listening, stop looking and asking questions, always new questions, then it is time to die. -- Lillian Smith
Increasingly, people perceive no difference between the narcissistic self-serving reporters asking questions, and the narcissistic self-serving politicians who evade them. -- Michael Crichton
Architecture is a result of a process of asking questions and testing them and re-interrogating and changing in a repetitive way. -- Thom Mayne
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
If dark matter and dark energy are 95 percent of everything, shouldn't we all be asking questions about that? What does that look like? -- Shea Hembrey
I've always been more natural at doing hosting things: reading teleprompters, taking direction and asking questions... I'm actually able to perform a little bit. -- Vinny Guadagnino
For some reason salesmen spend most of their time asking questions they already know the answers to. They rarely ask to discover anything new. -- Chris Murray
I really like questions. I like people who write scripts because they're asking questions, not because they're giving answers. It's something that I look for. -- Rose McIver
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
Artists want to sell their work, sure. But they aren't out there asking questions about what people want and what they don't want, now are they? -- Michael Scott
What's the ultimate price I'll pay if I don't stop this indulgence now? By asking questions like this, they'll associate pain to overeating, and their behavior will change immediately. -- Tony Robbins
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
Monsters exist, but they are too few in number to be truly dangerous. More dangerous are the common men, the functionaries ready to believe and to act without asking questions. -- Primo Levi
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
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
Well, when you look at a lot of science fiction novels they're asking questions about power. There are questions about what it means to have power and what are the long-term consequences of power. -- Junot Diaz
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
It's funny, because I did all of these interviews as soon as I had the baby, and they were asking questions, and I really didn't have an idea of anything, because I was so blurry. -- Emily Procter
The coaching process is unique in how it accomplishes leadership development. The coach works not by providing answers per se but by asking questions through which the leader gains new insights and takes new actions. -- Aubrey Malphurs
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
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
This hearing came about very quickly. I do have a few preliminary comments, but I suspect you're more interested in asking questions, and I'll be happy to respond to those questions to the best of my ability. -- David Kay
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
Mastering the art of asking questions is essential to creativity and innovation. A More Beautiful Question should be standard reading for all aspiring design thinkers as well an inspiration to those searching for a life of curiosity and meaning. -- Tim Brown
Education ent only books and music - it's asking questions, all the time. There are millions of us, all over the country, and no one, not one of us, is asking questions, we're all taking the easiest way out. -- Arnold Wesker
I'm constantly trying to keep people guessing as to what I'm doing, and I will spend enormous amounts of time looking at manuscripts and asking questions, and people will say, 'I know what his next book is about.' -- Dan Brown
Most teachers waste their time by asking question which are intended to discover what a pupil does not know whereas the true art of questioning has for its purpose to discover what pupils knows or is capable of knowing. -- Albert Einstein
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 saw you, Walt Whitman, childless, lonely old grubber,poking among the meats in the refrigerator and eyeing the grocery boys. I heard you asking questions of each: Who killed the pork chops? What price bananas? Are you my Angel? -- Allen Ginsberg
Because I've always aspired to direct and produce, I've literally worked with about 200 directors and countless producers, so what I appreciate is how, through osmosis and through actually asking questions and through people offering wisdom, there's a lot in there. -- Malik Yoba
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
Sometimes the best answer to a question is another question. Is it not by asking questions that we stimulate each other to reach more deeply into our own source and, thereby, approach the Source, both together and in our different ways? (7) -- Jean-Yves Leloup
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
I see all these people talking about acting as a great spiritual thing. It's not. 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
Good science is done by being curious in general, by asking questions all around, by acknowledging the likelihood of being wrong and taking this in good humor for granted, by having a deep fondness for nature, and by being made jumpy and nervous by ignorance. -- Lewis Thomas
As one reads mathematics, one needs to have an active mind, asking questions, forming mental connections between the current topic and other ideas from other contexts, so as to develop a sense of the structure, not just familiarity with a particular tour through the structure. -- William Thurston
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
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
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
Since 1970, I've been using text and ephemera as well as photographs in order to tell stories of one kind or another. There's a thread that runs through all the work that is to do with bearing witness. The photographs are about asking questions, though, not answering them. -- Jim Goldberg
Not long ago, an English writer telephoned me from London, asking questions. One was "What's your alma mater?" I told him, "Books." You will never catch me with a free fifteen minutes in which I'm not studying something I feel might be able to help the black man. -- Malcolm X
Not asking questions: Giving up on your dreams: Settling for less than you deserve causes you pain, a pain owned by the majority. Be among the few who are inquisitive, forge plans to chase their dreams and take intentional action to live the life aligned with their potential. -- Tony Curl
In an honest effort to gain understanding, asking questions do not, necessarily, imply a conclusion has been determined. They can be used to avoid making the wrong judgement. If building trust is the ultimate goal - there is no need to be defensive, or feel threatened by any inquiry. -- T.F. Hodge
Never ask a bore a question. -- Mason Cooley
People ask me so many questions. -- Annie Lennox
You should not ask questions without knowledge. -- W. Edwards Deming
Effective management always means asking the right question. -- Robert Heller
Don't ever be afraid to ask any question. -- Richard Eyre
The best project is one that asks a novel question. -- Walter Gilbert
Well, thank God for a media that will ask questions. -- Lindsey Graham
There are years that ask questions and years that answer. -- Zora Neale Hurston
You have to experience life, make observations, and ask questions. -- Mos Def
I get asked enough questions, I try not to ask too many questions. -- Derek Jeter
A psychiatrist asks a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing. -- Joey Adams
Every question is a hypothetical question for everyone but the person who asks it. -- Dan Savage
You have to be willing to ask questions that almost no one else would ask. -- Samantha Bee
We have to be that wedge that drives the question and asks the hard questions. -- Danny Glover
Newspapermen ask dumb questions. They look up at the sun and ask if it is shining. -- Sonny Liston
I ask myself questions that journalists don't dare to ask or don't know how to ask. -- Pedro Almodovar
Never answer the question that is asked of you. Answer the question that you wish had been asked of you. -- Robert McNamara
If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions? -- Scott Adams
That's a question mark everyone's asking -- Bruce Grobbelaar
Writing is the process of asking the next logical question. -- J. Michael Straczynski
Asking the proper question is the central act of transformation! -- Clarissa Pinkola Estes
You can increase your problem-solving skills by honing your question-asking ability. -- Michael J. Gelb
If the answer is more politicians, you are asking the wrong question. -- John Major
If somebody's not prepared to answer the question, you can keep asking -- Martin Bashir
If somebody's not prepared to answer the question, you can keep asking. -- Martin Bashir
Art is really people asking the eternal question, "What is it all about?" -- Gene Roddenberry
A Canadian is someone who keeps asking the question, 'What is a Canadian? -- Irving Layton
In school, we're rewarded for having the answer, not for asking a good question. -- Richard Saul Wurman
The question we should be asking. Would I want to be sponsored by me? -- Jeff Olson
Charm is a way of getting the answer 'Yes' without asking a clear question. -- Albert Camus
Who am I? is the only question worth asking and the only one never answered. -- Deepak Chopra
By asking the question How can I afford it? your brain is put to work. -- Robert Kiyosaki
The best way to get a better answer is to start asking a better question. -- Tony Robbins
People keep asking "Jacob or Edward?" when the really important question is "Diamond Dave or Sammy? -- Ysabeau S. Wilce
What was life asking of me? How could I respond when I didn't know the question? -- Ruta Sepetys
No decisions should ever be made without asking the question, is this for the common good? -- Michael Moore
Sixty-four thousand dollars for a question, I hope they are asking you the meaning of life. -- Paul Scofield
You're asking me how not to doubt. Good question.My answer is, you can't. This is life -- Tariq Ramadan
It is always worth while asking a question, though it is not always worth while answering one. -- Oscar Wilde
I am a Christian and I don't think anybody asking a question about my religion is appropriate. -- Gary Goodyear
Asking what the question is, and why the question is asked, is always asking a pertinent question. -- Raymond Geuss
Maybe there's some unquenchable question that I keep asking the universe that I can't get an answer to. -- Wayne Coyne
That's precisely the question everyone should be asking-why the hell not? - Why not you, why not now... -- Tim Ferriss
A political leader is necessarily an imposter since he believes in solving life's problems without asking its question. -- Andre Malraux
Very often kids don't ask questions in class because they don't want to be seen asking a question. -- Nicholas Negroponte
Whatever sociology may be, it is the result of constantly asking the question, what is the meaning of this? -- C. Wright Mills
Never asking a direct question, even though the other person can guess what it is you want to know. -- Paulo Coelho
there is probably no such thing as an innocent question, at least not when a parent is doing the asking. -- Phyllis Grissim-Theroux
There is no wrong answer. Even so, it is easy to receive wrong results, simply by asking the wrong question. -- Brunonia Barry
As it is, the vital question you should be asking is not what I am, but what you yourself are. -- Thomas Daniel Nehrer
My grandpa always said asking a question is embarrassing for a moment, but not asking is embarrassing for a lifetime. -- Haruki Murakami

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