Asking Quotes

I believe that half the trouble in the world comes from people asking 'What have I achieved?' rather than 'What have I enjoyed?'

Keep asking yourself, 'What kind of a company would my company be if everyone in it was just like me?'

Every photo shoot, I'm always asking the makeup artist what they're using on me, and I'll go out and get it.

The question arises whether all lawyers are the same. This is like asking whether everything that gets into a sewer is garbage.

You need to spend all of your time and energy on creating something that actually brings value to the people you're asking for money!

Asking for help with shame says: You have the power over me. Asking with condescension says: I have the power over you. But asking for help with gratitude says: We have the power to help each other.

Clever people seem not to feel the natural pleasure of bewilderment, and are always answering questions when the chief relish of a life is to go on asking them.

Have you been asking God what He is going to do? He will never tell you. God does not tell you what He is going to do; He reveals to you Who He is.

Asking the proper questions is the central action of transformation. Questions are the key that causes the secret doors of the psyche to swing open.

Somebody asked me a question. It was a defining question: 'What type of legacy do you want to leave?' We ask that question a lot later in life, but we need to start asking it to young people.

We keep asking for answers; God keeps sending us people.

People keep asking how anthropology is different from sociology, and everybody gets nervous.

The curse which lies upon marriage is that too often the individuals are joined in their weakness rather than in their strength - each asking from the other instead of finding pleasure in giving.

Only the inquiring mind solves problems.

Instead of asking WHY you had to do it, how about just thanking Him for safely bringing you THROUGH it.

Science attempts to figure out laws and then uses it later. While the work of art reflects the cosmic order without asking for an explanation

Again the important point to remember is that you should keep asking yourself questions. Do not make statements. Ask questions to yourself. The mind hates that.

Inside any deep asking is the answering.

I recall my mother asking in about 1946 what I was and I replied proudly that I was a professor. A decade later she repeated her question and I repeated my answer. "No promotion?" was her comment.

True prayer is asking God what He wants.

A spiritual prayer is a humble prayer. Prayer is the asking of an alms, which requires humility... The lower the heart descends, the higher the prayer ascends.

In school, we're rewarded for having the answer, not for asking a good question.

I do travel a lot, because I need oxygen, I need to go to places to meet people who aren't upset at me because I'm asking for peace.

I get some female attention from fans, but mostly it's people asking for advice about a situation with their ex or their boyfriend, so it's not all love letters and fan mail!

I’m asking the questions tonight.” One day I was going to write a book: How to Dictate to a Dictator and Evade an Evader, subtitled How to Handle Jericho Barrons.

A Canadian is someone who keeps asking the question, 'What is a Canadian?

If you have competence, you know the edge. It wouldnt be a competence if you didnt know where the boundaries lie. Asking whether youve passed the boundary is a question that almost answers itself.

I learn so much from writing with other musicians, asking questions about their playing style and gear, and hanging out, too.

There are no right answers to wrong questions.

Everyone keeps asking me: 'Are you going to win?' How on earth do you know if you're going to win or not?

The best way to get a better answer is to start asking a better question.

Every problem in history is due to men, so I'm basically asking for humanity to nest itself in a feminine culture, probably for the next 1,000 years.

Asking Senator Fulbright's advice on foreign policy is like asking the Boston Strangler to massage your neck.

By questioning all the aspects of our business, we continuously inject improvement and innovation into our culture.

Prayer is listening as well as speaking, receiving as well as asking; and its deepest mood is friendship held in reverence. So the daily prayer should end as it begins - in adoration.

Once the law starts asking questions, there's no stopping them.

At the start of any program, asking questions is the most important part of the process. If you get [the customer's] requirements wrong, then you don't have a successful product.

I am asking of no man more than I myself was ready throughout four years to do

Women don't ask to be raped, but there are some that are asking to be motorboated

I get all these loser preps coming up to me asking for autographs and all this crap, and I really want to tell them, 'My music is not for people like you!

That's a bit like asking a man crawling across the Sahara whether he would prefer Perrier or Malvern water.

Once you start asking questions, innocence is gone.

The fundamental thing about sketching is that it isabout asking not telling

The one real goal of education is to leave a person asking questions.

The late philosopher Morris R. Cohen of CCNY was asked by a student in the metaphysics course, Professor Cohen, how do I know that I exist? The keen old prof replied, And who is asking?

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?

We did that often, asking each other questions whose answers we already knew. Perhaps it was so that we would not ask the other questions, the ones whose answers we did not want to know.

I was looking for myself and asking everyone except myself questions which I, and only I, could answer.

People are always asking me when I'm going to retire. Why should I? I've got it two ways - I'm still making movies, and I'm a senior citizen, so I can see myself at half price.

Prayer means rushing to the Father as His child. It means asking and receiving, loving and thanking Him.