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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
Wise
Back
Carries
Answer
Shell
Answered
Snail
Question
Questions
Get
Asking
Asking Questions
Even
I'm an expert on the NewsHour and it isn't how I practice journalism. I am not involved in the story. I serve only as a reporter or someone asking questions. I am not the story.
Jim Lehrer
Practice
Someone
Only
Journalism
Involved
How
Am
Questions
Reporter
Expert
Story
Asking
Asking Questions
Serve
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
Injustice
World
Way
Ways
Some
About
Drives
Am
Sake
Questions
Person
Conforming
Storytelling
Asking
Asking Questions
Who
Many
Works
Believes
Deeply
Things
Dissatisfaction
Dissatisfied
In terms of asking questions, I plead guilty. I ask a hell of a lot of questions. That's my job.
Dick Cheney
Job
Hell
Plead
Guilty
Terms
Lot
Questions
Ask
Asking
Asking Questions
When you stop learning, stop listening, stop looking and asking questions, always new questions, then it is time to die.
Lillian Smith
Time
You
Learning
Listening
Looking
New
Always
Questions
Die
Stop
Then
Asking
Asking Questions
Once you start asking questions, innocence is gone.
Mary Astor
You
Gone
Innocence
Once
Questions
Asking
Asking Questions
Start
I don't like to boss people around. I don't get motivated by telling people what to do, I don't take any pleasure in it. So I manage with curiosity, by asking questions.
Brian Grazer
People
Pleasure
Telling
Boss
Take
Like
Around
Motivated
Questions
Curiosity
Get
Manage
Any
Asking
Asking Questions
Management teams aren't good at asking questions. In business school, we train them to be good at giving answers.
Clayton M. Christensen
Good
Business
Management
School
Giving
Answers
Questions
Train
Them
Asking
Asking Questions
Business School
Teams
After asking questions about current recovery techniques, the conversation prompted me to ask myself, 'Why does it feel good after running to pour a bottle of water over your head?' I don't know the physiological answer, but the fact that it does feel better makes me perform better.
Ashton Eaton
Myself
Good
Me
Conversation
Feel Good
Water
Better
Pour
Running
Prompted
About
Fact
Physiological
Recovery
Bottle
Head
Feel
Perform
Over
Know
Makes
Answer
Does
Questions
Current
After
Ask
Asking
Asking Questions
Your
Why
Techniques
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
Myself
Me
Business
Experience
Management
Own
Books
Out
Would
Find
About
My Own
Laying
Could
Were
Questions
Asking
Asking Questions
Help
Awake
I have always been much better at asking questions than knowing what the answers were.
Bill James
Better
Knowing
Always
Answers
Were
Been
Questions
Than
Much
Asking
Asking Questions
Curiosity at work isn't a matter of style. It's much more powerful than that. If you're the boss, and you manage by asking questions, you're laying the foundation for the culture of your company or your group. You're letting people know that the boss is willing to listen.
Brian Grazer
Work
You
Culture
People
Matter
Style
Group
Willing
Boss
More
Laying
Powerful
Know
Questions
Than
Curiosity
Manage
Listen
Much
Asking
Asking Questions
Your
Company
Foundation
Letting
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
Myself
You
Writing
Mind
First
Illustration
Approach
Guess
See
Pictures
Call
Questions
What If
Story
Might
Then
Asking
Asking Questions
Creating
What's unique about the Mormon Church is that it encourages inquiry. I really do think my research and religion are all on the same page. I never could have come up with the notion of disruptive innovations, which went against a lot of conventional wisdom, if I hadn't been raised to always be asking questions.
Clayton M. Christensen
Wisdom
Religion
Church
Research
Think
Innovations
Inquiry
About
Mormon
Could
Never
Come
Always
Been
Lot
Encourages
Questions
Up
Same
Same Page
Conventional
Conventional Wisdom
Which
Against
Asking
Really
Asking Questions
Page
Notion
Unique
Raised
Disruptive
I love the early process of asking questions about a story and deciding which questions matter most.
Diane Sawyer
Love
Matter
About
Most
Questions
Deciding
Process
Story
Which
Asking
Asking Questions
Early
I was nearly as far behind in calculus as I was in physics. But I wasn't the only woman in the class, so I felt more comfortable asking questions.
Eileen Pollack
Class
Woman
Physics
More
Only
Calculus
Comfortable
Felt
Questions
Behind
Far
Asking
Asking Questions
Nearly
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
Funny
Baby
Interviews
Had
Idea
Soon
Because
Were
Questions
Did
Anything
Asking
Really
Asking Questions
At 'Vogue,' I was responsible for a lot of production work, and production work is highly detailed, and you have to be very resourceful to fit a square peg into a round hole. I learned to push the envelope when it comes to asking questions or making requests.
Emily Weiss
Work
You
Resourceful
Peg
Responsible
Detailed
Vogue
Push
Envelope
Highly
Learned
Making
Lot
Fit
Questions
Very
Square
Hole
Requests
Asking
Asking Questions
Production
Round
It was all part of being a Beatle, really: just getting lugged around and thrust into rooms full of press men taking pictures and asking questions.
George Harrison
Men
Press
Beatle
Thrust
Part
Taking
Pictures
Around
Questions
Getting
Just
Being
Rooms
Asking
Really
Asking Questions
Full
You go to certain movies where everything will be right and you will be invested in the story, but a movie like 'The Room' affects you instantly, and you are left with asking questions. You're almost like a part of the movie, as its not doing what it's supposed to do, and you become one with the film, and you say what you want.
Greg Sestero
You
Will
Become
Everything
Say
Invested
Part
Instantly
Almost
Like
Supposed
Doing
Go
Affects
Left
Questions
Where
Want
Movie
Story
Movies
Room
Asking
Asking Questions
Certain
Film
Right
The power of Ayasdi is its unique ability to automatically discover insights - regardless of complexity - without asking questions.
Gurjeet Singh
Power
Complexity
Ability
Insights
Without
Discover
Questions
Automatically
Regardless
Asking
Asking Questions
Unique
People are fascinated by space flight. It makes them interested in science, gets them asking questions and motivates them.
Helen Sharman
Science
People
Space
Makes
Motivates
Questions
Gets
Interested
Them
Asking
Asking Questions
Flight
Fascinated
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
Time
Me
People
Remember
Relatives
Own
Thinking
Back
Those
Would
My Own
Come
Look
Talking
Around
Questions
Beginnings
Realized
Asking
Asking Questions
Help
Start
When I wrote a gay character, I spent six months asking questions I've never asked a gay friend, the questions you don't ask just because you don't have the right to do it.
James L. Brooks
Character
Gay
You
Months
Spent
Never
Wrote
Because
Friend
Questions
Six
Just
Just Because
Ask
Asked
Asking
Asking Questions
Right
With nonfiction, I had to learn how to be a clear communicator, but it was also a relief to be able to articulate some of my political ideas and beliefs. I also try to do that in my fiction, but I'm more interested in asking questions that lead to more questions, mysteries that lead to more mysteries, rather than immediate answers and solutions.
Jenny Zhang
Political
Try
Mysteries
Immediate
Relief
Solutions
Able
Some
Rather
More
Lead
Had
Clear
Ideas
Also
Learn
How
Nonfiction
Answers
Questions
Than
Articulate
Fiction
Interested
Asking
Asking Questions
Communicator
Beliefs
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
Work
Witness
Though
Tell
Kind
Photographs
Runs
Thread
About
Bearing
Through
Since
Well
Another
Answering
Been
Text
Questions
Order
Stories
Them
Asking
Asking Questions
Using
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