Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

If you don't understand, ask questions. If you're uncomfortable about asking questions, say you are uncomfortable about asking questions and then ask anyway. It's easy to tell when a question is coming from a good place. Then listen some more. Sometimes people just want to feel heard. Here's to possibilities of friendship and connection and understanding.

Bing Gordon

The first time I had a secretary, I was sheepish about being demanding or even asking questions.

Brian Tracy

Telling is not selling. Only asking questions is selling.

Diane Sawyer

I love the early process of asking questions about a story and deciding which questions matter most.

Douglas Coupland

And in your new lives you'll have to live entirely for that one sensation-that of imminent truth. And you're going to have to holler for it, steal for it, beg for it-and you're never to stop asking questions about it twenty-four hours a day, the rest of your life.

Anne Frank

Even when I was older, I couldn't stop asking questions.

Ann Aguirre

I’m sick of asking questions everyone else already knows the answers to.

Anne Rice

I'm always looking, and I'm always asking questions.

Anthony Kennedy

Asking questions is an essential part of police investigation. In the ordinary sense a police officer is free to ask a person for identification without implicating the Fourth Amendment.

Carl Reiner

I'm an entertainer and I entertain people and they entertain me back by asking questions. And some of them I answer.

Jack White

Selling is nothing more than asking questions and waiting for an answer.

Friedrich Nietzsche

We hear only those questions for which we are in a position to find answers.

Jim Rohn

When people asked Socrates, ‘What is wisdom?’ he always gave the same answer: ‘I don’t know’. In fact, Socrates never claimed to know much of anything except how to ask questions. And by asking questions, he would prove to other people that they didn’t know what they thought they knew.

John Lennon

People asking questions, lost in confusion, well I tell them there's no problem, only solutions.

Paul Bettany

I remember coming on my first set and it being a playground of things I wanted to ask questions about: cameras and lenses and what the lenses do, what's the focus puller doing and how does that work? Why is there less margin for error when there's less light? I was always asking questions and watching directors closely.

Paul Samuelson

Good questions outrank easy answers.

Nikki Sixx

The trouble with asking questions is you sometimes get answers you don't wanna hear.

Michael Dell

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

Naomi Campbell

I'm determined, and I'm passionate and driven about whatever I commit myself to do. If I don't know something, I'm going to ask, and I've got no problems in asking questions. I never have. People ask me, "Are you nervous when you go on the runway? You don't look it." Yes, I am.

Mary Astor

Once you start asking questions, innocence is gone.

Johnny Depp

I was really intrigued by them, became fascinated by them because they were asking questions that couldn't be answered almost, or were making statements that you couldn't quite understand. Like, 'I'm investigating things that begin with the letter M.' That took me through a whole stratosphere of possibilities, and doing a little research and discovered that the M is mercury.

Hemant Mehta

At age fourteen I was asking questions. When the answers failed to satisfy me, I searched elsewhere for different answers and found wisdom in atheism. And I am far from alone in that experience.

Jack Welch

That's all managing is: just coming up with the right questions and getting the right answers.

Trevor Phillips

I ask questions, and a large part of my life has been spent asking questions of Ken Livingstone.

William S. Burroughs

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

Kobe Bryant

When you love something, you'll always come back to it. You'll always keep asking questions, and finding answers.

Rumi

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.

Tom Felton

Going online and asking questions is the best way to learn.

Vikram Seth

In general, questions are fine; you can always seize upon the parts of them that interest you and concentrate on answering those. And one has to remember when answering questions that asking questions isn't easy either, and for someone who's quite shy to stand up in an audience to speak takes some courage.