I think that at the end of the day correcting misinformation and questioning what we think we know as a habit of mind is incredibly important.
It’s common for people to start questioning themselves. As a female, I’m going to offer the advice I gave myself: You look at your strengths, you look at your goals, and accept that you are who you are. Be true to that.
I live every day, day to day. I will go wherever life takes me. I’m not questioning it.
For reasons I can’t remember, my family eventually stopped attending church, and I started questioning the Catholic Church’s beliefs. I dabbled a little, but nothing stuck.
Questioning authority is, I think, a great thing to instill in children. I just didn’t have enough of that when I was little.
I heard a lot of those things. I heard that I was greedy; that I didn’t care about winning; heard the questioning of my loyalty. And I’m thinking: ‘Of course I want to win. I’ve been winning my entire life.’
I think that people are most comfortable when the world is orderly. I think there’s the sense that when you begin questioning basic distinctions, such as the distinction between being male and being female, it represents a threat to the social order.
We are a nation founded on distrust of government power, and questioning that power is essential to promoting transparency and accountability.
Columbo’s deliberately irritating questioning technique – ‘just one more thing’ – is designed to produce discomfort rather than to elicit information.
When I first started acting, I was genuinely questioning whether or not I should be doing this.
Attacks on a politician’s identity – questioning Romney’s religion, say, or Obama’s birthplace – tend to come when an opponent is desperate and can’t sell himself.
Questioning anything and everything, to me, is punk rock.
My parents started questioning me about whether or not I was transgender – whether or not I was trying to be a woman. It was a big argument.
Maybe It’s not the biggest blockbuster film, but there will be some people that will see it, that will be debating it, that will be questioning their own sense of spirituality. If the film resonates, then I have succeeded in what I set out to do.
For somebody who has injured their brain, every single thing they say and think will be the subject of their own questioning.
I think that battle that you have almost never goes away. You’re always questioning and hoping that stuff goes a certain way, that you get a certain reaction.
Black girls are punished, many times violently so, for questioning and challenging authority, which is something that is often celebrated and encouraged as a sign of intelligence and critical thinking in white boys.
Suggesting a married Jesus is one thing, but questioning the Resurrection undermines the very heart of Christian belief.
Every great story leaves you questioning. If all of the questions are answered, and everything is resolved, it’s boring. There’s nothing to talk about afterwards.
I want a man who isn’t questioning who he is. I want a man to be able to stand next to me and not disappear and not be emasculated by my success.
I had a good time working with Russell Crowe, Ron Howard and Ed Harris. It was a great cast and Russell worked really hard, doing tons of research and questioning everything.
I think it’s very important to have a feedback loop, where you’re constantly thinking about what you’ve done and how you could be doing it better. I think that’s the single best piece of advice: constantly think about how you could be doing things better and questioning yourself.
Socrates was famously executed for his philosophical and political beliefs. I wondered what would happen if you had a similar character, who was so relentlessly questioning of everything? In a modern society, would we be any more or any less tolerant of that kind of character?
I have realised it is easy to point fingers at others, but the moment you start questioning yourself, you become a better person.
There was such a sense of relief on the left when New Labour came to power that certain orthodoxies could not be challenged. People became desperate to hang on to the ascendancy of left ideas without really questioning what they were about.
When my characters are questioning things, it’s not me leading up to an answer; it’s me asking those same questions and letting the characters’ lives unfold and seeing where it takes them.
I think that’s the single best piece of advice: constantly think about how you could be doing things better and questioning yourself.
I had two elder brothers and they would thrash me if I do something wrong, then dad would thrash me. I think corporal punishment as disciplining the child is what I am questioning… I feel there are less flawed methods.
Physics is about questioning, studying, probing nature. You probe, and, if you’re lucky, you get strange clues.
It is more difficult to make film which does not have a big name. People start questioning the cast and the budget.
Right after the assassination of Osama bin Laden, amid all the cheers and applause, there were a few critical comments questioning the legality of the act.
The most important training, though, is to experience life as a writer, questioning everything, inventing multiple explanations for everything. If you do that, all the other things will come; if you don’t, there’s no hope for you.
The space between keepers and defenders is referred to as the ‘corridor of opportunity’ – a well-hit pass in there has the goalie questioning whether to come into traffic and defenders unsure of whether or where to clear the ball.
There is a real patriotism underneath the best of my music but it is a critical, questioning and often angry patriotism.
What I love about French gardens is the combination of formal elegance and intellectual questioning.
I’m just so tired of people questioning me and really tired of people not calling me Foodgod. It’s my name. Jonathan is not my name.
When you become a citizen, you are an American and questioning somebody’s Americanness because they disagree with you – is about one of the most un-American things I can think of.
With Froch everyone was questioning me and I was trying to prove a point.
When I made the decision to go to Europe, a lot of people questioned it. The first six months I was there even I was questioning it, but I think I learned a lot more about myself in that six months than I have my whole life.
Science is about questioning things.
I have full confidence in the ability of Foo Fighters’ audiences to distinguish between questioning HIV and the obvious value of safe-sex practices.
Some Americans question Donald Trump’s legitimacy as president. Others are angry any questioning occurs. Let’s not forget that one of Donald Trump’s claims to fame was precisely such questioning. He openly doubted the legitimacy – more than that, the citizenship – of President Barack Obama.
I haven’t just come up with a hit – I’m not like a one-hit-wonder – I’ve been here for ages. No one is questioning my ability, so just enjoy the wave, spread the wave.
In my experience, working as an intelligence analyst with my own pool of sources numbering close to 100, by far the most effective forms of human intelligence collection are rapport-building and direct questioning.
It’s the life of an actor to always be questioning, always be wondering. There is no occupation in the world less dependable.
I would say that playing this character has caused me to think about a lot of things. He’s always questioning himself and trying to get back to something he lost touch with and trying to find forgiveness. Everybody struggles with these things to some extent in their life.
I think of myself as being a relatively intelligent man who is open to a lot of different things and I think that questioning our purpose in life and the meaning of existence is something that we all go through at some point.
I used to watch people like Raven-Symone and, you know, the Olsens at a young age, and Will Smith and people like that, and just looking at them at a young age on TV. And just thinking to myself, ‘I can do that,’ and questioning why I wasn’t there.
Fortunately, I grew up in a traditional family where questioning was encouraged, particularly by my pandit grandfather. We are all voracious readers, seeking knowledge. I learn a lot from discussions with my wife, siblings and parents.
Even criticism is more interesting when the writer’s authority does not only come through this omniscient narrator, but through questions, ambivalence, vulnerability. A mind questioning and on the move, not just settling down and declaring – that’s one of the most interesting possibilities.
I engage my subjects in conversation, patterned after psychiatric questioning, with the aim of discovering something about the reasoning underlying their right but especially their wrong answers.
Warhol was questioning the capitalist society.
Now everybody is questioning everything, so it’s up to journalists who really care about the truth to fight for their corner of the truth and journalistic freedom.
The day people around me stop questioning my character is the day my character begins to grow vulnerable.
When I was younger, I was testing myself and questioning everything, but now it’s less about that and more about these are the years of my life with my family.
