I went through a lot of occupations. I was questioning my contribution to the world.
I still find doing portraits a terrific challenge, but even though I’ve done hundreds of them, I’ve never stopped questioning the very nature of portraiture because it deals exclusively with appearances. I’ve never believed people are what they look like and think it’s impossible to really know what people are.
Guitar Hero has been so successful that a lot of people were questioning how it was possible to innovate on the most successful franchise of its kind.
I started second-guessing myself and was always questioning myself. I have really learned a lot.
It hurts me to consider anybody questioning my performances.
We work in a business where you feel you always have to say yes because you never know when you will work again. But I found myself questioning that paranoia, which I’d grown up with ever since I started working in the theatre in my late teens.
I remember thinking this was a proper football interview, just as David Davies had promised. But then the line of questioning changed, and it became about my beliefs on reincarnation.
That’s part of being a real citizen: always questioning your leadership, not only about what it is doing in your own country, but what it is doing elsewhere. Because it is connected.
Being a good leader requires remembering that you’re there for a reason, and the reason certainly isn’t to have your way. High-integrity leaders not only welcome questioning and criticism – they insist on it.
Arizona is in the midst of a fiscal crisis. We’ve cut school funding. And they pass a bill questioning Obama’s citizenship? For real?
Questioning the origin of music is like asking why the breeze is soothing, why you shiver in exhilaration when the spray from the waterfall hits you.
Questioning the nature and implications of liminal instances necessarily involves failure, if only in the specifically technical sense of entering spaces where prevailing criteria of success scarcely apply.
People have always wondered if I’m trying to push the envelope when it comes to my cinema – they keep questioning the visual graphics and the controversial content.
The key to wisdom is this – constant and frequent questioning, for by doubting we are led to question and by questioning we arrive at the truth.
If you had a job, and every day you’re going back home and telling all your friends how horrible your job is and how horrible your employer is, after a while, they’re going to start believing you. And then at some point, they’re going to start questioning you and say, ‘Why, if it’s so bad, are you doing it?’
‘My Struggle’ came from a place of questioning and feelings of inauthenticity and frustration, and almost all of that is gone.
I would say I’m quite happy in my life the majority of the time. Earlier in my life I was more questioning, overly trying to figure things out. I like this way much better.
I put my conservatism up against anyone. I’m a pretty staunch conservative, with pretty rabid ideas about conservative values… Questioning my conservatism doesn’t seem like a particularly interesting project or exercise.
I wish we questioned the aid model as much as we are questioning the capitalism model. Sometimes the most generous thing you can do is just say no.
As a teacher, my strategy is to encourage questioning. I’m the least authoritarian professor you’ll ever meet.
Most people just settle – for a job or relationship, or where we live. Here’s the strange thing though: when you start going outside the box and questioning things, then people – because we’re taught this – start ridiculing you.
You look at any industry – you’re not innovating unless people are questioning it. If you’re innovating, you’re doing something nobody’s done before, which means you’re re-writing rules, resetting boundaries, re-creating systems. And that means the traditional industry is going to question it.
Politicians are usually the first to forget that if you assume someone else is acting in bad faith, they will do the same to you. Questioning motives poisons the well.
What I always liked about Socrates was his insistence on questioning things for the sake of reaching some sort of clarity – even if it is only clarity about the gaps in our knowledge.
There can be no questioning Paulo Dybala’s qualities.
I really like people to be able to interpret stuff in their own way, I like the ambiguity of the medium. We’re just four guys in a band trying to articulate things in a questioning way. Who are we to tell people what to think?
They dedicated the whole time until around Nov. 10, 2003 to questioning me about Canada and Sept. 11; they didn’t ask me a single question about Germany, where I really had the center of gravity of my life.
Questioning growth is deemed to be the act of lunatics, idealists and revolutionaries. But question it we must.
For me, I think one of the biggest battles is mentally. You have good days, and you have bad days. Randomly, you’ll feel good for weeks, and then all of a sudden, you’ll have a bad day where you’re really sore. And you end up questioning yourself, like, ‘Am I doing the right thing? Why is this so hard?’
I grew up outside of Seattle and have lived here my whole life, and I think that there is a culture of questioning and guilt. Almost an ‘anti-ambition.’
I feel like a lot of women have been questioning their role in their workplaces and society, opportunities that they may have missed or haven’t spoken up for.
You do doubt yourself and question yourself. You go from massive highs and confidence boosters – when I was in New York I was buzzing around the place – to really doubting yourself and questioning everything about your personality.
A free, analytical and questioning press must be helped survive.
I do love the idea of people at a certain time in their lives when they’re questioning, figuring out who to be. I find that interesting, but honestly, I think it’s like that at every time in your life.
Science and policy-making thrive on challenge and questioning; they are vital to the health of inquiry and democracy.
Comedians are sociologists. We’re pointing out stuff that the general public doesn’t even stop to think about, looking at life in slow-motion and questioning everything we see.
The Trevor Project provides crisis-intervention and suicide-prevention services to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and questioning teens and young adults. It’s truly a lifeline to so many young people who just need someone to listen to them.
Under the doctrine of separation of powers, the manner in which the president personally exercises his assigned executive powers is not subject to questioning by another branch of government.
