To try to be authentic these days, to ask questions of the people in power – it’s difficult. This administration has evolved new techniques to handle people like me. Their strategy, in a word, is simple: ignore them.
By bringing current events into the classroom, everyday discussion, and social media, maybe we don’t need to wait for our grandchildren’s questions to remind us we should have paid more attention to current events.
I can’t control what people think. I’m not trying to manipulate people’s thoughts or sentiments. I write all the time. You have to experience life, make observations, and ask questions. It’s machine-like how things are run now in hip-hop, and my ambitions are different.
If somebody takes the time, a: to read a book that I have written, and then to b: care about it enough to write me and ask questions, surely I owe them a response.
You begin a film more with questions than with direct intentions. It’s more of an exploration and discovery.
In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.
We’re quite fortunate on ‘The Chase,’ we get to sit very still and you can concentrate on one thing at one time – the questions.
Once you start asking questions, innocence is gone.
Asking questions is what brains were born to do, at least when we were young children. For young children, quite literally, seeking explanations is as deeply rooted a drive as seeking food or water.
Curiosity is the essence of human existence. ‘Who are we? Where are we? Where do we come from? Where are we going?’… I don’t know. I don’t have any answers to those questions. I don’t know what’s over there around the corner. But I want to find out.
I love meeting fans. They’re always fun, they always have good things to say, smart questions to ask, and plenty of ideas for me to explore in the future.
I like films that deal with some of those questions that you can never answer: ‘Why are we here? What’s it about? What happens to us with the choices that we make? What are the ramifications for doing something right, or doing something wrong?’ Those universal questions, I enjoy.
Unfortunately, most college kids these days aren’t coming from any place-they seem to ask the same kind of questions over and over again.
The limitation of riots, moral questions aside, is that they cannot win and their participants know it. Hence, rioting is not revolutionary but reactionary because it invites defeat. It involves an emotional catharsis, but it must be followed by a sense of futility.
The outcome of any serious research can only be to make two questions grow where only one grew before.
People are starting to recognize me, and it can be hard because I’m a really nice person, and people will ask me uncomfortable questions like they know me, and I’m just like, ‘Umm… can I walk away now?’
From my experience, the best advisors help in three ways: encourage you to look at the problem or opportunity from multiple angles; help you balance the tug of the short-term with important long-term priorities; and ask the tough questions you need to know to reach the best solution.
In order for a long piece of work to engage a novelist over an extended period of time, it has to deal with questions that you find very important, that you’re trying to work out.
To come to grips with creativity, I must ask creative, adventurous questions – the kind which, in all likelihood, cannot be answered.
One of the fundamental questions of today’s world is undoubtedly the question of equitable globalisation.
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.
I start asking a lot of questions about my own life, and it’s not necessarily fun, but it’s a good exercise.
The relevant questions now are: How do we move beyond coal? How do we bring new jobs to the coal fields and retrain coal miners for other work? How do we inspire entrepreneurialism and self-reliance in people whose lives have been dependent on the paternalistic coal industry?
I ask questions, and a large part of my life has been spent asking questions of Ken Livingstone.
Questions are never indiscreet, answers sometimes are.
I also believe that the Supreme Court should be the final arbiter of all federal questions.
If most people are not willing to see the difficulty, this is mainly because, consciously or unconsciously, they assume that it will be they who will settle these questions for the others, and because they are convinced of their own capacity to do this.
In our system, we leave questions of fact to a jury. But to render a verdict, a jury must know the law. For this, we rely upon jury instructions. Instructions are supposed to translate the law into lay terms that the jury can apply to the facts as they determine them.
The influence of a mother upon the lives of her children cannot be measured. They know and absorb her example and attitudes when it comes to questions of honesty, temperance, kindness, and industry.
I don’t pretend we have all the answers. But the questions are certainly worth thinking about.
One of the great questions of philosophy is, do we innately have morality, or do we get it from celestial dictation? A study of the Ten Commandments is a very good way of getting into and resolving that issue.
Memorizing dialogue has always come easy and quickly to me. My wife Eileen is also very helpful. She gives me choices, and asks me questions, and runs my lines with me.
When there is stuff being written about your family and people ask you questions which are very personal in nature, it makes you defensive and almost makes you angry.
The second Cocoon questions that and deals much more directly with the value of living in the real world with its trials and tribulations. I would say it’s about that and not about aging or death.
VCs are good at asking questions.
A lot of people really like to answer questions, and they really enjoy sharing their knowledge. Especially people who have valuable knowledge.
I ask questions. I watch the world. And what I have discovered is that the parts of my fiction that people most tell me are ‘unbelievable’ are those that are most closely based on the real, those least diluted by my imagination.
I’ve been visiting community centres and schools for 20-plus years and what I’ve seen is that kids are kids, they want to learn. They learn from experiences, they ask questions when they don’t know something.
Often I used my gut instinct to ask the questions and get the answers I thought the audience wanted to hear. Sometimes the interviewees said things that surprised even them.
I believe that young people are looking for answers to the big questions just like everyone else, and that they respect intelligent comment to help guide them through tough times.
The press secretary who starts to narrow down or close the president’s options because he answers delicate negotiating questions no longer serves the president.
I was deeply concerned then, and have become more concerned since, that unless we can deal with the questions of development and the questions of poverty, there’s no way that we’re going to have a peaceful world for our children.
I like visiting the parliament, listening to the discussions and raising questions. It’s a stimulating environment and it opens your world view.
I don’t think it’s the writer’s job to give answers or to give opinions. In fact, when a writer has answers, I think the work ends up being corrupted. It becomes didactic. What a book does is share a consciousness and invite people to explore the questions as best as you can.
The many questions about the bombing of Yugoslavia by the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation – meaning primarily the United States – come down to two fundamental issues: ‘What are the accepted and applicable ‘rules of world order,’ and how do these apply in the case of Kosovo?’
The people were just so lovely and accommodating and had really interesting questions and it was just interesting to see how the show is actually received in so many different countries.
What are you? What am I? Those are the questions that constantly persecute and torment me and perhaps also play some part in my art.
Science and fiction both begin with similar questions: What if? Why? How does it all work? But they focus on different areas of life on earth.
That’s the great thing about being a writer. You dream up amazing questions… and then dream up even more amazing answers.
