Top 70 Asking Questions Quotes

I really like questions. I like people who write scripts because they’re asking questions, not because they’re giving answers. It’s something that I look for.

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.

You can’t legislate into existence an act of forgiveness and a true confession; those are mysteries of the human heart, and they occur between one individual and another individual, not a panel of judges sitting asking questions, trying to test your truth.

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.

There’s no great mystery to acting. It’s a very simple thing to do but you have to work hard at it. It’s about asking questions and using your imagination.

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

When I was in school, they say everybody can do art. And I was, like, a little bit obstinate – not an anarchist, but I was always asking questions. I said, ‘Isn’t art supposed to be difficult?’ If we can all do art, then it’s not really art. It’s supposed to be difficult.

I covered the White House during the Bush years when Ari Fleischer, Scott McClellan and Dana Perino were at the podium. We thought those were, at times, crazy press briefings, asking questions about major events like the Iraq War and the leaking of Valerie Plame’s name and the outing of her as a CIA operative.

Asking questions about why I don’t want kids is really none of your business, but at least it’s a dialogue.

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’m constantly trying to keep people guessing as to what I’m doing, and I will spend enormous amounts of time looking at manuscripts and asking questions, and people will say, ‘I know what his next book is about.’

The moment you start asking questions, you become public enemy number one.

Asking questions is the first way to begin change.

If dark matter and dark energy are 95 percent of everything, shouldn’t we all be asking questions about that? What does that look like?

It is as though nature is a wonderful symphony that science sits in awe of. It looks closely at each player, how the tubas are tuned and how the strings are strung. Creationism lets out a loud ‘shush’ at such excitement. Just enjoy the show and stop asking questions.

The best scientists and explorers have the attributes of kids! They ask question and have a sense of wonder. They have curiosity. ‘Who, what, where, why, when, and how!’ They never stop asking questions, and I never stop asking questions, just like a five year old.

I’m about being honest and knowing that people are watching, and they want to know that I’m asking questions that they want the answers to.

Trying to understand fundamental processes that take place as organisms develop and how their various cells interact with one another – one can see what happens with those cells by asking questions about the fundamentals of biology.

I am not shy when it comes to asking questions.

I’ve always been more natural at doing hosting things: reading teleprompters, taking direction and asking questions… I’m actually able to perform a little bit.

Someone who’s asking questions of the clergy, that he doesn’t have the answers to, I think that’s a universal predicament.

A lot of our creative flow comes from a place of curiosity and exploration. It often feels like we’re excavating and asking questions and not just giving answers but really just exploring.

I just love asking questions. I love people. It’s in my DNA. I’m cursed – and blessed.

There are some amazing people around who can tell stories about drag from the ’60s and in New York, like the amazing club kid drag. About drag from around the world. So people should be asking questions and listening to stories.

Part of being successful is about asking questions and listening to the answers.

I have always been much better at asking questions than knowing what the answers were.

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 process of asking questions, genuine questions, that are not leading to an ask for something in return.

I think it is scary anytime anyone is coming at you asking questions.

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.

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.

I think kids want the same thing from a book that adults want – a fast-paced story, characters worth caring about, humor, surprises, and mystery. A good book always keeps you asking questions, and makes you keep turning pages so you can find out the answers.

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.

Interviewing someone is very similar to preparing a character, isn’t it? You’re just asking questions: ‘Who is this person? Why did they make that choice? Why are they doing that?’ You’re being Sherlock Holmes.

When you stop learning, stop listening, stop looking and asking questions, always new questions, then it is time to die.

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.

Well, when you look at a lot of science fiction novels they’re asking questions about power. There are questions about what it means to have power and what are the long-term consequences of power.

I see all these people talking about acting as a great spiritual thing. It’s not. There’s no great mystery to acting. It’s a very simple thing to do, but you have to work hard at it. It’s about asking questions and using your imagination.

Once you start asking questions, innocence is gone.

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.

Architecture is a result of a process of asking questions and testing them and re-interrogating and changing in a repetitive way.

I think all good architecture should challenge you, make you start asking questions. You don’t have to understand it. You may not like it. That’s OK.

Art can end up answering questions or asking questions. But when it’s not connected to actual movements, it doesn’t ask the right questions.

I was never challenged when it came to acting as a youngster. I sort of just did whatever was given to me without asking questions. I didn’t really understand why I enjoyed it or why I did it.

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.

I love doing what I do. I love asking questions. I love being in the mix.

I’ve always been really curious about things and slightly confused by the world, and I think someone who feels that way is in a good position to be the one asking questions.

By reading a lot of novels in a variety of genres, and asking questions, it’s possible to learn how things are done – the mechanics of writing, so to speak – and which genres and authors excel in various areas.

Management teams aren’t good at asking questions. In business school, we train them to be good at giving answers.

Yes, you’ll try and set up a batsman and get him to play a few shots. It’s just that you are always trying to play a mental game with the batsmen and as long as you are doing that consistently throughout the day and keep asking questions you are bound to be successful.

And when I started college, I think I was good at two things: arguing and asking questions.

When we engage people across ideological divides, asking questions helps us map the disconnect between our differing points of view.

VCs are good at asking questions.

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

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.

My instincts for asking questions is to press but not to be a jerk about it.