Difficult Questions Quotes - Page 2

• Scientific greatness is less a matter of intelligence than character; if the scientist refuses to compromise or accept incomplete answers and persists in grappling the most basic and difficult questions.

  Albert Einstein

  Character, Greatness, Answers

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• This is a really difficult question. Although I once thought that a dream and an accomplishment are the same thing, I've now changed my mind. A dream is not something you can just reach out to, so I've come to the conclusion that one can only achieve their dream by accomplishing something little by little.

  Bae Yong-joon

  Dream, Accomplishment, Mind

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• Many of the most difficult questions concerning the role of ethnic minorities centers on language.

  Samuel P. Huntington

  Roles, Minorities, Language

  Interview with Amina Chaudary, www.theislamicmonthly.com. 2006.

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• In terms of how Iranians see the U.S. government, that's a difficult question. But in terms of how Iranians see Americans, there is a very good mutual belief that they have so much in common with American people and they feel totally related to them. In terms of government, definitely there are some hardcore hardliners who hate the U.S. government, but at the same time, there are some more moderate.

  Jason Rezaian

  Hate, Government, People

  Source: time.com

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• The more difficult question for me is, do you remain successful for what you had done? I don't know. I think success is in your own eyes. But, I don't really want to ever feel like I've achieved success. Because then I'd be spoiled. I want to feel like I need to keep doing more. Maybe I get "content," "settled," and "success" confused. I never want to settle, but I would love to be content.

  Derek Waters

  Confused, Eye, Successful

  Source: therumpus.net

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• That's how you write novels actually. You suddenly hit upon something and you realize this is the path you were meant to take. You'd be a fool if you didn't follow it. Perhaps it's like solving a difficult question in pure mathematics. There must be a moment when the solution is so simple and evident that you wonder why you hadn't come upon it before. When you do come upon it, you know it in the deepest part of your being. It carries its own logic.

  Don DeLillo

  Writing, Simple, Path

  "The Day John Kennedy Died". Interview with Jonh Wilde, perival.com. November 19, 1988.

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• What is forever? God, I don't know. Hope, I guess. That's a difficult question.

  Robert Pattinson

  Forever, Difficult, Knows

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• There aren't any songs that I would call impossible to play live, but some are difficult. A lot of Queensryche songs are difficult to play live. It's quite a difficult question to answer because everybody (In the band) has their own opinion of what's difficult to play.

  Geoff Tate

  Song, Play, Band

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• Sandeep Jauhar’s Doctored is a passionate and necessary book that asks difficult questions about the future of medicine. The narrative is gripping, and the writing is marvelous. But it was the gravity of the problem—so movingly told—that grabbed and kept my attention throughout this remarkable work.

  Siddhartha Mukherjee

  Book, Writing, Medicine

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• You're not a Black man. You're a human being in God's eyes. So when you sit down to talk to someone and you talk to them in really intelligent terms, you ask difficult questions, there's a militancy that's assigned to you without you asking for it, because you are simply judged by what you look like. If you're a white person asking the same questions, you'd be one of these CNN guys and say how brilliant he is. That doesn't work for you, because this is the world we live in.

  James McBride

  Eye, Intelligent, Men

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Remedying the deficiencies of seminary curricula is a difficult question because of all kinds of vested political interests long at work in the building of any curriculum.

  Thomas Oden

  Long, Political, Curriculum

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• I believe that a work of art, like metaphors in language, can ask the most serious, difficult questions in a way which really makes the readers answer for themselves; that the work of art far more than an essay or a tract involves the reader, challenges him directly and brings him into the argument.

  George Steiner

  Art, Believe, Challenges

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• However dark our lot may be, there is light enough on the other side of the cloud, in that pure empyrean where God dwells, to irradiate every darkness of this world; light enough to clear every difficult question, remove every ground of obscurity, conquer every atheistic suspicion, silence every hard judgment, light enough to satisfy, nay, to ravish the mind forever.

  Horace Bushnell

  God, Dark, Clouds

  Horace Bushnell (1876). “Sermons for the New Life”, p.156

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• Six months of looking for a job had made me an expert at picking out the people who, like me, were hurrying up to wait - in somebody's outer anything for a chance to make it through their inner doors to prove that you could type two words a minute, or not drool on your blouse while answering difficult questions about your middle initial and date of birth.

  Gloria Naylor

  Jobs, Work, Doors

  Gloria Naylor (2017). “Mama Day: A Novel”, p.12, Open Road Media

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• I don't think escaping is necessarily a problem, but we can get addicted to almost anything. If you're craving being in this other reality and you don't want to participate in your own reality, those are the times we have to start asking ourselves difficult questions.

  Joshua Mohr

  Reality, Thinking, Escaping

  "The Fight in Joshua Mohr". Interview with Royal Young, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 12, 2013.

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• I have always taken the view that sometimes war may be justified, as police action can be justified, to protect the weak and vulnerable (a major preoccupation in scripture). But this is an old and difficult question and very wise people take different views.

  N. T. Wright

  Wise, War, Taken

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