Right Answers Quotes

• The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he is one who asks the right questions.

  Claude Levi-Strauss

  Science, Technology, Giving

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• The right question is usually more important than the right answer.

  Plato

  Important, Answers, Right Questions

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• Good teaching is more a giving of right questions than a giving of right answers.

  Josef Albers

  Inspirational, Education, Appreciation

  Josef Albers (2006). “Interaction of Color”, p.70, Yale University Press

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• To get the right answer, it helps to ask the right question.

  John Capozzi

  Answers, Helping, Right Questions

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• It is not that we don't know the right answers, it is just that we don't ask the right questions.

  Tony Robbins

  Answers, Knows, Asks

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• I like Math because there's only one right answer.

  Brendan Fehr

  Math, Answers

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• Knowing the right questions is better than knowing all the right answers" Caleb from Pretty Little Liars (TV Show)

  Sara Shepard

  Liars, Tv Shows, Knowing

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• If you ask the wrong question, of course, you get the wrong answer.
  We find in design it's much more important and difficult to ask the right question.
  Once you do that, the right answer becomes obvious.

  Amory Lovins

  Inspirational, Business, Design

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• When you use Google, do you get more than one answer? Of course you do. Well, that's a bug. We have more bugs per second in the world. We should be able to give you the right answer just once. We should know what you meant.

  Eric Schmidt

  Giving, Google, Use

  "An Old Eric Schmidt Interview Reveals Google’s End-Game For Search And Competition" by Gregory Ferenstein, techcrunch.com. January 4, 2013.

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• On two occasions I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.

  Charles Babbage

  Ideas, Two, Confusion

  Passages from the Life of a Philosopher ch. 5 (1864) See Countess of Lovelace 1; Modern Proverbs 35

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• I think health care is more about love than about most other things. If there isn't at the core of this two human beings who have agreed to be in a relationship where one is trying to help relieve the suffering of another, which is love, you can't get to the right answer here.

  Donald Berwick

  Love You, Thinking, Two

  Interview with Maggie Mahar, www.pbs.org. August 28, 2009.

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• Of all the virtues related to intellectual functioning, the most passive is the virtue of knowing the right answer. Knowing the right answer requires no decisions, carries no risks, and makes no demands. It is automatic. It is thoughtless

  Eleanor Duckworth

  Knowing, Decision, Risk

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• If you hang around waiting for the right answer, you're going to be waiting all your life.

  Tanya Plibersek

  Waiting, Answers, Ifs

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• In politics there is no right answer - and no final answer.

  Ann Widdecombe

  Finals, Questions And Answers, Answers

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• Science doesn't care, by and large, what the answers are. It's only interested in getting the right answer. And journalism should be very much that way.

  Scott Pelley

  Answers, Care, Way

  "Scott Pelley: In His Own Words" by Beth Knobel, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 3, 2011.

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• I said yes, which turned out to be the right answer.

  Pat Sajak

  Answers, Said

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• If you don't ask the right questions, you don't get the right answers. A question asked in the right way often points to its own answer. Asking questions is the ABC of diagnosis. Only the inquiring mind solves problems.

  Edward Hodnett

  Success, Asking Questions, Mind

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• Religion gives you a sense of certainty. It makes you feel that you have the right answers to really big questions and that youve grasped the truth.

  James Heckman

  Giving, Answers, Bigs

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• I'm all for experimenting with sortition - randomly selected representative bodies of citizens. But I don't favor direct democracy. We're busy. We have lives. There is reddit. Who has time to work out the right answer to the thousand policy choices a gov't must make all the time?

  Lawrence Lessig

  Work Out, Choices, Democracy

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• It is a mistake to hire huge numbers of people to get a complicated job done. Numbers will never compensate for talent in getting the right answer (two people who don't know something are no better than one), will tend to slow down progress, and will make the task incredibly expensive.

  Elon Musk

  Inspirational, Jobs, Mistake

  Wired Science Interview, 2007.

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• Reaching consensus in a group is often confused with finding the right answer.

  Norman Mailer

  Confused, Groups, Answers

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• So many things begin to change when you come at the world from that perspective of more than one right answer.

  Dewitt Jones

  Perspective, Answers, World

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• There's always another right answer.

  Dewitt Jones

  Answers, Celebration

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• You can't get right answers if you're asking the wrong questions.

  Mark Victor Hansen

  Asking, Answers, Problem

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• The most common source of mistakes in management decisions is the emphasis on finding the right answer rather than the right question.

  Peter Drucker

  Mistake, Decision, Answers

  Peter Drucker (2012). “The Practice of Management”, p.304, Routledge

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