Right Answers Quotes - Page 5

• I've seen how the issues that come across a president's desk are always the hard ones - the problems where no amount of data or numbers will get you to the right answer.

  Michelle Obama

  Data, Numbers, Issues

  Remarks at a Campaign Event, www.whitehouse.gov. September 13, 2012.

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• It's not enough to have the right answers. You have to have the right questions.

  Tim Ferriss

  Answers, Enough, Right Questions

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• The right answer on raises is you have to be formal. You have to be formal to save your own culture.

  Ben Horowitz

  Culture, Answers, Management

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• I like for people to figure things out for themselves. It's not like I have the right answer, but if I have a visceral reaction to something, I'm sure that other people will, too.

  Charlie Kaufman

  People, Answers, Reactions

  "'Synecdoche, New York' Director Charlie Kaufman". Interview with Howard Feinstein, www.indiewire.com. October 24, 2008.

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• The search for the right answer is the enemy of art.

  Seth

  Art, Enemy, Answers

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• You have to trust your instincts and know that the right question or the right answer will come to you. You don’t always have to have the solution to the problem; sometimes it’s very interesting to watch somebody go through the process of solving the problem, but it’s got to be truthful.

  Cat Deeley

  Interesting, Answers, Watches

  "Tim Gunn and Cat Deeley on Good Hosts, Bad Reality Shows and Unfair Judges". Interview with Debra Birnbaum, variety.com. August 5, 2014.

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• The fact is, there aren't just two sides to any issue, there's almost always a range of responses, and "it depends" is almost always the right answer in any big question.

  Linus Torvalds

  Two Sides, Issues, Answers

  Personal blog, torvalds-family.blogspot.ru. November 02, 2008.

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• I just haven't been conditioned into thinking that the right answer can't be a simple one. When I told you you'd been contaminated I meant by that attitude, which is wider-spread than the common cold and just as undermining. Did nobody ever point out to you that the only liberty implied by free will is the opportunity to be wrong?

  John Brunner

  Attitude, Opportunity, Simple

  John Brunner (2011). “Stand on Zanzibar”, p.491, Macmillan

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• Knowing the 'right answers' does not mean we believe them. To believe them means to act as though they're true.

  Dallas Willard

  Believe, Mean, Knowing

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• When you're dealing with subjective matters, there's no wrong or right answer, it's just, "What do we think is best for the show?"

  Rob McElhenney

  Thinking, Answers, Matter

  "It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia's Rob McElhenney, Glenn Howerton, and Charlie Day". Interview with Noel Murray, tv.avclub.com. September 16, 2008.

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• In the arts there are many right answers.

  Jerry Uelsmann

  Art, Answers, Photographer

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• In the long run, the right answer to unemployment is to create more jobs.

  George W. Bush

  Running, Jobs, Long

  "Daschle optimistic on stimulus bill". www.cnn.com. December 3, 2001.

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• Ethical and moral questions and how we answer them may determine whether primal scenes will continue to be a source of joy and comfort to future generations. The decisions are ours and we have to search our minds and souls for the right answers... We must be eternally vigilant, embrace the broad concept of an environmental ethic to survive.

  Sigurd F. Olson

  Future, Decision, Joy

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• I can't even begin to describe how I miss him. He always supported me in everything I did. He was a very wise man and I realised at an early age I could learn a lot from him. He always gave me the right answer. But above all he was a very easy-going guy and all he wanted was to be my best friend. I'm an only child and so he shared everything with me. Of course he was very young to die and I was very young to lose a father. But there was nothing left unsaid between us.

  Dhani Harrison

  Wise, Children, Father

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• Violence is never the right answer, unless used against heathens and monsters.

  Alexander Anderson

  Monsters, Answers, Violence

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• Sometimes you have to learn how to give the right answer to the wrong question.

  Warren Christopher

  Giving, Answers, Sometimes

  1994 On Syrian President Hafez Assad's complaint that he had been put off by a hostile question in a news conference shared with President Clinton. In US News and World Report,19 Dec.

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• The only acceptable response to the threat of lethal violence is immediate and savage counterattack. If you resist, you just may get killed. If you don't resist you almost certainly will get killed. It is a tough choice, but there is only one right answer.

  Jeff Cooper

  Choices, Savages, Answers

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• Every first time founder waits too long, everyone hopes that an employee will turn around. But the right answer is to fire fast.

  Sam Altman

  Team, Fire, Long

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• Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future.

  John F. Kennedy

  4th Of July, Responsibility, Past

  John F. Kennedy's Speech at Loyola College Alumni Banquet, Baltimore, Maryland, www.jfklibrary.org. February 18, 1958.

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• The wise man doesn't give the right answers, he poses the right questions.

  Claude Levi-Strauss

  Inspirational, Wise, Wisdom

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• I actually think Bill Gates is conventionally smarter, even though it's a dumb word, but mental processing power - I've watched him use four different screens, process information, get to the right answer, boom boom boom.

  Walter Isaacson

  Thinking, Dumb, Use

  "Walter Isaacson: Bill Gates Was 'Conventionally Smarter' Than Steve Jobs". Walter Isaacson's speech at the event hosted by PCMag.com in New York City, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 15, 2011.

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• Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.

  Cesare Pavese

  Life, Education, Mistake

  Cesare Pavese, Alma Elizabeth Murch (1961). “This Business of Living”, p.40, Transaction Publishers

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• President Clinton says he looks forward to the day a citizen can call the IRS and get the right answer to a question. I look forward to the day I can call the IRS and get a voice that says, 'Sorry, that number has been disconnected.'

  Jay Leno

  Sorry, Voice, Numbers

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• Fighting with him was like trying to solve a crossword and realizing there's no right answer

  Taylor Swift

  Fighting, Trying, Answers

  Song: Red, Album: Red, 2012

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• There are no right answers to wrong questions.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Peace, Asking Questions, Questions And Answers

  Ursula K. Le Guin, Susan Wood (1980). “The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction”, p.139, Ultramarine Publishing

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