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• Your most important task as a leader is to teach people how to think and ask the right questions so that the world doesn't go to hell if you take a day off.

  Jeffrey Pfeffer

  Inspirational, Leadership, Business

  "Why Aren’t You Delegating?" by Amy Gallo, hbr.org. July 26, 2012.

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• The history of science knows scores of instances where an investigator was in the possession of all the important facts for a new theory but simply failed to ask the right questions.

  Ernst Mayr

  Important, Facts, Theory

  Ernst Mayr (1982). “The Growth of Biological Thought: Diversity, Evolution, and Inheritance”, p.29, Harvard University Press

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• People often ask themselves the right questions. Where they fail is in answering the questions they ask themselves, and even there they do not fail by much...But it takes time, it takes humility and a serious reason for searching.

  William Maxwell

  Humility, People, Serious

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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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• You can learn from anyone if you know the right questions.

  Rick Warren

  Knows, Ifs

  Twitter post from Feb 27, 2011

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• The value of the security analyst to the investor depends largely on the investor's own attitude. If the investor asks the analyst the right questions, he is likely to get the right or at least valuable answers.

  Benjamin Graham

  Attitude, Answers, Analysts

  Benjamin Graham (1959). “The Intelligent Investor: A Book of Practical Counsel”

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• I don't know where we should take this company, but I do know that if I start with the right people, ask them the right questions, and engage them in vigorous debate, we will find a way to make this company great.

  James C. Collins

  People, Way, Debate

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• To ask the 'right' question is far more important than to receive the answer. The solution of a problem lies in the understanding of the problem; the answer is not outside the problem, it is in the problem.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Lying, Understanding, Important

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (1973). “Flight of the Eagle”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• a good part of the trick to being a first-rate scientist is in asking the right questions or asking them in ways that make it possible to find answers.

  Anne Roe

  Science, Asking, Answers

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• Whether there are innately female leadership styles... is not really the right question. It is more important to ask why there has been so little attention paid to women leaders over the years as well as why the styles of leading more often exhibited by women are particularly useful at this critical moment in history.

  Charlotte Bunch

  Years, Leader, Style

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• Which questions guide our lives? Which questions do we make our own? Which questions deserve our undivided and full personal commitment? Finding the right questions is crucial to finding the answers.

  Henri Nouwen

  Inspirational, Commitment, Answers

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• In the old economy, it was all about having the answers. But in today’s dynamic, lean economy, it’s more about asking the right questions. A More Beautiful Question is about figuring out how to ask, and answer, the questions that can lead to new opportunities and growth.

  Eric Ries

  Beautiful, Opportunity, Growth

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• To ask the right question is harder than to answer it.

  Georg Cantor

  Math, Answers, Harder

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• I always had an existential crisis, trying to figure out ‘what does it all mean?’ I came to the conclusion that if we can advance the knowledge of the world, if we can expand the scope and scale of consciousness, then, we’re better able to ask the right questions and become more enlightened. That’s the only way to move forward.

  Elon Musk

  Moving, Mean, Trying

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• All of life is iterative. It goes back to the point I made earlier, which is you can't a priori know enough to even ask the right questions.

  Grady Booch

  Life Is, Enough, Made

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

  John Capozzi

  Answers, Helping, Asks

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• Any leader who asks the right questions of the right people has the potential to discover and develop great ideas.

  John C. Maxwell

  Ideas, People, Leader

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• There's nothing like having a sympathetic reader who asks the right questions, who understands what you're trying to achieve and only wants to make it better.

  Donna Tartt

  Trying, Want, Achieve

  Interview with Michael Pietsch, www.slate.com. October 11, 2013.

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• If you don't ask the right questions, I can't give you the answers, and if you don't know the right question to ask, you're not ready for the answers

  Ed Parker

  Giving, Answers, Ready

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• Effective management always means asking the right question.

  Robert Heller

  Mean, Risk, Asking

  Robert Heller (1984). “The supermanagers: managing for success, the movers and the doers, the reasons why”, McGraw-Hill Companies

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• A key to improved prayer is to learn to ask the right questions. Consider changing from asking for the things you want to honestly seeking what He wants for you. Then as you learn His will, pray that you will be led to have the strength to fulfill it.

  Richard G. Scott

  Prayer, Keys, Asking

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• In my life the right question is simply this: What can I do to be happy today?

  Joshua Mohr

  Today

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Some of my greatest role models are the young children who ask the right questions - who will sit down and share their concerns. They're not just learning from me - they're educating me. That's what drives me.

  Jerome Ringo

  Children, Role Models, Roles

  "The Pioneer". Interview with Erik Kancler, www.motherjones.com. April 25, 2005.

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• Derek Bok asks the right question, 'What policies would produce the greatest happiness?' and he gives great and often startling answers, combining his deep knowledge of politics with the new findings of happiness research.

  Richard Layard, Baron Layard

  Giving, Research, Answers

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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 Answers

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