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• Every good educator knows that true teaching is to teach kids how to ask the right questions.

  Utah Phillips

  Teaching, Kids, Educator

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• My greatest strength as a consultant is to be ignorant and ask a few questions.

  Peter Drucker

  Asking Questions, Ignorant Masses, Asking Too Many Questions

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• Someone has to ask you a question," George continues meaningly, "before you can answer it. But it's so seldom you find anyone who'll ask the right questions. Most people aren't that much interested.

  Christopher Isherwood

  People, Answers, Asks

  Christopher Isherwood, Don Bachardy, James P. White (1989). “Where Joy Resides: An Isherwood Reader”, Vintage

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• Sometimes the closest-held secrets in the world can be pried out by the right question at the right time.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Secret, World, Sometimes

  Lisa Kleypas (2015). “The Travis Family Series, Books 1-3: Blue-Eyed Devil, Smooth Taking Stranger and Sugar Daddy”, p.153, St. Martin's Press

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• He did it (listened) as the world's most charming and magnetic people do, always asking the right question at the right time, never fidgeting or taking his eyes from the speaker's face, making the other guy feel like the most knowledgeable, brilliant, and intellectually savvy person on the planet.

  Stephen King

  Eye, People, Guy

  Stephen King (2016). “11/22/63: A Novel”, p.637, Simon and Schuster

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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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• What people think of as the moment of discovery is really the discovery of the question.

  Jonas Salk

  Thinking, Discovery, People

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• In school, we're rewarded for having the answer, not for asking a good question.

  Richard Saul Wurman

  School, Asking Questions, Good Questions

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• I cannot expect even my own art to provide all of the answers, only to hope it keeps asking the right questions.

  Grace Hartigan

  Art, Asking, Answers

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• Half of science is putting forth the right questions.

  Francis Bacon

  Science, Half

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• Our life is a faint tracing on the surface of mystery, like the idle curved tunnels of leaf miners on the face of a leaf. We must somehow take a wider view, look at the whole landscape, really see it, and describe what's going on here. Then we can at least wail the right question into the swaddling band of darkness, or, if it comes to that, choir the proper praise.

  Annie Dillard

  Tunnels, Views, Darkness

  "Pilgrim at Tinker Creek". Book by Annie Dillard, books.google.ru. January 1, 2011.

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• If you don't ask the right question, every answer seems wrong -

  Ani DiFranco

  Inspiring, Answers, Asks

  Song: Hell Yeah

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• I have been asked this question over and over again: 'Dr. Jeremiah, do you think God is finished with America?' But that is the wrong question. The right question is: 'Is America finished with God?'

  David Jeremiah

  Thinking, America, Drs

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• I like BuzzFeed, and I understand the pressure that online reporters are under. But I think everyone agrees that, despite all the awesome kitten gifs, they're still obligated to be skeptical of government officials and ask the right questions.

  Michael Moore

  Thinking, Government, Pressure

  "My Final Word on BuzzFeed and Emad Burnat’s Detention at LAX" by Michael Moore, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 27, 2013.

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• We hear only those questions for which we are in a position to find answers.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Asking Questions, Answers, Hearing Loss

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• I believe the right question to ask, respecting all ornament, is simply this; was it done with enjoyment, was the carver happy while he was about it?

  John Ruskin

  Believe, Ornaments, Done

  Seven Lamps of Architecture "The Lamp of Life" sec. 24 (1849)

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• Far better an approximate answer to the right question, which is often vague, than the exact answer to the wrong question, which can always be made precise.

  John Tukey

  Answers, Statistics, Made

  Annals of Mathematical Statistics, Mar. 1962

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• I'd asked around 10 or 15 people for suggestions. Finally one lady friend asked the right question, 'Well, what do you love most?' That's how I started painting money.

  Andy Warhol

  Money, People, Suggestions

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• The function of the artist in a disturbed society is to give awareness of the universe, to ask the right questions, and to elevate the mind.

  Marina Abramovic

  Artist, Giving, Mind

  "The artist was here". The Economist Interview, www.economist.com. September 15, 2010.

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• I pray to the God within me that He will give me the strength to ask Him the right questions.

  Elie Wiesel

  Giving, Praying, Give Me Strength

  Elie Wiesel (1982). “Night”, New York, Bantam

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• The secret of science is to ask the right question, and it is the choice of problem more than anything else that marks the man of genius in the scientific world.

  Henry Tizard

  Science, Men, Choices

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• Feynman's cryptic remark, "no one is that much smarter ...," to me, implies something Feynman kept emphasizing: that the key to his achievements was not anything "magical" but the right attitude, the focus on nature's reality, the focus on asking the right questions, the willingness to try (and to discard) unconventional answers, the sensitive ear for phoniness, self-deception, bombast, and conventional but unproven assumptions.

  Philip Warren Anderson

  Nature, Attitude, Science

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• Most people believe that great leaders are distinguished by their ability to give compelling answers. This profound book shatters that assumption, showing that the more vital skill is asking the right questions…. Berger poses many fascinating questions, including this one: What if companies had mission questions rather than mission statements? This is a book everyone ought to read—without question.

  Adam Grant

  Book, Believe, Skills

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• Daymark asks the right question. So we get it right the first time. We didn't want to overbuy or underbuy. They understood our business and our data. Daymark knew exactly which models we should order - not too much, not too little.

  Mike Michaud

  Data, Order, Want

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• Part of the role of a thought leader is not to necessarily have all the answers - I certainly don't - but it's to be able to ask the right questions and the privilege of being able to lead the conversation.

  Michael Hyatt

  Leader, Roles, Answers

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