Asking Quotes - Page 10

Instead of asking WHY you had to do it, how about just thanking Him for safely bringing you THROUGH it.

I am a person who believes in asking questions, in not conforming for the sake of conforming. I am deeply dissatisfied - about so many things, about injustice, about the way the world works - and in some ways, my dissatisfaction drives my storytelling.

If you have competence, you know the edge. It wouldnt be a competence if you didnt know where the boundaries lie. Asking whether youve passed the boundary is a question that almost answers itself.

The fundamental thing about sketching is that it isabout asking not telling

Once the law starts asking questions, there's no stopping them.

What I pray for is the spirit of humbleness, and, the spirit of me doing what God is asking me to do - not what I individually want to do. So, if I'm making a "politically incorrect" statement to the masses - this is what God put in me.

But I think for me, why I was drawn to the piece is, at the core of the story, it's a love story to me - between Ed and Lorraine, between these two families who are asking for help and us who are in the business of giving help.

The best way to get a better answer is to start asking a better question.

That was asking a lot of my readers, I realized, but I was trying to write the novel I would most enjoy decoding.

I learn so much from writing with other musicians, asking questions about their playing style and gear, and hanging out, too.

Everyone keeps asking me: 'Are you going to win?' How on earth do you know if you're going to win or not?

At the start of any program, asking questions is the most important part of the process. If you get [the customer's] requirements wrong, then you don't have a successful product.

We run the company by questions, not by answers.

If we allow everything access to our mind, we are simply asking to be kept in a state of mental turmoil or bondage. For nothing enters the mind without having an effect for good or evil.

There aren't many downsides to being rich, other than paying taxes and having relatives asking for money. But being famous, that's a 24 hour job right there.

If a potato can produce vitamin C, why can't we? Within the animal kingdom only humans and guinea pigs are unable to synthesize vitamin C in their own bodies. Why us and guinea pigs? No point asking. Nobody knows.

English is full of booby traps for the unwary foreigner. Any language where the unassuming word fly signifies an annoying insect, a means of travel, and a critical part of a gentleman's apparel is clearly asking to be mangled.

When we finally stop asking America to love us and begin to love ourselves, we will prosper as a people.

I get all these loser preps coming up to me asking for autographs and all this crap, and I really want to tell them, 'My music is not for people like you!

I got myself into a lovely little shall we say controversy with André Breton, by pointing out that the discipline of spontaneity, which he was asking his surrealist neophytes to adopt, was new for language but something that composers had been practicing for centuries.

You can't make anything authentic by asking people what they want because they don't know what they want. That's what they're looking at you for.

Scientists never stop asking. They're little kids who never grew up.

Everyone keeps asking me, What are you doing? I say, Why do I need to do anything? I'm rich.

I remember everyone asking, 'What did you do to get so thin? You looked great.' I looked emaciated.

Asking questions is one of the best ways to grow as a human being.