Asking Quotes - Page 12

I just told you to be quiet. That's one step away from asking you to wash my laundry and make me a sandwich.

Early in the journey you wonder how long the journey will take and whether you will make it in this lifetime. Later you will see that where you are going is HERE and you will arrive NOW...so you stop asking.

I am often asked which picture is my favorite. This is like asking a mother which child she likes the most.

People are always asking me to sign my old canvases. It's ridiculous!

When I ask, “How are you?” that is really what I want to know. I am not asking how many items are on your to-do list, nor asking how many items are in your inbox. I want to know how your heart is doing, at this very moment. Tell me. Tell me your heart is joyous, tell me your heart is aching, tell me your heart is sad, tell me your heart craves a human touch. Examine your own heart, explore your soul, and then tell me something about your heart and your soul.

Artists want to sell their work, sure. But they aren't out there asking questions about what people want and what they don't want, now are they?

I'm asking you not to be color blind, but to be color brave.

You can't learn the truth about a man's intentions by asking him.

Sometimes you ask God for something and you don't know what you're asking.

We are not asking everyone to do everything. We are simply asking all members to pray, knowing that if every member, young and old, will reach out to just “one” between now and Christmas, millions will feel the love of the Lord Jesus Christ. And what a wonderful gift to the Savior.

I'm always asking questions - not to find 'answers,' but to see where the questions lead. Dead ends sometimes? That's fine. New directions? Interesting. Great insights? Over-ambitious. A glimpse here and there? Perfect.

Being a philanthropist doesn't mean necessarily writing a huge check. It can mean mobilizing your community to start asking questions.

There were people asking 'Can women be funny?' People still ask that. It's like asking: 'Can women breathe in and out?'

Asking is the beginning of receiving.

I'm quite good at multitasking, but I have to do things immediately.

You see I kept asking myself then: why am I so stupid that if others are stupid—and I know they are—yet I won't be wiser?

And people coming up asking for autographs, there's only one time when it kind of bothers me: when I'm eating.

Got everything I'm asking for but you.

There are people out there who want to say yes. That gave me confidence to keep asking.

The question we should be asking is not why people are sometimes cruel, or even why a few people are usually cruel (all evidence suggests true sadists are an extremely small proportion of the population overall), but how we have come to create institutions that encourage such behavior and that suggest cruel people are in some ways admirable-or at least as deserving of sympathy as those they push around.

The boldness of asking deep questions may require unforeseen flexibility if we are to accept the answers.

Asking the right questions is as important as answering them

You cant legislate into existence an act of forgiveness and a true confession; those are mysteries of the human heart, and they occur between one individual and another individual, not a panel of judges sitting asking questions, trying to test your truth.

If you are asking me, am I going to be sort of saying 'oh well 'God's told me to do this and do that' well of course that's not the case.

Love accepts the trying things of life without asking for explanations. It trusts and is at rest.