Asking Quotes - Page 16

In studies asking why young people left their family religion, their most frequent response was unanswered doubts and questions. The researchers were surprised: They expected to hear stories of broken relationships and wounded feelings. But the top reason given by young adults was that they did not get answers to their questions.

I was raised in a reform synagogue. I think we all bring with us a sense of when hard things happen to us, we find ourselves asking questions of why are these things happening to me at this time in my life. I think in that sense, there's a certain resonance that I carry. It's more of a spiritual resonance as opposed to particularly of Judaism.

You can increase your problem-solving skills by honing your question-asking ability.

Being constantly the hub of a network of potential interruptions provides the excitement and importance of crisis management. As well as the false sense of efficiency in multitasking, there is the false sense of urgency in multi-interrupt processing.

Increasingly, people perceive no difference between the narcissistic self-serving reporters asking questions, and the narcissistic self-serving politicians who evade them.

You're your first best audience, long before anybody else hears you. So don't be an easy audience. Keep asking for more.

To ask for a purely intellectual proof of the existence of God is like asking for the privilege of being able to see with your ears!

There is a proper balance between not asking enough of oneself and asking or expecting too much.

For me, being vulnerable is asking for help from other people whatever it may be.

This objective of getting what we want from other people-or getting them to do what we want them to do-threatens the autonomy of people, their right to choose what they want to do. And whenever people feel that they're not free to choose what they want to do, they are likely to resist, even if they see the purpose in what we are asking and would ordinarily want to do it.

The English never smash in a face. They merely refrain from asking it to dinner.

The Chinese in this country aren't asking for integration.

People don't know what Kabbalah is, and so they jump to conclusions. For me, studying Kabbalah is studying - is just - is asking questions. And I encourage all of my children to be that way, and I think people don't understand that. And so they make assumptions and they judge.

Asking the author of historical novels to teach you about history is like expecting the composer of a melody to provide answers about radio transmission.

We've been like that all season. They're starting to have the vision I've been asking them to have for a while. Our settled, normal offense stuff, we need to work on that.

The first weeks in the US, I was asking, ‘Where is my food?’

What is bad? What is good? What should one love, what hate? Why live, and what am I? What is lie,what is death? What power rules over everything?" he asked himself. And there was no answer to any of these questions except one, which was not logical and was not at all an answer to these questions. This answer was: "You will die--and everything will end. You will die and learn everything--or stop asking.

But there's a decision that I find God is asking us to make: whether we are going to choose to interpret our circumstances based on what we hold to be true about God, or whether we're going to judge what we hold to be true about God based on our circumstances.

Asking for other's guidance helps you see what you may not be able to see. It's always important to check your ego and ask for help.

What do you want most to do? That's what I have to keep asking myself, in the face of difficulties.

I am treating you as my friend, asking you to share my present minuses in the hope that I can ask you to share my future plusses.

The conspiracy theory of society... comes from abandoning god and then asking: "Who is in his place"

I was really intrigued by them, became fascinated by them because they were asking questions that couldn't be answered almost, or were making statements that you couldn't quite understand. Like, 'I'm investigating things that begin with the letter M.' That took me through a whole stratosphere of possibilities, and doing a little research and discovered that the M is mercury.

Prayer is asking; the answer to prayer is receiving.

Asking, "How much is it?" is THE BIGGEST buying signal. Telling me, "Your price is too high." is THE SECOND BIGGEST buying signal