Asking Quotes - Page 3

I wanted to change the rules of engagement, asking for more- from fewer. I was insisting that we had to have only the best people...If you wanted excellence, at a minimum, the ambience had to reflect excellence.

Beginning with the first day of life outside the womb, every child is asking two core questions: 'Am I loved?' and 'Can I get my own way?' These two questions mark us throughout life, and the answers we receive set the course for how we live.

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

I've learned that I don't want to be as open or public about relationships anymore. In my first relationship, I thought I could hold on to the normalcy of just being like "Yeah, we're dating," just like if it were high school and I was telling my friends. But in high school, there aren't articles written everywhere when you break up and you don't have everyone in the school coming up to you and asking what happened or sharing their opinion with you. It didn't feel like ours anymore, it felt like everybody else's.

The trouble with asking questions is you sometimes get answers you don't wanna hear.

I don't want you fellows sitting around asking me what to do. I want you to tell me what to do.

It is generally recognised that women are better than men at languages, personal relations and multi-tasking, but less good at map-reading and spatial awareness. It is therefore not unreasonable to suppose that women might be less good at mathematics and physics.

Charm is a way of getting the answer 'Yes' without asking a clear question.

We are always looking for signs. We are always asking for God to 'speak' to us. But those signs are all around us. They are in everything. God is always 'speaking'. The question is whether we are listening.

A writer who says that there are no truths, or that all truth is ‘merely relative,’ is asking you not to believe him. So don’t.

Prayer, in it's simplest form, is finding out what God wants to do and then asking Him to do it.

The problem is, of course, that these interest groups are all asking for changes, but their enthusiasm for change rapidly disappears when it affects the core of their own interests.

I've given up asking questions. l merely float on a tsunami of acceptance of anything life throws at me ... and marvel stupidly.

Asking yourself deeper questions opens up new ways of being in the world. It brings in a breath of fresh air. It makes life more joyful. The real trick to life is not to be in the know, but to be in the mystery.

Dear Algebra, stop asking us to find your X, she’s not coming back

Few things accelerate the peace process as much as humbly admitting our own wrongdoing and asking forgiveness.

You've got to ask! Asking is, in my opinion, the world's most powerful - and neglected - secret to success and happiness.

It is time to cease to argue about God , and instead to unite in the unmasking of contemporary forms of idolatry.

What the Lord wants is that you shall go about the business to which He sets you, not asking for an easy post, nor grumbling at a hard one.

Are you asking me to undress, Tris?' A nervous laugh gurgles from my throat. 'Only ... partially

I never expected this to happen in my lifetime and shall be asking my family to put some champagne in the fridge.

We think that the problems of the world and of ourselves can only be solved through "doing," not realizing that it is this focus on ceaseless activity that has created much of our present imbalance. Rather than always asking, "What should I do?," we can learn to reflect, "How should I be?

Prayer is not asking God to do something, it's asking God to help YOU do something

I did write a letter to the archdiocese who'd banned the song, Only the Good Die Young, asking them to ban my next record.

Red carpets are pretty unpredictable. You can go from one person asking you what you're wearing to the next person asking you about the situation in Haiti. It's the extreme juxtaposition, and some of the questions can throw me!