Asks Quotes - Page 5

When you ask the best questions of yourself and others, you invite the best answers.

I'm tired of being labelled anti-American because I ask questions.

Don't ask whether it is right or wrong. Instead try to find out what is going on.

It is our task to inquire into the causes that have brought about the observed differentiation, and to investigate the sequence of events that have led to the establishment of the multifarious forms of human life

We have to be that wedge that drives the question and asks the hard questions

The task for sociology is to come to the help of the individual. We have to be in service of freedom. It is something we have lost sight of.

We want one class of persons to have a liberal education, and we want another class of persons, a very much larger class, of necessity, in every society, to forego the privileges of a liberal education and fit themselves to perform specific difficult manual tasks.

Many people feel they must multi-task because everybody else is multitasking, but this is partly because they are all interrupting each other so much.

Our job is to ask questions of children so that children internalize these questions and ask them of themselves and their own emerging drafts.

You can ask Beavis... I get nothing but head.

Those of us who consider ourselves to be somehow involved in the birthing of a new age, should discover Gaia as well. The idea of Gaia may facilitate the task of converting destructive human activities to constructive and cooperative behavior. It is an idea which deeply startles us, and in the process, may help us as a species to make the necessary jump to planetary awareness.

What looks like multitasking is really switching back and forth between multiple tasks, which reduces productivity and increases mistakes by up to 50 percent.

Still the noise in the mind: that is the first task - then everything else will follow in time.

Pray to Saint Philomena, What ever you ask from her, She will obtain for you.

The more you sense the rareness and value of your own life, the more you realize that how you use it, how you manifest it, is all your responsibility. We face such a big task, so naturally we sit down for a while.

One must see in every human being only that which is worthy of praise. When this is done, one can be a friend to the whole human race. If, however, we look at people from the standpoint of their faults, then being a friend to them is a formidable task............ .....Thus is it incumbent upon us, when we direct our gaze toward other people, to see where they excel, not where they fail.

If we commit ourselves to the successful completion of a task, then we personify excellence.

Waiting means going about our assigned tasks, confident that God will provide the meaning and the conclusions.

Your only task in the opening is to reach a playable middlegame.

The task of universal pragmatics is to identify and reconstruct universal conditions of possible mutual understanding.

There's no bigger task than protecting the homeland of our country.

Few tasks are more like the torture of Sisyphus than housework, with its endless repetition: the clean becomes soiled, the soiled is made clean, over and over, day after day.

To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now.

Paying attention at every moment, forms a new relationship to time. In some magical way, by slowing down, you become more efficient, productive, and energetic, focusing without distraction directly on the task in front of you. Not only do you become immersed in the moment, you become that moment.

Don't ask 'Why', ask instead, 'Why not'.