Asking Quotes

I think it is fair to say that it is under a great deal of stress, and if I am asking for significant changes, it is because the world is going through significant changes.

My work from the last 25 years has been asking people to see differently.

The one problem with the Internet for journalists who like doing long form is that any story that's going to involve 16 screens on the web page... that's asking a lot of people.

I'm asking people to think critically and not to be lazy in their thinking.

I am not asking for 60 months to sit and enjoy power, but to be the Chowkidaar of the country.

I know the youth of India. They are not merely asking for things. The youth wants to stand of their own feet and live a life of pride and dignity.

More and more of my audio fans are asking for audiobook versions - files without the intro/outro/etc that go into the podcasts. More and more want them from Audible.

According to my daughters, my most irritating habit is asking for cups of tea.

Whether or not our system of Indian management has been a success during the past ten, fifty, or hundred years is almost answered in the asking.

Oh, he was asking to have an open marriage and I refused.

Very often kids don't ask questions in class because they don't want to be seen asking a question.

The truth is that she told me she couldn't love me. When she said goodbye, she was saying goodbye forever. And yet. I made myself forget. I don't know why. I keep asking myself. But I did.

You're asking the wrong girl about fame. I'm hardly famous. I wouldn't want to trade places with anyone else.

Those of us lucky enough to have a share of privilege in the more free societies should not be asking this question, but doing something to answer it.

By the time the people asking the questions are ready for the answers, the people doing the work have lost track of the questions.

Crossroads, what a disaster. Hundreds of millions of dollars wasted and no one is held responsible....people ought to be asking, 'What are you in business for?'

You will learn more about the people you work with in three minutes by asking them what they do for nothing, than by working with them for three years in the same team

Do you not wonder sometimes, she showed now, sadly, if in some ways they are correct? That we are asking too much of the world?"No," he said. "They're the ones who are asking for too little."

So who are you then, Todd Hewitt?" he says. "What makes you so special?" Now that, I think, is a very good asking.

You love him," he says. Not an asking, just a fact. "I do," I say. Also a fact.

I'm constantly asking for alternative views on most things that come to me.

in show business there's not much point in asking yourself if someone really likes you or if he just thinks you can be useful to him, because there's no difference.

Never asking a direct question, even though the other person can guess what it is you want to know.

Asking someone else to do something immoral is immoral.

Successful leaders don't start out asking, 'What do I want to do?' They ask, 'What needs to be done?' Then they ask, 'Of those things that would make a difference, which are right for me?'

We are trained to ask "What's wrong and how we fix it?" Instead, start by asking - "What works, what have we got, what's possible and who cares?"

You're asking the government to control individual morality. This is a government that can't buy a toilet seat for under $600.

It's not so much the question that offends me; it's that the people asking it don't seem to respect the moral seriousness of the question.

We should be asking: How do we respond to a post-Christian society?

Lots of men hate women now-a-days. ... It was a man-made world, and now we're asking to go shares in the making.

there is probably no such thing as an innocent question, at least not when a parent is doing the asking.

We learn many virtues in our Christian families. Above all, we learn to love, asking nothing in return.

Violence is a form of cinematic entertainment. Asking me about violence is like going up to Vincente Minnelli and asking him to justify his musical sequences.

People who watch Transporter are maybe asking a little less about reality, being serious, and so on.

Asking a man if he could be trusted was like asking an unwed girl if she was a virgin. The question mattered, but the asking of it was gross insult.

Prayer is not a preparation for work, it IS work. Prayer is not a preparation for the battle, it IS the battle. Prayer is two-fold: definite asking and definite waiting to receive.

All right," he said. "Since you ask so nicely." "I wasn't asking." "I'm aware of that. The sharp point in my back did make it clear.

Myrnin: ‘Have we been introduced?’ Frank: ‘Probably not. Why, you asking me out, sweetheart?’ Myrnin: ‘You’re not my type, darling.

When I met with Deepak Chopra, instead of asking him for something, I offered something. You can always think of things that are not really any costs to you that still have a huge benefit.

You got to stop asking your politicians how they are going to do this or that...

Be sure then to read no mean books. Shun the spawn of the press on the gossip of the hour. Do not read what you shall learn, without asking, in the street and the train.

When we look for propaganda, we have the obvious job of asking what messages are being propagated.

If you are asking me if my more global purpose is a battle against religion, it is.

When you're in love, you're asking someone else to fulfill all your unfulfilled needs, to make you whole, and to make you feel good about everything, and no one can do that.

A lot of people have been asking whether I would ever go into politics. I'm not sure I would.

Call me crazy for asking this, but, um, are Lissa and I going with you?" "No" "No?" "No.

Henry James proposed asking of art three modest and appropriate questions: What is the artist trying to do? Does he do it? Was it worth doing?

My morale has never been higher than since I stopped asking for grants to keep my lab going.

We need to expand Social Security to prevent the looming retirement crisis, and we can do it simply by asking billionaires to pay their fair share.

That's when I use the word frustrating, when your body breaks down or your body doesn't do the things I'm asking it to do at my age, because I'm trying to keep up with the Joneses.