Quotes of: Hard-questions Keyword

The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he's one who asks the right questions.

Claude Levi-Strauss

Asking questions will get you the performance you are after far more than dictating demands.

Dan James

The new world will be a place of answers and no questions, because the only questions left will be answered by computers, because only computers will know what to ask

James Cameron

Men are rarely questioned on their spouses or their partners, and nor should they be. And the question to ask is why is this done to women?

Joan Kirner

I'm not going to lie, there are more interesting ways to spend your time than answering questions about yourself. But if there were no questions to ask me, I might have a beef with that.

Colin Farrell

Sometimes you have to ask the question as if it's going to be your last question - as if it's going to be the last time you talk to that person.

Jorge Ramos

Nobody's a natural. You work hard to get good and then work to get better. It's hard to stay on top.

Paul Coffey

Hard times don't create heroes. It is during the hard times when the 'hero' within us is revealed.

Bob Riley

Memorizing lines isn't really hard. Only with really hard words and stuff.

Andrew Lawrence

Surround yourself with people who take their work seriously, but not themselves, those who work hard and play hard.

Colin Powell

I try really hard to give my kids as much independence as I can, caring mostly about their character: Are they kind? Generous? Do they work hard?

Elisabeth Shue

I don't think about those things, really. I work hard on everything I do. Everything is a struggle, everything is hard, everything is difficult.

Harvey Keitel

My parents had always preached the virtues of hard work. But hard work is one thing; economic struggle is another.

Sargent Shriver

The entire issue is that women bear a disproportionate share of the hard work. Birthing, carrying, the whole thing - it's hard work.

Pete Sessions

The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything....The novelist teaches the reader to comprehend the world as a question. There is wisdom and tolerance in that at...

The Book of Laughter and Forgetting

If Aliosha had come to the conclusion that neither God nor immortality existed, he would immediately have become an atheist and a socialist. For socialism is not only a question of the working classes; it is above all, in its contemporary incarnation...

The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt

Do women dress for men or women? I’ve always wondered why that eternally provocative question is put in terms of approval - as if the heart of the matter, the answer, were indeed a question of approval by either sex. But the question is never satis...

My Secret Garden

Most people don't know how to ask the right questions. Mondo knew how to ask questions, just at the right time, when you weren't expecting it. People paused for a few seconds, they stopped thinking about themselves and their own business, they though...

Mondo et autres histoires

The question I'm always asking myself is: are we masters or victims? Do we make history, or does history make us? Do we shape the world, or are we just shaped by it? The question of do we have agency in our lives or whether we are just passive victim...

Salman Rushdie

(on teaching writing) So many writers come to class with one question dominant in their mind, 'How do I make a living from this?' It's a fair enough question and one I always try to answer well - but it saddens me that it so often overshadows the mor...

Celine Kiernan

Frederick: You missed a very dull TV show on Auschwitz. More gruesome film clips, and more puzzled intellectuals declaring their mystification over the systematic murder of millions. The reason they can never answer the question "How could it possibl...

Hannah and Her Sisters