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It is important to realize that our inability to answer a question says nothing about whether the question itself has an answer.
When we talk, answer questions, I'm addressing your tonal. I'm teaching you a way or a series of ways of dealing with the world.
No one starts out with the answers. You figure them out as you go and you learn from the people who figured them out before you.
I had to stop going to auditions thinking, 'Oh, I hope they like me.' I had to go in thinking I was the answer to their problem.
The first koan do not have rational answers. They are techniques devised over the millennia for triggering an actual experience.
When you are too specific on a target, it can drain you. Ask me where I will be when I am 60, and I will have no answer to give.
There is nothing to be valued more highly than to have people praying for us; God links up His power in answer to their prayers.
The truth is that the universe has been answering you all of your life, but you cannot receive the answers unless you are awake.
But will you miss me? More importantly - will I miss you? Does either one of us really want to hear the answer to that question?
God answers sharp and sudden on some prayers, And thrusts the thing we have prayed for in our face, A gauntlet with a gift in it.
And no answer when we sent our message. Something like, "Hello, welcome to Earth. Hope you enjoy your stay. Please don't kill us.
In answer to the question, "Shouldn't the commandments be rewritten?," someone thoughtfully replied, "No, they should be reread."
The media needs to begin demanding to hear Hillary Clinton's answer on how her policies will affect Americans and their security.
I have a theory, too, that the best and only answer to a smear or to an honest misunderstanding of the facts is to tell the truth
Answers to prayer have to be on God's schedule, not ours. He hears us pray, and He answers according to His will in His own time.
I have learned that God’s silence to my questions is not a door slammed in my face. I may not have the answers—but I do have him.
The mind when it has an old experience will add that data into its current experience, and it keeps coming up with wrong answers.
Never do today what you can put off till tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow. Follow-up is the answer to a bureaucrat's prayers.
The mind can ask all the questions on the meaning of life. But it cannot answer one of them, for the answers are beyond the mind.
You have to learn to ask questions in a way that will elicit more nuanced answers, rather than the answers you would like to get.
The only time a question should be asked is when all other possibilities of finding the answer for yourself have been eliminated.
It's nothing. A school project. My go-to answer for anything. Staying out late? School project. Need extra money? School project.
Be not forward, but friendly and courteous; the first to salute, hear and answer; and be not pensive when it is time to converse.
My best teachers were not the ones who knew all the answers, but those who were deeply excited by questions they couldn't answer.
The most important questions a human can ever ask must surely deserve the most convincing answers, not simply the most comforting?
Footballers are more likely to work better if they get a pat on their back from the boss. A knife in the back is never the answer.
Your preparation for the real world is not in the answers you’ve learned, but in the questions you’ve learned how to ask yourself.
"What would you call the highest happiness, Lewie?" he asked. "The sense of competence," was the answer, given without hesitation.
This is pretty much the answer to every problem you encounter in suburbia: plant a tree, and hope you don't see anyone's privates.
People often ask me how I developed my vocal sound, and the answer usually disappoints them: Its just the way I sound when I sing.
God must have a weird sense of values, and if there's a Judgment Day, as some folks think, He's going to have a lot to answer for.
To gain knowledge, we must learn to ask the right questions; and to get answers, we must act, not wait for answers to occur to us.
If any one say that he has seen a just man in want of bread, I answer that it was in some place where there was no other just man.
I don't like films giving me answers. I like films that are provoking me, that are making me feel not only being in an easy place.
By the time the people asking the questions are ready for the answers, the people doing the work have lost track of the questions.
When questioned whether the Blessed will not be saddened by seeing their nearest and dearest tortured answers, "Not in the least."
When I think of Sherlock Holmes, I think of a guy who can wander into the confusion of life and sort of pluck out answers at will.
Where do you live?" Adam's mouth was very set. "A place made for leaving" "That's not really an answer." "It's not really a place.
I'm not a big fan of the interview. It's a lot of questions I don't have answers for, a lot of questions about the music industry.
When you're dealing with subjective matters, there's no wrong or right answer, it's just, "What do we think is best for the show?"
Your gut is your inner compass. Whenever you have to consult with other people for an answer, you're headed in the wrong direction.
It is frightening when a woman finally realizes that there is no answer to the question 'who am I' except the voice inside herself.
What is it like to be connected to someone you can never get away from, for better or worse? I love trying to answer that question.
I personally will be overjoyed when the Canadian courts rule to return John Graham back to the US to answer for this brutal murder.
A correct answer is like an affectionate kiss, Goethe said; a correct answer, Gertrude would have said, is like a slap in the face.
I smiled at her, but she was already lost in thought, looking around the library as if it held all the answers to all our problems.
I used to say to myself, 'What the devil have you got to be proud about, Marilyn Monroe?' And I'd answer, 'Everything, everything.'
Every question I'd ever had God answered and still continues to answer every one I have today. It's really amazing what God can do.
I am constantly asked why I never made other films after 'There's No Business Like Show Business,' the answer is I was never asked.
I always ask myself, would I want someone to do something that wasn't comfortable for them just to please me? And the answer is no.