Asking The Right Questions Quotes:

I cannot expect even my own art to provide all of the answers, only to hope it keeps asking the right questions.

- Grace Hartigan

topic: Art, Asking, Asking The Right Questions

Asking the right questions is as important as answering them

- Benoit Mandelbrot

topic: Important, Asking, Asking The Right Questions

In the old economy, it was all about having the answers. But in today’s dynamic, lean economy, it’s more about asking the right questions. A More Beautiful Question is about figuring out how to ask, and answer, the questions that can lead to new opportunities and growth.

- Eric Ries

topic: Beautiful, Opportunity, Growth, Asking The Right Questions, Right Questions

Most people believe that great leaders are distinguished by their ability to give compelling answers. This profound book shatters that assumption, showing that the more vital skill is asking the right questions…. Berger poses many fascinating questions, including this one: What if companies had mission questions rather than mission statements? This is a book everyone ought to read—without question.

- Adam Grant

topic: Believe, Book, Skills, Mission Statement, This Is A Book

Asking a question is the simplest way of focusing thinking...asking the right question may be the most important part of thinking.

- Edward de Bono

topic: Thinking, Important, Asking, Asking The Right Questions, Right Questions

If you do not know how to ask the right question, you discover nothing.

- W. Edwards Deming

topic: Improvement, Continuous Improvement, Quality In Business, Asking The Right Questions

We thought that we had the answers, it was the questions we had wrong.

- Bono

source: Song: 11 O'Clock Tick Tock

topic: Thoughtful, Perspective, Answers, Asking The Right Questions, Right Questions

Solutions come through evolution. They come through asking the right questions, because the answers pre-exist. It is the questions that we must define and discover. You don't invent the answer-you reveal the answer.

- Jonas Salk

topic: Teaching, Over You, Asking, Asking The Right Questions

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

- Claude Levi-Strauss

topic: Science, Technology, Giving, Good Science, Right Answers

There are no right answers to wrong questions.

- Ursula K. Le Guin

topic: Peace, Answers, Questions Asked, Answering Questions, Wrong Answers

Ask the right questions if you're going to find the right answers.

- Vanessa Redgrave

topic: Answers, Asking The Right Questions, Right Questions

A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.

- Francis Bacon

topic: Wisdom, Educational, Learning, Knowledge And Wisdom, Great Wisdom

If you don't ask the right questions, you don't get the right answers. A question asked in the right way often points to its own answer. Asking questions is the ABC of diagnosis. Only the inquiring mind solves problems.

- Edward Hodnett

source: Edward Hodnett (1955). “The art of problem solving: how to improve your methods”, Harper & Brothers

topic: Success, Asking Questions, Mind, Right Answers, Inquiring Minds

I wish that we worried more about asking the right questions instead of being so hung up on finding answers.

- Madeleine L'Engle

topic: Wish, Asking, Answers, Asking The Right Questions

To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Real, Creativity, Imagination, Innovative Leadership, Power Of Imagination

The function of the artist in a disturbed society is to give awareness of the universe, to ask the right questions, and to elevate the mind.

- Marina Abramovic

source: "The artist was here". The Economist Interview, www.economist.com. September 15, 2010.

topic: Artist, Giving, Mind, Asking The Right Questions

Philosophy may be defined as the art of asking the right question...awareness of the problem outlives all solutions. The answers are questions in disguise, every new answer giving rise to new questions.

- Abraham Joshua Heschel

topic: Art, Philosophy, Giving, Asking The Right Questions

Effective management always means asking the right question.

- Robert Heller

source: Robert Heller (1984). “The supermanagers: managing for success, the movers and the doers, the reasons why”, McGraw-Hill Companies

topic: Mean, Risk, Asking, Risk Management, Asking The Right Questions

In a way, math isn't the art of answering mathematical questions, it is the art of asking the right questions, the questions that give you insight, the ones that lead you in interesting directions, the ones that connect with lots of other interesting questions -the ones with beautiful answers.

- Gregory Chaitin

topic: Beautiful, Art, Learning, Asking The Right Questions, Right Questions

And what I wanted to do was, I wanted to explore problems and areas where we didn't have answers. In fact, where we didn't even know the right questions to ask.

- Donald Johanson

topic: Answers, Facts, Problem, Asking The Right Questions, Right Questions

a good part of the trick to being a first-rate scientist is in asking the right questions or asking them in ways that make it possible to find answers.

- Anne Roe

topic: Science, Asking, Answers, Asking The Right Questions, Right Questions

And then what makes the work interesting is if you choose the right questions.

- Bruce Nauman

topic: Interesting, You Choose, Asking The Right Questions, Right Questions

I like BuzzFeed, and I understand the pressure that online reporters are under. But I think everyone agrees that, despite all the awesome kitten gifs, they're still obligated to be skeptical of government officials and ask the right questions.

- Michael Moore

topic: Thinking, Government, Pressure, Government Officials, Asking The Right Questions

Data is the new science. Big Data holds the answers. Are you asking the right questions?

- Patrick P. Gelsinger

topic: Data, Answers, Asking, Data Science, Data Collection

In a way, I think religion is to be admired for asking the right questions. I just think it's got the wrong answers.

- Richard Dawkins

topic: Thinking, Answers, Way, Wrong Answers, Asking The Right Questions

Feynman's cryptic remark, "no one is that much smarter ...," to me, implies something Feynman kept emphasizing: that the key to his achievements was not anything "magical" but the right attitude, the focus on nature's reality, the focus on asking the right questions, the willingness to try (and to discard) unconventional answers, the sensitive ear for phoniness, self-deception, bombast, and conventional but unproven assumptions.

- Philip Warren Anderson

topic: Nature, Attitude, Science, Cryptic, Asking The Right Questions

He did it (listened) as the world's most charming and magnetic people do, always asking the right question at the right time, never fidgeting or taking his eyes from the speaker's face, making the other guy feel like the most knowledgeable, brilliant, and intellectually savvy person on the planet.

- Stephen King

topic: Eye, People, Guy, Fidgeting, Asking The Right Questions