Answer Quotes

• We can't do without dominating others or being served.... The essential thing, in sum, is being able to get angry without the other person being able to answer back.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Angry
  • Answer
  • Dominating

• Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.

  

  Erica Jong
  • Advice
  • Answer
  • Ask

• All my discoveries have been made in answer to prayer.

  

  Isaac Newton
  • Prayer
  • Answer
  • Discoveries

• When it's all over, you'll realize that the answer is already within you.

  

  Andrew X. Pham
  • Answer
  • Within
  • All Over

• Question everything. Learn something. Answer nothing.

  

  Euripides
  • Question
  • Learn
  • Answer

• People think of science like somehow that's the answer, and that it's all about right answers, but science is a lens that we look at the world through.

  

  Dallas Campbell
  • People
  • Science
  • Answer

• I have always said I will try to answer questions honestly. I don't want to change that about myself. I think people appreciate that about me..

  

  Rory McIlroy
  • Change
  • Honest
  • Answer

• If you already know what recursion is, just remember the answer. Otherwise, find someone who is standing closer to Douglas Hofstadter than you are; then ask him or her what recursion is.

  

  Andrew Plotkin
  • Know
  • Answer
  • Recursion

• Once self-killing is an acceptable answer, how do you logically limit it to the dying? What about the disabled, who may live longer and suffer more?

  

  Wesley J. Smith
  • Live
  • Answer
  • Self-killing

• He asked if we were really ghost hunting, and I said we were. “What, like officially?” “Officially secret,” I said because discretion is supposed to be, if not our middle name, at least a nickname we occasionally answer to when we remember.

  

  Ben Aaronovitch
  • Remember
  • Nickname
  • Ghost Hunting

• Gentlemen, I am tormented by questions; answer them for me.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Question
  • Answer
  • Gentlemen

• Science is wonderfully equipped to answer the question 'How?' but it gets terribly confused when you ask the question 'Why?'

  

  Erwin Chargaff
  • Science
  • Confused
  • Answer

• I'd like to ask you: what you would prefer us to do? I'd like to ask my colleagues, would any other country act differently? I think the answer is very clear. No one would act differently.

  

  Silvan Shalom
  • Country
  • Act
  • Answer

• Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves. . . . Live the questions now. Perhaps you will gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.

  

  Bessel van der Kolk
  • Answer
  • Patient
  • Noticing

• Whether you are rich or poor, it's nice to have money, but money is never the answer. Money can get you in trouble, too. Look at Martha Stewart!

  

  Bobby Balderrama Question Mark & the Mysterians
  • Money
  • Trouble
  • Answer

• Now it's a matter of getting everything together, and we'll do that. Whether it will take one week or 10 weeks, I don't know the answer. But I know the enthusiasm is there to do it, and our goal is to do it, and heart is in this.

  

  Bobby Labonte
  • Heart
  • Goal
  • Enthusiasm

• Find out what's keeping them up nights and offer hope. Your theme must be an answer to their fears.

  

  Gerald C. Meyers
  • Hope
  • Answer
  • Fears

• "Hope to the last!" said Newman, clapping him on the back. "Always hope; that's dear boy. Never leave off hoping; it don't answer. Do you mind me, Nick? it don't answer. Don't leave a stone unturned. It's always something, to know you've done the most you could. But, don't leave off hoping, or it's of no use doing anything. Hope, hope, to the last!"

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Hope
  • Know
  • Answer

• Some will say, Is not God alone the Prolific? I answer, God only Acts & Is, in existing beings or Men.

  

  William Blake
  • God
  • Answer
  • Profilic

• If people confront me with certain questions, if they are not right, I will not answer them.

  

  Richard Simmons
  • Questions
  • Answer
  • Confront

• We only hear questions that we are able to answer.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Questions
  • Answer
  • Hear

• What are we asking for? For the ability to answer three simple questions: ‘what to change?’, ‘what to change to?’, and ‘how to cause the change?’ Basically what we are asking for is the most fundamental abilities one would expect from a manager. Think about it. If a manager doesn’t know how to answer those three questions, is he or she entitled to be called manager?

  

  Eliyahu M. Goldratt
  • Change
  • Manager
  • Abilities

• Faith does not answer to wishes but to working

  

  David Oyedepo
  • Working
  • Answer

• As you see, it is not that I don't know my own mind, I know it very well but only up to a certain point in the matter. I know perfectly well what the question is. It's the answer I want.

  

  Alessandro Baricco
  • Question
  • Matter
  • Answer

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