Answer Quotes
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My short answer would be that there is no greatest jazz musician of the century. Jazz, like any valid art form, finds its greatness in its expression of the human spirit, and, to me, this can’t be reduced to a contest.
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And now leave me in peace for a bit! I don't want to answer a string of questions while I am eating. I want to think!" "Good Heavens!" said Pippin. "At breakfast?
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Selling is nothing more than asking questions and waiting for an answer.
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The main questions of everyday life are too enormous to answer in any definitive sense.
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Young people are so positive and have an answer for everything.
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Well, I don't think prisons are the answer to everything, obviously.
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I answer, because I live among men and not among angels.
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The only useful answer to the question 'Who is smarter, a man or a woman?' is, which man and which woman?
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I'd say there are two kinds of theater: one you end with an answer, one you end with a question.
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I ain’t up on sillygisms, but I can give you some arguments that nobody can answer.
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When I was made CEO of Reynolds the first time, someone asked me what it was like to be a female CEO. But I said, 'I don't know what its like to be a male CEO, so I can't really answer that question.'
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When a man says, "Get out of my house! what would you have with my wife?" there is no answer to be made.
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It was a quiet way - He asked if I was his - I made no answer of the tongue But answer of the eyes - And then He bore me on Before this mortal noise With swiftness, as of Chariots and distance, as of Wheels. This World did drop away As acres from the feet of one that leaneth from Balloon Upon an Ether Street. The Gulf behind was not, The Continents were new - Eternity was due. No Seasons were to us - It was not Night nor Morn - But Sunrise stopped upon the place And Fastened in Dawn.
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The arts teach children that problems can have more than one solution and that questions can have more than one answer.
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A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values.
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Before impugning an opponent's motives, even when they legitimately may be impugned, answer his arguments.
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The secret of my success is a two word answer: Know people.
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I have a million questions, but they’ll be so much easier to answer if I don’t have to answer them alone.
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He who receives a great many letters demanding answer, sees himself as if engaged in a hopeless struggle of one man against the rest of the world.
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... our purpose in founding our state was not to promote the happiness of a single class, but, so far as possible, of the whole community. Our idea was that we were most likely to justice in such a community, and so be able to decide the question we are trying to answer. We are therefore at the moment trying to construct what we think is a happy community by securing the happiness not of a select minority, but of a whole.
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The best answer to the question, 'What is the most effective method of teaching?' is that it depends on the goal, the student, the content, and the teacher. But the next best answer is, 'Students teaching other students.'
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We must act as if we answer to, and only answer to, our Ancestors, our children, and the unborn.
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We've done price elasticity studies, and the answer is always that we should raise prices. We don't do that, because we believe -- and we have to take this as an article of faith -- that by keeping our prices very, very low, we earn trust with customers over time, and that that actually does maximize free cash flow over the long term.
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It is a pity that doing one's best does not always answer.
