Answer Quotes

• 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.

  

  Anna Brackett
  • World
  • Struggle
  • Answer

• 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.

  

  Jeff Bezos
  • Faith
  • Price
  • Prices

• ... 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.

  

  Plato
  • Community
  • Justice
  • Answer

• There isn’t anything I have to be afraid of, love is the answer.

  

  Gene Colan
  • Love
  • Afraid
  • Answer

• Science is incapable of supplying answers to ultimate questions about why things exist and what their purpose is.

  

  Nicola Cabibbo
  • Science
  • Purpose
  • Exist

• When you know your work sells, then seeking a gallery or outdoor show is fine. Then, if an event or art gallery kicks sand in your face don't give up, keep moving forward. Use your brain and eliminate a lot of your personal agony. There are times when you should not take NO for an answer. But there are others when you should never put yourself in the place to be rejected to begin with. Seek the wisdom to know the difference and then go for it. Persevere in the face of disappointment.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • Wisdom
  • Agony
  • Gallery

• It is a pity that doing one's best does not always answer.

  

  Charlotte Bronte
  • Answer
  • Pity

• I haven’t seen her since. I wrote to her a few times, not really expecting an answer, for—as she often used to say—the tongue is longer than the pen and can lead you straight to Kiev.

  

  Bel Kaufman
  • Lead
  • Tongue
  • Kiev

• I don't want to be like, yes, I think the American answer is always stupid, or I think it's always the right answer. So I'm in this weird place there. I'm feeling it out. Cambodia is going through an enormous amount of change right now. Daily.

  

  Anne Elizabeth Moore
  • Feeling
  • Change
  • Answer

• Why do analysts always answer a question with a question?

  

  Erica Jong
  • Question
  • Answer
  • Analysts

• If anyone tells you that a certain person speaks ill of you, do not make excuses about what is said of you but answer, "He was ignorant of my other faults, else he would not have mentioned these alone.

  

  Epictetus
  • Answer
  • Faults
  • Speaks

• Never ask a question if you can’t handle the answer.

  

  Ziad K. Abdelnour
  • Question
  • Answer

• A child said What is the grass? fetching it to me with full hands; How could I answer the child? I do not know what it is any more than he.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Child
  • Hands
  • Answer

• I don't claim to have an answer to every question, but I promise you I have a question for every answer.

  

  David Lander
  • Question
  • Promise
  • Claim

• The answer is the same for everyone: we must, and we can, resist temptations of any kind.

  

  Boyd K. Packer
  • Answer
  • Resist
  • Temptations

• Can there be enough books to answer all your questions?

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • Books
  • Questions
  • Answer

• We don't have great answers to what jobs will look like in 10, 20, 30 years. And I think it's right for people to have some anxiety in a world where driverless cars are going to take over. Like, how are you going - it's gotten really, how are you going to have a job in 10 years, and how are your kids going to have a job in 10 years, if you haven't gone to college or had a lot of hand-ups in the system, basically.

  

  Neera Tanden
  • Job
  • Years
  • Answer

• Why do people think being with someone is the answer to everything?

  

  Elizabeth Scott
  • People
  • Answer

• At LeakyCon, a young lady asked me how I dealt with bullying. I wasn’t able to give her a very good answer, which troubles me. Well, there were lots of shouts of “It gets better” and “Stay strong” and “We love you”. But when I put myself back in time to when I was being bullied, none of those things would’ve helped me. Yes, absolutely it does get better. But when you are being physically and psychologically tortured, it is difficult to remove yourself from the pressingness of the moment at hand. Here’s how I dealt with bullying: I cried, I hated myself, I hated my life. I didn’t deal with it, I survived it, but I never dealt with it. So here are two tips from someone with lots of experience. 1: It’s not about you, it has nothing to do with you, it’s about the assholes doing it to you. 2: Your job is not to deal with it, your job is to survive it, which you CAN do because it WILL end. And then yes, it will get better.

  

  Hank Green
  • Answer
  • Bullying
  • LeakyCon

• What was Aristotle’s life?’ Well, the answer lay in a single sentence: ‘He was born, he thought, he died.’ And all the rest is pure anecdote.

  

  Martin Heidegger
  • Born
  • Answer
  • Anecdote

• Remember, ask and you shall receive. If you ask a terrible question, you'll get a terrible answer. Your mental computer is ever ready to serve you, and whatever question you give it, it will surely come up with an answer.

  

  Anthony Robbins
  • Question
  • Answer

• There was no short answer to this; like so much else, it was a long story. But what really makes any story real is knowing someone will hear it. And understand.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Stories
  • Understand
  • Hear

• When the question is either/or, the answer is almost alwaysboth/and.

  

  Bill Crawford
  • Question
  • Answer

• Why do you want to become an author? I will accept only one answer. If it is because you feel you can write better than you can do anything else then go ahead and do it without frills and flourishes. Stick to your present job and write in your spare time: but do it as if it is a whole time job.

  

  Ngaio Marsh
  • Job
  • Author
  • Answer

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