#asking

If I had an hour to solve a problem and my life depended on the solution, I would spend the first 55 minutes determining the proper question to ask, for once I know the proper question, I could solve the problem in less than five minutes. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#problem-solving #life

If you ask someone if they like music, they look at you strangely. It seems to be a universal given. Like asking someone if they like breathing. It is like breathing. Or air, rather. Flowing without and within. A matrix within which our lives are set. The setting for the tableware of our beings. ↗

— Jane Siberry

#ask #asking #beings #breathing #flowing

Nooooooo... favorite film, that's like asking if you have a favorite kid! ↗

— Sylvia Sidney

#favorite #favorite film #film #kid #like

We are not utilizing the Iraqi oil for U.S. purposes. We are not asking that the Iraqi oil be used to pay our military expenses. We are asking only that the Iraqi oil be used to rebuild Iraq - that is, to rebuild Iraq for the Iraqi people. ↗

— Arlen Specter

#expenses #iraq #iraqi #iraqi people #military

I also like to look at the dynamic that takes place between religion and science because, in a way, both are asking the same questions: Who are we? Where do we come from? Why are we here? Where are we going? The methodologies are diametrically opposed, but their motivation is the same; the wellspring is the same in both cases. ↗

— J. Michael Straczynski

#asking #because #between #both #cases

And that was what I was asking to happen and I was told that the indictment would be signed, but I was coming to the end of my one-year contract, I had to return to New Zealand for personal reasons. ↗

— Tony Greig

#coming #contract #end #had #happen

Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance. ↗

— Carl Sandburg

#asking #dance #echo #shadow

I don't miss anything about the 1960s, not really. I did it. It's like asking, 'Do you miss the fourth grade?' I loved the fourth grade when I was in it, but I don't want to do it again. ↗

— Grace Slick

#again #anything #asking #did #fourth

Instead of asking 'How much damage will the work in question bring about?' why not ask 'How much good? How much joy?' ↗

— Henry Miller

#ask #asking #bring #damage #good

Bring back Sally Jesse Rafael! That's all I'm asking. ↗

— Jacob Young

#back #bring #i #jesse #sally