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Quotes About Answer

Curiosity is, after all, the way we answer when intuition whispers, "There's something there.
~ Gavin de Becker
So," Frosty said as we stood. "I have to ask a personal question, because our next move hinges on your answer." I tensed, unsure about what he could possibly want to know. "Ask." "How do you feel about stealing cars?
~ Gena Showalter
A fresh surge of fury radiated from William as he sidled next to Puck. "He didn't ask you what they'd done. He asked you where they were. Answer!" "Do not intimidate my subjects," Puck snapped. To the man, he said, "I didn't ask you what they'd done. i asked you where they were.
~ Gena Showalter
Good morning, and I'd like to just answer the question that you're probably thinking. The answer is, yes, we're the team that built the current mobile apps—both of them. We're not proud, and we're just glad users can't rate an app with zero stars.
~ Gene Kim
20% on detailed planning (Their poor throughput and high lead times were misattributed to faulty estimation, and so, hoping to get a better answer, they were asked to estimate the work in greater detail.)
~ Gene Kim
Write down the problem. Think very hard. Write down the answer.
~ Genevieve Cogman
An answer, certainly,' Vale agreed. 'But the truth? That might be a very dangerous commodity.
~ Genevieve Cogman
No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer is obvious.
~ George Bernard Shaw
At this point, the Grumpy Economist becomes the Incredulous Economist: "If the central problem is rent-seeking, abuse of the power of the state to deliver economic goods to the wealthy and politically powerful, how in the world is more government the answer?
~ George F. Will
No challenge, no matter how insignificant, can be left unanswered. Even a cry in the wilderness must be acknowledged, because someone might have heard it.
~ Ilona Andrews
To the cosmological question, therefore, respecting the quantity of the world, the first and negative answer is, that the world has no first beginning in time, and no extreme limit in space.
~ Immanuel Kant
I touched the Waterford glass with my finger: and in its ring I heard the echo of a voice saying You do not really want your wife back after all . I answered the voice in my heart: a bond of this kind is deeper and stronger than wanting or not wanting. Wherever I am in the world and whenever I am I shall always be Antonia.
~ Iris Murdoch
THERE IS AS YET INSUFFICIENT DATA FOR A MEANINGFUL ANSWER.
~ Isaac Asimov
Intuition is the art, peculiar to the human mind, of working out the correct answer from data that is, in itself, incomplete or even, perhaps, misleading.
~ Isaac Asimov
Intuition! What's that? Define it!" "Easily. Intuition is the art, peculiar to the human mind, of working out the correct answer from data that is, in itself, incomplete or even, perhaps, misleading.
~ Isaac Asimov
A decision is the action an executive must take when he has information so incomplete that the answer does not suggest itself.
~ Arthur William Radford
A decision is an action you must take when you have information so incomplete that the answer does not suggest itself.
~ Arthur Radford
"What is your fortune, my pretty maid?" "My face is my fortune, sir," she said.
~ Nursery Rhyme
If you ask the hungry man how much is two and two, he replies four loaves.
~ Hindu proverb
In the split-second before someone prepares to answer a question, he will consciously or subconsciously evaluate what the best possible answer might be. For a truthful person, the best possible answer might omit some information. It might have a few extraneous details. But it will still offer the information requested.
~ Pamela Meyer
If you can help other people understand those truths - and in my mind, the only way I know to do that is with large scale, multi-year research projects, where you start with a question and then very rigorously and comprehensively answer that question.
~ James Collins
People ask what are my intentions with my films - my aims. It is a difficult and dangerous question, and I usually give an evasive answer: I try to tell the truth about the human condition, the truth as I see it. This answer seems to satisfy everyone, but it is not quite correct.
~ Ingmar Bergman
In order to maintain public trust in government, elected officials must answer for what they do and say; this includes 140-character tweets.
~ Mike Quigley
Twenty years from now if there is some obscure Trivial Pursuit question, I am confident I will be the answer.
~ Ted Cruz