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Questioning
«There is no such thing as a worthless conversation, provided you know what to listen for. And questions are the breath of life for a conversation.»
Author: James Nathan Miller
| About:
Conversation,
Questioning
| Keywords:
breath, conversation, provided, worthless
«The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason.»
«There is really nothing more to say-except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how.»
«The job is to ask questions-it always was-and to ask them as inexorably as I can. And to face the absence of precise answers with a certain humility.»
Author: Arthur Miller
(Playwright)
| About:
Absence,
Questioning
| Keywords:
inexorably, precise, The Job
«The question is, why are politicians so eager to be president? What is it about the job that makes it worth revealing, on national television, that you have the ethical standards of a slime-coated piece of industrial waste?»
Author: Dave Barry
(Humorist, Writer)
| About:
Politicians,
Politics,
Questioning
| Keywords:
coated, coating, eager, ethical, ethical standards, industrial, industrial waste, national, piece, Politicians, President, revealing, slime, standards, television, The Job, The Question
«The question was a fashionable one, whether a definite line exists between psychological and physiological phenomena in human activity; and if so, where it lies?»
Author: Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
(Novelist, Philosopher, Thinker)
| About:
Psychology,
Questioning
| Keywords:
definite, fashionable, human activity, phenomena, physiological, psychological
«The question why there is evil in existence is the same as why there is imperfection... But this is the real question we ought to ask: Is this imperfection the final truth, is evil absolute and ultimate?»
Author: Rabindranath Tagore
(Essayist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Evil,
Questioning
| Keywords:
absolute, final, imperfection, The Question, ultimate