To make our communications more effective, we need to shift our thinking from "What information do I need to convey?" to "What questions do I want my audience to ask?
Language was invented to ask questions.
The questions asked at the end of lie are very simple ones: Did I love well? Did I love the people around me, my community, the earth, in a deep way? And perhaps, Did I live fully? Did I offer myself to life?
What I do for living, working on something called string theory which we think may answer the fundamental question: Are there other universes? Can you go through a black hole? Can you warp the fabric of space and time and meet your mother before you were born? These are all questions that in principle string theory should be able to answer.
I have a solo deal with Columbia Records. So it's about, do I want to release an album, when can we do it, what kind of album should it be, how should it be released and marketed and what's the right timing? Do I have time to do it? It's all about questions.
Even if sheep could talk, they'd never ask questions.
The question I've asked more often during our marriage, if not out loud, if not to the person who could answer. I supposed these questions storm cloud over every marriage: What are you thinking how are you feeling? Who are you? What have we done to each other? What will we do?
Telling is not selling. Only asking questions is selling.
Investors have to ask themselves two questions. How much can we grow our investments? And, can we afford our mistakes?
Writers always sound insufferably smug when they sit back and assert that their job is only to ask questions and not to answer them. But, in good part, it is true. And once you become committed to one particular answer, your freedom to ask new questions is seriously impaired.
Some questions cannot be answered, but they can be decided.
I ask people impertinent questions. Hopefully turning up pertinent answers.
Eternity is the place where questions and answers become one.
I have mentored two young aspiring actors and I wish that I had known I could look for a mentor because it would have been a lot easier to be able to ask those questions to someone who had gone through it already.
The people who are the best in the world specialize at getting really good at the questions they don't know.
The uncreative mind can spot wrong answers, but it takes a very creative mind to spot wrong questions.
In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.
I don't pretend we have all the answers. But the questions are certainly worth thinking about.
A picture can be an answer as well as a question but if you can't answer your question try to question your question. . . There can be questions without answers but no answers without questions.
Two questions I can't really answer about fiction are 1) where it comes from, and 2) why we need it. But that we do create it and also crave it is beyond dispute.