"The best creative solutions don't come from finding good answers to the questions that are presented... They come from inventing new questions!"
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"The answer to the question "where do good ideas come from" is always the same, the come from bad ideas. If you come up with 20 bad ideas you get one good one."
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"Everyone has obstacles, and you're not going to have the right answer or do the right thing every single time."
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"A clear right answer and the opportunity to change the options? This is the chooser’s dream."
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"About the only question that we would say and this is a big one in our lives that we would say you don't just use pure reason to decide the answer to is anything that affects your happiness, because then gut and reason answer very different questions. So gut tells you "How do I feel about this right now?""
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"We have a problem with women in leadership across the board. This leadership gap - this problem of not enough women in leadership - is running really deep and it's in every industry. My answer is we have to understand the stereotype assumptions that hold women back."
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"It made me love talk that sought answers to questions that could help nobody, that could only keep alive in me that enthralling sense of wonder and awe in the face of the drama of human feeling which is hidden by the external drama of life."
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"Dying's not so bad. At least I won't have to answer the telephone."
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"Most years, if you were to ask me how much I make, the genuine answer is that I have no clue. I usually find out the answer to that question once a year, at tax time, when my accountant tells me."
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"Are you following me?" she asks, but doesn't meet my gaze. "Yeah," I say. "Why?" I give her the only honest and true answer I have. "You're where I want to be."
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"I suspect there isn't an actor alive who was able to truthfully answer his family's questions after his first day's activity in his future profession."
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"Our very life depends on everything's Recurring till we answer from within."
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"One of the lies would make it out that nothing Ever presents itself before us twice. Where would we be at last if that were so? Our very life depends on everything's Recurring till we answer from within."
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"No talent in management is worth more than the ability to master facts-not just any facts, but the ones that provide the best answers."
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"There is only one immediate question: Where is God? The immediate answer is: God is where My heart's love-breath is."
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"Man's eternal question is:'Who is God?'God's immediate answer is:'My child, who else is God, if not you?"
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"The great contributors in life are those who, though afraid of the knock at the door, still answer it."
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"Observations indicate that the universe is expanding at an ever-increasing rate. It will expand forever, getting emptier and darker. Although the universe doesn’t have an end, it had a beginning in the Big Bang. One might ask what is before that but the answer is that there is nowhere before the Big Bang just as there is nowhere south of the South Pole."
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"The Darwinian revolution is about essence. The Darwinian revolution is about who we are, it's what we're made of, it's what our life means insofar as science can answer that question."
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"Now comes the big question: What are you going to write about? And the equally big answer: Anything you damn well want. Anything at all .... as long as you tell the truth."
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