Quotes by category:Asking

I got my first job the old-fashioned way: I took an elevator to the top floor of many buildings and walked down floor by floor on the stairs going into every firm and asking the receptionist if she knew of any jobs available.

Alan Patricof

asking jobs way

Charm is a way of getting the answer 'Yes' without asking a clear question.

Albert Camus

charming-smile asking inspirational

I remember calling and asking, because I had a few lines that were like, "How could the character have done this?" and I hadn't read the part of the script that said what she [ Cate Blanchett] did, so they put me on the phone with Woody... Allen. I don't know if I could really say "Woody."

Alden Ehrenreich

phones asking character

If ever there was one player, anywhere in the world, that was made for Manchester United, it was Cantona. He swaggered in, stuck his chest out, raised his head and surveyed everything as though he was asking: 'I'm Cantona. How big are you? Are you big enough for me?'

Alex Ferguson

player asking inspirational

I get interviewed a lot, and I found myself listening to what the interviewer is asking me, I'm analyzing what I'm being asked more than my response.

Alex Haley

analyzing asking listening

Fearing no insult, asking for no crown, receive with indifference both flattery and slander, and do not argue with a fool.

Alexander Pushkin

crowns fool asking

I love going out and it is a bit sad when the photographers stop asking you for your picture.

Alice Evans

going-out photographer asking

It wasn't right to have someone charge into you your world without even asking, acting as if you were nothing more than an egg to be flipped and flopped, sunny-side up or scrambled, depending on the whims on whoever ran your life..._

Alice Hoffman

eggs acting asking

I'm always trying to ask myself both "Who am I as an individual?" and "What are the cultural forces that have made me the person that I am?" How can I understand myself as a cultural creature as well as an individual? I'm really obsessed with that question, and always asking my students to consider it.

Alison Hawthorne Deming

always-trying students asking

I operate with this sense of needing to live up to what I am asking of people. I am, by far, my own worst critic.

Allison Williams

worst asking people

Can I cut off your head?" "Are you asking for my permission?

Amanda Hocking

cutting permission asking

It’s not easy to ask… asking makes you vulnerable.

Amanda Palmer

vulnerable asking easy

What is worth doing is worth the trouble of asking somebody to do it.

Ambrose Bierce

asking work inspirational

Love accepts the trying things of life without asking for explanations. It trusts and is at rest.

Amy Carmichael

asking trying love

I think we should stop asking people in their 20s what they 'want to do' and start asking them what they don't want to do. Instead of asking students to 'declare their major' we should ask students to 'list what they will do anything to avoid.' It just makes a lot more sense.

Amy Poehler

asking people thinking

If you are asking me, am I going to be sort of saying 'oh well 'God's told me to do this and do that' well of course that's not the case.

Andrea Leadsom

oh-well cases asking

Through His Spirit, the Spirit of prayer, our life may be one of continual prayer. The Spirit of prayer will help you become an intercessor, asking great things of God for those around you.

Andy Murray

prayer asking may

Asking doesn't mean you lack wisdom - it's evidence of wisdom.

Andy Stanley

evidence asking mean

The problem is, of course, that these interest groups are all asking for changes, but their enthusiasm for change rapidly disappears when it affects the core of their own interests.

Angela Merkel

groups enthusiasm asking

It’s natural to overlook and even sacrifice the things that belong to us most easily most gracefully. So here’s me asking you to please not make that mistake.

Ann Brashares

sacrifice asking mistake