Not everything needs to be said. The silences, the words that aren’t spoken, lead us to the questions we should be asking.
– David Powning
Related Quotes:
- Our lives are shaped by the questions we ask. Good questions lead to good outcomes. Bad questions lead to bad outcomes. – Michael Hyatt
- When one writer tries to silence another, he silences every writer-and in the end he also silences himself. – David Leavitt
- Maturity is when you can understand someone’s silences and the pauses between those silences… – Avijeet Das
- It’s not just the wounded who suffer. – David Powning
- Asking questions is an opportunity for creativity and personal expression, both for the person asking and the person answering. – Sharon Salzberg
- There are no foolish questions and no man becomes a fool until he has stopped asking questions. – Charles Proteus Steinmetz
- Asking questions is an essential daily habit, because your experiences are often in proportion to the questions you ask. – Mensah Oteh
- Thinking is no more or no less than asking questions. To improve your thinking, improve the quality of the questions you ask. – Stephanie Mbida
- That’s not what I’m asking. I’m asking, what’s your vice and what brand of trouble does it lead to? – Neal Stephenson
- A good Christian needs Jesus. A great Christian needs Jesus. A christian sinner needs Jesus. Pope needs Jesus. – Alin Sav
- Man needs air, man needs water, man needs food and man needs adventure also! Adventure is a medicine for the infinite boredom. – Mehmet Murat ildan
- My mother and Alexis had said no more than ten words to each other. The long silences were deafening – Howard Norman
- More is said in silences than words ever could. – Avijeet Das
- But then science is nothing but a series of questions that lead to more questions. – Terry Pratchett
- The power of words is in the works of words. People are much more bonded by the works of words than words. The work of words is the trigger of words. – Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
- In the textbook of revelation, the Bible, God has spoken verbally; and this spoken word has survived every scratch of the human pen. – Billy Graham
- He was highly spoken of, everybody knew; but nobody knew who had spoken highly of him-¦ – Mrs Oliphant
- There will always be more questions. Every answer leads to more questions. The only way to survive is to let some of them go. – David Levithan
- I would not be a Moses to lead you into the Promised Land, because if I could lead you into it, someone else could lead you out of it. – Eugene V Debs
- We know how to lead projects, but we forget how to lead people, because we forgot how to lead ourselves. – Alin Sav
- There are questions that are not meant to be answered with words. Some questions take a lifetime to answer. Take action. – JR Rim
- Listen not to the words that have been spoken, but bend your ears to what has not been said. – Ian Sgal
- …the words make our silences easier–they’re the current that runs under them. – Sue Miller
- Words can create, words give life, words can build, words can destroy. Words can bring something out of nothing. What are you saying? – Mopelola Adeniyi
- Hope transcends everything. It goes beyond all doubts. It silences fear. It quiets despair. – Nikki Rosen
- I wish, he thinks, spoken words could be captured and kept in a locket. – David Mitchell
- There was a danger in asking too much of a child, but the danger of asking too little was almost equal. – Robin Hobb
- Asking a parent not to be a parent is like asking the sun not to be hot or snow not to be cold. – Lesa Howard
- Asking someone to make for you money is like asking them to make for you a baby: they will own the money just as they will own the baby – Agona Apell
- Asking ‘why’ only makes us feel hopeless. Asking ‘how’ points the way forward, and shows us what we must do – Sue Klebold
- But prayer isn’t asking God to do what we want. Prayer is asking God to what is right. – Max Lucado
- You’re not asking me for advice, you’re asking me for permission. – Steve Maraboli
- Ethan: -œI’m not asking you to continue that night.-Karis: -œThen what are you asking?-Ethan: -œFor a whole new night. – Monique DeVere
- When I ask you to be my valentine, I’m not asking you to love me. I’m simply asking you to accept tokens of my love for you. – Richelle E Goodrich
- Not long after we started working for him I asked Bernard if he thought Thatcher was evil,’I said. ‘He said it was like asking what jazz is. – Jack Womack
- Everything is light, everything is warmth, everything is electricity, everything is a magnetic field, everything is you. – LH
- …it’s my job to lead you to success, and, if you fail, it’s because I failed, not you.’- (Spoken by Bracke, told by Eric) – Shannon A Thompson
- Curiosity-”asking questions-”isn’t just a way of understanding the world. It’s a way of changing it. – Brian Grazer
- Faith doesn’t run deep because one is stuffed with right answers. It is cultivated by asking the right questions. – Josh Ross
- Empathy isn’t just listening, it’s asking the questions whose answers need to be listened to. – Leslie Jamison