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Questioning and Posing Problems

Having a questioning attitude. Developing strategies to produce needed data. Finding problems to solve. How do you know?

Life is often compared to a marathon, but I think itis more like being a sprinter; long stretches of hard work punctuated by brief moments in which we are given the opportunity to perform at our best.
Michael Johnson, 200 and 400 meter world record holder
Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous mind.
Samuel Johnson
A problem is your chance to do your best.
Duke Ellington
The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it is the same problem you had last year.
John Foster Dulles
When you are face to face with a difficulty, you are up against a discovery.
Lord Kelvin
The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
Jean-Baptiste Moliere
It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.
James Thurber
It's not the answers that enlighten us, but the questions.
Descouvertes
He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.
Chinese proverb
If we would have new knowledge, we must get a whole world of new questions.
Suzanne Langer
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
Henry Kaiser
I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift would be curiosity.
Anna Eleanor Roosevelt
If you spend more time asking appropriate questions rather than giving answers or opinions, your listening skills will increase.
Brian Koslow
Curiosity is the wick in the candle of learning.
William Arthur Ward
A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Be curious always! For knowledge will not acquire you; you must acquire it.
Sudie Back
Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton asked why.
Bernard Baruch
Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous mind.
Samuel Johnson
Good questions outrank easy answers.
Paul A. Samuelson
Philosophy may be defined as the art of asking the right question…awareness of the problem outlives all solutions. The answers are questions in disguise, every new answer giving rise to new questions.
Abraham J. Heschel
Every problem contains within itself the seeds of its own msolution.
Edward Somers
He who is ashamed of asking is ashamed of learning.
Danish Proverb
When solving problems, dig at the roots instead of just hacking at the leaves.
Anthony J. D'Angelo
It isn’t that they can’t see the solution. It is that they can’t see the problem.
G. K. Chesterton
A problem well stated is a problem half solved.
Charles Kettering
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