Dick Gephardt Quotes

If you do not know how to ask the right question, you discover nothing.

Asking the right questions takes as much skill as giving the right answers.

Ask the right questions if you're to find the right answers.

Posing good questions is harder than it might seem... It's hard because asking good questions requires you to see past the easy answers and to focus instead on the difficult, the tricky, the mysterious, the awkward, and sometimes the painful. ... Great leaders don't have all the answers, but they know how to ask the right questions - questions that force others and themselves to move past old and tired answers, questions that open up possibilities that, before the question, went unseen.

That's all managing is: just coming up with the right questions and getting the right answers.

If you don't ask the right question, every answer seems wrong -

It's not enough to have the right answers. You have to have the right questions.

Good questions outrank easy answers.

The quality of a leader cannot be judged by the answers he gives, but by the questions he asks.

Perspective gives us the ability to accurately contrast the large with the small, and the important with the less important. Without it we are lost in a world where all ideas, news, and information look the same. We cannot differentiate, we cannot prioritize, and we cannot make good choices.

If we would have new knowledge, we must get a whole world of new questions.

The scientific mind does not so much provide the right answers as ask the right questions.

The wise man doesn't give the right answers, he poses the right questions.

Hypothetical questions are good because they're usually on the mark.

We hear only those questions for which we are in a position to find answers

History will show you not all the answers, but it’ll tell you a lot of the questions to ask.

Questions matter. In business, remarkable performers are brilliant at getting to the right question: the one that speeds them to the place they need to get to and offers them the missing piece they need to find.

One of the fastest ways to find the solution to an issue or challenge you are facing is to ask the right questions.

My job is not to give you all the answers. My job is to ask the questions.

If you don't ask the right questions, I can't give you the answers, and if you don't know the right question to ask, you're not ready for the answers

Asking the right questions is as important as answering them

The answers aren't important really... What's important is- knowing all the questions.

To ask the right question is already half the solution of a problem.

We need both information and thinking. Information is no substitute for thinking and thinking is no substitute for information.

The question is just as important as the answer.