This objective of getting what we want from other people-or getting them to do what we want them to do-threatens the autonomy… — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
The answers I remember longest are the ones that answer questions that I didn't think of asking. — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
When I was seven, I gave a letter to Cinderella in Disney World asking if I could be in a Disney movie.… — Brittany Curran Copy Share Image
As far as we were concerned, we were operators, we were administrators. I don't ever recall going to Dean Acheson and asking… — Paul Hoffman Copy Share Image
You're not a Black man. You're a human being in God's eyes. So when you sit down to talk to someone and… — James McBride Copy Share Image
We are trained to ask "What's wrong and how we fix it?" Instead, start by asking - "What works, what have we… — Peter Kenyon Copy Share Image
If we will take the good we find, asking no questions, we shall have heaping measures. The great gifts are not got… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I do agree that the science is not settled on this. The idea that we would put American's economy at jeopardy based… — Rick Perry Copy Share Image
Many, many readers have written asking me wistfully about the nature of Sam and Grace's relationship, and I can assure you, that… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
Be sure then to read no mean books. Shun the spawn of the press on the gossip of the hour. Do not… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Asking God for a specific thing will amount to limiting God to a specific answer. — T. B. Joshua Copy Share Image
They're not trying to prevent Hollywood from making movies. They're asking that the most powerful image-building machinery in the world stop grinding… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
All I ask is one thing, and I’m asking this particularly of young people: please don’t be cynical. I hate cynicism, for… — Conan O'Brien Copy Share Image
Putting an end to usurious rates is not going to be as simple as asking banks to lay down internal guidelines, policies… — Sucheta Dalal Copy Share Image
I wasn't just pro-choice, I was pro-everything, until I started taking everything off the table and began looking at things and asking… — Glenn Beck Copy Share Image
I had a song called "Folsom Prison Blues" that was a hit just before "I Walk The Line." And the people in… — Johnny Cash Copy Share Image
It's not about supplication, it's about power. It's not about asking, it's about demanding. It's not about convincing those who are currently… — Kimberle Williams Crenshaw Copy Share Image
The truth is that we won’t receive the support we need until we ask for it. Just because we can do it… — Jessica Ortner Copy Share Image
Let's just keep asking ourselves this question: 'Is what I'm about to do strengthening the web of connections, or is it weakening… — Margaret J. Wheatley Copy Share Image
You've got to ask! Asking is, in my opinion, the world's most powerful - and neglected - secret to success and happiness. — Percy Ross Copy Share Image
People keep asking me about it but I don't want to be famous for being a former anorexic. — Kate Beckinsale Copy Share Image
I can think about what [Mahatma] Gandhi said or [Martin Luther] King said about violence begetting violence, and still be true to… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Now give me a kiss, say you love me and off you go." "Sure, Aunt Lu," I said, and I gave her… — Avi Copy Share Image
Instead of asking ourselves, 'How can I find security and happiness?' we could ask ourselves, 'Can I touch the center of my… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
Whereas if you were writing an op-ed piece or an essay, somebody would be asking, "What's your point?" With poetry you can… — Claudia Rankine Copy Share Image