Polite Quote by Edward de Bono Download Open image “A question is a polite way of demanding something.” — Edward de Bono ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Polite Truth Seeking Way
I believe you should always be polite when you ask a question. I totally believe that. — Kaitlan Collins Copy Share Image
“If people don't want you to question something, that probably means you should question it.” — Michel Templet Copy Share Image
Asking what the question is, and why the question is asked, is always asking a pertinent question. — Raymond Geuss Copy Share Image
“Nobody ever asks for permission to ask you a question you want to hear. Nobody ever says, Can I ask you a question? Would… — Kara Lee Corthron Copy Share Image
I believe that there's a way to question authority with manners, with dignity. There's no reason to be rude about it. — Nicolas Cage Copy Share Image
“Asking questions will get you the performance you are after far more than dictating demands.” — Dan James Copy Share Image
We still seek to solve conflicts with 'judgement' instead of designing the way forwards. — Edward de Bono Copy Share Image
Traditional thinking is all about "what is" Future thinking will also need to be about what can be. — Edward de Bono Copy Share Image
“In 80% of Socrates' dialogues there was no constructive outcome. He saw his role as simply pointing out what was "wrong.” — Edward De Bono Copy Share Image
The music that really turns me on is either running toward God or away from God. Both recognize the pivot, that God is at… — Edward de Bono Copy Share Image
The effective thinker treats arrogance as the major sin of thinking. — Edward de Bono Copy Share Image
To be successful you have to be lucky, or a little mad, or very talented, or find yourself in a rapid growth field. — Edward de Bono Copy Share Image
The weapons of the positive revolution are not bullets and bombs but simple human perceptions. Bullets and bombs may offer physical power but eventually… — Edward de Bono Copy Share Image
“In real-life situations apparently logical lines of argument are often (not always) based on an inability to see alternative possibilities. In a similar way… — Edward De Bono Copy Share Image
An expert is someone who has succeeded in making decisions and judgements simpler through knowing what to pay attention to and what to ignore. — Edward De Bono Copy Share Image
There is something about the South that accepts the supernatural. If you don't accept it and you're having a conversation with someone who does,… — Alice Englert Copy Share Image
Filmmaking, like sex, isn't a polite enterprise. It involves a lot of mess and the bottom line is, if somebody ain't screaming, you're not… — James Woods Copy Share Image
To be polite to everybody except the people they love most is a nervous affectation that afflicts many families ... when they come home,… — Margaret Fishback Copy Share Image
Most magicians consider the palm an easy move to make. They are inclined to believe that they are 'getting away with it,' when they… — Dai Vernon Copy Share Image
Women are sort of like motorcycle gangs with me. They get really shy and polite. I don't know why. — Jack Nicholson Copy Share Image
It is something that most parents hope for in life: That their children will be moderately successful, polite, decent human beings. Anything on top… — Jerry Kramer Copy Share Image
Normally when people say they haven't decided, they're being polite but they're definitely not voting for you. I think it's different this time. People… — David Cameron Copy Share Image
The practice of all ages and all countries (whether Christian or heathen, polite or barbarous) hath been ... to do honour to those who… — Francis Atterbury Copy Share Image
I only asked my friends to be friendly and polite, I found them indifferent and censorious; The one I left to silence, the other… — Stevie Smith Copy Share Image
Near the end of his life, my father proved to be, at his core, a very polite, chivalrous man. He walked the halls of… — Jennifer L. Knox Copy Share Image
There are two sides to me. One is the writer. That's a savage person who looks at everything as a story and, you know,… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image