To solve any problem, here are three questions to ask yourself: First, what could I do? Second, what could I read? And third, who could I ask?
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All the interests of my reason, speculative as well as practical, combine in the three following questions: 1. What can I know? 2. What ought I to do? 3. What may I hope?
You have to figure out 'who am I?' 'What do I want to do?' 'What do I want to say?'
It is not enough for me to ask question; I want to know how to answer the one question that seems to encompass everything I face: What am I here for?
Inner-life questions are the kind everyone asks, with or without benefit of God-talk: 'Does my life have meaning and purpose?' 'Do I have gifts that the world wants and needs?' 'Whom and what shall I serve?' 'Whom and what can I trust?' 'How can I rise above my fears?'
What do you want most to do? That's what I have to keep asking myself, in the face of difficulties.
Ask not what the brain can do for the computer. Ask what the computer can do for the brain.
The questions which one asks oneself begin, at least, to illuminate the world, and become one's key to the experience of others.
It was my great problem to solve: how to write a book, you know. And after you write one, you have to write another to prove to yourself you can do it again.
There are two questions that you ask yourself as a writer, and one of them is, 'But why?' The question that takes the book forward is, 'What if? What if x y or z happened? How would those characters react?'
You should never ask, 'What would the readers like now?' Instead, you should ask, 'What would I like if I was a reader?' And then you must trust your own mind.