Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.

A genius is not just answering questions but asking questions that nobody else thought to ask.

It is only ideas gained from walking that have any worth.

I don't know what's the matter with people: they don't learn by understanding, they learn by some other way — by rote or something. Their knowledge is so fragile!

All the wisdom of the world is not to be found in one little academic department.

I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

No one can defeat a powerful mind.

Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four hours sharpening the axe.

Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.

The unexamined life is not worth living.

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10 Powerful Quotes on living a Meaningful Life

To create good workers, education systems put a premium on compliancy and rote memorization of basic knowledge—excellent qualities in an industrial worker.Picasso said,'Computers are useless -- they only give you answers.'

Importance Of Questions

Einstein reckoned that if he had an hour to solve a problem and his life depended on it, he’d spend the first fifty-five minutes making sure he was answering the right question.

Are questions more important than answers ?

Somehow, we've defined the goal of schooling as enabling you to have more 'right answers than the person next to you. And we penalize incorrect answers. And we do this at a pace-especially now, in this highly focused test-prep universe-where we don't have time for extraneous questions.

Why questioning is becoming extinct ?

Part of the value in asking naïve questions,is that it forces people to explain things simply, which can help bring clarity to an otherwise complex issue. “If I just keep saying, ‘I don’t get it, can you tell me why once more?,’ it forces people to synthesize and simplify—to strip away the irrelevances and get to the core idea.”

Asking naive questions is a sign of thinking with clarity

You can't "step back" If you're always rushing to get things done. Here, policies like Google's much celebrated "20 percent time," which stipulates that employees can devote one fifth of their time to Independent projects-in effect, to work on their own questions-can really pay off.

How Google celebrates Questioning ?

Climb the mountain not to plant your flag, but to embrace the challenge, enjoy the air, and behold the view. Climb it so you can see the world, not so the world can see you.

To get the right answer--in business, in life--you have to ask the right question. Innovation expert Warren Berger shows it's both an art and a science.

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Shashank Sharma
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10 Powerful Quotes on living a Meaningful Life

A More Beautiful Question

Bite-sized knowledgeto upgradeyour career

Shashank Sharma@shashanksharma

10 Powerful Quotes on living a Meaningful Life

A More Beautiful Question

Bite-sized knowledge
to upgrade
your career

Shashank Sharma
@shashanksharma