Questioning Techniques Quotes

In mathematics, the art of asking questions is more valuable than solving problems.

Whomever you're going to interview, you have to be interested in what it is you want to know from them. You have to be interested in the subject.

Any leader who asks the right questions of the right people has the potential to discover and develop great ideas.

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

In mathematics the art of proposing a question must be held of higher value than solving it.

You've never seen me debate anybody. On anything. Ever. My investment of time, as an educator, in my judgment, is best served teaching people how to think about the world around them. Teach them how to pose a question. How to judge whether one thing is true versus another. What the laws of physics say.

So when I cover the president, I try to remember two things: First, if you don't ask, you don't find out; and second, the questions don't do the damage. Only the answers do.

I'm not really good at asking people questions in interviews. I just try to have fun, to talk.

You guys ask really long questions. In the U.S., they just want to know who you're sleeping with.

The second most important attribute of winners, after understanding the human dimension, is knowing what questions to ask, the rhetorical nature.

The questions are always more important than the answers.

My job is not to produce answers. My job is to produce good questions.

I believe that good questions are more important than answers, and the best children's books ask questions, and make the readers ask questions. And every new question is going to disturb someone's universe.

That's sort of a trick question, and I don't have a trick answer. Next question, please.

In cross examination, as in fishing, nothing is more ungainly than a fisherman pulled into the water by his catch.

Every good educator knows that true teaching is to teach kids how to ask the right questions.

Great reporters get people to talk to them. Master reporters get people to want to talk to them.

The long, forensic interview really matters.

I believe that I've been asked all possible questions. I, myself, if I were a journalist, would not know what to ask me.

The key to being a good interviewer is to listen, no matter how heinous the act that person has committed, you have to listen to them and ask the right questions to get the truth out.

I have always felt that the only great thing about an interview is the questions that are asked.

As an FBI agent, you don't want to go in there gangbusters and confrontational. You are going to get a lot more information if you put the subject at ease and allow them to talk.

I was originally going to be a lawyer, and the only thing I remember from the art of cross-examination is - you can see this one coming up Sixth Avenue - never ask a question the answer to which you do not know.

To ask the 'right' question is far more important than to receive the answer. The solution of a problem lies in the understanding of the problem; the answer is not outside the problem, it is in the problem.

I love researching, I love interviewing.