Blog
entry December 20, 2012
THE
LEARNING JOURNEY: Mrs. J’s ongoing musings…
Regarding
the importance of asking your own questions;
2
quotes to ponder:
1.
From an article called “ Good Questions – spirituality, broadly speaking”, in island
WORD magazine July/Aug 2012 by Ted Hicks: “…as
one of my spiritual directors reminded me; we grow in the direction of the
questions we are asking. It is good to live with questions and to work at
refining the questions until we come up with a really good one to live towards.
What ever your age and stage of life, I wonder what might be yours and who is a
part of the circle…while you toss around the questions and listen for emerging
answers? … Perhaps the wisdom of age
also teaches us that good questions in good company allow us to go on a very
long and very deep journey without ever having to use stimulants or move an
inch.”
2. From the book Write it
Down, Make it Happen, by Henriette Anne Klauser, page 57. “ You are never going to get answers or creativity if
you don’t ask the questions.” (And his -John Sexton’s, - dean of New York University
Law school, question agenda comes from the ideas he ‘catches’ on his note
cards.)
“I am not going to
get answers unless I am asking the questions, and unless I am putting myself
under the burden constantly to want to know why, or how. The cards (idea catchers!) force me to constantly be
in a different kind of conversation with the community of people out there.”
That conversation is action-oriented,
leading him continually to ask the questions that challenge, that push toward
the possible.” (Both himself and those he
leads.)
Think
of your idea-catcher notebook as a “suggestion-box for
your brain”. Page 55
I would love more great quotes on the
importance of asking questions.
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