“Creative thinking begins with great questions, not answers. Creative thinkers stay with the question instead of rushing to find an immediate solution. They ask more questions than the average person and are comfortable in the often uncomfortable situation of not immediately having the answer.”
– Elaine Dundon, The Seeds of Innovation: Cultivating the Synergy That Fosters New Ideas
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“Question what you read and hear, question deeply and continually. Don’t accept anything because other people believe it, or because it’s expressed prettily, or because it’s been around for twenty or two hundred or two thousand years. And by all means, question this, too. But go all the way with your questioning: Question your own conclusions, your own judgments, and your own answers. Look at your own beliefs, your own prejudices, your own opinions—and see them for what they are.”
– Brad Warner, Hardcore Zen: Punk Rock, Monster Movies and the Truth About Reality
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Are there ever enough answers?
Do we arrive at a final one?
As we are all unique, in terms of interests and personality, then perhaps we cannot accept the answers meant for another.
Like a 5 year old asking “why?!”, we know when we have more questions to ask.
They could be directed to a person, a book, a deity, ourselves.
But it’s important to keep at it.
It’s a scary thought to believe I could have all the answers I need.
By writing, I am asking myself questions: what do I think? How do I feel? What do I want?
I am not satisfied with my answers so I question on…
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