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A lot of amateurs are terrified of going up against a player who is clearly better than they are. They never play their best, because they aren't comfortable. There's one surefire way to get over that, and it's to ask yourself, 'What if I beat him?' Imagine the possibility.

When the media ask George W. Bush a question, he answers, 'Can I use a lifeline?'

When I realized I was having trouble reading, I was too embarrassed to ask for help. Some teachers believed in me, but I just wasn't focused on school - I was into the music and trying to please my dad.

We are no longer going to ask for the land, but we are going to take it without negotiating.

Why stick your neck out if you don't have to? If you're right nobody will remember and if you're wrong people will ask a lot of questions.

Before I was a year old I walked and talked and I was even potty trained. When I started going to school I think I got on everyone's nerves because I used to ask adult questions rather than settle for the stuff usually fed to kids.

All I ask is to be held above the barren wastes of want.

And therefore we must seek dialogue in this networked world. We must ask which voice was actually attempting to make itself heard and saw no other possibility of gaining a hearing. To that extent, for a while this also represented a forced opening of a cosmopolitan view.

Ask the right questions if you're to find the right answers.

Kids enjoy laughing and are seldom bored when they find something funny. They also ask questions, often to adults, because they understand that the more words they can comprehend about a funny story or a joke, the more they'll enjoy it.

If you ask my wife, the biggest fault is my inability around the house. She says the only thing handy about me is that I'm close by. And, I have a terrible memory. I'm bad at saying no. I often double-book. There are a lot of things.

There is an abiding beauty which may be appreciated by those who will see things as they are and who will ask for no reward except to see.

There are horses people use for competition, and if they don't perform well or go lame, then people ask the vet to put them down to get the insurance money. And my vet knows I love horses, so he gives them to me.

I never think that a film should answer questions for you. I think it should make you ask a lot of questions.

I look out of this window and I think this is a cosmos, this is a huge creation, this is one small corner of it. The trees and birds and everything else and I'm part of it. I didn't ask to be put here, I've been lucky in finding myself here.

When people ask me why I am running as a woman, I always answer, "What choice do I have?"

I was once ask if a big business man ever reached his objective. I replied that if a man ever reached his objective he was not a big business man.

We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure impressed on it are one.

All I ask is the chance to prove that money can't make me happy.

And if you ask again whether there is any justice in the world, you'll have to be satisfied with the reply: Not for the time being; at any rate, not up to this Friday.

Don't ask to live in tranquil times. Literature doesn't grow there.

We need to ask our policy makers and those we elect to office who are supposed to make decisions to give us the evidence of the facts that are behind the decisions that we make. We should be skeptical.

There's one way to find out if a man is honest - ask him. If he says, "Yes," you know he is a crook.

Smiles come naturally to me, but I started thinking of them as an art form at my command. I studied all the time. I looked at magazines, I'd practice in front of the mirror and I'd ask photographers about the best angles. I can now pull out a smile at will.

When I'm hiring a cook for one of my restaurants, and I want to see what they can do, I usually ask them to make me an omelette.

When one loves somebody everything is clear - where to go, what to do - it all takes care of itself and one doesn't have to ask anybody about anything.

People ask me so many questions.

My problem is that I like technology, but I always have to ask myself, 'Now wait a minute, will I actually have any use for this?'

Actually, one of the better indicators historically of how well the stock market will do is just a Gallup poll, when you ask Americans if you think it's a good time to invest in stocks, except it goes the opposite direction of what you would expect. When the markets going up, it in fact makes it more prone toward decline.

When people ask for time, it's always for time to say no. Yes has one more letter in it, but it doesn't take half as long to say.