Great things are only possible with outrageous requests.
You can't ask for what you want unless you know what it is. A lot of people don't know what they want or they want much less than they deserve. First you have figure out what you want. Second, you have to decide that you deserve it. Third, you have to believe you can get it. And, fourth, you have to have the guts to ask for it.
Man, if you gotta ask you'll never know.
Ask with urgency and passion.
Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why.
Ask, and it shall be given you; seek; and you shall find; knock and it shall be opened unto you. For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened. [Matthew 7:7-8]
— Bible
You don't always get what you ask for, but you never get what you don't ask for... unless it's contagious!
My greatest strength as a consultant is to be ignorant and ask a few questions.
If one asks the whence derives the authority of fundamental ends, since they cannot be stated and justified merely by reason, one can only answer: they exist in a healthy society as powerful traditions, which act upon the conduct and aspirations and judgments of the individuals; they are there, that is, as something living, without its being necessary to find justification for their existence.
Remember you are just an extra in everyone else's play.
If you don't ask, you don't get.
Every moment of your life is infinitely creative and the universe is endlessly bountiful. Just put forth a clear enough request, and everything your heart desires must come to you.
Asking the right questions takes as much skill as giving the right answers.
You create your opportunities by asking for them.
Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not.
Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want.
I attribute the little I know to my not having been ashamed to ask for information, and to my rule of conversing with all descriptions of men on those topics that form their own peculiar professions and pursuits.
What I point out to people is that it's silly to be afraid that you're not going to get what you want if you ask. Because you are already not getting what you want. They always laugh about that because they realize it's so true. Without asking you already have failed, you already have nothing. What are you afraid of? You're afraid of getting what you already have! It's ridiculous! Who cares if you don't get it when you ask for it, because, before you ask for it, you don't have it anyway. So there's really nothing to be afraid of.
As long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they will, freedom can never be lost and science can never regress.
Man who waits for roast duck to fly into mouth must wait very, very long time.
Better to ask twice than to lose your way once.
Asking is the beginning of receiving. Make sure you don't go to the ocean with a teaspoon. At least take a bucket so the kids won't laugh at you.
A clever, imagination, humorous request can open closed doors and closed minds.
The world is full of genies waiting to grant your wishes.
You've got to ask! Asking is, in my opinion, the world's most powerful -- and neglected -- secret to success and happiness.
We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
— Seneca
If there is something to gain and nothing to lose by asking, by all means ask!
The key to getting everything you want is to never put all your begs in one ask-it!
Be careful what you ask for because you just might get it.