Sentence examples for instead of asking ourselves from inspiring English sources

But instead of asking ourselves which jobs will be replaced, we need to shift the conversation to answer the question: what jobs do we want humans to do?

With the Super Bowl game one week away, instead of asking ourselves, "What is it about Tim Tebow?" we might better ask, "What is it about football?" What is it about football that makes it, more so than any other American sport, the arena for expressing larger societal conflicts?

Watching voters embrace such an unapologetically piggish figure as Donald Trump is disheartening, but instead of asking ourselves why they did it, perhaps we should be asking why it took so long.

So instead of asking ourselves whether this finger print-reading, awesome picture taking, gold-clad phone is a viable product or not, we should ask ourselves if it's worth upgrading from the iPhone 5 or the iPhone 4S before it.

We worry too much of what other people are thinking instead of asking ourselves, what will make "me" happy?

Instead of asking ourselves the very-deep question of "what's my passion?," we might want to ask "what am I curious about?" This little change keeps us from feeling like we have to come up with something.

Though we all know the origin of Superman (planet explodes, mild-mannered disguise, cape and all that), we take it at face value instead of really asking ourselves: who is this strange visitor who landed face first into American pop culture and never left?

Instead of asking where an individual fits into society, he wanted to know where we sit in ourselves.

Instead of asking how salamanders pull off their healing acts, one might equally ask why mammals like ourselves cannot.

We say, instead of asking: Might I survive?

"People often give speeches instead of asking questions," says Pozen.