Problems Quotes
By Alan Reiner – July 21, 2024
‘We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.’ – Albert Einstein
‘Problems are not the problem; coping is the problem.’ – Virginia Satir
‘Death is the solution to all problems. No man – no problem.’ – Joseph Stalin
‘Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.’ – Colin Powell
‘Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.’ – Robert H. Schuller
‘Culture makes people understand each other better. And if they understand each other better in their soul, it is easier to overcome the economic and political barriers. But first they have to understand that their neighbour is, in the end, just like them, with the same problems, the same questions.’ – Paulo Coelho
‘If you have a positive attitude and constantly strive to give your best effort, eventually you will overcome your immediate problems and find you are ready for greater challenges.’ – Pat Riley
‘Laughter heals all wounds, and that’s one thing that everybody shares. No matter what you’re going through, it makes you forget about your problems. I think the world should keep laughing.’ – Kevin Hart
‘Don’t tell your problems to people: eighty percent don’t care; and the other twenty percent are glad you have them.’ – Lou Holtz
‘We cannot always control everything that happens to us in this life, but we can control how we respond. Many struggles come as problems and pressures that sometimes cause pain. Others come as temptations, trials, and tribulations.’ – L. Lionel Kendrick
‘Within the covers of the Bible are the answers for all the problems men face.’ – Ronald Reagan
‘Be grateful for what you have and stop complaining – it bores everybody else, does you no good, and doesn’t solve any problems.’ – Zig Ziglar
‘Good buildings come from good people, and all problems are solved by good design.’ – Stephen Gardiner
‘Let God’s promises shine on your problems.’ – Corrie Ten Boom
‘You may not always have a comfortable life and you will not always be able to solve all of the world’s problems at once but don’t ever underestimate the importance you can have because history has shown us that courage can be contagious and hope can take on a life of its own.’ – Michelle Obama
‘Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. And man can be as big as he wants. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.’ – John F. Kennedy
‘It’s very important that we re-learn the art of resting and relaxing. Not only does it help prevent the onset of many illnesses that develop through chronic tension and worrying; it allows us to clear our minds, focus, and find creative solutions to problems.’ – Thich Nhat Hanh
‘When you show deep empathy toward others, their defensive energy goes down, and positive energy replaces it. That’s when you can get more creative in solving problems.’ – Stephen Covey
‘If you think technology can solve your security problems, then you don’t understand the problems and you don’t understand the technology.’ – Bruce Schneier
‘The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.’ – Albert Ellis
‘There are very few personal problems that cannot be solved through a suitable application of high explosives.’ – Scott Adams
‘Every project is an opportunity to learn, to figure out problems and challenges, to invent and reinvent.’ – David Rockwell
‘When a team takes ownership of its problems, the problem gets solved. It is true on the battlefield, it is true in business, and it is true in life.’ – Jocko Willink
‘We need to start identifying the triggers that aggravate mental health issues in our society – bullying, social media negativity and anxiety, gender based violence, substance abuse, stigma around issues such as maternal issues, etc., and we need to speak up about these more and get to the source of the problems.’ – Sanam Saeed
‘Expect problems and eat them for breakfast.’ – Alfred A. Montapert
‘My message, especially to young people is to have courage to think differently, courage to invent, to travel the unexplored path, courage to discover the impossible and to conquer the problems and succeed. These are great qualities that they must work towards. This is my message to the young people.’ – A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
‘You will find peace not by trying to escape your problems, but by confronting them courageously. You will find peace not in denial, but in victory.’ – J. Donald Walters
‘A stereotype may be negative or positive, but even positive stereotypes present two problems: They are cliches, and they present a human being as far more simple and uniform than any human being actually is.’ – Nancy Kress
‘I have six brothers and sisters. My mother has six kids from two different marriages. And we would just sit around making fun of each other’s dad, and all our dads had real problems.’ – Michael Che
‘Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don’t have any problems, you don’t get any seeds.’ – Norman Vincent Peale
‘When solving problems, dig at the roots instead of just hacking at the leaves.’ – Anthony J. D’Angelo
‘The only time I have problems is when I sleep.’ – Tupac Shakur
‘You will only be remembered for two things: the problems you solve or the ones you create.’ – Mike Murdock
‘Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.’ – Henry J. Kaiser
‘Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country.’ – Margaret Thatcher
‘There are children playing in the streets who could solve some of my top problems in physics, because they have modes of sensory perception that I lost long ago.’ – J. Robert Oppenheimer
‘It is wise to direct your anger towards problems – not people; to focus your energies on answers – not excuses.’ – William Arthur Ward
‘There are no problems we cannot solve together, and very few that we can solve by ourselves.’ – Lyndon B. Johnson
‘The best way to solve problems and to fight against war is through dialogue.’ – Malala Yousafzai
‘In Hollywood, all marriages are happy. It’s trying to live together afterwards that causes the problems.’ – Shelley Winters
‘There are no big problems, there are just a lot of little problems.’ – Henry Ford
‘The one thing that can solve most of our problems is dancing.’ – James Brown
‘The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown.’ – Carl Jung
‘War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.’ – Thomas Mann
‘Cinema is a reflection of society and, in most cases, has the ability to be a mirror and not just show the problems but also give solutions and help them reach a large number of people through faces and voices that matter.’ – Kirti Kulhari
‘During the Great Depression, African Americans were faced with problems that were not unlike those experienced by the most disadvantaged groups in society. The Great Depression had a leveling effect, and all groups really experienced hard times: poor whites, poor blacks.’ – William Julius Wilson
‘Marriage is an attempt to solve problems together which you didn’t even have when you were on your own.’ – Eddie Cantor
‘Narcissism is not about self love. It’s a clinical trait that belies a deep sense of emptiness, low self-esteem, emotional detachment, self-loathing, extreme problems with intimacy.’ – Drew Pinsky
‘In 2017, people have realized there isn’t going to be one crypto to rule them all. You’re seeing vertical solutions where XRP is focused on payment problems, Ethereum is focused on smart contracts, and increasingly, bitcoin is a store of value. Those aren’t competitive. In fact, I want bitcoin and Ethereum to be successful.’ – Brad Garlinghouse
‘My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation.’ – Arthur Conan Doyle
‘Persistence and resilience only come from having been given the chance to work though difficult problems.’ – Gever Tulley
‘Inequality causes problems by creating fissures in societies, leaving those at the bottom feeling marginalized or disenfranchised.’ – Nicholas Kristof
‘When you have to cope with a lot of problems, you’re either going to sink or you’re going to swim.’ – Tom Cruise
‘Be thankful for problems. If they were less difficult, someone with less ability might have your job.’ – Jim Lovell
‘To be honest, there are no problems between me and Messi. People have their own opinions about who they think is the better player. It is what it is, but there is no rivalry beyond games and what happens on the pitch.’ – Cristiano Ronaldo
‘Security is, I would say, our top priority because for all the exciting things you will be able to do with computers – organizing your lives, staying in touch with people, being creative – if we don’t solve these security problems, then people will hold back.’ – Bill Gates
‘I’ve never had a problem with drugs. I’ve had problems with the police.’ – Keith Richards
‘Problems are the price of progress. Don’t bring me anything but trouble. Good news weakens me.’ – Charles Kettering
‘Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them.’ – Paul Hawken
‘We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.’ – Lee Iacocca
‘Our mission is to accelerate the development of a better financial system; it’s not just development of a better Bitcoin financial system, and so we want to back the best teams, who have the biggest ideas, unique solutions to big problems.’ – Barry Silbert
‘People are not problems to be solved. They are mysteries to be explored.’ – Eugene H. Peterson
‘Human spirit is the ability to face the uncertainty of the future with curiosity and optimism. It is the belief that problems can be solved, differences resolved. It is a type of confidence. And it is fragile. It can be blackened by fear and superstition.’ – Bernard Beckett
‘I never doubted that equal rights was the right direction. Most reforms, most problems are complicated. But to me there is nothing complicated about ordinary equality.’ – Alice Paul
‘It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.’ – Douglas Adams
‘Football is now all about money. There are problems with the values within the game. This is sad because football is the most beautiful game. We can play it in the street. We can play it everywhere.’ – Johan Cruyff
‘Sometimes it seems as if there are more solutions than problems. On closer scrutiny, it turns out that many of today’s problems are a result of yesterday’s solutions.’ – Thomas Sowell
‘I ain’t really got problems with people.’ – King Von
‘Welcome those big, sticky, complicated problems. In them are your most powerful opportunities.’ – Ralph Marston
‘We are all faced with a series of great opportunities – brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.’ – John W. Gardner
‘Only 20 percent of our longevity is genetically determined. The rest is what we do, how we live our lives and increasingly the molecules that we take. It’s not the loss of our DNA that causes aging, it’s the problems in reading the information, the epigenetic noise.’ – David Andrew Sinclair
‘I dream of the realization of the unity of Africa, whereby its leaders combine in their efforts to solve the problems of this continent. I dream of our vast deserts, of our forests, of all our great wildernesses.’ – Nelson Mandela
‘All the problems of the world could be settled easily if men were only willing to think. The trouble is that men very often resort to all sorts of devices in order not to think, because thinking is such hard work.’ – Thomas J. Watson
‘People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society.’ – Vince Lombardi
‘The great solution to all human problems is individual inner transformation.’ – Vernon Howard
‘There are plenty of skills I’ve learned from playing video games. It’s more interactive than watching TV, because there are problems to solve as you’re using your brain.’ – Shaun White
‘I want to make sure that that future that we’re creating is one that is the best it can be for people around the world, and also one that includes the full range of our talent and our skills – and, you know, gender and ethnicity, geography – to solving the world’s problems.’ – Mae Jemison
‘We could only solve our problems by cooperating with other countries. It would have been paradoxical not to cooperate. And therefore we needed to put an end to the Iron Curtain, to change the nature of international relations, to rid them of ideological confrontation, and particularly to end the arms race.’ – Mikhail Gorbachev
‘The big problems are where people don’t realise they have one in the first place.’ – W. Edwards Deming
‘I believe that every single one of us, celebrity or not, has a responsibility to get involved in trying to make a difference in the world. Our generation faces many challenges, some of which were passed on to us by the past generations, but it’s up to us to find solutions today so that we don’t keep passing our problems on.’ – Shakira
‘Life is a never-ending stream of problems that must be confronted, surmounted, and/or solved.’ – Mark Manson
‘I believe that a scientist looking at nonscientific problems is just as dumb as the next guy.’ – Richard P. Feynman
‘Globalization has much potential. It could be the answer to many of the world’s seemingly intractable problems. But this requires strong democratic foundations based on a political will to ensure equity and justice.’ – Sharan Burrow
‘If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.’ – Isaac Asimov
‘Child labor perpetuates poverty, unemployment, illiteracy, population growth, and other social problems.’ – Kailash Satyarthi
‘Every solution breeds new problems.’ – Arthur Bloch
‘The game of life is a lot like football. You have to tackle your problems, block your fears, and score your points when you get the opportunity.’ – Lewis Grizzard
‘You see a child play, and it is so close to seeing an artist paint, for in play a child says things without uttering a word. You can see how he solves his problems. You can also see what’s wrong. Young children, especially, have enormous creativity, and whatever’s in them rises to the surface in free play.’ – Erik Erikson
‘Science and technology are going to be the basis for many of the solutions to social problems.’ – Frances Arnold
‘The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world’s problems.’ – Mahatma Gandhi
‘You are priests, not social or political leaders. Let us not be under the illusion that we are serving the Gospel through an exaggerated interest in the wide field of temporal problems.’ – Pope John Paul II
‘The day is not far off when the economic problem will take the back seat where it belongs, and the arena of the heart and the head will be occupied or reoccupied, by our real problems – the problems of life and of human relations, of creation and behavior and religion.’ – John Maynard Keynes
‘Everything I did, all my actions, all of the problems I had I dedicate to God and to Chile, because I kept Chile from becoming Communist.’ – Augusto Pinochet
‘I am one of those people who believes that the solution to the world’s problems is to be found behind the Iron Curtain.’ – Che Guevara
‘Death solves all problems – no man, no problem.’ – Anatoly Rybakov
‘If you make every game a life and death proposition, you’re going to have problems. For one thing, you’ll be dead a lot.’ – Dean Smith
‘In a free society, government reflects the soul of its people. If people want change at the top, they will have to live in different ways. Our major social problems are not the cause of our decadence. They are a reflection of it.’ – Cal Thomas
‘We live in an age of innovation, where digital technology is providing solutions to problems before we’ve even realised we needed them. We see it every day as we find new ways to travel, eat and shop.’ – David Lidington
‘Privacy is one of the biggest problems in this new electronic age.’ – Andy Grove
‘There are two drawbacks to steroids, one is the potential problems with your health and the second one is it is very easy for people to dismiss everything you have put into it by saying, ‘yeah but he takes steroids.” – Dorian Yates
‘Run toward the hardest problems. This approach has helped me to learn a tremendous amount from both success and failure.’ – Lisa Su
‘If we live a self-directed, self-motivated, self-centered life, always needing to get our own way, then we’re going to be miserable. In fact, many times we believe it’s our problems that are making us unhappy when, in reality, it’s because we’re focused on ourselves!’ – Joyce Meyer
‘To resolve problems through negotiation is a very childish approach.’ – Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
‘Resilience can only form if we face, and learn how to be better equipped to manage, our problems.’ – Jo Frost
‘I can’t solve the world’s problems, can’t even begin to contemplate them all. But on my little corner of Earth, I at least can try to live in a way that treads lightly.’ – John Grogan
‘We can’t just rail against crime. We must speak of the root problems – devastating family breakup, an insidious culture of violence that cheapens human life, skyrocketing prisoner recidivism rates that rob our communities of husbands and fathers – and recognize that there is a societal role in rehabilitation and restoration.’ – Frank Wolf
‘I believe, as human beings, we sometimes indulge in self pity more than it’s necessary. Over my life’s journey, I have realised that overthinking about your problems and indulging in self-pity is not the answer to get through tough times.’ – Sonali Bendre
‘The way that we are going to solve social problems is by working with multiple different types of investing.’ – Laurene Powell Jobs
‘I believe in love at first sight. You want that connection, and then you want some problems.’ – Keanu Reeves
‘We only think when we are confronted with problems.’ – John Dewey
‘God will use whatever he wants to display his glory. Heavens and stars. History and nations. People and problems.’ – Max Lucado
‘We live in a world that is full of problems, and we are the solutions to those problems.’ – Julia Butterfly Hill
‘The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem.’ – Theodore Isaac Rubin
‘I think life on Earth must be about more than just solving problems… It’s got to be something inspiring, even if it is vicarious.’ – Elon Musk
‘We have no hope of solving our problems without harnessing the diversity, the energy, and the creativity of all our people.’ – Roger Wilkins
‘I was never the smartest guy in the room. From the first person I hired, I was never the smartest guy in the room. And that’s a big deal. And if you’re going to be a leader – if you’re a leader and you’re the smartest guy in the world – in the room, you’ve got real problems.’ – Jack Welch
‘A problem shared is a problem halved, but as with so many problems affecting women – periods, menopause, post-natal depression – we often feel embarrassed, as if we’re moaning or just plain wrong to air them.’ – Konnie Huq
‘Problems do not go away. They must be worked through or else they remain, forever a barrier to the growth and development of the spirit.’ – M. Scott Peck
‘Don’t get involved in partial problems, but always take flight to where there is a free view over the whole single great problem, even if this view is still not a clear one.’ – Ludwig Wittgenstein
‘Socialism is… not only a way of life, but a certain scientific approach to social and economic problems.’ – Jawaharlal Nehru
‘The type of stories I write are about young people grappling with the biggest problems in their lives, often problems that are bigger than they’re actually capable of solving.’ – Morris Gleitzman
‘We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.’ – Albert Einstein
‘I do not believe in excuses. I believe in hard work as the prime solvent of life’s problems.’ – James Cash Penney
‘It might seem unfair to reward a person for having so much pleasure over the years, asking the maize plant to solve specific problems and then watching its responses.’ – Barbara McClintock
‘The solution to adult problems tomorrow depends on large measure upon how our children grow up today.’ – Margaret Mead
‘What we usually consider as impossible are simply engineering problems… there’s no law of physics preventing them.’ – Michio Kaku
‘We can’t solve modern problems by going back in time. Retreating to the safety of the familiar is an understandable response, but God has called us to a life of faith. And faith requires us to face the unknown while trusting Him completely.’ – Charles R. Swindoll
‘Hacking involves a different way of looking at problems that no one’s thought of.’ – Walter O’Brien
‘There are big problems that change the world. If we are working together, that will make us understand each other, appreciate each other, help each other.’ – Jack Ma
‘The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.’ – Winston Churchill
‘My parents had some problems of their own that put me in a position of having to deal with very grown-up stuff at a very young age. I needed some help with that, therapy-wise.’ – Dakota Johnson
‘Democracy is finding proximate solutions to insoluble problems.’ – Reinhold Niebuhr
‘To make others less happy is a crime. To make ourselves unhappy is where all crime starts. We must try to contribute joy to the world. That is true no matter what our problems, our health, our circumstances. We must try. I didn’t always know this, and am happy I lived long enough to find it out.’ – Roger Ebert
‘If we really wish to put an end to our ongoing international and social problems we must eventually declare Earth and all of its resources as the common heritage of all the world’s people.’ – Jacque Fresco
‘Temporary solutions often become permanent problems.’ – Craig Bruce
‘I believe that global warming is a myth. And so, therefore, I have no conscience problems at all and I’m going to buy a Suburban next time.’ – Jerry Falwell
‘I take my forgetfulness in a positive stride because I also forget the problems.’ – Hina Khan
‘Throughout out history, when people have looked for new ways to solve their problems, and to uphold the principles of this nation, many times they have turned to political parties. They have often turned to the Democratic Party.’ – Barbara Jordan
‘I don’t have problems with people, because if I do, I address it.’ – Wiz Khalifa
‘Dictators cause the world’s worst problems: all the collapsed states, and all the devastated economies. All the vapid cases of corruption, grand theft, and naked plunder of the treasury are caused by dictators, leaving in their wake trails of wanton destruction, horrendous carnage and human debris.’ – George Ayittey
‘Only the family of God can solve the problems of our time.’ – James Meredith
‘Love and peace of mind do protect us. They allow us to overcome the problems that life hands us. They teach us to survive… to live now… to have the courage to confront each day.’ – Bernie Siegel
‘I’m not religious. I was as a child, and like lots of people, I suppose, rapidly became very disillusioned with the whole thing. I also feel that organised religion has caused far more problems than it has solved.’ – Natascha McElhone
‘We value seriousness and willingness to solve problems.’ – Abhijit Banerjee
‘The problems of aging present an opportunity to rethink our social and personal lives in order to ensure the dignity and welfare of each individual.’ – Daisaku Ikeda
‘Hunger and malnutrition have devastating consequences for children and have been linked to low birth weight and birth defects, obesity, mental and physical health problems, and poorer educational outcomes.’ – Marian Wright Edelman
‘For some students, especially in the sciences, the knowledge gained in college may be directly relevant to graduate study. For almost all students, a liberal arts education works in subtle ways to create a web of knowledge that will illumine problems and enlighten judgment on innumerable occasions in later life.’ – Derek Bok
‘Each problem that I solved became a rule, which served afterwards to solve other problems.’ – Rene Descartes
‘I remember when the Berlin Wall fell and suddenly intractable problems get solved.’ – Lucy Walker
‘If you believe, as the Greeks did, that man is at the mercy of the gods, then you write tragedy. The end is inevitable from the beginning. But if you believe that man can solve his own problems and is at nobody’s mercy, then you will probably write melodrama.’ – Lillian Hellman
‘A lot of the problems I had with fame I was bringing on myself. A lot of self-loathing, a lot of woe-is-me. Now I’m learning to see the positive side of things, instead of, like, ‘I can’t go to Kmart. I can’t take my kids to the haunted house.” – Eminem
‘Political theatre presents an entirely different set of problems. Sermonising has to be avoided at all cost. Objectivity is essential. The characters must be allowed to breathe their own air. The author cannot confine and constrict them to satisfy his own taste or disposition or prejudice.’ – Harold Pinter
‘Nuclear power is a young technology – there’s so much more to be discovered. That’s what makes it so exciting to me. Yes, there are problems, but innovative people are going to be able to come up with solutions and bring the technology to its full potential.’ – Leslie Dewan
‘We have no reason to expect the quality of intuition to improve with the importance of the problem. Perhaps the contrary: high-stake problems are likely to involve powerful emotions and strong impulses to action.’ – Daniel Kahneman
‘From the depth of need and despair, people can work together, can organize themselves to solve their own problems and fill their own needs with dignity and strength.’ – Cesar Chavez
‘The most creative people are motivated by the grandest of problems that are presented before them.’ – Neil deGrasse Tyson
‘A peaceful world requires collective measures for the prevention of war, international cooperation to solve economic and social problems, and respect for human rights.’ – Goran Persson
‘Factory farming is one of the biggest contributors to the most serious environmental problems. The meat industry causes more greenhouse gas emissions than all the cars, trucks, planes and ships in the world.’ – Joan Jett
‘All the mathematical sciences are founded on relations between physical laws and laws of numbers, so that the aim of exact science is to reduce the problems of nature to the determination of quantities by operations with numbers.’ – James C. Maxwell
‘Sometimes big problems are best solved with lots of small and creative solutions.’ – Ricardo Salinas Pliego
‘Some problems are so complex that you have to be highly intelligent and well informed just to be undecided about them.’ – Laurence J. Peter
‘From the point of view of being in the public radar, comedians have less problems than other actors. Action movie stars like Stallone or Schwarzenegger usually attract the more aggressive fans.’ – Robin Williams
‘People with problems are not problem people.’ – Kimberle Williams Crenshaw
‘As time goes by, people get to know you better. They pose problems for you, and you have to come up with solutions.’ – Pep Guardiola
‘A Negro woman has the same kind of problems as other women, but she can’t take the same things for granted.’ – Dorothy Height
‘Yet, despite our many advances, our environment is still threatened by a range of problems, including global climate change, energy dependence on unsustainable fossil fuels, and loss of biodiversity.’ – Dan Lipinski
‘You certainly can’t prevent all mental health problems – factors like genetics and traumatic life events certainly play a role. But everyone can take steps to improve their mental health and prevent further mental illness.’ – Amy Morin
‘Solving big problems is easier than solving little problems.’ – Sergey Brin
‘Being overweight and obesity are major risk factors for many chronic diseases for South Dakotans of all ages. When people are overweight or obese, they have more health problems and more serious health problems, in addition to higher health care costs.’ – Mike Rounds
‘The commentators of 1963 speak, in discussing Africa, of the Monrovia States, the Brazzaville Group, the Casablanca Powers, of these and many more. Let us put an end to these terms. What we require is a single African organisation through which Africa’s single voice may be heard, within which Africa’s problems may be studied and resolved.’ – Haile Selassie
‘Here’s to alcohol: the cause of, and answer to, all of life’s problems.’ – Matt Groening
‘Visionary people face the same problems everyone else faces; but rather than get paralyzed by their problems, visionaries immediately commit themselves to finding a solution.’ – Bill Hybels
‘Perhaps trying to move away from my problems and focus on the positive is the best I can do.’ – Jenni Rivera
‘These days the technology can solve our problems and then some. Solutions may not only erase physical or mental deficits but leave patients better off than ‘able-bodied’ folks. The person who has a disability today may have a superability tomorrow.’ – Daniel H. Wilson
‘You can’t talk your way out of problems you behave yourself into.’ – Stephen Covey
‘If I wished to do something, even if I couldn’t find anyone who wanted to make the effort with me, I would go out solo climbing. I did find solo climbing very challenging and a little frightening. You knew that you were completely on your own, and you had to overcome all the problems and possible dangers.’ – Edmund Hillary
‘Very early in life, it seemed to me that there was a relationship between the problems of the Negro people in America and the Jewish people in Russia, and that the Jewish people’s problems were worse than ours.’ – Langston Hughes
‘Among the difficulties I encountered, economic problems were the worst. I found that financial hardships could limit one’s ability to realize one’s dream, no matter how desperate and earnest you are.’ – Lee Hyeon-seo
‘We welcome the scrutiny of the world – because what you see in America is a country that has steadily worked to address our problems and make our union more perfect.’ – Barack Obama
‘I finally faced the fact that it isn’t a crime not having friends. Being alone means you have fewer problems.’ – Whitney Houston
‘Yes, women are stronger than us. They face more directly the problems that confront them, and for that reason they are much more spectacular to talk about. I don’t know why I am more interested in women, because I don’t go to any psychiatrists, and I don’t want to know why.’ – Pedro Almodovar
‘Problems can be experienced as… a chance for renewal rather than stress.’ – Marilyn Ferguson
‘Only the supernatural love of God through changed lives can solve the problems that we face in our world.’ – Billy Graham
‘Consensus isn’t just about agreement. It’s about changing things around: You get a proposal, you work something out, people foresee problems, you do creative synthesis. At the end of it, you come up with something that everyone thinks is okay. Most people like it, and nobody hates it.’ – David Graeber
‘The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them.’ – Antoine de Saint-Exupery
‘Problems are the outward signs of unused inner possibilities.’ – Rollo May
‘I don’t think anybody out there in the media, U.N., human rights organisations, has any moral right whatsoever to level any accusations against me or against Rwanda. Because, when it came to the problems facing Rwanda, and the Congo, they were all useless.’ – Paul Kagame
‘When I’m on the court, I feel all problems go away.’ – Kawhi Leonard
‘Problems only exist in the human mind.’ – Anthony de Mello
‘To be honest, I never, ever thought I’d ever do comedy. I was so frequently cast early on as a high-born young man with… ‘problems’ and, later, as a heavy, from black-hatted western villains to the corporate raider to bad cops.’ – Leslie Nielsen
‘Financial problems cause distress and loss of self-respect.’ – Joseph B. Wirthlin
‘People don’t want their lives fixed. Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. Their distractions. Their stories resolved. Their messed cleaned up. Because what would they have left? Just the big scary unknown.’ – Chuck Palahniuk
‘Don’t underestimate the power of your vision to change the world. Whether that world is your office, your community, an industry or a global movement, you need to have a core belief that what you contribute can fundamentally change the paradigm or way of thinking about problems.’ – Leroy Hood
‘Your problems never cease. They just change.’ – Phil Jackson
‘We want to do a lot of stuff; we’re not in great shape. We didn’t get a good night’s sleep. We’re a little depressed. Coffee solves all these problems in one delightful little cup.’ – Jerry Seinfeld
‘The most important and urgent problems of the technology of today are no longer the satisfactions of the primary needs or of archetypal wishes, but the reparation of the evils and damages by the technology of yesterday.’ – Dennis Gabor
‘When I look out at the people and they look at me and they’re smiling, then I know that I’m loved. That is the time when I have no worries, no problems.’ – Etta James
‘I am a thief of knowledge, and in a survival way, I had to solve all the problems around me.’ – Philippe Petit
‘To lose yourself in righteous service to others can lift your sights and get your mind off personal problems, or at least put them in proper focus.’ – Ezra Taft Benson
‘The slogan ‘press on’ has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.’ – Calvin Coolidge
‘Climate change is the Everest of all problems, the thorniest challenge facing humankind.’ – Lewis Gordon Pugh
‘Logic is the last scientific ingredient of Philosophy; its extraction leaves behind only a confusion of non-scientific, pseudo problems.’ – Rudolf Carnap
‘Instead of unfairly demonizing teachers, we should be working with them to find solutions to the problems in our schools and make sure every child gets an outstanding public education.’ – Albio Sires
‘Unlike presidential administrations, problems rarely have terminal dates.’ – Dwight D. Eisenhower
‘I was struggling with anorexia, and one of the biggest problems with an eating disorder is you don’t realize you have it. And you can’t heal until you realize there’s a problem.’ – Lindsey Stirling
‘We must uphold the fighting of tigers and flies at the same time, resolutely investigating law-breaking cases of leading officials and also earnestly resolving the unhealthy tendencies and corruption problems which happen all around people.’ – Xi Jinping
‘There’s one major difference between James Bond and me. He is able to sort out problems!’ – Sean Connery
‘There is no magic wand that can resolve our problems. The solution rests with our work and discipline.’ – Jose Eduardo dos Santos
‘I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the Scriptures, but with experiments, and demonstrations.’ – Galileo Galilei
‘Mission accomplished, we didn’t have any problems as far as violence goes.’ – Dr. Dre
‘I certainly don’t think of my life as a fairy tale. I think of myself as a modern, contemporary woman who has had to deal with all kinds of problems that many women today have to deal with.’ – Grace Kelly
‘Well everybody in Casablanca has problems. Yours may work out.’ – Humphrey Bogart
‘Everybody’s a mad scientist, and life is their lab. We’re all trying to experiment to find a way to live, to solve problems, to fend off madness and chaos.’ – David Cronenberg
‘As long as inequality and other social problems plague us, populists will try to exploit them.’ – Kofi Annan
‘The medical literature tells us that the most effective ways to reduce the risk of heart disease, cancer, stroke, diabetes, Alzheimer’s, and many more problems are through healthy diet and exercise. Our bodies have evolved to move, yet we now use the energy in oil instead of muscles to do our work.’ – David Suzuki
‘Avoid problems, and you’ll never be the one who overcame them.’ – Richard Bach
‘The real cure for our environmental problems is to understand that our job is to salvage Mother Nature. We are facing a formidable enemy in this field. It is the hunters… and to convince them to leave their guns on the wall is going to be very difficult.’ – Jacques Yves Cousteau
‘To deal with these problems – of world population and hunger, of peace, of energy and mineral resources, of environmental pollution, of poverty – we must broaden and deepen our knowledge of nature’s laws, and we must broaden and deepen our understanding of the laws of human behavior.’ – Herbert A. Simon
‘Increased physical activity during the school day can help children’s attention, classroom behavior, and achievement test scores. Meanwhile, the decline of play is closely linked to ADHD; behavioral problems; and stunted social, cognitive, and creative development.’ – Darell Hammond
‘Paris is cafe culture, Dublin is pub culture, and that’s the best place to solve all the world’s problems: over a pint! One of the great joys of living, I think. The problems of the world seem to disappear.’ – Liam Cunningham
‘People are increasingly realising that what they eat is important. You can’t put junk food in your body and be healthy. All sorts of problems can develop, like diabetes, heart disease, obesity, strokes. Gardening not only helps with exercise and mental health, but it can improve diet as well.’ – Monty Don
‘I hope we’ll be able to solve these problems before we leave.’ – Paul Erdos
‘If you have a common purpose and an environment in which people want to help others succeed, the problems will be fixed quickly.’ – Alan Mulally
‘Pure mathematicians just love to try unsolved problems – they love a challenge.’ – Andrew Wiles
‘Problems are only opportunities with thorns on them.’ – Hugh Miller
‘Robots have solved and will continue to solve so many human problems. Except for all the ones that they cause.’ – Hank Green
‘People are still thinking of solving problems by violence and war, and that has to stop.’ – Yoko Ono
‘The media cause more problems than they do good.’ – Chris Kyle
‘The problems of puzzles are very near the problems of life.’ – Erno Rubik
‘The benefits of having robots could vastly outweigh the problems.’ – Rodney Brooks
‘Working on problems and self-examination is a sign of strength.’ – Dana Reeve
‘Recast your current problems into proactive goals.’ – Suze Orman
‘If you come from mathematics, as I do, you realize that there are many problems, even classical problems, which cannot be solved by computation alone.’ – Roger Penrose
‘A lot of times, people think of Asian culture as some mythical world instead of modern people with modern occupations with modern problems, modern tools. Like, we’re not all just talking Taoism and kung fu – some people are just trying to get over their breakup with their boyfriend, and they’re Facebook-stalking.’ – Constance Wu
‘Sometimes, tax rate increases create the very problems that the spending is intended to cure. In other words, the tax rate increases reduce economic growth; they shrink the pie; they cause more poverty, more despair, more unemployment, which are all things government is trying to alleviate with spending.’ – Arthur Laffer
‘The three great problems of this century; the degradation of man in the proletariat, the subjection of women through hunger, the atrophy of the child by darkness.’ – Victor Hugo
‘I have a saying: There are no brave old people in finance. Because if you’re brave, you mostly get destroyed in your 30s and 40s. If you make it to your 50s and 60s and you’re still prospering, you have a very good sense of how to avoid problems and when to be conservative or aggressive with your investments.’ – Stephen A. Schwarzman
‘Through the right people focusing on the right things, we can, in time, get on top of a lot if not most of the problems of this world. And that’s what a number of us are trying to do.’ – Richard Branson
‘Art never harms itself by keeping aloof from the social problems of the day: rather, by so doing, it more completely realises for us that which we desire.’ – Oscar Wilde
‘Making people laugh is giving, and it’s healing, too, when people can go up to the movies and forget about their problems. It’s a good thing. That’s why I want to work.’ – Chris Tucker
‘A cardinal rule of politics is that if an issue has the potential to cause problems for a candidate, it is best to deal with it well before the election so the dust has time to settle.’ – Jo Becker
‘The solution of this country’s problems lies in black hands.’ – Winnie Madikizela-Mandela
‘I was just always the girl that people would come and talk to about their problems, and I still am.’ – Jennifer Aniston
‘I think beauty comes from within. If you’re happy and look at life in the best way you can, even when there are problems, it can make you beautiful on the outside.’ – Faith Hill
‘My brother is a genius. When we went to Italy, he was on the local television channel as a prodigy, who could solve very sophisticated mathematical equations. He was only seven or eight years old but he could solve mathematical problems for fourteen year olds.’ – Pavel Durov
‘Going to AA helped me to see that there were other people who had problems that had found a way to talk about them and find relief and humor through that.’ – Carrie Fisher
‘The great paradox of the 21st century is that, in this age of powerful technology, the biggest problems we face internationally are problems of the human soul.’ – Ralph Peters
‘For my part, I try to do my bit to make people’s lives more bearable, in particular children across the globe who are having problems.’ – Lionel Messi
‘The presidency has many problems, but boredom is the least of them.’ – Richard M. Nixon
‘In one sense, the stories I read betrayed me. Too few gave me back my mirror image. Fewer still spoke to, or acknowledged, the existence of the problems I faced as a black foster child from a dysfunctional and badly broken home.’ – Nikki Grimes
‘Must we wait for selection to solve the problems of overpopulation, exhaustion of resources, pollution of the environment and a nuclear holocaust, or can we take explicit steps to make our future more secure? In the latter case, must we not transcend selection?’ – B. F. Skinner
‘All the problems we face in the United States today can be traced to an unenlightened immigration policy on the part of the American Indian.’ – Pat Paulsen
‘It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.’ – Albert Einstein
‘I think one of the great problems we have in the Republican Party is that we don’t encourage you to be nasty. We encourage you to be neat, obedient, loyal and faithful and all those Boy Scout words, which would be great around a campfire but are lousy in politics.’ – Newt Gingrich
‘The gym was my sanctuary. The place where you could forget about all your worries, your problems, people asking you for money, people asking you to do this, do that.’ – Paul Pierce
‘We are all living together on a single planet, which is threatened by our own actions. And if you don’t have some kind of global cooperation, nationalism is just not on the right level to tackle the problems, whether it’s climate change or whether it’s technological disruption.’ – Yuval Noah Harari
‘Every challenge has its own unique problems.’ – Kiran Bedi
‘Art is for healing ourselves, and everybody needs their own personal art to heal up their problems.’ – Linda Ronstadt
‘I don’t have any problems in life, just situations.’ – Evel Knievel
‘In many parts of the world, a man’s accusing finger always finds a woman. But I think we need women to solve the problems that men create.’ – Khaled Hosseini
‘If everyone took personal responsibility for their animals, we wouldn’t have a lot of the animal problems that we do. I’m a big spay-and-neuter supporter. Don’t have babies if you’re not going to take care of those babies. We don’t need more. We just need to take care of the ones we have. Take responsibility and breathe kindness.’ – Betty White
‘Problems are the price you pay for progress.’ – Branch Rickey
‘One of the many problems with the American left has been its image as something rather too solemn, mirthless, herbivorous, dull, monochrome, righteous, and boring.’ – Christopher Hitchens
‘Problems are hidden opportunities, and constraints can actually boost creativity.’ – Martin Villeneuve
‘As the First World War made painfully clear, when politicians and generals lead nations into war, they almost invariably assume swift victory, and have a remarkably enduring tendency not to foresee problems that, in hindsight, seem obvious.’ – Adam Hochschild
‘U.S. Speedskating has been riddled with problems since when I started my career, and we were always able to look past that. When it came down to performing on the ice, regardless of funding issues, we were always able to make it happen. And that’s what it’s all about.’ – Apolo Ohno
‘Design is directed toward human beings. To design is to solve human problems by identifying them and executing the best solution.’ – Ivan Chermayeff
‘The environmental problems of developing countries are not the side effects of excessive industrialisation but reflect the inadequacy of development.’ – Indira Gandhi
‘You can sit back and point out the problems or you can address them and bring solutions to the table.’ – Scarface
‘All our environmental problems become easier to solve with fewer people and harder – and ultimately impossible to solve – with ever more people.’ – David Attenborough
‘No life is perfect; we all have our problems and issues, and I believe that it’s good to be true to who you are.’ – Liberty Ross
‘Miscommunication is the number one cause of all problems; communication is your bridge to other people. Without it, there’s nothing. So when it’s damaged, you have to solve all these problems it creates.’ – Earl Sweatshirt
‘I had noticed that many of these successful people, historical and contemporary, shared certain common traits. They had a way of thinking that was exceptionally fluid; they could adapt to almost any circumstance; when confronted with problems, they could look at them from novel perspectives and solve them.’ – Robert Greene
‘Unhealthy eating habits cause major health problems, such as diabetes and heart disease, and can also lead to food insecurity, disrupted eating patterns, and low self-esteem.’ – Matt Cartwright
‘When life is good and we have no problems, we can almost let ourselves believe we have no need for God. But in my experience, sometimes the richest blessings come through pain and hard things.’ – Anne Graham Lotz
‘Marriage is marriage. Everybody has problems.’ – Mel Gibson
‘My ideology was, if I just make very happy music, very happy music, then people will forget about whatever their problems are. I will forget about my problems.’ – Mac Miller
‘The economic and social problems would tend to become, like the military situation, more and more difficult as time went on and we became more and more isolated.’ – Eamon de Valera
‘Liquor prohibition led to the rise of organized crime in America, and drug prohibition has led to the rise of the gang problems we have now.’ – Drew Carey
‘We come to church not to hide our problems but to heal them.’ – Dieter F. Uchtdorf
‘If this Nation really wants to create an effective border security policy, we need to have a debate that includes a discussion about actual solutions to our problems, which means taking all of the political grandstanding and baiting out of the equation.’ – Raul Grijalva
‘The idea that we’re going to austerity ourselves into prosperity is so mistaken, and honestly, I feel like one of the big problems we have is that, because Democrats don’t have a deep understanding of or degrees in economics, they allow Wall Street folks to roll in the door and think that they’re giving them an education.’ – Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
‘Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will – his personal responsibility in the realm of faith and morals.’ – Albert Schweitzer
‘Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.’ – Ronald Reagan
‘For me, one of the major reasons to move beyond just the planting of trees was that I have tendency to look at the causes of a problem. We often preoccupy ourselves with the symptoms, whereas if we went to the root cause of the problems, we would be able to overcome the problems once and for all.’ – Wangari Maathai
”Deal or No Deal’ works nicely with my ADD/ADHD symptoms. I show up, meet the contestants, and move around the set. I’m not stuck behind a pedestal reading trivia questions. I’ve always had problems sitting still and listening for long periods of time. The show spares me these challenges. I can live in the moment. It’s like a standup act.’ – Howie Mandel
‘People who are prone to anxiety are nearly always people-pleasers who fear conflict and negative feelings like anger. When you feel upset, you sweep your problems under the rug because you don’t want to upset anyone. You do this so quickly and automatically that you’re not even aware you’re doing it.’ – David D. Burns
‘I love life. I love my friends. I love to eat. Too many things, I love. I am very much an anti-historical character. I am attracted to happy people. Happy people with very grave problems.’ – Lina Wertmuller
‘Philosophy: Unintelligible answers to insoluble problems.’ – Henry Adams
‘I’ve found that the people who play villains are the nicest people in the world, and people who play heroes are jerks. It’s like people who play villains work out all their problems on screen, and then they’re just really wonderful people.’ – Tim Burton
‘Japan actually is an aging population, and so as the population has aged, they have had a lot more problems with health.’ – Shigeru Miyamoto
‘I don’t go to church regular. But I pray for answers to my problems.’ – Loretta Lynn
‘Niger is not an isolated island of desperation. It lies within a sea of problems across Africa – particularly the ‘forgotten emergencies’ in poor countries or regions with little strategic or material appeal.’ – Desmond Tutu
‘We must keep on trying to solve problems, one by one, stage by stage, if not on the basis of confidence and cooperation, at least on that of mutual toleration and self-interest.’ – Lester B. Pearson
‘I think labels have been used alot during this election process to divide people, and at this point in time we really need people to come together, and be their own person, come with their own suggestions, and really solve the problems that we have facing this country.’ – Kristi Noem
‘Enter every activity without giving mental recognition to the possibility of defeat. Concentrate on your strengths, instead of your weaknesses… on your powers, instead of your problems.’ – Paul J. Meyer
‘The world’s biggest problems are the world’s biggest market opportunities. And that’s a huge thing. Solve hunger, literacy and energy problems, get the gratitude of the world and become a billionaire in the process.’ – Peter Diamandis
‘I’m not a big fan of psychoanalysis: I think if you have mental problems what you need are good pills. But I do think that if you have thinks that bother you, things that are unresolved, the more that you talk about them, write about them, the less serious they become.’ – Stephen King
‘I think different people have different problems and different relations to the exhibition of their work.’ – Richard Serra
‘If you ask the government to solve all of your problems, it’s a bit like asking your wife to cook and clean, to raise the children, to hold down a second job to help with the family finances, to keep her parents happy and well and keep your parents happy and well, and to also – to do the lawn and clean the gutters.’ – P. J. O’Rourke
‘Governments will always play a huge part in solving big problems. They set public policy and are uniquely able to provide the resources to make sure solutions reach everyone who needs them. They also fund basic research, which is a crucial component of the innovation that improves life for everyone.’ – Bill Gates
‘I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.’ – Tom Lehrer
‘There are metaphysical problems, problems of human existence, that philosophy has never known how to grasp in all their concreteness and that only the novel can seize.’ – Milan Kundera
‘Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.’ – Henry Ford
‘I think it’s really important that I’m not the only model in the world that goes through personal problems. People forget that we’re human. We don’t get to call in sick. You have to go and put on a smile. Every single day is a first impression, so you can’t have a bummed-out day.’ – Gigi Hadid
‘Doubt is to certainty as neurosis is to psychosis. The neurotic is in doubt and has fears about persons and things; the psychotic has convictions and makes claims about them. In short, the neurotic has problems, the psychotic has solutions.’ – Thomas Szasz
‘The United Nations is the preeminent institution of multilateralism. It provides a forum where sovereign states can come together to share burdens, address common problems, and seize common opportunities. The U.N. helps establish the norms that many countries – including the United States – would like everyone to live by.’ – Shashi Tharoor
‘Engineers like to solve problems. If there are no problems handily available, they will create their own problems.’ – Scott Adams
‘When I was born, I was effectively dead. Weird, I know. The doctors couldn’t get any reaction from me, so I had to be brought round, and although it seemed like I was okay, there were underlying problems.’ – Liam Payne
‘I sincerely believe that no problem is bigger than man, and problems are blown out of proportion by man himself.’ – Kajol
‘Nothing is as dangerous in architecture as dealing with separated problems. If we split life into separated problems we split the possibilities to make good building art.’ – Alvar Aalto
‘Comedy just pokes at problems, rarely confronts them squarely. Drama is like a plate of meat and potatoes, comedy is rather the dessert, a bit like meringue.’ – Woody Allen
‘Life is a mountain of solvable problems, and I enjoy that.’ – James Dyson
‘Usually the first problems you solve with the new paradigm are the ones that were unsolvable with the old paradigm.’ – Joel A. Barker
‘One of the great problems with Americans is that – being a decent people – they assume that everyone else is equally decent.’ – Meir Kahane
‘I think life is full of challenges and problems. I don’t believe that anyone is perfect. We all make mistakes. It’s not a bed of roses, and you have to work real hard at it.’ – Nigel Mansell
‘It is our Party’s unshakeable stand to prevent a new war from breaking out on the Korean peninsula and accelerate economic construction in a peaceful environment, thus resolving at an early date the problems related with the people’s livelihood.’ – Kim Jong-un
‘Most of man’s problems upon this planet, in the long history of the race, have been met and solved either partially or as a whole by experiment based on common sense and carried out with courage.’ – Frances Perkins
‘The problems of language here are really serious. We wish to speak in some way about the structure of the atoms. But we cannot speak about atoms in ordinary language.’ – Werner Heisenberg
‘My very sassy, older southern sister is very quick to point out that it’s a luxury that my daughter gets to come to work with me. She does, and I have lunch with her every single day. My mom says I have ‘high class problems.” – Angela Kinsey
‘I’ve learned by hanging out in Hollywood, where I disagree politically with most people, that most people’s hearts are in the right place, and the only thing we have to argue about is the way to solve the problems.’ – Tom Selleck
‘Every university has its problems. The issues range from lack of amenities, plagiarism, poor quality research, sexual harassment, faculty moonlighting, and faulty and biased recruitment.’ – Sanjaya Baru
‘Another hero was Tom Swift, in the books. What he stood for, the freedom, the scientific knowledge and being and engineer gave him the ability to invent solutions to problems. He’s always been a hero to me. I buy old Tom Swift books now and read them to my own children.’ – Steve Wozniak
‘You need to decide what problems, what opportunities, what projects you’re going to work on.’ – Fred L. Turner
‘Folks are really tired of this rabid division between Republicans and Democrats. Folks want people to come together and solve the problems and the challenges of America.’ – Bev Perdue
‘Most organizations see young people as problems to be solved. We see young people as problem-solvers.’ – Craig Kielburger
‘It’s not the people in the South who create racial problems – it’s the people who are governing.’ – Nat King Cole
‘Pheu Thai has to find prominent party leaders that can solve the problems of the country now. If we can find those types of people, then we can win. There are many good people in Thailand but we have to recruit them.’ – Thaksin Shinawatra
‘These poets (fans of whatever) should be contacting other young poets on their way – not those who have made it, who sit on a star and then have plenty of problems: usually no money, usually the fear their own writing is going down the sink hole.’ – Anne Sexton
‘I am a drinker with writing problems.’ – Brendan Behan
‘I believe that Christianity in the United States has been dragging its feet, and I don’t think there’s any other force in America that has been more detrimental to the solution of our racial problems than Christianity.’ – Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.
‘I find that the three major administrative problems on a campus are sex for the students, athletics for the alumni and parking for the faculty.’ – Clark Kerr
‘You’ve gotta motivate kids. They wanna grow up. They got problems. You’ve gotta give ’em that music to make ’em feel like they’re OK, and it’s only a couple of artists that do that.’ – Travis Scott
‘Many Latino kids should become scientists because we need scientists all over the world from all different backgrounds. We have many tough problems, and we need everybody’s help to solve the problems.’ – Mario J. Molina
‘The problems of the world cannot possibly be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need men who can dream of things that never were.’ – John F. Kennedy
‘We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on.’ – Richard P. Feynman
‘Companies with cultures that celebrate diverse opinions and encourage the exchange of ideas have an advantage when solving difficult problems. A company that doesn’t is at a clear disadvantage.’ – Doug McMillon
‘My philosophy has always been to try to solve problems with a smile on my face.’ – Roberto Carlos
‘That’s why I want to change Mississippi. You don’t run away from problems – you just face them.’ – Fannie Lou Hamer
‘Today the fate of humankind is even more crucially linked than ever before. The boundaries between the problems of ‘others’ and ‘our’ problems are being increasingly erased.’ – Janez Drnovsek
‘The chief cause of problems is solutions.’ – Eric Sevareid
‘Bridges represent archetypal problems. They are artifacts that bring you across or around an obstacle. So they have an unbelievable force.’ – Santiago Calatrava
‘If human beings are perceived as potentials rather than problems, as possessing strengths instead of weaknesses, as unlimited rather that dull and unresponsive, then they thrive and grow to their capabilities.’ – Barbara Bush
‘I believe in both my right and my responsibility to work to create a world that doesn’t glorify violence and war but where we seek different solutions to our common problems.’ – Jody Williams
‘One of the embarrassing problems for the early nineteenth-century champions of the Christian faith was that not one of the first six Presidents of the United States was an orthodox Christian.’ – Mortimer Adler
‘There’s different problems to face every day, man.’ – NLE Choppa
‘Mostly the problems when I was down were caused by myself. There were times when I was not responsible enough or decisive enough.’ – Novak Djokovic
‘Boxing is for the poor man. A lot of people don’t know what’s going on, but I’ve been able to see it first-hand, and if I can speak out on the behalf of fighters going through problems, I will, because… it’s important to create awareness. Everyone should speak up. Because if people are aware, maybe there can be change.’ – Mikey Garcia
‘If we have any hope for survival of the music that we all love, compassion must replace name-calling, fairness must replace greed, and we need to come together as a musical community and try to understand each other’s problems.’ – John Mellencamp
‘Fortunately, problems are an everyday part of our life. Consider this: If there were no problems, most of us would be unemployed.’ – Zig Ziglar
‘I’ve never believed in dieting, but there are people out there who have problems. My advice would be don’t ever stop yourself to a point where you start craving something, because you end up bingeing. I think the key word is moderation.’ – Shilpa Shetty
‘One of the problems in the biotech world is the lack of women in leadership roles, and I’d like to see that change by walking the walk.’ – Jennifer Doudna
‘One of the problems with defending free speech is you often have to defend people that you find to be outrageous and unpleasant and disgusting.’ – Salman Rushdie
‘Growth is essential and must be sustained. But rapid growth alone cannot address the problems arising out of continuing disparities. Tackling these is not just a matter of social justice but, more importantly, an existential necessity and a moral imperative.’ – Sonia Gandhi
‘Everybody’s got problems, and if you’re gonna leave somebody because they have problems, you’re gonna be alone for a long time.’ – Darius Rucker
‘I love to have battles of the wits with people that can dish fast and dirty – and it leads to problems occasionally, ’cause I can sound mean without attempting to be mean.’ – Alton Brown
‘The animation of the canvas is one of the hardest problems of painting.’ – Alfred Sisley
‘What I try to do is factor in how people use computers, what people’s problems are, and how these technologies can get applied to those problems. Then I try to direct the various product groups to act on this information.’ – John Warnock
‘I think in most relationships that have problems, there’s fault on both sides. And in order for it to work, there has to be some common ground that’s shared. And it’s not just one person making amends.’ – Steve Carell
‘I believe we create a lot of problems in our relationships if we don’t feel safe to talk about our feelings at the speed of life.’ – Karen Salmansohn
‘Man is important in one sense only. He was made in the image of God: That is his importance. He is not important for his body, ego, or personality. His constant affirmation of ego-consciousness is the source of all his problems.’ – Paramahansa Yogananda
‘She has great problems of her own to solve, very grim and perilous problems, and a right solution, if we can attain to it, would largely benefit mankind.’ – Henry Cabot Lodge
‘People in this room must have back problems, I’m sure some of us do, and it is really, really one of the worst pains and debilitating parts of your body that you can actually have because you really can’t do anything in your life when you have it.’ – Greg Norman
‘In California, there are huge problems because of dams. I’m against big dams, per se, because I think that they are economically unfeasible. They’re ecologically unsustainable. And they’re hugely undemocratic.’ – Arundhati Roy
‘People think stars never have any problems or cares. That’s bull. Why would we show any more than one mask to the public. There’s a whole lotta things I’ve done that I don’t want to think about. But I bring it all right out when I need it for a role.’ – Vanity
‘I went into hospital with left-side weakness and speech problems and was diagnosed with a stroke. And then I was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis.’ – Kadeena Cox
‘Violence and arms can never resolve the problems of men.’ – Pope John Paul II
‘I play fictitious characters often solving fictitious problems. I believe mankind has looked at climate change in the same way, as if it were a fiction.’ – Leonardo DiCaprio
‘I’m also very proud to be a part of a trilogy of films that, if they do nothing else, allow people to check their problems at the door, sit down and have a good time.’ – Michael J. Fox
‘Realistically, my favorite thing really is going out and seeing the different problems that people have in different geographical areas. Not just from a standpoint of the area that they may be in or the city they may be in but the different kind of car culture or motorcycle culture there is.’ – Richard Rawlings
‘Let’s shine a bright light on our problems and run into the light.’ – Glenn Youngkin
‘Everybody has problems. Everyone has issues.’ – Ann Romney
‘Rio is an energetic, vibrant place, full of beauty and nature. But we face the kinds of problems any developing metropolis does – with pollution, traffic congestion, poverty. Distribution of green areas, for example, is not uniform. Madureira, the heart of the suburb in Rio, is a concrete jungle.’ – Eduardo Paes
‘One of the biggest problems that Egypt faces is the lack of border security – the importation of weapons on their way to Gaza, for example, coming out of Sudan.’ – Hillary Clinton
‘There are no makeovers in my books. The ugly duckling does not become a beautiful swan. She becomes a confident duck able to take charge of her own life and problems.’ – Maeve Binchy
‘Our problems stem from our childhood. Ray was, for so long, the only boy. Then I arrive and take all his limelight away from him. That must have quite a profound effect. I sometimes think that Ray was only happy for three-and-a-half years in his life. And those were the three-and-a-half years before I was born.’ – Dave Davies
‘The man who has no problems is out of the game.’ – Elbert Hubbard
‘Each year has been so robust with problems and successes and learning experiences and human experienes that a year is a lifetime at Apple. So this has been ten lifetimes.’ – Steve Jobs
‘As we take our places in the General Assembly and at the Council meetings, let us begin all our work in the name of God, for the solution of all our problems is a spiritual one.’ – Warren R. Austin
‘My mother grew up with each of her children – whatever your age, that’s the age she’d be when she listened to your stories. She never belittled our problems. It made for something permanent and reliable.’ – Esther Rolle
‘I love living. I have some problems with my life, but living is the best thing they’ve come up with so far.’ – Neil Simon
‘I always make things worse than they are or create problems that aren’t there. And going and doing some simple task becomes a problem. I start imagining problems that aren’t there. What people are going to think, who’s going to judge me and am I going to be good enough? Am I worthy?’ – Dale Earnhardt Jr.
‘Populism has had as many incarnations as it has had provocations, but its constant ingredient has been resentment, and hence whininess. Populism does not wax in tranquil times; it is a cathartic response to serious problems. But it always wanes because it never seems serious as a solution.’ – George Will
‘Human beings should be held accountable. Leave God alone. He has enough problems.’ – Elie Wiesel
‘It is foolish to claim, as some do, that emigration into space offers a long-term escape from Earth’s problems. Nowhere in our solar system offers an environment even as clement as the Antarctic or the top of Everest.’ – Martin Rees
‘You come in to work, put that game face on, leave your problems at home, stay strong.’ – Malik Jackson
‘One of my main problems with Mox is that he didn’t use his popularity or social media with all of his followers and everything to put over places that he used to be at or people he used to run with.’ – Eddie Kingston
‘Problems can become opportunities when the right people come together.’ – Robert South
‘Television and radio do a wonderful job in focusing attention on the problems of our society.’ – Richard J. Daley
‘A guy digging ditches or a plumber wiping joints – it solves problems, you know? You have to dig this hole so wide, so long, so deep. You dig it, and that’s it.’ – Lee Marvin
‘I don’t see things from a worm’s perspective but a bird’s perspective. I smile at problems.’ – Manisha Koirala
‘Kids who are nine, 10 and 11 are pretty sophisticated readers; they know that there isn’t always a good outcome every time and that problems don’t always have solutions.’ – Morris Gleitzman
‘People all over the world have problems. And as long as people have problems, the blues can never die.’ – B. B. King
‘Money is always the least of the problems. It is finding the right business or growing the right business. You can’t do that without the right people.’ – Christoffel Wiese
‘In Italy, football is too important. There is more pressure on coaches, teams, directors. Now is not a good moment for football in Italy. The stadiums are not full. There are problems with violence; it’s very difficult with the ultras. People don’t go to the stadium just to enjoy 90 minutes of football. People go to the stadium to fight, to win.’ – Carlo Ancelotti
‘Every cinematographer I worked with had his own way of solving problems.’ – Conrad Hall
‘Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.’ – Albert Einstein
‘For all its problems, I found South Africa a beautiful country, interesting and inspiring.’ – David Harewood
‘Even when you’re successful, even when you win the game, about an hour after the game, you have a litany of things that you now deal with that are problematic… So the times that you are happy are minute compared to the time that you’re dealing with problems.’ – Bill Parcells
‘Ignorance is my least favorite thing. I really think it’s at the core of all our problems.’ – Naomi Judd
‘I’m sick of people sittin’ in chairs stating their problems. Then we roll the videotape… then we have our experts on the topic… I’m in the ‘What’s next?’ phase of my career.’ – Oprah Winfrey
‘I had big problems with stage fright in the past. I think, slowly, as I’ve gotten better at it, I’ve started to enjoy it. It’s made me a more confident person in my normal life. I can open up and be myself in situations that used to be abject terror.’ – Tycho
‘Usually music is used to hide a film’s problems.’ – Michael Haneke
‘As writers, we must keep throwing problems at our characters. Conflict is the heart of good storytelling. Hiking in nature along a twisting trail can remind us what a good story feels like. It’s the opposite of a treadmill – or an interstate highway.’ – Kate Klise
‘I do hope that ‘Interstellar’ and this kind of science in film will catch the public fancy and help to reignite an interest in science – and a respect for the power of science in dealing with the problems that society has to deal with.’ – Kip Thorne
‘The hardest problems of pure and applied science can only be solved by the open collaboration of the world-wide scientific community.’ – Kenneth G. Wilson
‘The books are like children in that having written one doesn’t make writing the next one any easier, because it’s a new set of problems and a new set of challenges with each one, and having dealt with one before means that you now know how to do it.’ – Dara Horn
‘Many people identify their sense of self with the problems they have, or think they have.’ – Eckhart Tolle
‘Mental health is such a complex thing and so difficult to diagnose. What is a mental problem? Who does have mental problems? What’s the difference between mental problems and depression and sadness?’ – Tom Sturridge
‘A great deal of stupidity has chipped away at the massive advantages of Western civilization, which could terminally decline if it remains on the current path. But these problems can be solved – and swiftly – if the right leaders emerge.’ – Paul Singer
‘Occupying my mind with complex problems has been my best and most powerful and most reliable defense against my mental illness.’ – Elyn Saks
‘Winning covers a multitude of sins. If you play bad and you still win, everyone says that’s the sign of a good ballclub. But when you play bad and you lose, all of a sudden you have problems and everyone wants to know why.’ – B. J. Armstrong
‘I went to Africa without the perspective of a balance between teaching people the truth, which has been my calling, and helping people who have physical problems, like AIDS and orphans and hunger.’ – Bruce Wilkinson
‘It is quite an illusion to imagine that one adjusts to reality essentially without the use of language and that language is merely an incidental means of solving specific problems of communication or reflection.’ – Edward Sapir
‘One of our problems is the culture of Brazil which focuses on men’s football. Of course we would like to change that. Maybe one day we will have a strong competitive league instead of our women footballers always having to play abroad.’ – Marta
‘I collect a lot of cursed objects. That’s probably why I have a lot of problems.’ – Zak Bagans
‘Each Warrior wants to leave the mark of his will, his signature, on important acts he touches. This is not the voice of ego but of the human spirit, rising up and declaring that it has something to contribute to the solution of the hardest problems, no matter how vexing!’ – Pat Riley
‘It’s not okay to be fat – not because of the way you look, but because it’s unhealthy. I have experienced hormonal problems, bad skin, immense laziness, and back and knee pain. It’s not fine to be too fat or too thin! Anything in extremes is wrong. I am afraid of putting on weight because I don’t want to develop health problems.’ – Sonam Kapoor
‘Most zombie stories, the problems they solve are not the actual zombies. The problems they solve are the human interactions.’ – Stephen Graham Jones
‘Technology causes problems as well as solves problems. Nobody has figured out a way to ensure that, as of tomorrow, technology won’t create problems. Technology simply means increased power, which is why we have the global problems we face today.’ – Jared Diamond
‘If you look hard at it, if you look hard at the bleeding heart attitude to always throw money at issues, throw money at problems, what you’re in fact probably saying is you’re exercising a prejudicism of low expectations.’ – Andrew Forrest
‘I choose optimism. I hope to be a catalyst not only by providing financial resources but also by fostering a sense of possibility: encouraging top experts to collaborate across disciplines, challenge conventional thinking, and figure out ways to overcome some of the world’s hardest problems.’ – Paul Allen
‘I just happen to believe that people are not stupid. And the way I will come at it is to educate people, help people to actually understand that it is that progressive movement that is causing them the problems.’ – Ben Carson
‘The politicians are all useless individuals. Nobody is reducing the problems in the U.S. or Europe, just putting on a Band-Aid and postponing the problems endlessly.’ – Marc Faber
‘I apply the term ‘creativity’ broadly… it’s problem solving. We are all faced with problems, and we have to address them and think of something new, and that’s where creativity comes in.’ – Edwin Catmull
‘We are constantly being put to the test by trying circumstances and difficult people and problems not necessarily of our own making.’ – Terry Brooks
‘One of the biggest problems in literature is the lack of subtlety.’ – Mo Yan
‘Hope lies in having more faith in the power of God to heal us than in the power of anything to hurt or destroy us. In realizing that as children of God we are bigger than our problems, we have the power at last to confront them.’ – Marianne Williamson
‘Costa Rica believes in building bridges, in looking for solutions to problems, and not clinging to positions.’ – √ìscar Arias
‘Employers and business leaders need people who can think for themselves – who can take initiative and be the solution to problems.’ – Stephen Covey
‘There are many problems, but I think there is a solution to all these problems; it’s just one, and it’s education.’ – Malala Yousafzai
‘As long as they are medicated the right way with the asthma medicine they won’t have any problems.’ – Dominique Wilkins
‘The importance of certain problems concerning the facts will be inherent in the structure of the system.’ – Talcott Parsons
‘I believe that when you find problems, you should also find solutions.’ – Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
‘The most terrible fear that anybody should have is not war, is not a disease, not cancer or heart problems or food poisoning – it’s a man or a woman without a sense of humor.’ – Jonathan Winters
‘Illness and problems are the specialties of life. But the death of a child is a cause of mental agony which can be overcome if one concedes this world to be a stage or stadium wherein praiseworthy are those who are not proud of their achievement and those who do not cry at their defeat.’ – Munshi Premchand
‘There’s nothing in your life or in our collective problems that does not require our ability to put our attention where we care about. At the end of our lives, all we have is our attention and our time.’ – Tristan Harris
‘The gateways to wisdom and learning are always open, and more and more I am choosing to walk through them. Barriers, blocks, obstacles, and problems are personal teachers giving me the opportunity to move out of the past and into the Totality of Possibilities.’ – Louise L. Hay
‘We had problems like all families but we had a lot of love. I was extremely loved. We always felt we had each other.’ – Jim Carrey
‘Violence is a problem we all want to solve. I want to make sure that kids learn to deal with anger by learning how to talk with people to solve problems. Here in the United States Senate I want to make sure we have safe schools, safe neighborhoods and good things for kids to do after school!’ – Patty Murray
‘People don’t want to suffer. They want to sound good immediately, and this is one of the biggest problems in the world.’ – Steve Lacy
‘As part of our renewal – we need to fight problems, not just wait for them to take place.’ – Nong Duc Manh
‘If you’re having problems with someone on the Internet, simply block the person and move on. And if you do want to meet people from online, make sure you do your research to make sure you’re talking to the person you want to be talking to.’ – KSI
‘People don’t realize that we, we meaning people in show business, have the same problems as everyone else. Money doesn’t change that. Fame doesn’t change that. Sometimes that brings on more problems. You know, it’s just a different kind of problems.’ – Dolly Parton
‘Immersing myself in Shakespeare’s plays, reading them closely under the guidance of a brilliant, plain-spoken professor changed my life: It opened up the great questions; it put my petty problems into perspective. It got me out of bed in the mornings and kept me in the library late into the night.’ – Jhumpa Lahiri
‘My father worked hard, but we were still very poor; and I didn’t want anybody arguing about money, so I became the entertainer – the one who wanted everyone to be happy. I didn’t want there to be any problems.’ – Diana Ross
‘Life becomes inspiring, not in spite of the problems and the hard hits, but because of them.’ – Joni Eareckson Tada
‘You look at the large problems that we face – that would be overpopulation, water shortages, global warming and AIDS, I suppose – all of that needs international cooperation to be solved.’ – Molly Ivins
‘Peer mediation is a chance for students to work with other students to help them resolve problems, arguments, disagreements without having to get the teacher or the administration involved.’ – Janet Reno
‘A healthy diet is a solution to many of our health-care problems. It’s the most important solution.’ – John Mackey
‘In my own life, I have no problems letting out a good scream.’ – Sofia Vergara
‘My joy in life is not because I have not had any problems. I have joy because I have learned there is nothing too great for God’s power to deal with, nor anything too small or insignificant for His love to be concerned about.’ – Josh McDowell
‘To me poverty, mental health, and addictions don’t sound like criminal justice problems. They sound to me like a social justice problem.’ – Jagmeet Singh
‘Physics is becoming so unbelievably complex that it is taking longer and longer to train a physicist. It is taking so long, in fact, to train a physicist to the place where he understands the nature of physical problems that he is already too old to solve them.’ – Eugene Wigner
‘When I introduced a black soldier, Lt. Flap, in 1971, the Stars and Stripes banned the strip. They were having racial problems and thought it would increase the tensions.’ – Mort Walker
‘Problems or successes, they all are the results of our own actions. Karma. The philosophy of action is that no one else is the giver of peace or happiness. One’s own karma, one’s own actions are responsible to come to bring either happiness or success or whatever.’ – Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
‘Fish are a renewable resource, and one of the problems we’ve had is people feel obliged to catch the limit, then throw ’em in the garbage can.’ – Norman Schwarzkopf
‘Business ethics has always had problems that are distinct from those of other professions, such as medicine, law, engineering, dentistry, or nursing.’ – Peter Singer
‘GMOs are linked to digestive problems, among other things. Antibiotics and growth hormone are other additives being excessively pumped into the animals we are eating, which means we’re then consuming these excess antibiotics and hormones. And some processed foods actually contain toxic chemicals, often used to prevent spoilage and enhance flavor.’ – Kristin Cavallari
‘Problems in our country haven’t been caused by Donald Trump, America and its ambitions or CIA spies. Our problems are rooted in a bad government system, the lack of free elections, independent courts and freedom of speech.’ – Ksenia Sobchak
‘Lebanon, of course, is a country with great problems. Traditionally, they have religious-national groups or ethnic-national groups. They have the Druses. Even the two Moslem sects, the Sunnis and the Shiites, are apart. Then they have the armed groups. Everybody’s got a private army.’ – Menachem Begin
‘I have all sorts of problems and feel discouraged.’ – Camille Claudel
‘We refuse to recognize problems of form, but only problems of building. Form is not the aim of our work, but only the result. Form, by itself, does not exist. Form as an aim is formalism; and that we reject.’ – Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
‘Shakespeare did not consider himself the legislator of mankind. He faithfully records man’s problems and does not evidently propose to solve them.’ – Allan Bloom
‘Take your mind off the problems for a moment, and focus on the positive possibilities. Consider how very much you are able to do.’ – Ralph Marston
‘If your goal is anything but profitability – if it’s to be big, or to grow fast, or to become a technology leader – you’ll hit problems.’ – Michael Porter
‘In top-down processing, which is normally what we do in psychotherapy, we talk about our problems, our symptoms, or our relationships. And then the therapist often tries to get the client to feel what they’re feeling when they talk about those kinds of things.’ – Peter A. Levine
‘Not to sound bad, but some girls are dumb. It’s because they spend so much of their life trying to have the right look. On the other hand, some girls are just really smart. There are girls you can have conversations with that are healthy conversations. You can argue real life issues and solve problems together. That is what makes a woman sexy.’ – Wale
‘Creativity is bound up in our ability to find new ways around old problems.’ – Martin Seligman
‘Throughout the country, I see the same design problems and solutions over and over.’ – Douglas Wilson
‘When we see the shadow on our images, are we seeing the time 11 minutes ago on Mars? Or are we seeing the time on Mars as observed from Earth now? It’s like time travel problems in science fiction. When is now; when was then?’ – Bill Nye
‘The problems of rebellious youth can be traced to homes where the mother disobeyed the father or showed lack of respect for his authority.’ – Helen Andelin
‘When I was in school, I liked math because all the problems had answers. Everything else seemed very subjective.’ – Lisa Randall
‘Meat is a mighty contributor to climate change and other environmental problems. The amount of meat we’re eating is one of the leading causes of climate change. It’s as important as the kind of car you drive – whether you eat meat a lot or how much meat you eat.’ – Michael Pollan
‘I would like to see a lot of people more involved in practical solutions to practical problems. Women have got to the point where we can turn the world upside down.’ – Obiageli Ezekwesili
‘Let me just say that to imagine racism does not exist is imagination. And to imagine that it does not create its own set of problems is true imagination. So let’s not imagine that racism is gone, extinguished, because it’s not. We are seeing this in the top levels of the political arena, and we are seeing it very, very plainly.’ – Phylicia Rashad
‘I had physical disabilities as a kid. I had fine gross motor problems, so I didn’t have natural dexterity in my hands. I also wore corrective braces on my legs, like in ‘Forrest Gump.” – Apollo Robbins
‘The gay community has taken care of their issues and problems in terms of HIV/AIDS. They have done an incredible job. We as heterosexuals need to learn from the gay community because they have rallied together. They have sent a lot of information out there. They go get tested.’ – Magic Johnson
‘One of the most important tools in critical thinking about numbers is to grant yourself permission to generate wrong answers to mathematical problems you encounter. Deliberately wrong answers!’ – Daniel Levitin
‘One of the problems of modern society, or the post-Internet age, is that there are so many things bombarding us that we could care about. I think it’s more important than ever to really get clear and focus on what’s worth caring about and what’s just noise or distraction.’ – Mark Manson
‘For four years, Barack Obama has been running from the nation’s problems. He hasn’t been working to earn reelection. He’s been working to earn a spot on the PGA tour.’ – Mitch McConnell
‘Unfortunately, the real focus in this country has not been on the rest of the world. It’s been on our own issues and our own problems. Fair enough. But it means that our simple hopes that everything will just work out abroad aren’t really coming to pass.’ – Jeffrey Sachs
‘Science literacy is the artery through which the solutions of tomorrow’s problems flow.’ – Neil deGrasse Tyson
‘Do I worry about being in the public eye and raising kids? Yeah. Any situation you’re in, you’re gonna worry about raising kids. But it’s champagne problems, too. There are people who can’t feed their kids.’ – Kanye West
‘Instead of blaming everyone and everything else for your problems, pray for God to help you take an inventory of what’s been on your mind so you can think about what you’ve been thinking about.’ – Joyce Meyer
‘There are problems with nursing – such as the issue of nurses all having to do degrees these days. But that doesn’t mean to say the entire infrastructure of nursing is falling about and that it is populated by unfeeling psychopaths, which is, frankly, the implication sometimes.’ – Jo Brand
‘Everyone has the same kind of fears; everyone has the same big problems in the world, which is, like, fear of death and ‘I hope horrible things don’t happen to my family,’ but they do. And I think people laugh at them as this great release.’ – Anthony Jeselnik
‘Courage means to keep working a relationship, to continue seeking solutions to difficult problems, and to stay focused during stressful periods.’ – Denis Waitley
‘The dumb-manager theory of business problems just didn’t hold water for me. There had to be a deeper reason why smart people would make decisions that lead to failure.’ – Clayton M. Christensen
‘To devise an information processing system capable of getting along on its own – it must handle its own problems of programming, bookkeeping, communication and coordination with its users. It must appear to its users as a single, integrated personality.’ – Cliff Shaw
‘Maybe it’s like becoming one with the cigar. You lose yourself in it; everything fades away: your worries, your problems, your thoughts. They fade into the smoke, and the cigar and you are at peace.’ – Raul Julia
‘There are more crime films about the corruption of power because our society has similar problems. It would be great for me as an actor to work on an ‘Inside Men’ sequel, but I hope it never gets made. Because it would mean the corruption is still there.’ – Lee Byung-hun
‘Non-alignment will continue to be the fundamental basis of our approach to world problems and our relations with other countries.’ – Lal Bahadur Shastri
‘The exciting results from the Hubble, other satellites and probes would not have been possible without innovative solutions to many technical problems.’ – Nancy Roman
‘The solutions to Africa’s problems lie in Africa, not in Live Aid concerts.’ – George Ayittey
‘Common sense tells us that the government’s attempts to solve large problems more often create new ones. Common sense also tells us that a top-down, one-size-fits-all plan will not improve the workings of a nationwide health-care system that accounts for one-sixth of our economy.’ – Sarah Palin
‘Everyone just talks about the problems our teenage girls are facing and what they’re dealing with. But there was, to me, a void in how they were being served or helped. I thought, ‘Wow, I’d love to create something.” – Elizabeth Berkley
‘Had the Hebrews not been disturbed in their progress a thousand and more years ago, they would have solved all the great problems of civilization which are being solved now under all the difficulties imposed by the spirit of the Middle Ages.’ – Isaac Mayer Wise
‘There are some common problems in the Balkans in the settlement of which Bulgaria should also participate.’ – Todor Zhivkov
‘Corruption, money laundering, and tax evasion are global problems, not just challenges for developing countries.’ – Sri Mulyani Indrawati
‘I dismiss personal profit and focus exclusively on people and planet. That’s what I call social business: a nondividend company dedicated to solving human problems. You can go all the way, forgetting about personal profit, being single-minded about solving problems. The company makes profit, but profit stays with the company.’ – Muhammad Yunus
‘Everywhere in the world, whether manufacturing, trade or whatever, it is controlled by one apparatus and one policy perspective. Here we have one prime minister with good intentions, and six ministries running their own empires. This creates problems including the import culture.’ – Baba Kalyani
‘I don’t think I have accuracy problems. I do think when my feet aren’t set, I deliver a different type of ball.’ – Josh Allen
‘I am told by others that I have a lateral-thinking, broad approach to problems, sometimes to my detriment. In school, my grades always suffered because I was continually mucking about with irrelevant side issues, which I often found to be more interesting.’ – Barry Marshall
‘If we think that this life is all there is to life, then there is no interpretation of our problems, our pain, not even of our privileges. But everything changes when we open up to the possibility that God’s story is really our story too.’ – Max Lucado
‘One of the major problems with long-term deep space human flight is the requirement for radiation shielding.’ – Buzz Aldrin
‘I couldn’t wait to get to the most powerful position, because I thought then I would be able to fix problems that only the leader can fix. But when I got there, I realized we needed revolutionary change.’ – Mikhail Gorbachev
‘A women under stress is not immediately concerned with finding solutions to her problems but rather seeks relief by expressing herself and being understood.’ – John Gray
‘Blaming America for the problems of countries whose citizens would rather spend time sewing blankets to cover women’s faces than improving the quality of life is utterly ludicrous.’ – Stephen Miller
‘I’m not having any problems with my body so I don’t need to supplement. Growing older you don’t recover as fast, but all-in-all I’m doing well.’ – Eliud Kipchoge
‘Pretty girls have problems too.’ – Chris Rock
‘The primary goal of IoT is to solve business problems, not to deliver a cool project or new technology. Focus on a business-relevant problem, and work with your customer to solve it.’ – Maciej Kranz
‘With respect to the FBI, they had problems communicating in a vertical way, within the FBI itself, so that information of importance could get pushed up to those who were decision-makers.’ – Richard Ben-Veniste
‘I know there’s an impression that I’m someone who seeks to have violent confrontations with people. I don’t. Do I regret screaming at some guy who practically clipped my kid in the head with the lens of a camera? Yeah, I probably do, because it’s only caused me problems.’ – Alec Baldwin
‘You’ll see the most perfect person, and you are like, ‘God, she’s, like, perfect.’ And then she’ll tell you everything that’s not perfect. Everyone has their own special set of problems – in their own minds.’ – L’Wren Scott
‘My problems are so miniscule compared to what’s going on in the world. In that sense, I feel liberated.’ – Mya
‘The music itself is very challenging, so I’ve never really felt the lack of stimulation. I love to be creating; I love to be making things and solving problems, I suppose, and when I’m not, then I’m not an incredibly good person to be around. If I’m not busy, then I think I would be disaster. That’s just the way things are.’ – Brian May
‘My inspiration is always what I think my fans want to listen to. I often write about social problems. If I’m not going through it or I haven’t gone through it, I want to make sure it touches someone. That’s what I base my music on.’ – Jenni Rivera
‘I argue that experiments have no special ability to produce more credible knowledge than other methods, and that actual experiments are frequently subject to practical problems that undermine any claims to statistical or epistemic superiority.’ – Angus Deaton
‘Social economic problems do not exist everywhere that an economic event plays a role as cause or effect – since problems arise only where the significance of those factors is problematical and can be precisely determined only through the application of methods of social-economics.’ – Max Weber
”Watchmen’ is a politically charged story, and it explores exactly what a hero is, how the world would treat them and how they would react. It was the first time I read a superhero story that explored that situation. These are very real people with very real problems.’ – Gerard Way
‘We are for abstinence, not prohibition. Prohibition leads to many socio-legal problems. Wherever liquor has been prohibited, there is a tendency to consume through illegal means.’ – Pinarayi Vijayan
‘Part of my training was learning how to refer patients to cardiologists for heart problems, gastroenterologists for stomach issues, and rheumatologists for joint pain. Given that most physicians were trained this way, it’s no wonder that the average Medicare patient has six doctors and is on five different medications.’ – Mark Hyman
‘My older brother and I read all the time. My father read, but only things related to religion. One year, he did read a set of stories that was called something like ‘365 Stories’ out loud to us. They followed a family for the year, a page a day. They were about kids with simple problems – like a wheel coming off their bicycle.’ – Amy Tan
‘Most of the problems a President has to face have their roots in the past.’ – Harry S Truman
‘As far as I can see there are no problems with people in our band as far as the relationships go anyway.’ – Adam Rich
‘I don’t sell enough books to pay for the lawyers, however. And these various problems finally became too much.’ – Peter Sotos
‘Idealism doesn’t prevent problems.’ – Amy Morin
‘A sign that a peace association is going adrift is its exclusion of other political parties, with whom it could collaborate effectively on most of the problems besetting the cause of peace.’ – Fredrik Bajer
‘We remain committed to inspiring and compelling social change to the world’s most pressing problems through the power of great stories and engaging our audiences to take meaningful action.’ – Jeffrey Skoll
‘For a large number of problems, there will be some animal of choice, or a few such animals, on which it can be most conveniently studied.’ – August Krogh
‘Ego is one of the biggest weapons that is used to take us down. It’s self-destructive. It’s a problem on all levels – even regular people can have big ego problems.’ – Yehuda Berg
‘The three major administrative problems on a campus are sex for the students, athletics for the alumni, and parking for the faculty.’ – Robert M. Hutchins
‘The marathon always starts after 30K. That’s where the problems start. You start without any problems, without any pain. All the pain comes after 30K. Sometimes, it’s possible to have pain even in the finger.’ – Haile Gebrselassie
‘If we rationalize our problems when He points them out, we will spend less and less time meditating because we won’t want to face God in that area of our lives.’ – Charles Stanley
‘I woke up one morning and realised that one of the problems with being a middle-aged man – of being a man in general – is the tyranny of fashion.’ – James May
‘Len and I had parted musical ways and this was one of the problems.’ – Suzi Quatro
‘Faced with stress, too many people feel they have nowhere to turn to, that they don’t have access to the kind of friendships or communities where they can easily and openly share their problems and worries.’ – Daisaku Ikeda
‘I grew up in a household without a lot of problems and they have been very supportive from day one.’ – Mario Lopez
‘It is thus necessary to examine all things according to their essence, to infer from every species such true and well established propositions as may assist us in the solution of metaphysical problems.’ – Maimonides
‘The nature of a democracy consists to an important degree in the right of the people to criticize problems and mistakes.’ – Walter Ulbricht
‘I am often asked if, when I was secretary, I had problems with foreign men. That is not who I had problems with, because I arrived in a very large plane that said United States of America. I had more problems with the men in our own government.’ – Madeleine Albright
‘I’ve always liked depressing music because a lot of times, listening to it when you’re down can actually make you feel less depressed. Also, even though a person may have problems with depression, sometimes you can actually be kind of comfortable in that space because you know how to operate within it.’ – Chris Cornell
‘Many areas of Los Angeles have gang problems.’ – Ross Kemp
‘When I look at China’s environmental problems, the real barrier is not lack of technology or money. It’s lack of motivation.’ – Ma Jun
‘I have a huge fan following in Bellary, and when they met me, they told me about their problems. I have seen mining done without proper safety measures and not taking environmental protection into account.’ – Pawan Kalyan
‘The two things in the world we all share in this world are laughter and pain. We’ve all got problems. The levels of those problems vary, but we’ve all got problems. When you can take things that are painful and make them funny, that’s a gift – to you and your audience.’ – Kevin Hart
‘Worrying about bills, food, or other problems leaves less capacity to think ahead or to exert self-discipline. So, poverty imposes a mental tax.’ – Nicholas Kristof
‘I want a painting to be difficult to do. The more obstacles, obstructions, problems – if they don’t overwhelm – the better. I would like to feel that I am involved at any stage of the painting with all its moments, not just this ‘now’ moment where a superficial grace is so available.’ – Richard Diebenkorn
‘In matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between large and small problems, for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same.’ – Albert Einstein
‘Even today with the problems that we face, who would you rather be? Which country would you trade places with?’ – Marco Rubio
‘People don’t know what they are doing most of the time. They don’t know what they want. It’s only in ‘the movies’ that they know what their problems are and have game plans to deal with them.’ – John Cassavetes
‘The world is beset by many problems, but in my opinion, this hijacking of our brain’s reward centers by electronic media is potentially one of the most destructive.’ – Andrew Weil
‘Happy Song’ is a sarcastic open letter to the world about how we use superficial and trivial things to ignore the real problems.’ – Oliver Sykes
‘Managers tend to blame their turnover problems on everything under the sun, while ignoring the crux of the matter: people don’t leave jobs; they leave managers.’ – Travis Bradberry
‘If you don’t understand how to run an efficient operation, new machinery will just give you new problems of operation and maintenance. The sure way to increase productivity is to better administrate man and machine.’ – W. Edwards Deming
‘Half of those people who experience mental health difficulties do so before the age of 14. The problems begin early – so early interventions are essential.’ – Angela Rayner
‘The current approach that psychiatry takes almost ignores social worlds in which mental health problems arise and tries to become highly biomedical like other branches of medicine such as cardiology or oncology. But psychiatry has to be far more embedded in people’s personal and social worlds.’ – Vikram Patel
‘Technical problems are like gremlins. They come and go.’ – Eric Fellner
‘When you are intelligent and beautiful you face a lot of problems. If you are beautiful and stupid then it’s easy.’ – Nawal El Saadawi
‘Listening to and understanding our inner sufferings will resolve most of the problems we encounter.’ – Thich Nhat Hanh
‘I’ve seen plenty of films where the projector broke. The problems that we have in the digital age are exactly the same as we had. Instead of, ‘There’s a hair in the gate,’ it’s, ‘The computer ate the footage.’ There will always be things like that going on. Nothing is perfect.’ – Joss Whedon
‘Nothing you’ll read as breaking news will ever hold a candle to the sheer beauty of settled science. Textbook science has carefully phrased explanations for new students, math derived step by step, plenty of experiments as illustration, and test problems.’ – Eliezer Yudkowsky
‘In various countries and times, leaders of groups that lagged behind, economically and educationally, have taught their followers to blame all their problems on other people – and to hate those other people.’ – Thomas Sowell
‘There are some four million different kinds of animals and plants in the world. Four million different solutions to the problems of staying alive.’ – David Attenborough
‘Every major communication tool on the Internet has spam and abuse problems. All email services, blogging services and social networks have to dedicate a significant amount of resources and time to fighting abuse and protecting their users.’ – Evan Williams
‘I think that passion is the secret ingredient that drives hard work and excellence. My passion is to serve the public: to be in the arena of public policy, to have the opportunity to solve problems for our country, to be in a position where I can make a difference.’ – Kelly Ayotte
‘Keep in mind that no matter how perfectly you get your life in order, you will never be rid of all your problems. Problems are a way of life, always have been, always will be. But how you elect to view those problems is all up to you.’ – Wayne Dyer
‘There is a certain oddity to Larry Fink having problems in Washington. He is a strong Democrat who has close ties to President Obama and has often been rumored as set to take a big administration job, such as Secretary of the Treasury.’ – Carol Loomis
‘If you don’t work on important problems, it’s not likely that you’ll do important work.’ – Richard Hamming
‘One of the problems in the Ukrainian crisis is that very few Westerners know their history, or if they know it, what they learn is what we call the Russian version of history.’ – Norman Davies
‘We live in a world where we have friends, neighbors, brothers, sisters, aunts, uncles, people we journey with for years who are gay. And we need to love, affirm and all of us together work on the real problems that we have in the world.’ – Rob Bell
‘Every weekend I would take a train to Delhi and sneak into startup events. I really enjoyed meeting entrepreneurs who were solving big problems. They were way smarter than me. I knew this is where I had to be.’ – Ritesh Agarwal
‘You know, there’s problems in racing, but it’s not Bob Baffert.’ – Bob Baffert
‘Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not.’ – Isaac Asimov
‘Movies that encourage empathy are more effective than those that objectify problems.’ – Roger Ebert
‘My fiance and I had a few problems working through some of the things that he saw me say and do on the ‘Surreal Life.’ Considering the company that I was in, Ron Jeremy and Trishelle from ‘The Real World,’ I think I was pretty tame.’ – Traci Bingham
‘If explicit metadata is a real problem, it raises problems that just can’t be solved. It’s not that we’re not good at it; it’s the problems cannot be solved because we’re not going to agree about these deep questions of how we organize.’ – David Weinberger
‘In whatever guise – our own daily nightmares of war, intolerance, inhumanity or the struggles of an Assistant Pig-Keeper against the Lord of Death – the problems are agonizingly familiar. And an openness to compassion, love, and mercy is as essential to us here and now as it is to any inhabitant of an imaginary kingdom.’ – Lloyd Alexander
‘My parents have always been very supportive and it hasn’t been an issue. Mum worried I might get more problems in life because of my bisexuality but I think people are more liberal now.’ – Joe Lycett
‘At the heart of all problems lies the politics of the country.’ – Arvind Kejriwal
‘I must be out of it, but I don’t know any good journalists who have excused Clinton’s problems.’ – Ben Bradlee
‘An activist is someone who makes an effort to see problems that are not being addressed and then makes an effort to make their voice heard. Sometimes there are so many things that it’s almost impossible to make your voice heard in every area, but you can sure try.’ – Joanne Woodward
‘Especially for those of us who lived in single cells, you had the time to sit down and think, and we discovered that sitting down just to think is one of the best ways of keeping yourself fresh and able, to be able to address the problems facing you, and you had the opportunity, also, of examining your past.’ – Nelson Mandela
‘The rise of Google, the rise of Facebook, the rise of Apple, I think are proof that there is a place for computer science as something that solves problems that people face every day.’ – Eric Schmidt
‘I don’t understand actors who complain when they get work. ‘I’m working too much. I’ve got to get up too early …’ Isn’t this the point? There’s somebody right now who’s bussing tables who would love your problems.’ – Aldis Hodge
‘People promise to stick with their spouse ‘for richer or poorer’ but it’s the ‘for poorer’ part that causes the worry. The big shock is that the ‘for richer’ bit can also cause problems.’ – Marian Keyes
‘If people are given the chance to experience life in more than one country, they will hate a little less. It’s not a miracle potion, but little by little you can solve problems in the basement of a country, not on the surface.’ – Marjane Satrapi
‘I’ve learned that being a superhero isn’t all glitz and glamour. We think if we have a special power, our problem will go away. It’s just a new set of problems. Being a superhero alienates you and separates you from humanity. As Spiderman famously said, ‘With great power comes great responsibility.” – Josh Keaton
‘At Rennes, I played more down the left wing, but also down the right and sometimes in midfield. At Dortmund, it was the same: I alternated wings. I don’t have problems with the position I’ll take up.’ – Ousmane Dembele
‘When I started to write, it was the ’70s, and throughout that decade, we didn’t have any problems with book challenges or censorship.’ – Judy Blume
‘I think for anything to be successful, your problems have to become different problems over time.’ – Jason Isbell
‘Since most corporate competitors have the same problems with sustainability and social reputation, it’s worth trying to solve them together.’ – Simon Mainwaring
‘Not to get too deep, but I think one of the reasons we embrace superheroes and this world is that these are just normal people that have incredible powers that are relatable in some ways – in that we don’t have great super powers, but there’s strength within us that we can utilize in our lives. Ultimately, they’re just normal people with problems.’ – Alexandra Daddario
‘I’m quite adept at writing two or sometimes even three stories at once. So if I get stuck on one story, I switch the next and let my subconscious work on unraveling any plot problems from another story.’ – Zara Cox
‘Problems emerge and some people try to sweep them under the rug.’ – Bill Condon
‘It seems ridiculous that you can be in one state with your driver’s license and buy a firearm, and then in the next state it is totally illegal. There are real problems to that, but as soon as you bring up the subject and say ‘gun control,’ it sets a red flag.’ – Joe Perry
‘I will not claim I will solve all the world’s problems by myself. If I did, I’d have to run as a Republican or a Democrat.’ – Pat Paulsen
‘I meet human beings who are flawed, who are mentally ill and have enormous problems, but I don’t think I’ve ever met someone who was a totally dark energy that had no humanity or sense of love or affection for anything in their life. That’s very rare.’ – Richard Gere
‘A lot of problems that are going on aren’t going to get better if we don’t talk about it. Race is the biggest one. It’s a very, very uncomfortable topic because the biggest part of America was founded on it.’ – Shannon Sharpe
‘It’s true – my mother kicked me out the house at 14. I had to go live with my sister. I had some problems. I was very rebellious as a kid. I don’t even know why or where it came from, but I had a lot of anger. Me and my mom clashed a lot because she didn’t tolerate that, as she shouldn’t from a 14-year-old.’ – Michael Che
‘Every game gives you a new challenge, and new problems to solve.’ – Ander Herrera
‘It is easy for Christians to have the false impression that once we have established a relationship with Christ, which we believe sets us right with God, the problems of life will somehow scoot away or they will slowly be removed from our lives.’ – Charles R. Swindoll
‘Hip-hop has been hijacked by a Luciferian conspiracy. People have used hip-hop in a lot of ways that cause a lot of mind problems. They use the word wrongfully. They use it to mean a part instead of a whole.’ – Afrika Bambaataa
‘Victims recite problems. Leaders develop solutions. That might seem like common sense, but common sense is rarely common practice.’ – Robin S. Sharma
‘I believe that people of substantial wealth potentially create problems for future generations unless they themselves accept responsibility to use their wealth during their lifetime to help worthwhile causes.’ – Chuck Feeney
‘I realize that homosexuality is a serious problem for anyone who is – but then, of course, heterosexuality is a serious problem for anyone who is, too. And being a man is a serious problem and being a woman is, too. Lots of things are problems.’ – Edward Gorey
‘It’s very hard to persuade a young person who has seen the Great Recession, who has seen all the problems with inequality, to tell them inequality is not important and that markets are always efficient. They’d think you’re crazy.’ – Joseph Stiglitz
‘I was diagnosed with OCD and depression, and that was a huge relief, because now my struggles had a name and could be reckoned with. With a combination of therapy and medication, I got better. I learned to love life again. My problems didn’t go away, but they became much easier to face.’ – Shannon Purser
‘Continuing on my theme of backing inclusive innovations, I am optimistic of the success of Uniphore. Man-machine communication is one of the more complex problems to solve. Uniphore’s vision lends possibility of finding a solution to this very difficult problem, and the company has already made substantial progress.’ – Kris Gopalakrishnan
‘We in science are spoiled by the success of mathematics. Mathematics is the study of problems so simple that they have good solutions.’ – Whitfield Diffie
‘To be sure, the provision of liquidity alone can by no means solve the problems of credit risk and credit losses; but it can reduce liquidity premiums, help restore the confidence of investors, and thus promote stability.’ – Ben Bernanke
‘Pretty people aren’t as accepted as other people. It’s like, ‘She’s pretty and thin and she’s got to have problems. She’s messed up.’ – Mischa Barton’ – Mischa Barton
‘There’s a lot of films that have relatively rigid road maps because they have a script and others that are less rigid because they have less of a script, like ‘Elephant.’ The road map becomes more interpretive, maybe, than one with a detailed script. Editing-wise, they all have their problems.’ – Gus Van Sant
‘They criticize me for harping on the obvious; if all the folks in the United States would do the few simple things they know they ought to do, most of our big problems would take care of themselves.’ – Calvin Coolidge
‘We are built to conquer environment, solve problems, achieve goals, and we find no real satisfaction or happiness in life without obstacles to conquer and goals to achieve.’ – Maxwell Maltz
‘A lot of people don’t understand what feminism is. They think it is about advance and success for women, but it’s not that at all. It is about power for the female left. And they have this, I think, ridiculous idea that American women are oppressed by the patriarchy and we need laws and government to solve our problems for us.’ – Phyllis Schlafly
‘One thing I would tell women is that they must take up the challenge. Very often, we anticipate a lot of problems, and therefore, we don’t take the lead. And I think that we are shortchanging ourselves if we don’t do that.’ – Arundhati Bhattacharya
‘No matter what kinds of problems we might be going through, or what kinds of problems the world might be going through, music is the place where we can all get along. We can all jam.’ – Trombone Shorty
‘We saw what happened in Jimmy Carter’s administration. President Carter was a good man with the best of intentions. But he came to Washington without a good working relationship with Democratic members of Congress, which played a big part in his administration’s problems.’ – Jim Hunt
‘Strange about parents. We have such easy access to them and such daunting problems of communication.’ – James Merrill
‘Digital technology can be a great resource, but it can also be a pernicious one, so it’s how we, as a society, really study the cognitive impact of that and use evidence-based research to go after the technology designers to do a better job of dealing with the problems of memory and attention we are seeing.’ – Maryanne Wolf
‘I’m an entrepreneur trying to let the American people know that it’s not immigrants that are causing economic problems, it is the fact that our economy is advancing in ways that is making human labor less and less essential.’ – Andrew Yang
‘Having emotional intelligence allows you to manage your emotions, show empathy, and prevent you from getting distracted. It also helps you solve problems and be a more likable person.’ – John Rampton
‘I don’t spend my time pontificating about high-concept things; I spend my time solving engineering and manufacturing problems.’ – Elon Musk
‘One of the problems with hip hop is lack of infrastructure and not being able to control its own course. I don’t like that hip hop is full of infantile 35-year-olds. Hip hop cannot afford to be lazy.’ – Chuck D
‘Economists have allowed themselves to walk into a trap where we say we can forecast, but no serious economist thinks we can. You don’t expect dentists to be able to forecast how many teeth you’ll have when you’re 80. You expect them to give good advice and fix problems.’ – Tim Harford
‘To solve math problems, you need to know the basic mathematics before you can start applying it.’ – Catherine Asaro
‘Well, some mathematics problems look simple, and you try them for a year or so, and then you try them for a hundred years, and it turns out that they’re extremely hard to solve.’ – Andrew Wiles
‘Self-improvement books, friends, and polite strangers often tell soothing lies about our physical appearance that prevent many of us from facing, discussing, and solving our real problems.’ – Martha Beck
‘I’m sure the movie industry is going up but I would love to see more Chinese films about contemporary Chinese about the problems of life on the street.’ – Paz Vega
‘If we want to address global warming, along with the other environmental problems associated with our continued rush to burn our precious fossil fuels as quickly as possible, we must learn to use our resources more wisely, kick our addiction, and quickly start turning to sources of energy that have fewer negative impacts.’ – David Suzuki
‘The Panic of 1819 exerted a profound effect on American economic thought. As the first great financial depression, similar to a modern expansion-depression pattern, the panic heightened interest in economic problems, and particularly those problems related to the causes and cures of depressed conditions.’ – Murray Rothbard
‘I have spoken about inflation, unemployment, farmers’ problems, security, etc. I keep talking about these issues. I seek answers from the Indian government.’ – Narendra Modi
‘Don’t blame the boss. He has enough problems.’ – Donald Rumsfeld
‘One of the problems we currently have is there hasn’t been in the population any serious engagement with the ethics of war because we have an all-volunteer army. I would think the return to the draft would be an intervention that would require discussion that might be more helpful in terms of our ability to limit war.’ – Stanley Hauerwas
‘The biggest problems were to do with… well, to get that successful when you’re so young, it attracts hangers-on, parasites, people who want to feed off you.’ – Mike Oldfield
‘Goals must never be from your ego, but problems that cry for a solution.’ – Robert H. Schuller
‘I was very bad at mathematics in school, and I always had the feeling as a kid that when I worked on problems, that I would be wrong.’ – Simon McBurney
‘Nobody wins when the police are sent to look after people suffering from mental health problems; vulnerable people don’t get the care they need and deserve, and the police can’t get on with the job they are trained to do.’ – Theresa May
‘Due to mistakenly believing that outer problems are their own problems, most people seek ultimate refuge in the wrong objects. As a result, their suffering and problems never end.’ – Kelsang Gyatso
‘A God Jar is anything you wish it to be, in which you can put your wishes, dreams, problems, prayers. You may want to think of it as a spiritual mailbox.’ – Julia Cameron
‘When you do find humor in trying times, one of the first and most important changes you experience is that you see your perplexing problems in a new way – you suddenly have a new perspective on them.’ – Allen Klein
‘I went to school like everyone else, but I hated it, and I always had a lot of problems. Even my younger brother Guglielmo is the same way: we can’t stay cooped up in a room for hours, listening.’ – Vittoria Ceretti
‘The constant influx of new cultures, new ideas and new ways of looking at old problems is a big part of the reason why America has been the most dynamic economy in the world for well over a century.’ – Gary Locke
‘Although my stories are all very different on the surface, I like to write stories about characters struggling with big problems. I’m always reminded, no matter how different from me one of my characters is from me on the surface, how we’re all pretty much the same underneath.’ – Morris Gleitzman
‘Do you have any problems, other than that you’re unemployed, a moron, and a dork?’ – John McEnroe
‘We ministers have undoubtedly failed to connect and apply Christianity to the practical everyday problems of the average man. In this, we have failed to follow in Christ’s footsteps. For the religion which He taught and revealed in His own life and ministry was an intensely practical and down-to-earth affair.’ – Peter Marshall
‘It’s time to declare a cease-fire in the education arms race. We have far more to gain from collaborating to solve our common problems than competing for higher rankings.’ – Wendy Kopp
‘Any company faces big challenges during transformation. People are accustomed to going ahead on the existing track. Even when they know there are problems, the first reaction is to protect the old way.’ – Li Ning
‘I don’t want to be an invisible coach. I want to provide guidelines to solve problems, coming from the base I have, as I had to work a lot considering I did not play at Barca until I was 17.’ – Carles Puyol
‘The answer to many of the domestic problems we face is not higher taxes and more spending. It is less waste, more results and greater freedom for the individual American to earn a rightful place in his own community – and for States and localities to address their own needs in their own ways, in the light of their own priorities.’ – Richard M. Nixon
‘The real opportunity is to harness the inventive power of the world to locally design and produce solutions to local problems.’ – Neil Gershenfeld
‘There are grave misgivings that the discussion on ecology may be designed to distract attention from the problems of war and poverty.’ – Indira Gandhi
‘I believe psychology has done very well in working out how to understand and treat disease. But I think that is literally half-baked. If all you do is work to fix problems, to alleviate suffering, then by definition you are working to get people to zero, to neutral.’ – Martin Seligman
‘Why should I leave Ruleville, and why should I leave Mississippi? I go to the big city, and with the kind of education they give us in Mississippi, I got problems. I’d wind up in a soup line there.’ – Fannie Lou Hamer
‘The rights of copyright holders need to be protected, but some draconian remedies that have been suggested would create more problems than they would solve.’ – Patrick Leahy
‘Worry will never solve tomorrow’s problems. It will only take energy away from today.’ – James Altucher
‘If a guy is intimidated by a woman in leadership, he has real problems with his own concepts of masculinity. That’s a harsh statement, but I believe it to be true.’ – Tony Campolo
‘Well, Mr Obama inherited probably the biggest inventory of problems, certainly foreign policy problems, than any American president ever has. I think the entire inventory of problems that he inherited is probably as big overall as any president, certainly since Franklin Roosevelt and maybe, in some cases, worse.’ – Chuck Hagel
‘The idea is to improve somebody’s day. That’s how I’ve always viewed my job. I’m a distraction therapist. I make people’s problems go away for just a little bit.’ – Steve-O
‘You’re basing your laws and your whole outlook on natural life on mythology. It won’t work. That’s why you have all these problems in the world. Name them: India, Pakistan, Ireland. Name them-all these problems. They’re all religious problems.’ – Jack Kevorkian
‘I have no time to think about other writers. I am too busy with my own problems.’ – Harper Lee
‘Governments tend not to solve problems, only to rearrange them.’ – Ronald Reagan
‘It was Apollo 8 that first showed us the tiny blue marble of Earth floating in the void of space, one of the great psychological shifts in human history. From out there, we can both appreciate and begin to solve the problems of our world in ways unavailable to us otherwise.’ – Rick Tumlinson
‘Sometimes I think our problems are made worse by the kind of business we’re in. Playing these road shows is a weird experience.’ – Loretta Lynn
‘Intelligence is the ability to solve problems, and consciousness is the ability to feel things and have subjective experiences.’ – Yuval Noah Harari
‘What’s right about America is that although we have a mess of problems, we have great capacity – intellect and resources – to do some thing about them.’ – Henry Ford
‘Everyone needs to understand that my work addresses existing problems, and one of the crucial problems in Russia today is corruption.’ – Alexei Navalny
‘Hearing aids didn’t cause any problem with my social life, my career, no problem at all, and I’ve been wearing them for a long time. As a matter of fact, once I became an entertainer and started working on television, I was probably the first performer to talk about hearing problems on the air.’ – Norm Crosby
‘Up to now we have faced external problems in an isolated fashion. One of these problems is precisely the drug trade and what has been the result? A very weak and fragile position.’ – Alberto Fujimori
‘The thing is, every relationship is different, and when you start talking about your problems, other people tend to talk about theirs.’ – Khloe Kardashian
‘What ‘Clandestino’ is talking about is problems of borders, and more and more hermetic borders all around the world.’ – Manu Chao
‘Life solves its problems with well-adapted designs, life-friendly chemistry and smart material and energy use.’ – Janine Benyus
‘Prosecutorial misconduct is one of the most detrimental problems in our criminal justice system, because prosecutors are essentially the most powerful actors in our justice system because they set the charges, they basically set up the rules of the game.’ – Maya Moore
‘Focus 90% of your time on solutions and only 10% of your time on problems.’ – Anthony J. D’Angelo
‘I outlasted my problems.’ – Carrie Fisher
‘Human education is concerned with certain changes in the intellects, characters and behavior of men, its problems being roughly included under these four topics: Aims, materials, means and methods.’ – Edward Thorndike
‘I was at my wit’s end trying to solve the world’s problems. I was frustrated that I could do very little. That frustration took me to Vipassana.’ – Amala Akkineni
‘We’re all biased, right, in many different ways – politically, religiously, ideologically, the way our family raised us – and that’s fine. Nobody wants to live in a world where everybody thinks exactly the same. The key, though, is to try to figure out where your biases are holding you back from solving problems.’ – Stephen J. Dubner
‘Bitcoin is probably the most portable money in the history of the world. I can download any amount onto a thumb drive and walk across any border without any problems. Or, I could commit to memory a line of code that I can then input into the network and save or spend Bitcoins.’ – Max Keiser
‘Everybody the same: We all got problems. We all want to be loved. We all wanna be happy.’ – Tiffany Haddish
‘I think adults sometimes don’t think about how children are feeling about the adult problems.’ – Beverly Cleary
‘I try to look at problems very clearly and think, ‘How do we get out of this? What will work? What will be the consequences for the people involved?” – Paul Kagame
‘You create superheroes to take care of problems that can’t really be solved another way.’ – Robert Rodriguez
‘As a young child, I suffered all sorts of digestive problems and was constantly under the weather.’ – Jameela Jamil
‘Altruism raises your mood because it raises your self-esteem, which increases happiness. Plus, giving to others gets you outside of yourself and distracts you from your problems.’ – Karen Salmansohn
‘My dad was a real fun guy, and despite his personal problems, he was a great father. It wasn’t easy, but he did a good job of raising my sister Mary and I all by himself.’ – Molly Shannon
‘The greatest threat to our freedom and prosperity is not al-Qaida, the Taliban, Iran or even China. It’s an idea, the idea that we can spend our way out of our problems without tightening our belt and paring down the very bloated government.’ – Erik Prince
‘Focus on solving real problems and not on making money. There will be enough takers for your solutions. You will help make lives of some people better, and money will follow.’ – Bhavish Aggarwal
‘It may seem like sort of a waste of time to play ‘World of Warcraft’ with your son. But you’re actually interacting with each other. You’re solving problems. They may seem like simple problems, but you’re solving them. You’re posed with challenges that you have to overcome. You’re on a quest to gain certain capabilities.’ – Vint Cerf
‘One of the problems with compromise in one area of Scripture is where do you stop compromising? If Christians accept the idea of human evolution, then why not accept the idea that our sinful tendencies are really just evolved tendencies?’ – Ken Ham
‘If I don’t behave nicely with the media for one day, the next day, there will be stories written about my rudeness but nobody will understand what problems I must be facing in my real life.’ – Himanshi Khurana
‘I see in industrialization the central problem of building in our time. If we succeed in carrying out this industrialization, the social, economic, technical, and also artistic problems will be readily solved.’ – Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
”Big’ problems are overwhelming, but when we distil them down to their simplest forms, then the solutions become simple, too.’ – Taavet Hinrikus
‘Don’t allow people to suck up all your time with their questions or problems. Learn to say ‘no’ more often.’ – Lewis Howes
‘Everything is being run by computers. Everything is reliant on these computers working. We have become very reliant on Internet, on basic things like electricity, obviously, on computers working. And this really is something which creates completely new problems for us. We must have some way of continuing to work even if computers fail.’ – Mikko Hypponen
‘The citizens of America expect more. They deserve and they want more than a recital of problems.’ – Barbara Jordan
‘I will not let my family’s problems become my country’s problems.’ – Nawaz Sharif
‘Dollywood is a family park, and all families are welcome. We do have a policy about profanity or controversial messages on clothing or signs. It is to protect the individual wearing or carrying them, as well as to keep down fights or problems by those opposed to it at the park.’ – Dolly Parton
‘One of the biggest problems out there that I hear from my friends in the business community is that there’s no lending, that it’s tough to get a loan today.’ – Alexi Giannoulias
‘Finding a ‘sacrificial lamb’ on whom to tag blame for complicated problems is an important instrument in the toolkit of politicians, because it deflects blame for the nation’s economic woes away from their own regulatory lapses, economic mismanagement and coddling to labor unions.’ – Clayton M. Christensen
‘Health care has a lot of interesting machine-learning problems – outpatient outcomes, or when you have x-ray images and you want to predict things.’ – Jeff Dean
‘In Newark, we see a problem and want to seize it, but we run up against the wall of state government, the wall of federal government that does not have the flexibility or doesn’t see problems, even. At the federal level, it’s often a zero-sum game: If you win, I lose. At the local level, it’s just not local that. It’s win-win-win.’ – Cory Booker
‘If you look at the developments in the international scene over the past many years, we haven’t been able to resolve many problems and many crises, because we have approached them from a zero-sum perspective. My gain has always been defined as somebody else’s loss, and through that, we never resolve problems.’ – Mohammad Javad Zarif
‘It is clear to me that Democrats want to attack me rather than debate Sen. McCain on important economic issues facing the country. That kind of distraction hurts not only Sen. McCain’s ability to present concrete programs to deal with the country’s problems; it hurts the country.’ – Phil Gramm
‘The successful business executive can handle challenges and solve problems at a remarkable clip.’ – Zig Ziglar
‘Our social fabric is sundered. GoFundMe and the other crowdfunding sites that have proliferated since 2010 are an example of what has sprung up in its place, what I have called America’s dystopian social net. That is, we now require private solutions to what are public problems.’ – Alissa Quart
‘There are problems in Canada. There is a certain inconsistency in the acting. I don’t mean to sound chauvinistic, but we do have a larger supply of good actors in Hollywood. There are good actors in Canada, but not as wide a choice.’ – Mariette Hartley
‘My jet lag is getting a bit ridiculous. But, you know, it’s first-world problems. It’s a wonderful problem, ‘Oh I have to travel around the world; how awful.” – Margot Robbie
‘I wanted to write as well as I possibly could to deal with life-and-death problems in contemporary society. And the form of Wilkie Collins and Graham Greene, of Hammett and Chandler, seemed to offer me all the rope I would ever need.’ – Ross MacDonald
‘I knew I was born with a heart murmur. Doctors have always monitored it, and it’s never caused any problems. Still, it’s on my mind a bit more now. Especially now that I know that heart disease is a woman’s disease and not just what Grandpa suffers from.’ – Peyton List
‘I find that when I put my spiritual life first, the rest of my life is easy. When I put my career first, that’s when I have problems.’ – Macklemore
‘Now this is a way to approach our healthcare problems: increase the number of tax collectors and decrease the number of doctors – brilliant!’ – Charles Krauthammer
‘I have always had a tendency to keep enlarging problems which I personally think is the way the world works… that seeing anything one dimensionally on the kinds of political, sort of big issues of human progress is going to be a distorted view of things, which is why over my career I have gone seemingly from subject to subject to subject.’ – Paul Wolfowitz
‘Eighteenth-century doctors prescribed sugar pills for nearly everything: heart problems, headache, consumption, labor pains, insanity, old age, and blindness. Hence, the French expression ‘like an apothecary without sugar’ meant someone in an utterly hopeless situation.’ – Tom Reiss
‘Mum and Dad died of heart problems, my grandparents died of it, my sister has had mini strokes, my brother has had a heart attack – it’s genetic; there’s nothing I can do.’ – Paul O’Grady
‘I go through regular problems. It’s funny – there’s still two sides to me: the normal one and the work one. I feel like I’m pulling a Hannah Montana.’ – Tate McRae
‘I’m all about showing people that I’m a little messed up, I have a lot of the same problems you have. By exposing myself and putting myself out there, people can relate to me and my act won’t grow stale. I mean, nobody wants to hear a comedian say, ‘Life is great.” – Gabriel Iglesias
‘To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.’ – Albert Einstein
‘My job is to show our humanity, and the only way to be leading with that sort of humanity is to lead with the problems that a family like this might be encountering and putting those on display.’ – Ramy Youssef
‘A smaller waist is not the solution to all your problems.’ – Lionel Shriver
‘Basketball is my escape, and I cannot bring any of my problems onto the court.’ – Enes Kanter
‘The whole ‘serious artist’ thing is very damaging. The powers that be will steer you towards your own demise. One thing I’ve learned is that it’s not very glamourous, and my problems are no different from anybody else’s.’ – Dave Gahan
‘America does not need another political campaign based on denial and avoidance of some of our real problems. It needs a crusade to reform and renew our country, its institutions and political system.’ – Richard Lamm
‘The problem is, education in America is sub-optimal because it is an impossible thing to optimize. It necessarily has to be local because different schools face different problems. There are no one-size-fits-all solutions.’ – Hank Green
‘During most of my life, my contact with Jews and Judaism was slight. I gave little thought to their problems, save in asking myself, from time to time, whether we were showing by our lives due appreciation of the opportunities which this hospitable country affords. My approach to Zionism was through Americanism.’ – Louis D. Brandeis
‘In life there are no problems, that is, objective and external choices; there is only the life which we do not resolve as a problem but which we live as an experience, whatever the final result may be.’ – Alberto Moravia
‘To me, ‘Alors On Danse’ is the definition of clubbing. Because everyone is just trying to forget their problems, but actually, it’s so sad, clubbing. We try to sell happiness in clubs, but you can’t.’ – Stromae
‘I have the problems of, I must confess, old age.’ – Billy Graham
‘While confronting the problems of the present, I often find myself thinking back to the world of books as it was experienced by the Founding Fathers and the philosophers of the Enlightenment.’ – Robert Darnton
‘Well, I think everybody is frustrated by the finances of the U.N. and the inability to solve problems of war and peace.’ – George H. W. Bush
‘Journalists and activists alike have an obligation to describe environmental problems honestly and accurately, even if they fear doing so will reduce their news value or salience with the public.’ – Michael Shellenberger
‘I believe that if you show people the problems and you show them the solutions they will be moved to act.’ – Bill Gates
‘As an engineer I’m constantly spotting problems and plotting how to solve them.’ – James Dyson
‘If you don’t have religious fallibilism, you have immense problems.’ – Hamza Yusuf
‘Growing up without a dad and not having a father figure – I noticed a hole in my life. For the longest time, I would run away from my problems instead of confronting them. I felt empty at one point. Not depressed, but empty.’ – Henry Cejudo
‘Suicide doesn’t solve your problems. It only makes them infinitely, un-countably worse.’ – Sinead O’Connor
‘I had a lot of reading problems growing up.’ – Dav Pilkey
‘I am on the board of corporations who contribute both to environmental problems and their solutions. And I am on the NGO side: the Earth Council and other organizations.’ – Maurice Strong
‘If we ever start communicating with living creatures from other planets, the number one priority is, how are you going to communicate information? Even between different cultures here on Earth, you get into communication problems.’ – Story Musgrave
‘I think the problems with comedians that are political, and there are some brilliant ones, are the ones that offer no solutions. Not that there’s a moral obligation for a comic to fix things, but I like to see a comic that’s upset about something and offer a solution. It can be a funny solution. I like to see the thought process.’ – Kyle Kinane
‘I don’t want to talk about my trials and tribulations. Once you reveal even part of what your real problems might be in life, they come back in a deformed way.’ – W. G. Sebald
‘We have become a society that can’t self-correct, that can’t address its obvious problems, that can’t pull out of its nosedive. And so to our list of disasters let us add this fourth entry: we have entered an age of folly that – for all our Facebooking and the twittling tweedle-dee-tweets of the twitterati – we can’t wake up from.’ – Thomas Frank
‘We see that in the top problems in the world between haves and have-nots, generally we find that the root cause is education.’ – Tim Cook
‘The status quo tough-on-crime policies of the ’90s and 2000s are not working and are not popular. And it provides me with hope about the possibilities for San Francisco and this whole country in terms of moving away from our dependence on prisons and jails to solve social problems.’ – Chesa Boudin
‘Violating the 4th Amendment guarantees against illegal searches and seizures is not the way to solve crime problems.’ – Tim Wise
‘While I am a capitalist at heart and I have no problems with commercialization as such, I believe that while it’s okay if education becomes a profitable business, it’s not okay if it becomes corrupt.’ – Chetan Bhagat
‘When people ask where I studied to be an ambassador, I say my neighborhood and my school. I’ve tried to tell my kids that you don’t wait until you’re in high school or college to start dealing with problems of people being different. The younger you start, the better.’ – Andrew Young
‘My goal was to develop into an independent research scientist studying clinical problems at the laboratory bench, but I felt that postgraduate residency training in internal medicine was necessary.’ – Peter Agre
‘Football coaches don’t have real problems.’ – Lou Holtz
‘The lesson of the last year is this: foreign policy can’t be managed through the politics of personality, and our President would do well to take note of an observation John F. Kennedy made once he was in office – that all of the world’s problems aren’t his predecessor’s fault.’ – Sarah Palin
‘The Crosby family is sort of legendary for all of its traumas and familial problems, even though it has this appearance of being this perfect world. It had quite a dark side to it.’ – Denise Crosby
‘When you start making music, you start making music at a young age, and for me, I just thought, like, ‘Ahh, once you make it, all your problems will be solved, and everything will be fine.” – Kyle
‘Data-intensive graph problems abound in the Life Science drug discovery and development process.’ – Leroy Hood
‘Much of what we now consider to be problems concerning immigration and assimilation really concern Mexican immigration and assimilation.’ – Samuel P. Huntington
‘You don’t see a lot of great companies built on easy problems to solve.’ – Aneel Bhusri
‘One reason most people never stop thinking is that mental frenzy keeps us from having to see the upsetting aspects of our lives. If I’m constantly brooding about my children or career, I won’t notice that I’m lonely. If I grapple continuously with logistical problems, I can avoid contemplating little issues like, say, my own mortality.’ – Martha Beck
‘My problems with ‘Bonanza’ were problems of communication. What we discussed would be, never was. I thought it would be a sophisticated show. Instead it never went beyond the comic strip level.’ – Pernell Roberts
‘Market fundamentalists recognize that the role of the state in the economy is always disruptive, inefficient, and generally has negative connotations. This leads them to believe that the market mechanism can take care of all the problems.’ – George Soros
‘I continually still fight every day for my life, not only still battling mental health problems but battling multiple sclerosis, which also has depression as one of its side effects.’ – Jennifer Holliday
‘Autism spectrum disorders are linked to other problems: Most of the people we see in our Asperger clinic for adults also suffer from clinical levels of depression.’ – Simon Baron-Cohen
‘There is an old belief that solving environmental problems can only be achieved by first building enough economic wealth so we can ‘afford to save the environment.’ This ‘Kuznets Curve’ thinking has never been correct and must be abandoned once and for all if we are serious about economic development for a thriving humanity on Earth.’ – Johan Rockstrom
‘Falling asleep is like landing a plane. It takes time. You’ve got to sort of gradually descend. I think one of the problems with insufficient sleep is people are not very good at predicting how poorly they are doing when they are under-slept.’ – Matthew Walker
‘I think basketball becomes an outlet for it, an opportunity to get that frustration out and forget about all the problems and things you have going on in your life outside.’ – Baron Davis
‘I think war is based in greed and there are huge karmic retributions that will follow. I think war is never the answer to solving any problems. The best way to solve problems is to not have enemies.’ – Sheryl Crow
‘The driving force behind doing everything that I’ve been doing for 11 years as a stand-up is having problems with authority and not liking to be told what to do.’ – Anthony Jeselnik
‘Part of making any endeavour is that each one has its own special problems. It’s the nature of the process.’ – Martin Scorsese
‘Everybody that wants to work out wants to feel good and look better, but I think one of the biggest problems people have is they don’t want to work out with a personal trainer, someone like myself, or even a couple of buddies, because they think, ‘Gosh, if I work out too hard, I’m not going to be able to get up the next day!” – Phil Heath
‘I went to the doctor on the advice of some people that work closely with me and found out that I was suffering from thyroid problems as well as low testosterone problems.’ – James Toney
‘The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.’ – Susan Sontag
‘Thought is constantly creating problems that way and then trying to solve them. But as it tries to solve them it makes it worse because it doesn’t notice that it’s creating them, and the more it thinks, the more problems it creates.’ – David Bohm
‘We don’t want to put a band-aid on our problems that we keep talking about in society; we want to get down to the nitty gritty and do some surgery.’ – Allan Houston
‘I don’t think that John Kerry is the Messiah or the Democratic Party is the answer, but I don’t like the evangelical community blessing the Republican Party as some kind of God-ordained instrument for solving the world’s problems.’ – Tony Campolo
‘I feel it is urgently necessary to train people who are capable of tackling the various problems we face today in regards to environmental turmoil and the relevancy of clothing.’ – Issey Miyake
‘Science has the potential to solve all kinds of problems, but it depends on what a society wants to accomplish.’ – George M. Whitesides
‘Throughout Manchester United’s history, we always come up with answers to problems. Big stars come and go, but still, the team keep producing the same performances.’ – Park Ji-sung
‘I don’t need therapy. I’m not going to see a therapist; comedy acts as my therapy. I put my problems out there. I talk about them. I talk about everything before anybody has a chance.’ – Kevin Hart
‘A genocide in Africa has not received the same attention that genocide in Europe or genocide in Turkey or genocide in other part of the world. There is still this kind of basic discrimination against the African people and the African problems.’ – Boutros Boutros-Ghali
‘For many people, being asked to solve their own retirement savings problems is like being asked to build their own cars.’ – Richard Thaler
‘The roots of the problems we face in the world, in our national life, and in our family and personal lives are spiritual.’ – Stephen Covey
‘I’ve often thought of successful entrepreneurs as individuals who have just the right expertise – at just the right moment – to solve the emerging problems of their time.’ – Kenneth C. Griffin
‘Shortly after that, we got management problems over in England, and Judas Priest asked me to join.’ – Glenn Tipton
‘Too often, people think that solving the world’s problems is based on conquering the earth, rather than touching the earth, touching ground.’ – Chogyam Trungpa
‘There are no problems in the world. There are just situations. Some situations you know how to handle. Some you do not know how to handle.’ – Jaggi Vasudev
‘We’re living in a whole new social and economic order with a whole new set of problems and challenges. Old assumptions and old programs don’t work in this new society and the more we try to stretch them to make them fit, the more we will be seen as running away from what is reality.’ – Ann Richards
‘Walking is my main method of relaxation. I don’t go over my lines or try to solve the world’s problems, I just enjoy the scenery and the wildlife.’ – Kevin Whately
‘I believe I can solve others’ problems. It’s great when it works, but for the most part, it’s very unappealing.’ – Ann Patchett
‘Suspense films are often based on communication problems, and that affects all of the plot points. It almost gives it kind of a fable feeling.’ – Ira Sachs
‘One of the enduring problems with certain societies in the world – and this is certainly true of a lot of places in the Middle East – is that the capacity for self-governance and self-organizing just isn’t there. It has to do with history.’ – P. J. O’Rourke
‘I’ve had back problems basically my whole career.’ – Ronnie Coleman
‘Technology will definitely solve all our problems, but in the process it will create brand new ones. But that’s O.K. because the most you can expect from life is to get to solve better and better problems.’ – Scott Adams
‘I had some problems with fidelity in my life but pretty much got along with everybody.’ – O. J. Simpson
‘For that story, I took as my subject a young woman whom I got to know over the course of a couple of visits. I never saw her having any health problems – but I knew she wanted to be married.’ – Jhumpa Lahiri
‘My own way of thinking is to ponder long and I hope deeply on problems and for a long time which I keep away for years and years and I never really let them go.’ – Roger Penrose
‘Wasting brain power ruminating about things you can’t control drains mental energy quickly. The more you think about problems you can’t solve, the less energy you’ll have leftover for more productive endeavors.’ – Amy Morin
‘No guns but only brotherhood can resolve the problems.’ – Atal Bihari Vajpayee
‘When you have different kinds of scientific and mathematical minds approaching problems, you will get more solutions. This leads to more innovation and more creative design.’ – Eileen Pollack
‘We are really the victims of our own problems.’ – Jimmy Greaves
‘I’ve always had problems with my brain, so a lot of the songs are about issues I have with paranoia or freak-outs. ‘When My Head Explodes’ is about being on stage, having people look at you and expecting you to perform, then literally your head explodes.’ – Ty Segall
‘Syria, for all its problems, at least has a constitution that guarantees equal protection of citizens. Around the world, we have seen that this is essential where Christians are a minority and are not protected.’ – Franklin Graham
‘There are some problems on this planet that seem to be intractable.’ – Richard Gere
‘Mental health can improve overall well-being and prevent other illnesses. And since mental health problems have a serious economic impact on vulnerable communities, making them a priority can save lives and markedly improve people’s quality of life.’ – Vikram Patel
‘I get stubborn and dig in when people tell me I can’t do something and I think I can. It goes back to my childhood when I had problems in school because I have a learning disability.’ – Ann Bancroft
‘I think our problems are inherently unsolvable. We need to change our genetic make-up or create computers that will think us out of it. I don’t think humans are able to deal with what we have.’ – Neill Blomkamp
‘When government programs aren’t working, those on the Left tend to support more funding, while those on the Right want to scrap them altogether. It is better to ask whether the problem is complexity and poor design. We can solve those problems – sometimes without spending a penny.’ – Cass Sunstein
‘It is hard to read a newspaper or watch a television newscast without encountering someone who has come up with a new ‘solution’ to society’s ‘problems.” – Thomas Sowell
‘The natural capital is not income, but we spend our natural capital as if it were revenue, as if it were going to come back next year without any problems, whereas these renewals in nature can take hundreds of years.’ – Susan George
‘Because kids are physically smaller, there’s an assumption by people who haven’t read a kids’ book for a long time that their ideas and themes and problems and ambitions must be commensurately smaller and less important. I would venture that sometimes the opposite is true.’ – Morris Gleitzman
‘If critics have problems with my personal life, it’s their problem. Anybody with half a brain would realize that it’s the charts that count.’ – Mariah Carey
‘One must recognise what all religious people know, which is that human beings are imperfect and fallen and there’s no way in which they alone can surmount the problems which they create.’ – Roger Scruton
‘There are many countries in the world that when they reached the middle-income stage, they witnessed serious structural problems such as growth stagnation, a widening wealth gap and increasing social unrest.’ – Li Keqiang
‘I think an old style of addressing environmental problems is ebbing, but the rise of the so-called conservative, political movement in this country is not a trend towards the future but a reaction to this very broad shift that we are undergoing.’ – Paul Hawken
‘I have no problems with private schools. I graduated from one and so did my mother. Private schools are useful and we often use public funds to pay for their infrastructures and other common needs.’ – Jim Clyburn
‘One of my sensory problems was hearing sensitivity, where certain loud noises, such as a school bell, hurt my ears. It sounded like a dentist drill going through my ears.’ – Temple Grandin
‘Techno-optimism is a belief in the power of technology to extend our sphere of possibilities and, ultimately, a belief that technology helps us solve and transcend problems, limitations and obstacles.’ – Jason Silva
‘My earliest books focus almost entirely on psychological tools to help readers employ effective commonsense approaches to problems. There are no references to God or a higher self in the first 15 or so years of my publishing history.’ – Wayne Dyer
‘There are absolutely no problems between me, my dad and my sister. Obviously I grew up with just my mum, but my relationship with my dad is just fine.’ – Norah Jones
‘We had every problems starting a big top could have. The tent fell down on the first day. We had problems getting people into the shows. It was only with the courage and arrogance of youth that we survived.’ – Guy Laliberte
‘Indian polity has failed to provide solutions to the common man’s problems.’ – Arvind Kejriwal
‘Narrow your life down to this moment. Your life situation may be full of problems – most life situations are – but find out if you have a problem at this moment. Do you have a problem now?’ – Eckhart Tolle
‘When people come to Jamaica, we don’t want them to think about the problems of Jamaica. So let them come be in their paradise.’ – Ziggy Marley
‘The world presents enough problems if you believe it to be a world of law and order; do not add to them by believing it to be a world of miracles.’ – Louis D. Brandeis
‘Music should be made to make people forget their problems, if only for a short while.’ – Chuck Berry
‘Blockchain should be used to address opportunities and problems that lack easier answers.’ – Julie Sweet
‘India may be a land of over a 100 problems, but it is also a place for a billion solutions.’ – Kailash Satyarthi
‘People in my world can be disdainful of political and social problems and solutions. But we’re never going to stop needing those.’ – Randall Munroe
‘A successful person isn’t necessarily better than her less successful peers at solving problems; her pattern-recognition facilities have just learned what problems are worth solving.’ – Ray Kurzweil
‘I’m a very lucky guy. I had so many people help me over the years that I never had many problems. If I had a problem, I could sit down with someone and they would explain the problem to me, and the problem become like a baseball game.’ – Willie Mays
‘We have many big problems we need to address in this nation – saving our homes, finding jobs that support our families, plugging into new sources of energy. The way we solve them is to think, talk, debate and work to advance solutions.’ – Maya Wiley
‘During election time, I work over 21 hours. My day starts around 6 A.M., and I address meetings through the day. Between 10 P.M. and 2 A.M., I meet local leaders, where we discuss local issues and local problems.’ – Sharad Pawar
‘We wanted to solve robot problems and needed some vision, action, reasoning, planning, and so forth. We even used some structural learning, such as was being explored by Patrick Winston.’ – Marvin Minsky
‘It sets its face rightfully against the doctrines of the Anarchist and the Communist, who seek to solve the social problems not by patient endeavor, but by brutal destruction.’ – Henry Cabot Lodge
‘There’s nobody who doesn’t have problems with the church, because there’s sin in the church. But there’s no other place to be a Christian except the church.’ – Eugene H. Peterson
‘If the point of the inner-child movement is to cure adult problems, it doesn’t work. Reliving childhood traumas gives you a nice afterglow, but it lasts only for hours or days. There is no evidence it changes adult problems.’ – Martin Seligman
‘With everything that’s thrown at you, whether it be problems at home, problems at work – whatever – basically, if you remain positive, you can see your way out of that.’ – Sean Paul
‘What do lawyers learn in law school? They learn to win… What we’ve got to start thinking about is how do we solve problems.’ – Ben Carson
‘I have already reached out to the janata, and I am only trying to acquaint myself with people’s problems.’ – Indira Gandhi
‘And what I wanted to do was, I wanted to explore problems and areas where we didn’t have answers. In fact, where we didn’t even know the right questions to ask.’ – Donald Johanson
‘Child psychology and animal psychology are of relatively slight importance, as compared with the sciences which deal with the corresponding physiological problems of ontogeny and phylogeny.’ – Wilhelm Wundt
‘Good architecture should be a projection of life itself, and that implies an intimate knowledge of biological, social, technical, and artistic problems.’ – Walter Gropius
‘Did you know that nearly one in three children live apart from their biological dads? Those kids are two to three times more likely to grow up in poverty, to suffer in school, and to have health and behavioral problems.’ – Tony Dungy
‘Really you just gotta keep chugging along and keep a positive attitude and get through all the problems. You gotta face them, otherwise you don’t get through.’ – Lesley Gore
‘Most of my books have caused distribution and printing problems in the past.’ – Peter Sotos
‘I think that in some ways everybody is like Roger. Everybody thinks that when their friends have a problem, that they know the answer and that it’s much easier to analyze the problems of other people than your own.’ – Jennifer Beals
‘The studies indicate that focusing our attention on someone else, takes our mind off of our own problems. We stay healthier and thereby live longer.’ – Allen Klein
‘We cannot solve life’s problems except by solving them.’ – M. Scott Peck
‘I feel it’s part of my job to make the problems of the poor compelling.’ – Paul Farmer
‘It can feel like your whole world is caving in on you, and if you don’t speak about it, it gets worse. You have to talk about your problems.’ – James Arthur
‘The Middle East is literally going up in flames, as is California, and Katrina’s problems haven’t been solved, and Congress’ response is to criticize Federal judges.’ – Alcee Hastings
‘As I obsess about my ancient problems, I feel more like I’m sinking in quicksand than lighting a torch. I’m creating neither heat nor light, just the icky, perversely pleasurable squish of self-pity between my toes. My only defense is that I’m not the only one down here in the muck – our whole culture is doting on tales of personal tragedy.’ – Martha Beck
‘Getting to profitability does not mean all our problems are solved.’ – Julia Hartz
‘I am a person who never talks about my problems with anyone. I don’t discuss them with my dad because he gets hyper. So I choose not to.’ – Sooraj Pancholi
‘One of the problems with computers, particularly for the older people, is they were befuddled by them, and the computers have gotten better. They have gotten easier to use. They have gotten less expensive. The software interfaces have made things a lot more accessible.’ – Steve Case
‘The extreme weakness of quantum gravitational effects now poses some philosophical problems; maybe nature is trying to tell us something new here: maybe we should not try to quantize gravity.’ – Richard P. Feynman
‘Total physical and mental inertia are highly agreeable, much more so than we allow ourselves to imagine. A beach not only permits such inertia but enforces it, thus neatly eliminating all problems of guilt. It is now the only place in our overly active world that does.’ – John Kenneth Galbraith
‘The genesis of a poem for me is usually a cluster of words. The only good metaphor I can think of is a scientific one: dipping a thread into a supersaturated solution to induce crystal formation. I don’t think I solve problems in my poetry; I think I uncover the problems.’ – Margaret Atwood
‘I think ageing demographics is a bigger issue in China than people think. And the problems it creates should be become evident as early as 2016.’ – Stanley Druckenmiller
‘I prefer to talk about our problems, to be proud of them, in place of trying to hide them. Because you can’t. And I prefer to dance, to smile on it, to laugh on it.’ – Stromae
‘Everybody has problems.’ – Tanya Tucker
‘We’ll lose more species of plants and animals between 2000 and 2065 than we’ve lost in the last 65 million years. If we don’t find answers to these problems, we’re gonna be victims of this extinction event that we’re at fault for.’ – Paul Watson
‘The second truism that we must understand is that poverty does not create our social problems, our social problems create our poverty.’ – Marco Rubio
‘We call our little girls bossy. Go to a playground; little girls get called bossy all the time – a word that’s almost never used for boys – and that leads directly to the problems women face in the workforce.’ – Sheryl Sandberg
‘I endured many weeks of it, but I had a big background in martial arts and fighting as a kid, so kind of all the problems got brushed away and I was ready.’ – Jason Statham
‘Wars generally do not resolve the problems for which they are fought and therefore… prove ultimately futile.’ – Pope John Paul II
‘My poet’s heart gives me strength to face political problems, particularly those which have a bearing on my conscience.’ – Atal Bihari Vajpayee
‘A lot of people have problems with public confrontation, but it doesn’t worry me at all. I can handle myself. I know my martial arts.’ – Pink
‘When you’ve been raised in care, rap music isn’t just about guns and sexism. They’re talking about real things you can hang on to, problems of identity that you have sympathy with. It’s not just about the music, with rap: when I was in care, it meant a whole lot more than that.’ – Samantha Morton
‘One of the key principles of Trumponomics is that faster economic growth can help solve a multitude of other social and economic problems, from poverty to inner-city decline to lowering the national debt.’ – Stephen Moore
‘One of the problems with the identification of Christianity with love is how such a view turns out to be both anti-Semitic and anti-Catholic. The Jews and Catholics become identified with the law or dogma, in contrast to Protestant Christians, who are about love.’ – Stanley Hauerwas
‘It was used for decades to describe talented computer enthusiasts, people whose skill at using computers to solve technical problems and puzzles was – and is – respected and admired by others possessing similar technical skills.’ – Kevin Mitnick
‘I always say leave things at the door. Whether it’s at your audition or at your house, leave the problems of the day away. Keep persevering, stick to yourself. Don’t do what other people ask, do what you want!’ – Jenna Ushkowitz
‘Most people are basically a victim of the circumstances of their life. They have things like 9/11, they have terrorism threats, they have new war threats, they have economy problems, and they think, ‘What can I do? I’m basically a victim.” – Stephen Covey
‘Like most parents, Gloria and I had to deal with the problems of rebellion in our children. We realized that it had to be stopped quickly before it developed into a serious situation.’ – Kenneth Copeland
‘I see no way out of the problems that organized religion and tribalism create other than humans just becoming more honest and fully aware of themselves.’ – E. O. Wilson
‘Despite being commonplace, too many people with mental health problems still face stigma, prejudice and discrimination.’ – Luciana Berger
‘I’m witnessing the problems that the federal government is passing down in terms of drones, in violation of our civil liberties, spying on our citizens, death panels in the form of the government taking over the health care system and the national debt they’re just saddling our grandchildren with.’ – Matt Rosendale
‘I have dealt with lots of teens in my show and the big problems teenagers are facing is the impact of social media in all forms, as it seems like it has a heavy negative influence on them. Social media sites feed narcissistic behaviour and the need to be popular and they are being bombarded with half-truths and some facts.’ – Jo Frost
‘Cities are not problems. They are solutions.’ – Jaime Lerner
‘The most important problems we face are complex, and require sustained attention. But we don’t speak in terms of nuance or complexity. Is that by accident? It’s because our minds have been entrained to expect shorter and shorter bite-sized bits.’ – Tristan Harris
‘You don’t lose weight by watching someone else exercise. You don’t learn by watching someone else solve problems. It became clear to me that the only way to do online learning effectively is to have students solve problems.’ – Sebastian Thrun
‘Mum came to Crawley from Sri Lanka at 19 after marrying my dad. Later, Dad had financial problems and they split for a while.’ – Romesh Ranganathan
‘There is in my opinion a great similarity between the problems provided by the mysterious behavior of the atom and those provided by the present economic paradoxes confronting the world.’ – Paul Dirac
‘I completely understand why people are concerned about immigration. There’s no silver bullet, no one thing you can do to suddenly deal with all the problems and concerns with immigration, and that includes leaving the E.U.’ – Theresa May
‘We’re still talking about women’s rights. We can’t be the greatest country in the world. I think once we lose that illusionary veil of thinking that we are, we can face the problems and really try to fix them.’ – Aldis Hodge
‘I am ready to go super bold. I would like to thank not just my husband but even my in-laws, who have had no problems with my bold characters. You may find it surprising that we all discuss my scripts on the dining table.’ – Kirti Kulhari
‘In a way, I had a very good and normal childhood. I had loving and caring parents. But I had a lot of quirks or problems when I was growing up. I had phobias and obsessions.’ – Elyn Saks
‘You’re always going to have a Dez Bryant somewhere in the league, somebody who has to go through some off-the-field problems in order to reach his potential.’ – Cris Carter
‘I must try and break through the cliches about Latin America. Superpowers and other outsiders have fought over us for centuries in ways that have nothing to do with our problems. In reality we are all alone.’ – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
‘To my mind, the best SF addresses itself to problems of the here and now, or even to problems which have never been solved and never will be solved – I’m thinking of Philip K. Dick’s work here, dealing with questions of reality, for example.’ – John Sladek
‘Populist promises to reverse every tough decision are nothing but empty rhetoric, irresponsible leadership, and bad politics. They are not the solution to Ireland’s problems.’ – Enda Kenny
‘The blockchain is a distributed network that solves all the problems that we have of finance, but more broadly, it’s like a philosophy. It’s a way of life.’ – Mike Cernovich
‘My experiences building Palantir and running Addepar made me aware of serious problems with government and inspired me to build a non-profit to look into state spending.’ – Joe Lonsdale
‘If the terrorists have the sympathy of people, it’s much harder to find them. So we need people on our side, and that leads us to be responsible leaders of the world, show some concern with the problems.’ – George Soros
‘We cannot pretend we do not have problems; we cannot pretend things are not wrong in our country. A lot of things are wrong.’ – Winnie Madikizela-Mandela
‘The solutions to our problems are and always will be based upon universal, timeless, self-evident principles common to every enduring, prospering society throughout history.’ – Stephen Covey
‘And finally, no matter how good the science gets, there are problems that inevitably depend on judgement, on art, on a feel for financial markets.’ – Martin Feldstein
‘The Negro problem, like all other political problems, is fundamentally a moral issue. This is realism, not idealism. Those of my colleagues who believe that they are particularly ‘hard boiled’ because they overlook the fact that human beings are struggling for their consciences are simply unrealistic.’ – Gunnar Myrdal
‘Entrepreneurship transparency, I think, is important because there are so many problems that you just have to be real about them. There are so many ways for a startup to die, so the transparency attitude is key.’ – David Cohen
‘Health care organizations don’t ask us to interface to every type of module because they understand that it could cause safety problems.’ – Judith Faulkner
‘I think if I heard someone else talking about their life, describing all the problems I’ve had, they’d look like they were through. Done. But there’s something about me – I’m smiling. Those things are really not bad enough to put me in a slump. I’m smiling with the opportunity to wake up every morning.’ – Nas
‘We have problems with our physical security, operational security through to management.’ – Kevin Mitnick
‘Anger does not solve problems – anger only makes things worse. I go by the old saying, ‘Don’t make important decisions when you’re angry.” – Lionel Sosa
‘When I was a kid, a pickleball hit me in the back of the head, and I had memory problems. I was in a boarding school and the nuns gave me poems to remember to try and get the memory going again.’ – C. C. H. Pounder
‘If one looks at the different problems of the integral calculus which arise naturally when one wishes to go deep into the different parts of physics, it is impossible not to be struck by the analogies existing.’ – Henri Poincare
‘There are two problems for our species’ survival – nuclear war and environmental catastrophe – and we’re hurtling towards them. Knowingly.’ – Noam Chomsky
‘The real problem is what to do with the problem-solvers after the problems are solved.’ – Gay Talese
‘I want a pit crew… I hate the procedure I currently have to go through when I have car problems.’ – Dave Barry
‘It is hard to convince a high-school student that he will encounter a lot of problems more difficult than those of algebra and geometry.’ – E. W. Howe
‘The basic problems facing the world today are not susceptible to a military solution.’ – John F. Kennedy
‘It is only because of problems that we grow mentally and spiritually.’ – M. Scott Peck
‘The problems seem so easy out there on the stump. Deficits shrink with a rhetorical flourish.’ – Hugh Sidey
‘The very concept of history implies the scholar and the reader. Without a generation of civilized people to study history, to preserve its records, to absorb its lessons and relate them to its own problems, history, too, would lose its meaning.’ – George F. Kennan
‘There is nothing so good for the human soul as the discovery that there are ancient and flourishing civilized societies which have somehow managed to exist for many centuries and are still in being though they have had no help from the traveler in solving their problems.’ – Walter Lippmann
‘I was a Navy officer writing about Navy problems and I simply stole this lovely Army nurse and popped her into a Navy uniform, where she has done very well for herself.’ – James A. Michener
‘Problems look mighty small from 150 miles up.’ – Roger B. Chaffee
‘Recounting of a life story, a mind thinking aloud leads one inevitably to the consideration of problems which are no longer psychological but spiritual.’ – Paul Tournier
‘Think as you work, for in the final analysis, your worth to your company comes not only in solving problems, but also in anticipating them.’ – Harold Ross
‘There are no insoluble problems. Only time-consuming ones.’ – James A. Michener
‘The problems with First Ladies is that you have to set the standard. My role is to be both star and slave.’ – Imelda Marcos
‘You don’t realize how useful a therapist is until you see yourself on e and discover you have more problems than you ever dreamed of.’ – Claire Danes
‘Black women don’t have the same body image problems as white women. They are proud of their bodies.’ – Tyra Banks
‘Global capital markets pose the same kinds of problems that jet planes do. They are faster, more comfortable, and they get you where you are going better. But the crashes are much more spectacular.’ – Lawrence Summers
‘We have the means and the capacity to deal with our problems, if only we can find the political will.’ – Kofi Annan
‘It is reasonable to expect the doctor to recognize that science may not have all the answers to problems of health and healing.’ – Norman Cousins
‘Warmaking doesn’t stop warmaking. If it did, our problems would have stopped millennia ago.’ – Colman McCarthy
‘This country has far more problems than it deserves and far more solutions than it applies.’ – Ralph Nader
‘All marriages are happy. It’s trying to live together afterwards that causes all the problems.’ – Shelley Winters
‘There are plenty of problems in the world, many of them interconnected. But there is no problem which compares with this central, universal problem of saving the human race from extinction.’ – John Foster Dulles
‘What a player does best, he should practice least. Practice is for problems.’ – Duke Snider
‘Here is the secret of inspiration: Tell yourself that thousands and tens of thousands of people, not very intelligent and certainly no more intelligent than the rest of us, have mastered problems as difficult as those that now baffle you.’ – William Feather
‘It is characteristic of all deep human problems that they are not to be approached without some humor and some bewilderment.’ – Freeman Dyson
‘The human brain must continue to frame the problems for the electronic machine to solve.’ – David Sarnoff
‘The man who is forever disturbed about the condition of humanity either has no problems of his own or has refused to face them.’ – Henry Miller
‘More than ever before, Americans are suffering from back problems: back taxes, back rent, back auto payments.’ – Robert Orben
‘Science has not solved problems, only shifted the points of problems.’ – Charles Henry Parkhurst
‘I don’t believe war is a way to solve problems. I think it’s wrong. I don’t have respect for the people that made the decisions to go on with war. I don’t have that much respect for Bush. He’s about war, I’m not about war – a lot of people aren’t about war.’ – Avril Lavigne
‘No use to shout at them to pay attention. If the situations, the materials, the problems before the child do not interest him, his attention will slip off to what does interest him, and no amount of exhortation of threats will bring it back.’ – John Holt
‘The new rage is to say that the government is the cause of all our problems, and if only we had no government, we’d have no problems. I can tell you, that contradicts evidence, history, and common sense.’ – William J. Clinton
‘There is no miracle cure for the many problems of the world.’ – Guy Verhofstadt
‘We will learn together how to solve the problems of the country.’ – Nestor Kirchner
‘For too long we have swept the problems of mental illness under the carpet… and hoped that they would go away.’ – Richard J. Codey
‘Money should not, and must not, change our commitment to solving problems and building this state.’ – Dave Freudenthal
‘Real leadership means tackling tough problems ourselves and not leaving them to our children.’ – Jon Kyl
‘Many soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan suffer from serious, long-term, physical and mental health problems, due to their service. It is unconscionable to cut the already limited health care benefits available to these brave men and women.’ – Mark Dayton
‘Foreign policy will require a strategic agility that, whenever possible, gets ahead of problems, strengthens U.S. security and alliances, and promotes American interests and credibility.’ – Chuck Hagel
‘I submit that those who run the American military at the top, and those whose boots are on the ground and who run the machinery and equipment, are sending a signal: You asked us to do something. Give us some time and we will solve the problems and we will do it.’ – Pete Domenici
‘Funding privatized accounts with Social Security dollars would not only make the program’s long term problems worse, but many believe it represents a first step toward undermining the program’s fundamental goals.’ – Patty Murray
‘One of the key problems today is that politics is such a disgrace, good people don’t go into government.’ – Donald Trump
‘Sadly, the President’s budget proposal for the upcoming year once again puts cutting taxes for the wealthiest Americans over addressing our country’s severe fiscal problems.’ – Carl Levin
‘Government alone cannot solve the problems we deal with in our correctional facilities, treatment centers, homeless shelters and crisis centers – we need our faith-based and community partners.’ – Dirk Kempthorne
‘The government has made $44 trillion in promises we can’t afford to keep. We must get serious now about our long-term budgetary problems, recognizing that the sooner we act, the less painful the choices will be.’ – Judd Gregg
‘While it is important to maintain a balanced approach to solving our nation’s energy problems, we must commit ourselves to recognize some areas as ‘off limits,’ and the Artic National Wildlife Reserve is a national symbol of that commitment.’ – Ken Salazar
‘Instead of begging OPEC to drop its oil prices, let’s use American leadership and ingenuity to solve our own energy problems.’ – Pete Domenici
‘The U.N. can be very frustrating and at times impotent, but it can also be a valuable forum for discussion and resolution of world problems. We should not walk away from it just because it’s failed to live up to its promise.’ – Robert Foster Bennett
‘It’s time to look beyond the budget ax to assure access to health care for all. It’s time to look for bipartisan solutions to the problems we can tackle today, and to work together for tomorrow – building a health care system that works for all Americans.’ – Ron Wyden
‘I want to say this about my state. When Strom Thurmond ran for president, we voted for him. We’re proud of it. And if the rest of the country had followed our lead, we wouldn’t have had all these problems over all these years either.’ – Trent Lott
‘It is not advantageous for Russia in its present state to fight against Chechnya. The army is a mess. It must be made combat ready. That will take time. Russia has a lot of economic, social and political problems much more important than Chechnya.’ – Aslan Maskhadov
‘It is a sore point, because you do have advantages if you have access to more than one language. You also have problems, because on bad days you don’t trust yourself, either in your first or your second language, and so you feel like a complete halfwit.’ – W. G. Sebald
‘Brazil has rediscovered itself, and this rediscovery is being expressed in its people’s enthusiasm and their desire to mobilize to face the huge problems that lie ahead of us.’ – Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva
‘The decisions and problems of Uruguay will be resolved by Uruguayans.’ – Tabare Vazquez
‘In Britain, because I live here, I can also run into problems of envy and competition. But all this is just in a day’s work for a writer. You can’t put stuff out there without someone calling you a complete fool. Oh, well.’ – Alain de Botton
‘We didn’t do anything wrong, but among the lessons learned, given the magnitude of the problems we now face in Afghanistan, a major U.S. force on the ground would convince the world we were in for the long-haul recovery of a country devastated by 21 years of warfare.’ – Alexander Haig
‘One cannot escape the harsh fact that as a ministerial profession, the priesthood has very serious problems. They are not new. They did not develop yesterday or last year.’ – Andrew Greeley
‘I’ve been working at performing for five years now. I’ve been working in Australia and Spain and England. When I was only 15 or 16, 1 was performing in bars; I could have had legal problems, but it’s also the only way to get to know what music is all about.’ – Andy Gibb
‘I’d rather have happiness than money. People ask for it. Sometimes when I don’t have it. I make other people’s problems my problem because they want me to; they ask me to.’ – Brenda Fassie
‘In all my novels, I deal with the many problems and prejudices which exist for Black people in Britain today.’ – Buchi Emecheta
‘I got problems. I freak out, go to a shrink, go through all kinds of therapy and stuff, but I’m learning how to deal with it. That’s why I’ve chosen one hour a night to get all of my aggressions out. to really tell the world the way I feel.’ – Jonathan Davis
‘I like real problems, the human condition – twisted, darker stuff.’ – Drea De Matteo
‘People think when you get a record deal all your problems will go away. We know that the bigger we get, the more problems we’ll have. I guess Puff Daddy was somewhat – what’s the word? – prophetic in that respect.’ – Brad Delson
‘After spending three years of my life looking into this, I am more convinced than ever that the U.S. government’s responsibility for the drug problems in South Central Los Angeles and other inner cities is greater than I ever wrote in the newspaper.’ – Gary Webb
‘I know that we shall meet problems along the way, but I’d far rather see for myself what’s going on in the world outside, than rely on newspapers, television, politicians and religious leaders to tell me what I should be thinking.’ – Michael Palin
‘I’ve often had people ask me, would you allow a homosexual to be your friend. Yes, I will. And the reason I will is because I know that that person has problems, and if I can minister to those problems, I will.’ – Reggie White
‘In and after 1964 when I began to concern myself with the biological issues, and particularly from 1967 onwards, the extent of the problems over which I felt uneasy increased to such a point that in 1968 I felt a compelling urge to make my views public.’ – Andrei Sakharov
‘My present work concerns the problems connected with the theory of elementary particles, the theory of gravitation and cosmology and I shall be glad if I can manage to make some contribution to these important branches of science.’ – Andrei Sakharov
‘We’re also fairly stubborn, I think, fairly independent. We have our share of difficulties with our federal government, although I’ve tried to as I am here encourage a better way of discussing those problems.’ – Dan Miller
‘My view is that while you do occasionally have differences you ought to have a process where you can sit down and talk about things. How else do you solve problems?’ – Dan Miller
‘I like characters with problems. I like to understand them… To play alcoholics, fetishists, strange girls, you have to dig deep within yourself. It’s ‘elsewhere’ that interests me.’ – Marie Trintignant
‘We have no quarrel with America. We all know NATO is the strongest military machine in the world. We simply want them to stop being so busy with our country and worry about their own problems.’ – Slobodan Milosevic
‘One of Brando’s problems is that he can’t have a conversation with anyone.’ – Peter Bart
‘Remarkable is the greater openness of the Catholic Church towards people of other religious traditions and persuasions. The development has not been without problems, since some people have resisted it and others have pushed openness beyond the desirable point.’ – Francis Arinze
‘The biggest problems with movies are expectations.’ – Frank Oz
‘Surely, serious problems can’t be solved just by talking about them.’ – Nigel Short
‘A lot of the problems teenagers go through, it’s better for them to go through them on their own. If you always have a crutch, you don’t learn anything.’ – Ben Savage
‘Twenty-five years ago, the notion was you could create a general problem-solver software that could solve problems in many different domains. That just turned out to be totally wrong.’ – Howard Gardner
‘If we follow the traditional way of thought, there will always be traditional enemies. Extremist circles from both sides will find causes to give rise to problems.’ – Fatos Nano
‘I must tell you, I haven’t done the drug problem that is faced by cops and people on the border. It’s a hard show to do, but I think it’s going to say a lot about drugs and the problems related to them. I just hope people can watch it, it’s a pretty strong show.’ – Aaron Spelling
‘It would be naive to imagine we have solved all our income security problems simply because the roles of the federal and provincial governments in the area of skills training have been clarified.’ – Kim Campbell
‘I’m very fortunate in that I don’t have money problems. I have lunch with my wife at home. I don’t have to commute, so I have much more time with my family.’ – Kazuo Ishiguro
‘One of the great problems of the world today is undoubtedly this problem of not being able to talk to scientists, because we don’t understand science; they can’t talk to us because they don’t understand anything else, poor dears.’ – Michael Flanders
‘It must be able to assist in devising the method of solution of problems and not merely solve them.’ – Cliff Shaw
‘We never had a huge squad and we never had a great deal of choice. But in many ways that helps because you’ve got to make do with what you’ve got. You don’t have too many problems about picking the team you just hope that everyone turns up on the day.’ – Jack Charlton
‘I always knew I wanted to be a character in the movies. When I was growing up, I had to have a lot of surgery, and I spent a lot of time recovering at home and in the hospital. Watching movies took me away from my own problems and gave me a total escape.’ – Josh Ryan Evans
‘One of the problems that we are confronted with is, when we decide to buy or build a home, we don’t get a clear picture of what closing costs will be of that home.’ – Alphonso Jackson
‘I think there’s a great beauty to having problems. That’s one of the ways we learn.’ – Herbie Hancock
‘She’s true to herself and she’s determined. She has things going against her, but she forges ahead despite all of that. I think that’s encouraging. She’s got some problems, but she has hope and tries to plow through things. I think that’s a good role model.’ – Molly Shannon
‘I believe in supporting African solutions to African problems.’ – Donald M. Payne
‘Social Security faces financial problems down the road because of demographics.’ – John S. Tanner
‘Teens are dealing with the same problems now in the ’90s as they did back in the ’70s, the only real difference is the clothes we wear!’ – Mila Kunis
‘One cannot legislate problems out of existence. It has been tried.’ – Norman Ralph Augustine