Mohnish Pabrai Quotes
The problem most nonprofits have is that they are run by romantics who are great to hang out with, but they have no clue.
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What can you do if a part of it is uphill? You can't work out another route. You've just got to run the one they give you. But they tell me London is a nice course. Even the cobbles, I hope, are not very much of a problem for me.
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The problem is that rap is so often a caricature of its own image. Nobody comes to the table with the seriousness of the effect that it can have; nobody is prepared for that.
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The problem is too often they are boring, and boring in a meeting happens for the same reason as in a book or movie - when there is not enough compelling tension. Meetings should be intense.
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The most vexing problem Israel faces is its relations with its neighbors. From the inception of the state until today, Israelis have felt besieged, surrounded by enemies who want to make them disappear.
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We don't have a public that really understands the world anymore, and in the age of complexity, that problem becomes much more difficult.
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Where I am right now I'm pretty good at. You know, I understand that there's a problem. I'm addressing it. I'm doing the work that I have to do.
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We mostly feel fearful because we feel powerless. We feel powerless, I contend, because of a style of thinking that splits information in two poles that makes us lose all the operative information we need to solve the problem.
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It is not a dirty word, "feminism." I just think that women belong in the human population with the same rights as everybody else... The problem is, "A feminist looks like this, or is like that." We are taught not to like ourselves as women, we are taught what we're supposed to look like, what our measurements are supposed to be. I never hear what measurements men are supposed to be. Just women.
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Don’t just look at the problem that you face; look at the reason behind it
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The game, let's say, of trying to state photographic problems is, for me, absolutely fascinating.
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I don't go to church regular. But I pray for answers to my problems.
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To me there's no creativity without boundaries. If you're gonna write a sonnet, it's 14 lines, so it's solving the problem within the container.
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The distance between the actual developmental level as determined by independent problem solving and the level of potential development as determined through problem solving under adult guidance or in collaboration with more capable peers.
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Problems are the cutting edge that distinguishes between success and failure. Problems ... create our courage and wisdom.
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We need not wait for the world to become more mystical; the world is mystical. Our problem is not that the world lacks magic; our problem is that we don't believe in its magic. We do not show up fully for life, and then wonder why life is not showing up more fully for us.
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No problem is insoluble, given a big enough plastic bag.
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Our problem is not that we aim too high and miss, but that we aim too low and hit.
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Gold has intrinsic value. The problem with the dollar is it has no intrinsic value. And if the Federal Reserve is going to spend trillions of them to buy up all these bad mortgages and all other kinds of bad debt, the dollar is going to lose all of its value. Gold will store its value, and you'll always be able to buy more food with your gold.
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Again and again, the impossible problem is solved when we see that the problem is only a tough decision waiting to be made.
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Those who staying with the wrong reward, long enough will get problem.
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Now let me step back from the problem and very generally discuss natural selection and what we know about it. I think it is safe to say that we know for sure that natural selection, as a process, does work. There is a mountain of experimental and observational evidence, much of it predating genetics, which shows that natural selection as a biological process works.
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Men deal with life as children with their play, Who first misuse, then cast their toys away.
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God is everywhere: yes, but how dim faith is, what a remote idea heaven is, in the modern world!
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The problem most nonprofits have is that they are run by romantics who are great to hang out with, but they have no clue.
