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.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • Work
  • Hope
  • Me

• 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.

  

  Keinan Abdi Warsame
  • Problem
  • Rap
  • Nobody

• 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.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • Book
  • Movie
  • Problem

• 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.

  

  Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
  • Today
  • Want
  • Problem

• We don't have a public that really understands the world anymore, and in the age of complexity, that problem becomes much more difficult.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • World
  • Age
  • Problem

• 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.

  

  Daniel Baldwin
  • Good
  • Work
  • Pretty

• 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.

  

  Patricia Sun
  • Thinking
  • Problem
  • Style

• 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.

  

  Cyndi Lauper Blue Angel
  • Men
  • Thinking
  • Women

• Don’t just look at the problem that you face; look at the reason behind it

  

  Vijay Sethupathi
  • Problem
  • Reason
  • Face

• The game, let's say, of trying to state photographic problems is, for me, absolutely fascinating.

  

  Garry Winogrand
  • Trying
  • Game
  • Problem

• 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.

  

  Lorne Michaels
  • Writing
  • Problem
  • Creativity

• 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.

  

  Lev Vygotsky
  • Problem
  • Independent
  • Distance

• 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.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Life
  • Up
  • World

• No problem is insoluble, given a big enough plastic bag.

  

  Tom Stoppard
  • Problem
  • Enough
  • Given

• Our problem is not that we aim too high and miss, but that we aim too low and hit.

  

  Aristotle
  • High
  • Problem
  • Aim

• 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.

  

  Peter Schiff
  • Kind
  • Problem
  • Gold

• Again and again, the impossible problem is solved when we see that the problem is only a tough decision waiting to be made.

  

  Robert H. Schuller
  • Problem
  • Impossible
  • Solved

• I always say that, like a scientist or anyone, you always want to be the problem-solver. You feel like, if you solve the greatest mystery or the greatest problem, then that makes you brilliant. It's the same thing with an actress. You want to be able to really tackle a character and make it a fully-dimensional human being who is complicated, funny and all the things that a person could be.

  

  Viola Davis
  • Character
  • Problem
  • Mystery

• The problem isn't that Johnny can't read. The problem isn't even that Johnny can't think. The problem is that Johnny doesn't know what thinking is; he confuses it with feeling.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Thinking
  • Problem
  • Feelings

• The present rate of progress [in X-ray crystallography] is determined, not so much by the lack of problems to investigate or the limited power of X-ray analysis, as by the restricted number of investigators who have had a training in the technique of the new science, and by the time it naturally takes for its scientific and technical importance to become widely appreciated.

  

  William Lawrence Bragg
  • Science
  • Problem
  • Training

• I hate the past - especially my own past.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Past
  • Hate
  • Own

• The opportunity to shoot and get the depth out of the film - that I don't think you can get out of digital - is a huge deal for me.

  

  Brad Furman
  • Opportunity
  • Film
  • Deal

• If the search engines don't respect the creators, there won't be anything to search in the future because creators have to make a living too.

  

  Patricia Schroeder
  • Future
  • Respect
  • Search

• The problem most nonprofits have is that they are run by romantics who are great to hang out with, but they have no clue.

  

  Mohnish Pabrai
  • Problem
  • Romantics