Bill Crawford Quotes

Problems occur when we tie our peace of mind to another's state of mind.

Bill Crawford

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• We have a structural problem because you can simultaneously understand the medium to long-term risks of climate change and also come to the conclusion that it is in your short-term economic interest to invest in oil and gas. Which is why, you know, anybody who tells you that the market is going to fix this on its own is lying to you.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Long
  • Why
  • Change

• We worked on solving the problem of voice communications in a noisy military environment. We established military codes that are highly audible and invented selection tests for personnel who had a superior ability to recognize sound in a noisy background.

  

  M. H. Abrams
  • Problem
  • Environment
  • Military

• The real problem at the moment is that the banks - because of their existing culture, which is frankly anti-business, obsession with short-term trading profits, not focusing on the long term - are throttling the recovery of British industry.

  

  Vince Cable
  • Long
  • Real
  • Business

• You can't solve a dignity problem with military force.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Problem
  • Military
  • Dignity

• My problem with new writers is that it takes me five or six years to memorise the right names.

  

  Larry Niven
  • Problem
  • Right
  • Names

• The best way to resolve any problem in the human world is for all sides to sit down and talk.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • World
  • Problem
  • Best

• I wanted to make good records. But my problem is I've got a low boredom threshold, so I wanted it to look and sound different with each album, which is really tantamount to suicide, cause people lose it, they lose it - they say: 'I like that, and that's not this.'

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
  • People
  • Good
  • Different

• Military is a great place for a jock. That's the first thing they test you, they test you physically. If you can run, if you can do the pushups, it's not as hard a transition. If you can't do that, you're going to have a problem because they're going to really work it out of you or work it into you.

  

  Ice T
  • Work
  • Great
  • Problem

• We have dealt with the Arab/Muslim problem in the American media in every single way but through comedy. Hollywood has always been lagging behind comedy... We can make fun of ourselves, too, and I'm inviting us to laugh with us - and all the misconceptions.

  

  Bassem Youssef
  • American
  • Fun
  • Single

• The biggest problem has been exhaustion. I've spent about 6 of the last 14 years completely bedridden.

  

  Laura Hillenbrand
  • Problem
  • Years
  • Last

• As soon as science has solved one problem, new ones arise. This is the essence of science, and it applies, of course, also to the field of essential oils.

  

  Otto Wallach
  • Science
  • Problem
  • New

• It's not as if there's a noise problem, because they use the same circuits as Formula One.

  

  Barry Sheene
  • Problem
  • Same
  • Formula One

• If someone is not treating you in a way that you like, remember that there are so many nice people out there. The problem is that when you love someone, you make excuses for that kind of behavior.

  

  Natalie Morales
  • People
  • Remember
  • Way

• 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

• The first step in solving a problem is to recognize that it does exist.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Problem
  • Step
  • First Step

• But, no, I don't think there will be any kind of problem as far as setting up to be competitive, but you've got to get it right if you want to be the first one across the line.

  

  Dan Wheldon
  • Up
  • Want
  • Kind

• I think when you're 17 and you're angry, you're angry about very short-term things. And there's nothing wrong about writing that record. It's a very real record to write; it's the realest record I could write when I was 17. The problem is, when you're 28, it's not the same thing; it can be a put-on.

  

  Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
  • Writing
  • Real
  • Problem

• The problem with too beautiful a view is that it's alright for the mulling stage. But for the writing stage, you want to be somewhere without a view, especially if it is very different from what you're writing.

  

  Vikram Seth
  • Different
  • Writing
  • Beautiful

• Of course design is about problem solving, but I cannot resist adding something personal.

  

  Wim Crouwel
  • Problem
  • Design

• To believe that I could, at twenty-three, sacrifice history and culture for the Absolute was further proof that I had not understood India. My vocation was culture, not sainthood.

  

  Mircea Eliade
  • Believe
  • History
  • Vocation

• I'm a very loyal person and I allowed myself to be defined as somebody who was doing Gordon's bidding. I should have fought back harder to define myself at an earlier stage.

  

  Ed Balls
  • Myself
  • Doing
  • Stage

• In Scripture the visitation of an angel is always alarming; it has to begin by saying 'Fear not.' The Victorian angel looks as if it were going to say, 'There, there.' The literary symbols are more dangerous than sculptures and pictures because they are not so easily recognized as symbolical. Those of Dante are best. Before his angels we sink in awe.

  

  Kathryn Lindskoog
  • Looks
  • Dangerous
  • Angel

• Problems occur when we tie our peace of mind to another's state of mind.

  

  Bill Crawford
  • Problem
  • State Of Mind
  • Peace Of Mind