Problem Quotes

• People mistake their love of the technology for it being a solution. Social media is the problem, not the solution, in crisis management. It's a problem if you use it to communicate in areas where you're dealing with incredibly intense emotions and very deep conflicts.

  

  Eric Dezenhall
  • Love
  • Technology
  • Mistake

• We would like you to reach the place where you're not willing to listen to people criticize one another... where you take no satisfaction from somebody being wrong... where it matters to you so much that you feel good, that you are only willing to think positive things about people... you are only willing to look for positive aspects; you are only willing to look for solutions, and you are not willing to beat the drum of all of the problems of the world.

  

  Esther Hicks
  • World
  • Good
  • Solutions

• Life is going to present you with tons of problems, it's what you do about them that matters.

  

  Cat Zingano
  • Problem
  • Matter

• Food during my early years was a very difficult issue for me. I grew up in an addictive family. My mother had serious problems with alcohol and prescription drugs. I was an overweight kid. I can remember back in those days there weren't the strategies that there are today to deal with those issues.

  

  Tom Vilsack
  • Kids
  • Remember
  • Today

• I have a confidence in my understanding of formal aesthetics and I don't want to be aware of it or make that my problem.

  

  Eva Hesse
  • Problem
  • Confidence
  • Aesthetics

• I think growing up in a big family taught me a lot of problem solving and how to share and compromise, and that's been helpful in my marriage.

  

  Sarah Jessica Parker
  • Family
  • Marriage
  • Share

• Becoming carbon neutral is only the beginning. The climate problem will not be solved by one company reducing its emissions to zero, and it won't be solved by one government acting alone. The climate problem will not be solved without mass participation by the general public in countries around the globe.

  

  Rupert Murdoch
  • Country
  • Problem
  • Acting

• No matter how clear things might become in the forest of story, there was never a clear-cut solution, as there was in math. The role of a story was, in the broadest terms, to transpose a problem into another form. Depending on the nature and the direction of the problem, a solution might be suggested in the narrative. Tengo would return to the real world with that solution in hand. It was like a piece of paper bearing the indecipherable text of a magic spell. It served no immediate practical purpose, but it contained a possibility.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Purpose
  • Magic
  • Story

• I think there's an awakening now of a realization that we too early congratulated ourselves on the end of racial prejudice and white supremacy. And that was a feeling that we had when I was president, that we had pretty much overcome that problem.

  

  Jimmy Carter
  • Problem
  • Realization
  • Racial prejudice

• In 1990, about 1 percent of American corporate profits were taken in tax havens like the Cayman Islands. By 2002, it was up to 17 percent, and it'll be up to 20-25 percent very quickly. It's a major problem. Fundamentally, we have a tax system designed for a national, industrial, wage economy, which is what we had in the early 1900s. We now live in a global, asset-based, services world. And we need to have a tax system that follows the economic order or it's going to interfere with economic growth, it's going to reduce people's incomes, and it's going to damage the US.

  

  David Cay Johnston
  • World
  • Taken
  • Growth

• What we take ourselves to be doing when we think about what is the case or how we should act is something that cannot be reconciled with a reductive naturalism, for reasons distinct from those that entail the irreducibility of consciousness. It is not merely the subjectivity of thought but its capacity to transcend subjectivity and to discover what is objectively the case that presents a problem....Thought and reasoning are correct or incorrect in virtue of something independent of the thinker's beliefs, and even independent of the community of thinkers to which he belongs.

  

  Thomas Nagel
  • Thinking
  • Community
  • Independent

• Do I have a problem with Larry Ellison buying Sun? No, that's part of the capitalist system. As soon as we go public we're for sale, that's part of the deal. And do I have a problem with him exercising his intellectual property rights? No, I don't have a problem with that. Would it be how we necessarily ran and operated? Obviously not.

  

  Scott McNealy
  • Exercise
  • Intellectual
  • Capitalist

• Instead of investigating the fact that the president-elect Donald trump is going to be violating "The Constitution" with these flows of foreign fighters, they admit they have a problem. They say, oh, well, we won't - his lawyers said well, we want take the profits in the hotels.

  

  Norman L. Eisen
  • Constitution
  • Profits
  • Hotels

• My problem is to bring together in a painting two seemingly conflicting, impossibly unmixable ideas. One is that the finished work shall evoke a sense of recognition, of the mysteriously familiar... the other is that in order to do the first I must deeply know my subject.

  

  Keith Crown
  • Together
  • Painting
  • Recognition

• One reason people who spend a lot of time thinking about and working on a problem or a craft seem to find breakthroughs more often than everyone else is that they've failed more often than everyone else.

  

  Seth Godin
  • People
  • Reason
  • Crafts

• Nothing paralyzes our lives like the attitude that things can never change. We need to remind ourselves that God can change things. Outlook determines outcome. If we see only the problems, we will be defeated; but if we see the possibilities in the problems, we can have victory.

  

  Warren W. Wiersbe
  • Attitude
  • inspirational
  • Victory

• I love to work. It's the idea of having someone else tell you how to make your film or how to sell it - that's the part I can't really deal with. I would rather do 1,000 things that are work than deal with one thing that's a political problem.

  

  Shane Carruth
  • Political
  • Ideas
  • Film

• I think the people like myself who are in the center ground of politics and who think that center left and center right can cooperate and work together. Who don't like this sort of insurgent populism because we think it's not really going to deliver for the people, I think there's a big responsibility on us in the center to get our act together. And to work out radical but serious solutions to the problems people face.

  

  Tony Blair
  • Together
  • Responsibility
  • Serious

• I used to get nervous, you know if my parents would come watch. And then I would get nervous if my friends came and watched. Today it's not a problem anymore actually, because now I enjoy it. I see that they, you know, respect me immensely, and I try to put on a good show and show that I can still play very good tennis.

  

  Roger Federer
  • Trying
  • Today
  • Enjoy

• I do think the biggest problem newspapers have is loss of trust, and I feel that's a result of failure to speak truth to power.

  

  Craig Newmark
  • Power
  • Truth
  • Trust

• I am what some would say 'holy, and wholly other than you.' The problem is that many folks try to grasp some sense of who I am by taking the best version of themselves, projecting that to the nth degree, factoring in all the goodness they can perceive, which often isn't much, and then call that God. And while it may seem like a noble effort, the truth is that it falls pitifully short of who I really am. I'm not merely the best version of you that you can think of. I am far more than that, above and beyond all that you can ask or think.

  

  William P. Young
  • Thinking
  • Trying
  • Fall

• One of the great things with comedy is that there's no such thing as a mediocre comedy; it's either uproarious or crap. That's the problem.

  

  Michael Caine
  • Comedy
  • Problem
  • Mediocre

• When I looked at my life’s ledger I realized I was a very rich woman. What I was experiencing was merely a temporary cash-flow problem. Finally, I came to an inner awareness that my personal net worth couldn’t possibly be determined by the size of my checking account balance. Neither can yours.

  

  Sarah Ban Breathnach
  • Balance
  • Rich
  • Awareness

• Ireland really is my problem; the breaking point of the huge suppuration which all British and all European society now is

  

  Russell Baker
  • Problem
  • Huge

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