Problem Quotes

• 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

• The greatest poets are those with memories so great that they extend beyond their strongest experiences to their minutest observations of people and things far outside their own self-centeredness.

  

  Stephen Spender
  • Memories
  • Creativity
  • Observation

• Any Idiot can point out a problem .... A leader is willing to do something about it! Leaders solve problems!

  

  Anthony Robbins
  • Problem
  • Leader
  • Idiot

• Businesses that run well are almost like marriages. Everything has to be up for discussion, or there will be real problems.

  

  Nobu Matsuhisa
  • Discussion
  • Businesses
  • Marriages

• The irony is that the best thing we can do is, well one option, is to quit job we don't like. You don't always have to quit, and quite frankly, option two is to try to help others solve the problem that you are struggling with.

  

  Simon Sinek
  • Struggle
  • Quitting
  • Irony

• Any problem is an opportunity. The bigger the problem, the bigger the opportunity.

  

  Vinod Khosla
  • Opportunity
  • Problem
  • Bigger

• My life as a working theorist began three months after this preliminary study and background reading, when Oscar gently nudged me toward working on a particular problem.

  

  Rudolph A. Marcus
  • Reading
  • Study
  • Surfing

• I think it's a problem when journalists have the title of their article before they do the interview, because it biases the way they conduct it.

  

  Michel Gondry
  • Interviews
  • Journalist
  • Articles

• I can't be any more addicted to it than I already am,"Jamie said slowly, as though he'd rehearsed this, and then waiting for a cue Nick obviously had no intention of giving." Think about crack!" Jamie added, clearly struck by insperation. "Yes! It's like I'm a crack addict, and you're my friend the drug dealer who gives me crack for free, and I know you're just trying to be a good friend, but every time I think 'Wow, this crack might be a little bit of a problem for me,' you're there to say, 'Have some more delicious crack.' Am I making sense?" Nick stared."Hardly ever in your life.

  

  Sarah Rees Brennan
  • Thinking
  • Trying
  • Giving

• He played essentially a second season with the Greek national team. I'm a little concerned about that, because Wednesday night against Rhode Island, he looked a little bit tired. I've been concerned all year with the volume of games he's played and that it could become a problem.

  

  Brad Soderberg
  • Season
  • Played
  • Volume

• 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

• I just want to say this. I want to say it gently but I want to say it firmly: There is a tendency for the world to say to America, ‘the big problems of the world are yours, you go and sort them out,’ and then to worry when America wants to sort them out.

  

  Tony Blair
  • World
  • America
  • Worry

• Locking everyone up is not the solution,' she sighs, staring into a cup of coffee gone cold as The Box at Juvenile Hall. 'It's just the symptom of the problem. It's the proof that we're doing something wrong.

  

  Edward Humes
  • Problem
  • Solution
  • Proof

• 'Tax Collector' was optioned for a series with F/X, but it never happened. I guess they ran into a problem trying to figure out why someone would tune in to watch a show about a guy who works for the IRS.

  

  Rick Yancey
  • Problem
  • Happened
  • Collector

• The big problem with motherhood of girls, it seems to me, is that we're both women.

  

  Elizabeth Noble
  • Problem
  • Woman
  • Motherhood

• When you're stuck on something creatively, you can't solve a problem, you go to a coffee shop.

  

  Eric Weiner
  • Stuck
  • Solve
  • Coffee Shop

• Incivility is a symptom, not the disease. We've always had partisan conflict in Congress, and we always will. Yet when I worked for a year (1970-71) on the staff of Sen. Ed Muskie of Maine, this was a different place, more collegial, more sensitive to data, more concerned about all of the American people. I think because the for-profit media prizes conflict above cooperation and sound bites above analysis, politicians have learned to adapt to those tendencies. Consequently, our public debates are dumbed down as our problems grow more complex.

  

  Tom Allen
  • People
  • Different
  • Thinking

• Probably, the single most prevalent claim advanced by the proponents of a new paradigm is that they can solve the problems that led the old one to a crisis.

  

  Thomas Kuhn
  • Crisis
  • Claims
  • Solve

• The problem is we disagree about the origin. Is this occupied land or not?

  

  Hassan Nasrallah
  • Problem
  • Land
  • Origin

• When you have an intense game, you're going to have arguments. I have no problem with it. I think it's healthy.

  

  Scott Brooks
  • Problem
  • Healthy
  • Argument

• The problem isn't that people don't understand how good things are. It's that they know, from personal experience, that things really aren't that good.

  

  Paul Krugman
  • People
  • Experience
  • Problem

• The problem for me with liberals is that we've abdicated our moral responsibility to the universe.

  

  Sherman Alexie
  • Problem
  • Responsibility
  • Moral

• If a problem can be solved by writing a check, it's not a problem, it's an expense.

  

  Ziad K. Abdelnour
  • Problem
  • Check
  • Expense

• 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

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