Problem Quotes

• Some philosophical arguments (e.g., in connection with the mind/body problem) look pretty good, while others (e.g., those that criticize moral realism) do not.

  

  Elliott Sober
  • Philosophical
  • Connections
  • Arguments

• 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

• Everyone has their own struggles, but I never question the road I'm on. I'm a firm believer in the notion that "everything happens for a reason," so even if sometimes you think you're facing a problem, really it's just a blessing in disguise.

  

  Nikki Yanofsky
  • Problem
  • Blessing
  • Disguise

• As many glaciers are melting and icy tundras are decaying, there's an unprecedented amount of woolly mammoth material that's becoming dislodged from the ice. Not just mammoth, but all kinds of fossils from the past. What occurred to me was, had anyone tried to pinpoint the first case of human-induced extinction? What was the first time we as species pushed another one to oblivion? I would argue that's probably going to be one of the defining moral problems of the century, human-induced extinction. And I really wanted to know, when did we first cross that barrier?

  

  Dario Robleto
  • Past
  • Arguing
  • Crosses

• The problem is not that I don't love my mother and father. The problem is that I don't know how to love them.

  

  Benjamin Alire Saenz
  • Love
  • Mother
  • Father

• We should all be about the business of finding, discussing and furthering solutions to our problems. But none of that can be done without at first speaking honestly about the problems we confront, with whoever in our ranks will listen and respond.

  

  Michael Eric Dyson
  • Problem
  • Solutions
  • Honestly

• In mathematics, if I find a new approach to a problem, another mathematician might claim that he has a better, more elegant solution. In chess, if anybody claims he is better than I, I can checkmate him.

  

  Emanuel Lasker
  • Chess
  • Mathematics
  • Solution

• Certainly if the fundamental problem of society is that demands are infinite and resources are always limited, politics, not economics is the master science.

  

  Bernard Crick
  • Society
  • Science
  • Politics

• Why does man behave like perfect idiot? This is the problem I wish to deal with.

  

  Albert Szent-Györgyi
  • Men
  • Perfect
  • Wish

• If anything, my problem is, I'm not a genius, it's just that I can write songs very quick. I have a lot of ideas, let's put it that way - I have too many ideas. And my problem is, I stockpile ideas and I get lazy and I don't finish them, and next thing I know, I'm looking around and I've got a hundred song ideas, but are any of them any good? I don't know.

  

  Gary Louris
  • Writing
  • Song
  • Genius

• I think it's important for me, for my crew and for the audience to bring something new to each show. I have friends who have done the same act, word for word for word, for 20 years. I have a problem with that. I think the audience should see something new in each show.

  

  Carrot Top
  • Important
  • Audience
  • Should

• Without consciousness the mind-body problem would be much less interesting. With consciousness it seems hopeless.

  

  Thomas Nagel
  • Science
  • Interesting
  • Consciousness

• Racial inequality is a big problem.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Problem
  • Racial inequality

• Most people define learning too narrowly as mere 'problem-solving', so they focus on identifying and correcting errors in the external environment. Solving problems is important. But if learning is to persist, managers and employees must also look inward. The need to reflect critically on their own behaviour, identify the ways they often inadvertently contribute to the organisation’s problems, and then change how they act.

  

  Chris Argyris
  • People
  • Important
  • Focus

• When you take a look at the problems our country is facing, debt is No. 1. The math is downright scary and the credit markets aren't going to keep on giving us cheap rates.

  

  Paul Ryan
  • Country
  • Problem
  • Debt

• Unless you can begin with an interesting problem, it is unlikely you will end up with an interesting solution.

  

  Bob Gill
  • Interesting
  • Problem
  • Solution

• Abstraction is a mental process we use when trying to discern what is essential or relevant to a problem; it does not require a belief in abstract entities.

  

  Tom G. Palmer
  • Belief
  • Abstract
  • Relevant

• The anointed don't like to talk about painful trade-offs. They like to talk about happy "solutionsthat get rid of the whole problem- at least in their imagination.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Society
  • Imagination
  • Trade

• 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

• I have come to think that the challenge confronting Christians is not that we do not believe what we say, though that can be a problem, but that what we say we believe does not seem to make any difference for either the church or the world.

  

  Stanley Hauerwas
  • World
  • Believe
  • Thinking

• When the problem quantum chromodynamics is finally solved, it will all be by imagination. Then there will be some big thing about the great way it was done. But it's simple -it will all be by imagination, and persistence.

  

  Richard Feynman
  • Learning
  • Simple
  • Imagination

• The poverty rate among black married couples has been in single digits ever since 1994. You would never learn that from most of the media. Similarly you look at those blacks that have gone on to college or finished college, the incarceration rate is some tiny fraction of what it is among those blacks who have dropped out of high school. So it’s not being black; it’s a way of life. Unfortunately, the way of life is being celebrated not only in rap music, but among the intelligentsia, is a way of life that leads to a lot of very big problems for most people.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • People
  • School
  • College

• Everybody tends to think I'm crazy, which is the biggest problem in my life.

  

  Cat Power
  • Thinking
  • Problem
  • Crazy

• No. 7 was notorious statewide, and the work is going to clean that problem up. I think the first thing is the safety aspect of it.

  

  Bob Walker
  • Problem
  • Safety
  • Aspect

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