Problem Quotes
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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
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If you think a caregiver has an active substance abuse problem, that person should never be entrusted with your child.
Emily Yoffe
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I was actually a pretty good student. My problem was that I didn't know what I wanted to study.
Mila Kunis
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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
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For me, the problem of time is linked up with that of death, with the thought that we inevitably draw closer and closer to it, with the horror of decay.
Simone de Beauvoir
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I think a single woman's biggest problem is coping with the people who are trying to marry her off!
Helen Gurley Brown
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The pacifist streak in German politics is a problem. But Greens and Social Democrats have to ask themselves: In an imperfect world, what do they prefer? The rise of the right or the success of the European project?
Anthony Glees
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The problem we have had on the budget all along is a lack of adult supervision on the part of the White House. You can't blame members of Congress for looking out for their parochial interests. It is the president's responsibility to look out for the national interest.
Bruce Bartlett
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Even if you have a problem, you don't need to be one.
Helen Keller
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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
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I smuggled the camera, it was no problem to smuggle the camera there. And I took 60 photos, two films, during the time when there was no one in the control room, in the building.
Mordechai Vanunu
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It is only an illusion that time is running out. This is where the problem of fear arises. We become anxious that "I don't have enough time and I have to do everything quickly." We need to turn our attention away from results, achievements and outcomes.
Satish Kumar
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The problem with this world is, everyone in it is 3 drinks behind.
Humphrey Bogart
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It is possible that a scientific discovery will be made that humans will later regret because it has awful consequences. The problem is, we probably would not know in advance and, once the discovery is made, it cannot be undiscovered.
Paul Davies
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Looking at the poster, I thought, Maybe we can't solve every big problem, but we can try to solve the ones we can.
Cynthia Lord
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We are constantly being put to the test by trying circumstances and difficult people and problems not necessarily of our own making.
Terry Brooks
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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
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If you identify yourself as a great football player, anytime anyone challenges that, you're going to have some kind of problem.
Ricky Williams
