Problem Quotes

• You look at the large problems that we face - that would be overpopulation, water shortages, global warming and AIDS, I suppose - all of that needs international cooperation to be solved.

  

  Molly Ivins
  • Water
  • Cooperation
  • Aids

• If you buy a man who is half dead, everybody may be happy off the field, but on the field you'll have major problems

  

  Arsene Wenger
  • May
  • Half
  • Fields

• If the conflict is about the size of Israel, then long and difficult negotiations can eventually resolve the problem. But if the conflict is about the existence of Israel, then serious negotiation is impossible.

  

  Bernard Lewis
  • Problem
  • Conflict
  • Negotiations

• 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

• 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

• The poor are not a problem to be solved but a people to join.

  

  Eugene H. Peterson
  • Problem
  • Join
  • Solved

• I will get into trouble, I am sure, because since my Kate Middleton speech and before, certain papers were after me. I am not saying, however, that it would have been moral or right to assassinate Mrs. Margaret Thatcher, but I know it will be read that way. I know it will cause a problem.

  

  Hilary Mantel
  • Moral
  • Trouble
  • Certain

• 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

• Millennials are first and foremost problem solvers. They are optimistic. They are well educated. They are creative. They are open to change. They are learners. They are technologically savvy. They are open-minded. They are imaginative. They think third-way. They want to achieve. They want to contribute. They are flexible. They are achievement oriented.

  

  Chip Espinoza
  • Creative
  • Achievement
  • Achieve

• Perhaps my problem in marriage-and it is the problem of many women-was to want both intimacy and independence. It is a difficult line to walk, yet both needs are important to a marriage.

  

  Hedy Lamarr
  • Important
  • Difficult
  • Independence

• Government is not the problem, and government is not the solution. We - the American people - we are the solution.

  

  Bill Clinton
  • Problem
  • Government
  • Solution

• 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

• Our idea of a real problem is someone else's idea of an ultimate dream. Put the 'problem' in perspective

  

  Anthony Robbins
  • Dream
  • Problem
  • Idea

• A good puzzle, it's a fair thing. Nobody is lying. It's very clear, and the problem depends just on you.

  

  Erno Rubik
  • Problem
  • Fair
  • Puzzle

• I think of myself as a problem-solver. I want to go in and help the director and the writer to get the best they can out of the text they're working with.

  

  Michael Emerson
  • Help
  • Writer
  • Director

• The real issues I don't think most people touch. The Clinton jokes are all about Monica Lewinsky and all that stuff and not about the important things, like the fact that he wouldn't ban landmines...I'm not tempted to write a song about George W. Bush. I couldn't figure out what sort of song I would write. That's the problem: I don't want to satirize George Bush and his puppeteers, I want to vaporize them. And that's not funny....OK, well, if I say that, I might get a shock laugh, but it's not really satire.

  

  Tom Lehrer
  • People
  • Important
  • Real

• If there's a problem with that hit then I'll retire.

  

  Bob Hartley
  • Problem
  • Hit
  • Retire

• The reason so many problems do not get solved in Washington is that solving those problems is not the No. 1 priority: Re-election is.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Reason
  • Politics
  • Election

• So, we’ve got a problem,” I said. “What?” Lend yelled. “We’ve got a problem!” I shouted. “No, I heard that. I mean, what’s the problem now?

  

  Kiersten White
  • Mean
  • Said
  • Heard

• If we want to solve a problem that we have never solved before, we must leave the door to the unknown ajar.

  

  Richard Feynman
  • Problem
  • Doors
  • Solve

• Gay people don't have a personality problem. They have a problem with small-minded motherfuckers who can't conquer a 1-inch high curb.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • People
  • Gay
  • Personality

• We do have a problem in this country. You can either make a movie and ignore that, or you can acknowledge it and say, this is the water that we're living in. You know this - the movie lives in this - it's centered around this particular problem, and I chose to acknowledge it.

  

  Nick Cassavetes
  • Movie
  • Problem
  • Acknowledge

• You know how it always is, every new idea, it takes a generation or two until it becomes obvious that there's no real problem. It has not yet become obvious to me that there's no real problem. I cannot define the real problem, therefore I suspect there's no real problem, but I'm not sure there's no real problem.

  

  Richard Feynman
  • Real
  • Ideas
  • Generations

• The problem is never the problem. The problem is your attitude about the problem. Think before you rush into action.

  

  Ziad K. Abdelnour
  • Action
  • Problem
  • Rush

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