Problem Quotes

• 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

• The amateur salesman sells products; the professional sells solutions to needs and problems.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Problem
  • Solutions
  • Salesman

• That is my problem with life, I rush through it, like I'm being chased. Even things whose whole point is slowness, like drinking relaxing tea. When I drink relaxing tea I suck it down as if I'm in a contest for who can drink relaxing tea the quickest.

  

  Miranda July
  • Life
  • Problem
  • Rush

• An optimist is presented with a problem and sees an opportunity. A pessimist is presented with an opportunity and sees a problem.

  

  Harry S Truman
  • Opportunity
  • Problem
  • Optimist

• When we understand that man is the only animal who must create meaning, who must open a wedge into neutral nature, we already understand the essence of love. Love is the problem of an animal who must find life, create a dialogue with nature in order to experience his own being.

  

  Ernest Becker
  • Animal
  • Garden
  • Essence

• There's so much benevolence on helping your fellow person. And the morality that helped build our country is based on the values that are found in the Bible. And as we look at problems, maybe we're getting away from those values. And in my little small way, I want to encourage people to get back into those values.

  

  Tom Hayden
  • People
  • Country
  • Helping

• The only problem in the past has been my kids. I'd want to bring them to London with me, but they are at an important stage in high school.

  

  Mimi Rogers
  • Important
  • Past
  • Problem

• If the people at the top think that reaching for a gun will solve the problem, why shouldn't the people at the bottom think the same?

  

  Michael Moorcock
  • People
  • Bottom
  • Solve

• There is this huge Roma problem in Europe. There are a lot of Romas who are discriminated against in countries like the Czech Republic or Hungary. They are an ethnic minority that in Europe everyone loves to hate.

  

  Evgeny Morozov
  • Country
  • Hate
  • Problem

• You've got problems in Central Asia. And you've got problems within our own communities back home. So if we end up saying, look, this has nothing to do with Islam or it's got no connection with that broader question, then we look, frankly, as if we're in denial about the problem. And the interesting thing in the Middle East is that they have absolutely no problem there in identifying that as Islamist extremism and calling it that.

  

  Tony Blair
  • Home
  • Interesting
  • Community

• We live in a paradox: connected electronically but disconnected interpersonally. However, when you recognize the problem, you can take steps to correct it. You can create an emotionally connected environment anywhere if you try hard enough.

  

  Edward Hallowell
  • Environment
  • Create
  • Correct

• I really have a problem with any kind of drug, I always have.

  

  Sandra Bernhard
  • Kind
  • Problem
  • Drug

• I try with my pictures to raise a question, to provoke a debate, so that we can discuss problems together and come up with solutions.

  

  Sebastiao Salgado
  • Together
  • Solutions
  • Debate

• 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

• Each pattern describes a problem which occurs over and over again in our environment, and then describes the core of the solution to that problem, in such a way that you can use this solution a million times over, without ever doing it in the same way twice.

  

  Caroline Alexander
  • Learning
  • Problem
  • Environment

• I worry that as the problem-solving power of our technologies increases, our ability to distinguish between important and trivial or even non-existent problems diminishes.

  

  Evgeny Morozov
  • Important
  • Technology
  • Worry

• Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.

  

  Soren Kierkegaard
  • Reality
  • Problem
  • Life is

• The problem with any ideology is that it gives you the answer before you examine the evidence.

  

  Bill Clinton
  • Evidence
  • Answer
  • Ideology

• Ask yourself what you could do to make situations less difficult. Do it, even if you think you shouldn't have to.

  

  Karin Ireland
  • Thinking
  • Difficult
  • Situation

• I never want anything more than what's fair. The problem is, I never want anything less either. In the old-boy school of business, if a woman walks away from the table with what's rightfully hers, the man feels screwed.

  

  Dolly Parton
  • Men
  • School
  • Problem

• The problem here is that a civilization that is 1,000 light years away doesn't know we exist. They don't know that we have radio telescopes here on Earth because they see Earth as it was 1,000 years ago. Nothing can travel faster than light, so however good their instruments they can't see in affect the future. So there is no particular reason they should be sending us messages at this time.

  

  Paul Davies
  • Earth
  • Reason
  • Civilization

• Your problems are not just your problems. Ultimately, they belong to the church body that God has placed you in.

  

  Francis Chan
  • Problem
  • Church
  • Body

• To make a product, to market an idea, to come up with any problem you want to solve that doesn't have a constituency with an otaku, is almost impossible... There's a hot sauce otaku, but there's no mustard otaku.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Problem
  • Impossible
  • Hot

• I like how you don't hide your problems like everyone else, and I don't have to hide mine when I'm around you.

  

  Ned Vizzini
  • Problem
  • Mines

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