Problem Quotes
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The problem of meaning today is the problem of how the diverse and superficially self-contradictory experiences of men can be put into a consistent picture that will provide contemporary man with a convincing basis from which to live and to act.
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The worthwhile problems are the ones you can really solve or help solve, the ones you can really contribute something to... No problem is too small or too trivial if we can really do something about it.
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I think I could create a cult, no problem. The hard part is getting people to kill themselves.
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That’s the problem with being an adult: people have already made up their minds about us; we’ve even made up our minds about ourselves.
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The government has brought on the housing problem, partly by these very low interest rates, which encouraged many people to go way out on a limb. They've brought it on by highly restrictive building policies, which have caused housing prices to skyrocket artificially. And they've brought it on by the Community Reinvestment Act, which presumes that politicians are better able to tell investors where to put their money than the investors themselves are. When you put all that together, you get something like what you have.
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I'm not sure what solutions we'll find to deal with all our environmental problems, but I'm sure of this: They will be provided by industry; they will be products of technology. Where else can they come from?
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What I think I've been able to do well over the years is play with pain, play with problems, play in all sorts of conditions.
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The problem with the world is that everyone is a few drinks behind.
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The further you are from a problem, the smaller it gets.
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It's as if scientists exert every effort of will they possess deliberately to find the least significant problems in the world and explain them. Art matters. Happiness matters. Love matters. Good matters. Evil matters. Slam the fridge door. They are the only things that matter and they are of course precisely the things that science goes out of its way to ignore.
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The problem is we are left only with empathy - which is critical, if it can be developed - without substantive manifestations of that empathy. It's one thing to attain it intellectually, but it's another thing to do something about it.
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That’s because sympathy identifies with the problem, but compassion gets up, looks up, and says, “I need to do something about this.
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I am doing things that are true to me. The only thing I have a problem with is being labeled.
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The problem with holding a grudge is that your hands are then too full to hold onto anything else. It might be the competition or a technology or the lousy things that someone did a decade ago. None of it is going to get better as a result of revisiting the grudge.
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The Alexander Technique helped a long-standing back problem and to get a good night's sleep after many years of tossing and turning.
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I didn't set out to become a leader, so I always come back to my first lesson - just do it. If you're the first one out there actively doing something to solve a problem then you'll naturally fall into a leadership role.
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You're either living in the problem or you're living in the solution.
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We wear our problems diffrently
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I want to admit that I am an optimist. Any tough problem, I think it can be solved.
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The biggest problem in my life is trying to be the kind of man that I want to be, the father that I want to be, and how to process the failure of my marriage.
