Problem Quotes

• The problem with listening to music today is that there's so much of it everywhere. We've got used to hearing music without actually listening to it.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Music
  • Today
  • Listening

• If you cannot solve it, it is not a problem - it is reality.

  

  Barbara Coloroso
  • Reality
  • Problem
  • Solve

• Having no problems is the biggest problem of all.

  

  Taiichi Ohno
  • Problem
  • No Problem
  • Risk Management

• I truly believe there's always a solution to every problem.

  

  Maira Kalman
  • Believe
  • Problem
  • Solution

• Over the years, I've interviewed thousands of people, most of them women, and I would say that the root of every dysfunction I've ever encountered, every problem, has been some sense of a lacking of self-value or of self-worth.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • People
  • Women
  • Value

• I think that cosmetic enhancements in my profession are just an occupational hazard. But I think, more culturally, I'm interested in starting the conversation about aging gracefully and how, instead of making it a cultural problem, we make it individuals' problems.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Problem
  • Problems
  • Aging

• I have a control problem. I hate the feeling of not being in control.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Feeling
  • Hate
  • Control

• Of course, we knew that the official reports were sketchy, if not falsified. But, in terms of information theory, this is precisely where the problem lay: How were we to reconstruct reality from incomplete or false reports? It is not true that virtually all news in a totalitarian state is false. On the contrary, most news is completely correct, albeit tendentiously slanded; it is just that certain information is suppressed. One can adjust for the political slanting of the news, but there is virtually no way to fill in the omissions.

  

  Konrad Zuse
  • True
  • Political
  • Reality

• When you start looking at a problem and it seems really simple, you don't really understand the complexity of the problem. Then you get into the problem, and you see that it's really complicated, and you come up with all these convoluted solutions. That's sort of the middle, and that's where most people stop... But the really great person will keep on going and find the key, the underlying principle of the problem - and come up with an elegant, really beautiful solution that works.

  

  Steve Jobs
  • Problem
  • Solutions

• I always want to be a member in the audience, and I want to hear it from their point of view and see it from their point of view so I can know if it's good. But that's just my issues, not a real problem.

  

  Ariel Pink
  • Good
  • Real
  • Audience

• Solving a problem created by debt... by creating more debt is a fool's errand.

  

  Olivier Sarkozy
  • Problem
  • Fool
  • Debt

• The problem with some of our noisier exponents of 'American exceptionalism' is that they lack Reagan's moral maturity.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • American
  • Moral
  • Maturity

• It was so frustrating to see ulcer patients having surgery, or even dying, when I knew a simple antibiotic treatment could fix the problem.

  

  Barry Marshall
  • Simple
  • Problem
  • Dying

• Getting an idea for a book is not the problem, but you need 300 ideas - an idea a page.

  

  Barbara Mertz
  • Book
  • Problem
  • Ideas

• Greece needs to work on a cleaner image. It's a big problem, as they have this reputation of being so corrupt.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Work
  • Problem
  • Reputation

• The problem with the youth of today' is that one is no longer part of it.

  

  Salvador Dali
  • Today
  • Problem
  • Part

• Obviously, I don't want to minimize the patriarchal nature of our media, our government and our culture as a whole. But I think it's our refusal as women to own our power that is our biggest problem, both individually and collectively. The linchpin that holds the current system in place is the slumber of women.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Women
  • Power
  • Nature

• What's the problem you solve? Solve it for one person. Create a system to do it without you. Duplicate.

  

  T. Harv Eker
  • Problem
  • Solve
  • Without You

• The greatest problem in Japanese politics over the last two decades is that we put off what needed to be done. We have to overcome that.

  

  Yoshihiko Noda
  • Done
  • Politics
  • Japanese

• The problem with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than their minds.

  

  Walter Duranty
  • People
  • Problem
  • Wishes

• Problems are the cutting edge that distinguishes between success and failure. Problems ... create our courage and wisdom.

  

  M. Scott Peck
  • Success
  • Wisdom
  • Failure

• Inflation is not always the main problem, or indeed a problem at all. Sometimes, though rarely, deflation is a more serious threat, and we need to shelve many of the orthodoxies we have held so dear.

  

  Gavyn Davies
  • Problem
  • Sometimes
  • Serious

• The chief problem of the low-income farmers is poverty.

  

  Nelson Rockefeller
  • Poverty
  • Income
  • Farmers

• The main problem is that most commentators are accustomed to thinking of spiritual schools as 'systems', which are more or less alike, and which depend upon dogma and ritual: and especially upon repetition and the application of continual and standardised pressures upon their followers.The Sufi way, except in degenerate forms which are not to be classified as Sufic, is entirely different from this.

  

  Idries Shah
  • Different
  • Thinking
  • Spiritual

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