Problem Quotes
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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.
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No observational problem will not be solved by more data.
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I grew up in Mexico, not the U.S., and the fact is that there just aren't any parts for Latin actresses. I have to persuade people that my accent won't be a problem, but an asset.
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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.
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In the industrial world we have the problem of having more productive capacity than we know what to do with. That's at the root of the unemployment crisis: we've got so productive at making things, we don't require people to be involved in making the basics of life any more. Or nearly as many people.
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I think that our cooperative conservation approaches get people to sit down and grapple with problem solving.
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By running away from the world no one can get peace. Anywhere you go the problems will go with you, because the problems are inside you and not outside. Outside is simply a projection of inside.
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The Mormon issue is a real problem in the South; it's a real problem in other parts of the country. But people are not going to say it. People are not going to step out and say, 'I have a problem with Romney because he's Mormon.' What they're going to say is he's a flip-flopper... It's a fact; it's reality.
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Old age is a special problem for me because I've never been able to shed the mental image I have of myself - a lad of about 19.
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You are a potential genius; there is no problem you cannot solve, and no answer you cannot find somewhere.
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You know you have a gambling problem when it's 4 A.M. at the Mirage Sports Book and you're walking around going, 'Hey you get the lacrosse scores?'
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If we don't somehow stem the tide of childhood obesity, we're going to have a huge problem.
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Getting an idea for a book is not the problem, but you need 300 ideas - an idea a page.
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The problem with too beautiful a view is that it's alright for the mulling stage. But for the writing stage, you want to be somewhere without a view, especially if it is very different from what you're writing.
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Most people have desires that are great and they want to do great things, and they don't want to be negative people or they don't want to live in pessimistic attitudes, but the problem is a lot of them were not given the right tools. They were not given the right blueprint of how to build a building.
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We mostly feel fearful because we feel powerless. We feel powerless, I contend, because of a style of thinking that splits information in two poles that makes us lose all the operative information we need to solve the problem.
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In addition to world conflicts, the most challenging problem we face today is hunger, deprivation and social injustice. Because we're ruled by separate self-interest, we go on accumulating personal wealth, ignoring the well being of the others.
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If you cannot solve it, it is not a problem - it is reality.
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Problems are the cutting edge that distinguishes between success and failure. Problems ... create our courage and wisdom.
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You know what your problem is, it's that you haven't seen enough movies - all of life's riddles are answered in the movies.
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My grandmother died in 1991 and I was born in '86. We only met once, but I didn't speak English and she didn't speak Spanish - so we had a communication problem.
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A problem is something you have hopes of changing. Anything else is a fact of life.
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Producing quality compost is the most important job on the organic farm. A lot of the problems I see on farms I visit could be solved by making better compost.
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All nations are degrading and consuming their environment to a point beyond capacity. In the past 15 years in the U.S. we have added 1300 cities with populations over 100,000. When the environment is forced to file Chapter 11, the ecology collapses. Nations recover from war but not from a failed eco-system. The status of our environment is more threatening than all wars. It is forever.
