Problem Quotes

• Among the many problems which beset the novelist, not the least weighty is the choice of the moment at which to begin his novel.

  

  Vita Sackville-West
  • Moments
  • Choices
  • Novel

• She was a giant in the 20th century for women, and most significantly was a catalyst for change in the American culture. She defined the problem, and then she had the courage to do something about it.

  

  Eleanor Smeal
  • Women
  • She
  • American

• Normal people with normal problems can be hilarious.

  

  Tommy Lee Jones
  • Problem
  • Normal

• Illegal immigration presents a huge problem. That is why I decided to spend a week along the southern border to see firsthand how bad the problem is and, more importantly, what Congress can do to fix it.

  

  Ric Keller
  • Why
  • Bad
  • Immigration

• I am not part of the problem. I am a Republican.

  

  Dan Quayle
  • Problem
  • Republican

• I began to understand the fundamental problem of the councils, who were required to collaborate with Germans. They had no choice - no choice at all. The role of 'collaborator' is completely false to describe them and define their attitude.

  

  Claude Lanzmann
  • Germans
  • Collaborate
  • No Choice

• No one will pay you to solve a non-problem.

  

  Vinod Khosla
  • Problem
  • Pay
  • Solve

• Most people don't see that they have options beyond what society tells them to do. That's the biggest problem. They honestly believe that compliance is the shortcut to success.

  

  Seth Godin
  • People
  • Honestly
  • Shortcuts

• Can you think of any problem, in any area of human endeavour, on any scale, from microscopic to global, whose long-term solution is in any demonstrable way aided, assisted, or advanced by further increases in population, locally, nationally, or globally?

  

  Albert Allen Bartlett
  • Problem
  • Solution
  • Population

• Do not mix temporary difficulties with real problems.

  

  Valentina
  • Real
  • Problem
  • Difficulty

• I locate that special problem in a character and then try to understand it. That's the genesis of all my work.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Work
  • Character
  • Problem

• If I'm doing a concert, and I'm having a problem with the audience... I just play a Bob Marley song, and I'm good for the rest of the night.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • Good
  • Song
  • Night

• Love is everywhere, but if our eyes aren't open to see it, we miss out. Who among us hasn't missed out on love because we were looking for it in one package and it came in another? Our problem is rarely a lack of love so much as a mental block to our awareness of its presence.*

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Eyes
  • Love Is
  • Package

• This problem, once solved, will be simple.

  

  Thomas A. Edison
  • Simple
  • Problem
  • Solved

• ...it would be a simple way of solving the goiter problem. And in addition to that it would be the biggest thing in a medical proposition to be carried out in the state of Michigan, and Michigan is a large place. And as I thought of the thing the more convinced I became that this oughtn't to be a personal thing, This ought to be something done by the Michigan State Medical Society as a body. Recommending the addition of a trace of iodine to table salt.

  

  David Murray Cowie
  • Simple
  • Medical
  • Convinced

• There is no problem so great it cannot be solved.

  

  Barbara Coloroso
  • Great
  • Problem
  • Solving

• Class is much more than Marx's definition of relationship to the means of production. Class involved your behavior, your basic assumptions, how you are taught to behave, what you expect from yourself and from others, your concept of a future, how you understand problems and solve them, how you think, feel, act.

  

  Rita Mae Brown
  • Thinking
  • Future
  • Relationship

• Your mind, in order to defend itself starts to give life to inanimate objects. When that happens it solves the problem of stimulus and response because literally if you're by yourself you lose the element of stimulus and response. Somebody asks a question, you give a response. So, when you lose the stimulus and response, what I connected to is that you actually create all the stimulus and response.

  

  Willi Smith
  • Mind
  • Response
  • Elements

• It's easier to be ignorant and say I don't know about the problem. But once you know, once you've seen it in their eyes, then you have a responsibility to do something. There is strength in numbers, and if we all work together as a team, we can be unstoppable.

  

  Craig Kielburger
  • Together
  • Know
  • Responsibility

• You have to respect the system. If you have a problem with the system, change the system.

  

  Jack Kingston
  • Change
  • Respect
  • Problem

• We like to say the Internet is the ultimate library. But libraries are libraries because people come together and fund them through taxes. Libraries actually exist, all over the country, so why is it such a reach to imagine and to someday build a public institution that has a digital aspect to it? Of course the problem is that libraries and other public services are being defunded and are under attack, so there's a bigger progressive struggle this plays into.

  

  Astra Taylor
  • People
  • Country
  • Together

• I don't deny that there are problems in the intelligence world, but I would argue that in the UK we try to uphold the highest standards in the world.

  

  William Hague
  • World
  • Trying
  • Arguing

• The primary problem is to learn to be your own toughest critic. You have to pay attention to intelligent work, and to work at the same time. You see. I mean, you’ve got to bounce off better work. It’s matter of working.

  

  Garry Winogrand
  • Time
  • Work
  • Attention

• Some of our test families didn't think they had a problem and just used the reporting feature, but they discovered they had a real problem.

  

  Brian Baker Bad Religion
  • Families
  • Discovered
  • Reporting

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