Problem Quotes

• You can be highly concentrated on a person, on a problem, and be so good at excluding all other material that that becomes not just the focus of your experience, but practically the sole content of your experience, everything else falling by the wayside.

  

  Antonio Damasio
  • Good
  • Experience
  • Focus

• We need not wait for the world to become more mystical; the world is mystical. Our problem is not that the world lacks magic; our problem is that we don't believe in its magic. We do not show up fully for life, and then wonder why life is not showing up more fully for us.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Life
  • Up
  • World

• It's what I like to call the horizontal Jesus. Vertical Jesus are the songs that say 'Lord I love you, Lord I praise you, Lord I thank you' and horizontal is 'I'm in a situation. This is the problem. How can I apply that now horizontally?' There are more problems in the world because he's not being applied horizontally.

  

  Kirk Franklin
  • World
  • Song
  • Situation

• The balance when you're catching people up, and the craft of what we do as actors, is to try to make sure that the exposition sounds like thought and dialogue, and a plan or a problem or something that is motivationally induced, rather than just telling the audience information.

  

  Jack Coleman
  • People
  • Up
  • Trying

• My problem is that I do not get along with lesbians at all. They don't like me, and I don't like them.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Me
  • Problem
  • Like

• 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.

  

  Eric Ries
  • People
  • Crisis
  • Basics

• For you do by nature want to do what you take to be good for you; reason reveals that what is in fact good for you is acting in a way that is conducive to the fulfillment of the ends or purposes inherent in human nature; and so if you are rational, and thus open to seeing what is in fact good for you, you will take the fulfillment of those ends or purposes to be good for you and act accordingly. This may require a fight against one’s desires and such a fight might in some cases be so extremely difficult and unpleasant that one might not have the stomach for it. But that is a problem of will, not of reason. It doesn’t show that the rational thing is not to struggle against one’s desires, but only that doing the rational thing can sometimes be extremely difficult and unpleasant.

  

  Edward Feser
  • Nature
  • Reason
  • Desires

• Do not mix temporary difficulties with real problems.

  

  Valentina
  • Real
  • Problem
  • Difficulty

• It dawned on me at some point that our music makes certain people happy - I never thought we'd have that effect and it's really gratifying and humbling. My least favorite is the exhaustion that comes with traveling a lot, the touring related exhaustion. And the crazy thing is that we've all been doing this for years and your body never gets used to it - you always feel messed up. But it's a good problem to have.

  

  David Macklovitch
  • Body
  • Certain
  • Favorite

• I don't face any particular problems as a woman president because I have been a professional for a long time. I keep telling people: I am a technocrat who happens to be a woman.

  

  Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• [This is the] very first condition which has to be fulfilled in every kind of propaganda: a systematically one-sided attitude towards every problem that has to be dealt with.

  

  Adolf Hitler
  • Problem
  • Propaganda
  • First Condition

• A human influenza pandemic will be a big problem. But by working together we can respond effectively.

  

  Margaret Chan
  • Together
  • Pandemic
  • Influenza

• The problem is that Americans care more about saving whales than saving males.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Problem
  • Care
  • Whales

• San Francisco is one of my favourite cities in the world...I would probably rank it at the top or near the top. It's small but photogenic and has layers...You never have problems finding great angles that people have never done.

  

  Ang Lee
  • People
  • World
  • Great

• The problem is that, over time, big pieces of business that have to get done without leadership from Washington, don't get done.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Time
  • Done
  • Business

• It was the same with Schumacher: the need for the adrenaline rush, to push himself to the limit was always there. So without a Formula One car to race with he went on to do motorcycle racing and other stupid things, and obviously that wasn't enough to keep him happy, so he had a problem to sort out and returning to racing was his answer to the problem.

  

  Andreas Nikolaus "Niki" Lauda
  • Formula One
  • Stupid Things
  • Michael Schumacher

• 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

• We had to get up at 6 a.m. and never had a problem. She was doing ballet and gymnastics, then dropped gymnastics,

  

  Angela Davis
  • Up
  • She
  • Ballet

• I think the biggest problem we have is taking too long over things. Not in terms of getting it right, but sometimes we do things quickly that are really good.

  

  Colin Greenwood Radiohead
  • Problem
  • Sometimes
  • Really Good

• I think action should be revealed through character, so if you have a plot problem, it's probably a character problem.

  

  Zoe Kazan
  • Character
  • Action
  • Problem

• Aging gracefully is one thing, but trying to slow it down is another. Sometimes I use Botox. Compared to most, I use it very sparingly. One time I did too much, though. I feel weird if I can't move my face, and that one time I overdid it, I felt trapped in my own skin. I don't have a problem with any of that stuff; if it makes you feel better about yourself and it's done properly, then fine.

  

  Courteney Cox
  • Time
  • Trying
  • Done

• The work of restoration cannot begin until a problem is fully faced.

  

  Dan B. Allender
  • Cannot
  • Restoration
  • Faced

• Everyone wants charities to spend as little as possible on overhead. That's backwards. Overhead is what drives growth. If charities can't grow, they can't solve problems. So overhead is a good thing. And I'm overhead.

  

  Dan Pallotta
  • Problem
  • Solve
  • Charities

• Go around the problem; get the system sufficiently resilient so that it is able to change, and it will change, It doesn't have to be forced. It's that forcing that you have to avoid at all costs.

  

  Ida Pauline Rolf
  • Able
  • Cost
  • Resilient

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