Problem Quotes
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When we conduct agriculture, we are, therefore, altering the ecological arrangement that was responsible for our genesis as a species. I think that this is the reason that this alienation has allowed us to see and regard land mostly as a resource. So we have created a problem for ourselves from the word "go," for land is not a resource any more than humans are resources.
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When you're feeling down, sad, lonely, negative, you don't want to take care of yourself - and the weight problem and the diabetic problem and the heart attack and stroke problems and high cholesterol set in.
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Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don't have any problems, you don't get any seeds.
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I knew how to read a contract by 10 years old, but I didn't know what it meant for somebody to come in and tell me they loved me and kiss me goodnight. That's a problem.
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People tend to think of gentrification in terms of race because it's presented that way, and I think it's presented that way because in poor cities that's what's really going on. Beyond that, I think it's presented that way as a way for the people who are really pushing it to make it just a black problem, so people don't care.
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What the problem was was this colossal redundancy, the squandering of brilliant technique on cheap material.
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Some mathematics problems look simple, and you try them for a year or so, and then you try them for a hundred years, and it turns out that they're extremely hard to solve. There's no reason why these problems shouldn't be easy, and yet they turn out to be extremely intricate. Fermat's Last Theorem is the most beautiful example of this.
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Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
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Armed with these two formulas you can do any problem!
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Not surprisingly, thinkers from groups for whom whiteness was and is a problem have taken the lead in studying whiteness in this way. Such study began with slave folktales and American Indian stories of contact with whites.
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Everybody is sitting around saying, 'Well, jeez, we need somebody to solve this problem of bias.' That somebody is us. We all have to try to figure out a better way to get along.
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The biggest problem in politics is that you help some S.O.B. get what he wants and then he throws you out of the train.
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Teaching girls to agitate over every problem implies that relationships, and people, can bend to our will.
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We have a government of limited power under the Constitution, and we have got to work out our problems on the basis of law.
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This is the problem with being Indian. It's hard to be one of the family members. Everybody is white usually [in the movie].
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The biggest problem with Bill Schutz's food is his timidity with herbs and spices and some bizarre primeval fear of salt.
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The thing that you worry about your first flight or any flight is some kind of a problem coming up that is going to keep you from doing it. Whether it's being hit by a car, or getting in a bad accident, or coming down with some other medical disqualification. But once the boosters light, you're going.
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This condition that exists in our harbors is not just a maritime industry problem, it's a problem for every resident, every business in Hawaii.
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Has any man ever obtained inner harmony by simply reading about the experiences of others? Not since the world began has it ever happened. Each man must go through the fire himself.
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I'm not super conservative, and I have no problem with people being risque or owning your sexuality or even putting it out there. I have a problem when it's all you are because you're not being fair to yourself; you have more depth than this.
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The problem comes when readers take these two accounts and combine them into one overarching account, in which Jesus says, does, and experiences everything narrated in both Gospels. When that is done, the messages of both Mark and Luke get completely lost and glossed over. Jesus is no longer in deep agony, as in Mark (since he is confident as in Luke), and he is no longer calm and in control as in Luke (since he is in despair as in Mark). He is somehow all things at once. Also
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Problems are not the problem; coping is the problem.
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The big problem in the world is when people are forced to be in a totally foreign context.
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If we need simple narratives so people can amplify and spread them, are we forced to engage only with the simplest of problems?
