Problem Quotes

• The real problem is not the bad guys; it is that good guys have gone to sleep.

  

  Maynard Jackson
  • Real
  • Guy
  • Sleep

• Successful people are not people without problems. They are people who have learned to solve their problems.

  

  Earl Nightingale
  • People
  • Problem
  • Successful

• One barrier... is the impoverishment of classroom language, the failure to cultivate a common vocabulary about inquiry, explanation, argument and problem solving.

  

  David Perkins
  • Learning
  • Language
  • Classroom

• Here's the problem: Profiteers haunt America, and for everything we try to control, someone's going to profit from it, more than you control it.

  

  will.i.am
  • Trying
  • America
  • Profit

• If wells are constructed right and operated right, hydraulic fracturing will not cause a problem. … Our natural gas supplies would plummet precipitously without hydraulic fracturing.

  

  Scott Anderson
  • Natural
  • Causes
  • Gas

• The biggest problem with Bill Schutz's food is his timidity with herbs and spices and some bizarre primeval fear of salt.

  

  Marian Burros
  • Fear
  • Food
  • Salt

• So many of the wars in history, thousands and thousands of them for the past five, six, seven thousand years, have been related to differences in Truth claims. If we can evolve beyond that problem, then I think there's some chance that we could retire the whole institution of war and begin to focus on the peaceful evolution of humanity.

  

  Wayne Teasdale
  • Truth
  • History
  • Humanity

• I'm sure everybody in a family has a person in their family that has a problem ? drug related or whatever. He happens to be the one. It's just one of those things where when he hurts, I hurt.

  

  Gary Sheffield
  • Family
  • Hurt
  • Drug

• Fashion is always of the time in which you live. It is not something standing alone. But the grand problem, the most important problem, is to rejeuvenate women. To make women look young. Then their outlook changes. They feel more joyous.

  

  Coco Chanel
  • Problem
  • Fashion
  • Changes

• 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.

  

  David Roediger
  • Taken
  • Slave
  • Thinker

• To pay more is the easy way. In fact, the solution possibilities to the problem are many.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • Way
  • Easy
  • Possibility

• If we need simple narratives so people can amplify and spread them, are we forced to engage only with the simplest of problems?

  

  Ethan Zuckerman
  • People
  • Simple
  • Spread

• Regardless of the problem, as long as our solution requires someone else to change, we will never know the power and promise of self-determination.

  

  Bill Crawford
  • Change
  • Promise
  • Solution

• Where we have differences right now is over the problem of tactically how to resolve the situation... I believe we will come to the same common strategy again in relation to the Balkans.

  

  Javier Solana
  • Differences
  • Relation
  • Resolve

• When I see the hatred exacted at Mr. Obama - you know, he lowered your taxes, killed your number one bad guy and got your guys out of Iraq - I don't understand why he seems to inflame people so much. You know, unless, unless there's a race problem.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • People
  • Guy
  • Taxes

• Now let me step back from the problem and very generally discuss natural selection and what we know about it. I think it is safe to say that we know for sure that natural selection, as a process, does work. There is a mountain of experimental and observational evidence, much of it predating genetics, which shows that natural selection as a biological process works.

  

  David M. Raup
  • Mountain
  • Natural
  • Evidence

• Turbulence is the most important unsolved problem of classical physics.

  

  Richard Feynman
  • Important
  • Physics
  • Turbulence

• It's not by coincidence that a lot of protesters against the new presidency in America and in front of the Trump Tower, even in London... the protesters were 90 percent women. The image of the woman and the problem of the woman still exists. Not exactly in the same terms as 200 hundred years ago, but we still have the problem here.

  

  Claude-Michel Schonberg
  • Women
  • Against
  • Presidency

• 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.

  

  Martha Griffiths
  • Help
  • Want
  • Helping

• I think that we live in a remarkably networked world. The problem with that, of course, is that tensions can travel in nanoseconds across the Internet, and so the tensions between Shiites and Sunnis in Baghdad, or between Protestants and Catholics in Belfast - those show up in different parts of the world.

  

  Eboo Patel
  • Travel
  • Internet
  • Tensions

• The problem of the 1850s-how (for Southerners) to preserve slavery without destroying the Union-was a practical problem specific to a particular time and place. But the moral problem of how to reconcile irreconcilable values is a timeless one that, sooner or later, confronts us all.

  

  Andrew Delbanco
  • Problem
  • Values
  • Slavery

• The problem now with changes in the music industry is that there's almost no point in making records anymore. The only thing really is to tour, and then you're revisiting history. Maybe it's better to leave it, if you see what I mean.

  

  Nick Mason Pink Floyd
  • Problem
  • Records
  • Industry

• If you would not confront your neighbor and demand his money at the point of a gun to solve every new problem that may appear in your life, you should not allow the government to do it for you.

  

  William E. Simon
  • Gun
  • Liberty
  • Demand

• People quickly look through things and don't sit and experience. That's a problem with artwork, because it's more of an experience than something to quickly look at. It takes a while for everything to unveil itself.

  

  Ali Banisadr
  • Experience
  • Problem
  • Artwork

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