Problem Quotes

• “It’s very demoralizing to be regarded as a problem rather than an individual.”

  

  Annie Barrows
  • Problem
  • Individual
  • Regarded

• I don’t know if you have had the same experience, but the snag I always come up against when I’m telling a story is this dashed difficult problem of where to begin it.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Up
  • Experience
  • Stories

• We're not ignoring the problem, not really. We're all aware it's there, even Bo. We see the edges of this new Bo, this Bo who's special, different. We're not ignoring it. We're just carefully, carefully avoiding it.

  

  Beth Revis
  • Different
  • Problem
  • Ignoring

• I was ready to move up a weight class, but I can still make 140. If I'm back in the ring in the summertime I know I can make 140 with the heat. I've always been disciplined so it's no problem for me.

  

  Danny Garcia
  • Moving
  • Summertime
  • Disciplined

• Moreover, resolving the mother of all problems - the Israeli-Palestinian question - requires cooperation between Europe and the U.S.

  

  Romano Prodi
  • Problem
  • Cooperation
  • Palestinian

• Wanting to be on television is a mental illness. Wanting to be president of the United States, wanting to be an actor - these are degrees of the same mental illness. If you need to be approved of simultaneously by more people than are in this room now, there's a problem.

  

  Keith Olbermann
  • People
  • Television
  • Degrees

• What Reagan ushered in was a skepticism toward government solutions to every problem. I don't think that has changed

  

  Barack Obama
  • Thinking
  • Government
  • Problem

• It is quite a three pipe problem, and I beg that you won't speak to me for fifty minutes.

  

  Arthur Conan Doyle
  • Problem
  • Pipe

• Our problem is to become acquainted with our own selves, letting our personalities loose upon the world for the sheer adventure of their full development and in the positive hope that they may in their own way lift the level of humanity.

  

  Norman Vincent Peale
  • Problem
  • Become
  • Acquainted

• I’m a problem solver, an advocate and an ambassador for about 150,000 people. It’s the best job in the world.

  

  Justin Brannan Caninus
  • Problem
  • Advocate
  • Solver

• One's intelligence may march about and about a problem, but the solution does not come gradually into view. One moment it is not. The next it is there.

  

  William Golding
  • Science
  • Learning
  • March

• Broke people talk about people and problems. Rich people talk about ideas and goals. Your conversation chooses your destiny.

  

  Darren Hardy
  • People
  • Destiny
  • Chooses

• Forcing automakers to sell smaller cars to improve fuel economy is like... fighting the nation's obesity problem by forcing clothing manufacturers to sell garments in only small sizes.

  

  Bob Lutz
  • Fighting
  • Manufacturers
  • Automakers

• We've lost something that's been with us for so long, and something that drew a lot of us into mathematics. But perhaps that's always the way with math problems, and we just have to find new ones to capture our attention.

  

  Andrew Wiles
  • Long
  • Lost
  • Attention

• 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

  

  Bart Ehrman
  • Control
  • Jesus
  • Readers

• 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

• I'm a technological moron. I have, I have problems with like.. the television

  

  Natalie
  • Television
  • Technological
  • Moron

• Some pianists seem to really remember the keys and not so much the notes they play. They want to learn until it's a physical habit that can be replicated. For pianists, this is much more of a problem than for other instruments, like the violin, where you actually have to think of the pitch.

  

  Carlo Grante
  • Habit
  • Instruments
  • Keys

• We used to be calorie poor and now the problem is obesity. We used to be data poor, now the problem is data obesity.

  

  Hal Varian
  • Poor
  • Obesity
  • Calories

• Can one be a saint if God does not exist? That is the only concrete problem I know of today.

  

  Albert Camus
  • God
  • Exist
  • Saint

• The problem is when you get forced to use ideas that aren't good. When I can filter the ideas and use the best of them, I am happy to collaborate.

  

  Michel Gondry
  • Ideas
  • Use
  • Filters

• Eureka! Eureka! Supposed to have been his cry, jumping naked from his bath and running in the streets, excited by a discovery about water displacement to solve a problem about the purity of a gold crown.

  

  Archimedes
  • Problem
  • Discovery
  • Jumping

• Your only problem, perhaps, is that you scream without letting yourself cry.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Problem
  • Cry
  • Scream

• Socially liberal gun control champions don’t see themselves as pushing policies that would abet racial profiling or worsen the problem of mass incarceration. They see themselves as going after their political enemies—socially conservative white men in red states.

  

  Adam Garfinkle
  • Problem
  • Policies
  • Incarceration

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