Problem Quotes

• Frustration is a very positive sign. It means that the solution to your problem is within range, but what you're currently doing isn't working, and you need to change your approach in order to achieve your goal.

  

  Anthony Robbins
  • Goal
  • Order
  • Frustration

• There are always those who say legislation can't solve the problem. There is a half-truth involved here. It is true that legislation cannot solve the whole problem. It can solve some of the problem. It may be true that morality can't be legislated, but behavior can be regulated.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Problem
  • Morality
  • Solve

• Women my age just don't turn me on. That's another problem with getting older. I took out an older woman the other night, and I mean old. I told her, Act your age. She died.

  

  Jack Roy
  • Women
  • She
  • Age

• But that was the problem with having the answers. It was only after you gave them that you realized they sometimes weren't what people wanted to hear.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • People
  • Problem
  • Answers

• 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

• He who cannot describe the problem will never find the solution to that problem.

  

  Confucius
  • Problem
  • Solution
  • Describe

• Our problem isn't that the universe isn't on our side; the problem is that too many of us numb these days, not awake to the game, or to the power of the universe that flows through our psychic veins. Some of us need to stop whining. It's not like we're the first generation who faced serious challenges. But others rose to the occasion, and we need to too.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Power
  • Game
  • Stop

• 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

• I had a lot of problems in my life. I've been a sickly kid, I had a strange life. They said I could have been blind, handicapped, asthmatic, there were all kind of different problems about me.

  

  Robert Fitzgerald Diggs Achozen
  • Different
  • Kids
  • Kind

• The first problem of communication is getting people's attention.

  

  Chip Heath
  • Attention
  • Problem
  • Communication

• Really, then, our problem is not weakness, but independence! And in covenant, you die to independent living.

  

  Kay Arthur
  • Independent
  • Weakness
  • Independence

• We can solve any problem by introducing an extra level of indirection.

  

  Butler Lampson
  • Problem
  • Level
  • Indirection

• Now, I can't help but feel inferior. When I'm out in public in Afghanistan, I feel inferior because I'm doing everything I can to stay hidden, silent. I feel inferior because I am seeing firsthand the impact of America's foreign policy and can't help but feel like a living, breathing representation of that - despite my own personal views about that policy. It reinforces to me that I want to be part of the solution - and I want my work to be part of the solution - not part of the problem.

  

  Beth Murphy
  • Silent
  • Representation
  • Foreign Policy

• 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

• For radical white writers wishing to forge interracial movements of poor and working people, whiteness has also long been a problem, with Alexander Saxton and Ted Allen making especially full efforts to understand whiteness in order to disillusion whites unable to see past the value of their own skins.

  

  David Roediger
  • People
  • Values
  • Skins

• Leaks are not the problem; they are the symptom. They reveal a disconnect between what people want and need to know and what they actually do know. The greater the secrecy, the more likely a leak.

  

  Heather Brooke
  • Problem
  • Symptom
  • Leaks

• I would like to say, you know, that, unfortunately, we have many unresolved problems. But a great number of people in Russia know Japan and love Japan, and I am sure that eventually we will resolve all our problems.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • People
  • Problem
  • Resolve

• The solution to the Muslim problem is a Muslim Voltaire, a Muslim Nietzsche

  

  Ian Buruma
  • Solution
  • Muslim
  • Nietzsche

• My problem is that all things are increasingly interesting to me

  

  William Gibson
  • Interesting
  • Problem

• When the difficulty of a problem lies only in finding out what follows from certain fixed premises, mathematical methods furnish invaluable wings for flying over intermediate obstructions.

  

  Arthur M. Wellington
  • Mathematical
  • Methods
  • Premises

• The problem with paparazzi is that it makes you question your boundaries, like, how do I say, Thats enough guys?

  

  Selma Blair
  • Question
  • Boundaries
  • Paparazzi

• 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

• A gun doesn't have the brain to hate with, or a finger to pull the trigger, so the problem isn't the gun.

  

  Alan Gottlieb
  • Problem
  • Brain
  • Gun

• If you have a problem at that level where there is hatred, prejudice, and anger, that has nothing to do with the other person. What is wrong with you that you are feeling that way? Look at yourself. Quite often it is their upbringing or their parent's problems. You got to get free. At some point you have to take responsibility for your actions.

  

  KT Tunstall
  • Responsibility
  • Feelings
  • Prejudice

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