Problem Quotes

• When did banning anything, ever work? I mean, we banned liquor once in this country, oh, that worked like a charm, didn't it, folks? You couldn't find a drink in the roaring 20's, could ya? See that's the problem with the banning thing! I say why stop there, let's not ban guns, I know, let's ban crime!

  

  Brad Stine
  • Crime
  • Charm
  • Banning

• Positive thinking is how you think about a problem. Enthusiasm is how you feel about a problem. The two together determine what you do about a problem.

  

  Norman Vincent Peale
  • Problem
  • Enthusiasm
  • Positive Thinking

• Let us resolve the internal political problems of Russia ourselves

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • Political
  • Problem
  • Resolve

• I was running from one problem or place to another, with no time left to study, or sleep, or just breathe. I felt pulled in all directions, fighting to keep all these obligations circling in the air above me. It was only a matter of time before something fell.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Running
  • Fighting
  • Sleep

• If during their education our youths become alienated from their language, history, ancestors, culture and civilization, it means there is a very serious educational problem there.

  

  Recep Tayyip Erdogan
  • Education
  • Language
  • Civilization

• Death is an engineering problem.

  

  Bart Kosko
  • Death
  • Problem

• The problem is that so often we forget that we are in warfare and that Satan's target is our mind.

  

  Kay Arthur
  • Mind
  • Forget
  • Satan

• THE PRESOCRATIC PROBLEM [all snap flags] Parmenides named his gun The Hot Power of the Stars. His gun was one, uncreated, imperishable, timeless, changeless, perfect, spherical. Spherical was the problem.

  

  Anne Carson
  • Power
  • Perfect
  • Gun

• I say that there is nothing deficient about our current theoretical grasp of mind-brain identities. The problem is only that they are counter-intuitive.

  

  David Papineau
  • Identity
  • Theoretical
  • Intuitive

• Heroes, classical heroes have the look of eagles, too. They're looking beyond the immediate problem and into the future.

  

  William Shatner
  • Looks
  • Hero
  • Eagles

• 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

• Every big problem is a big opportunity.

  

  Vinod Khosla
  • Opportunity
  • Problem
  • Bigs

• The problem of aging is the problem of living. There is no simple solution.

  

  Coco Chanel
  • Problem
  • Living
  • Solution

• Whenever I spoke with anybody who said they did not have a problem in the military it was because their commander treated them well. Every single time it was about the commander as to whether they had a good or bad experience.

  

  Amy Ziering
  • Problem
  • Military
  • Commander

• The major problem of life is learning how to handle the costly interruptions. The door that slams shut, the plan that got sidetracked, the marriage that failed. Or that lovely poem that didn't get written because someone knocked on the door.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Learning
  • Marriage
  • Poem

• Luckily, I had incredible parents who, when they saw a problem, didn't say, "Why doesn't somebody do something?" They would say, "Why don't we do something?".

  

  Marian Wright Edelman
  • Why
  • Parents
  • Problem

• If you're going to solve a weight-loss problem - or smoking problem for that matter - you must address both the psychological and physiological.

  

  Anthony Robbins
  • Smoking
  • Weight
  • Psychological

• 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

• 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

• There are acres of diamonds in the problem you have before you right now.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Success
  • Diamond
  • Acres

• We could tell them alien civilization things that we have discovered in the realm of mathematical physics, but there is stuff that I would like to know. There are some famous problems like how to bring gravitation and quantum physics together, the long-sought-after theory of quantum gravity. But it may be hard to understand the answer that comes back.

  

  Paul Davies
  • Long
  • Together
  • Answers

• The participants expressed anxiety about the problems the Defense Ministry had been meeting in realizing its plans for future development.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • Anxiety
  • Realizing
  • Meetings

• I've always had a problem with doing what I'm told.

  

  Rik Mayall
  • Problem

• If I go into a season and I say, 'For f***'s sake, if we don't win anything, they will all leave,' I have already lost. The problem of the media is always to imagine the worst. The problem of the manager is always to imagine the best.

  

  Arsene Wenger
  • Lost
  • Winning
  • Imagine

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