Problem Quotes

• Alcohol and drug addiction are problems, and we should use outside agencies that know the business. They do business all over the country. Why don't we contract them to do it? See, we should be in certain businesses.

  

  Richard M. Daley
  • Country
  • Addiction
  • Contracts

• When we work with nature instead of trying to impose our will, the solution is often found within the problem.

  

  David Holmgren
  • Problem
  • Found
  • Solutions

• The mystery of history is an insoluble problem.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • History
  • Problem
  • Mystery

• If you're always telling people why you can't do something, if you parse everything and nitpick, I've got news for you: You're not going anywhere. If you want to make it in this world, learn to say, "sure, no problem." Practice. It's good for you. When is the last time you went on a limb trusting your gut feeling?

  

  Ziad K. Abdelnour
  • Practice
  • Learn
  • Trusting

• You can never solve a problem with the same kind of thinking that created the problem in the first place.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Thinking
  • Created
  • Solve

• When I was in school in the Art Institute, we had several problems during the course of the time we were taking ceramic classes where we had to do a sculptural piece. And when I say a sculptural piece, it's nothing like what we conceive of now as a sculptural piece.

  

  Warren MacKenzie
  • School
  • Art
  • Class

• There's no question about it. If you look at the map, there's hardly any Democrats representing rural districts. There's me, Rick Nolan, Tim Walz, Dave Loebsack and Cheri Bustos. So that's five. And all the rest of them are in urban cities. That's a problem.

  

  Collin Peterson
  • Problem
  • Cities
  • Democrats

• 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

• I mean, look at us. We're all alone in my bedroom and I'm not feeling any urge to make any kinda move on you. That's a pretty big problem.

  

  Aya Nakahara
  • Feeling
  • Problem
  • Bedroom

• The great twin political problems of the age are the brutality of the right, and the dishonesty of the left.

  

  Geoffrey Wheatcroft
  • Political
  • Brutality
  • Dishonesty

• The Y2K problem is not caused by technical limitations. We simply forgot to think of the problem.

  

  Hasso Plattner
  • Problem
  • Technical limitations

• The Compromise of 1850 provided that the prohibition of slavery should be left up to the individual States, thus thwarting the Canaanites in their attempts to make this problem an excuse for federal intervention and a cause of war between the States.

  

  Eustace Mullins
  • War
  • Individual
  • Slavery

• If we want to raise young adults who know how to solve problems, we must let them have problems to solve while they are still adolescents.

  

  Wendy Mogel
  • Want
  • Knows
  • Young

• The more workers you have in your organization, the better you are implanted in the working class, the more likely you are to come up with the concrete problems of the class.

  

  Ernest Mandel
  • Organization
  • Workers
  • Concrete

• Everyone's got their problems and their demons, but when we get onstage and play as five, that really all goes away, and that's really all I look at.

  

  Steven Tyler Aerosmith
  • Play
  • Looks
  • Demon

• 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

• There are no utopia jobs on this earth, .. There's nobody out there that can say, 'I've got the ideal job and there are no problems.' If your self worth is based on what other people think of you, you're in trouble. My self worth is not based on them. My self worth is based on my faith, how I treat others, what I'm doing right for this program and these kids and this coaching staff. Other than that, I understand you're not going to please everybody.

  

  Chan Gailey
  • People
  • Earth
  • Trouble

• The problem in child care, which really all of us are going to have to think hard on, is that there is no really great solution that we can come up with for ages zero to three.

  

  Edward Zigler
  • Problem
  • Solution
  • Childcare

• Unfortunately, philosophers of science usually regard scientific realism and scientific anti-realism as monistic doctrines. The assumption is that there is one goal of all scientific inference - finding propositions that are true, or finding propositions that are predictively accurate. In fact, there are multiple goals. Sometimes realism is the right interpretation of a scientific problem, while at other times instrumentalism is.

  

  Elliott Sober
  • Science
  • Goal
  • Philosophers

• I have no problem twisting the facts if it's the only way I can be true to the moment.

  

  Francis Alys
  • Problem
  • Moment
  • Be True

• We're all watching each other, so there's no chance for censorship. The main problem is the idiot TV. If you watch local news, your head will turn to mush.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Chance
  • News
  • Idiot

• If you are trying to sell someone your idea and you can't even define it to yourself, then that is a problem.

  

  Garance Dore
  • Trying
  • Problem
  • Sells

• Too close a view may interfere with one's grasp of an overall problem or concept.

  

  Anthony Stafford Beer
  • Problem
  • View
  • Grasp

• Death is an engineering problem.

  

  Bart Kosko
  • Death
  • Problem

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