Problem Quotes

• 25 million of Russian people suddenly turned out to be outside the borders of the Russian Federation. They used to live in one state; the Soviet Union has traditionally been called Russia, the Soviet Russia, and it was the great Russia. Then the Soviet Union suddenly fell apart, in fact, overnight, and it turned out that in the former Soviet Union republics there were 25 million Russians. They used to live in one country and suddenly found themselves abroad. Can you imagine how many problems came out?

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • People
  • Country
  • Imagine

• 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 real problem with Donald Trump is, if you engage him, it will only make things worse. It's like - it's a little bit what you were taught as a kid to not engage the bully, because they will continue to pick on you.

  

  Amy Walter
  • Problem
  • Worse
  • Engage

• Another big problem with any Australian emissions reduction scheme is that it would not make a material difference to atmospheric carbon concentrations unless the big international polluters had similar schemes.

  

  Tony Abbott
  • Difference
  • Emissions
  • Polluters

• When your happiness comes primarily from the happiness of others, you know you have moved from a 'me' experience to a 'we' experience. And the whole problem-solving and opportunity-seizing process changes.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Opportunity
  • Process
  • Moved

• 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 I had an ankle problem and underwent three operations.

  

  Jessica Brown Findlay
  • Problem
  • Operations
  • Ankles

• Only by abolishing private property in land and building cheap and hygienic dwellings can the housing problem be solved.

  

  Vladimir Lenin
  • Problem
  • Building
  • Property

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

  

  Rik Mayall
  • Problem

• Learning how to get in tune with your field of energy and understand how to create your energy, expand that energy, and move that energy through your body. Coming back to your center, and approaching life from that center-to-line place... That to me gave me strength and understanding and hopefully wisdom to solve life's problems and challenges.

  

  Erin Gray
  • Understanding
  • Challenges
  • Coming

• Real optimism is aware of problems but recognizes the solutions.

  

  William Arthur Ward
  • Real
  • Solutions
  • Optimism

• 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, 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

• The state of our civilization manifests itself both in the non-problems that terrify us beyond all reason - rising sea levels - and in the real problems we pay no heed to [population decline]...In reality, much of the planet will be uninhabited long before it's uninhabitable

  

  Mark Steyn
  • Long
  • Real
  • Reality

• 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

• As you know, the best way to solve a problem is to identify the core belief that causes the problem; then mock that belief until the people who hold it insist that you heard them wrong.

  

  Scott Adams
  • People
  • Problem
  • Core

• Your rewards in life are determined by the kinds of problems you are willing to solve for someone.

  

  Mike Murdock
  • Determined
  • Willing
  • Rewards

• One of the great things with comedy is that there's no such thing as a mediocre comedy; it's either uproarious or crap. That's the problem.

  

  Michael Caine
  • Comedy
  • Problem
  • Mediocre

• 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

• It was love, she thought, love that never clutch its object; but, like the love which mathematicians bear their symbols, or poets their phrases, was meant to be spread over the world and become part of human gain. The world by all means should have shared it, could Mr Bankes have said why that woman pleased him so; why the sight of her reading a fairy tale to her boy had upon him precisely the same effect as the solution of a scientific problem.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • World
  • Mean
  • Boys

• The problem is, I cannot meditate. That's the one thing I can't do. That's the thing that's driving me nuts. I have a house by the sea, and I can sit and listen to the sound of the sea and eventually... but I can't really do it.

  

  Thomas Edward Yorke Atoms for Peace
  • House
  • Driving
  • Sound

• 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

• 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

• The present rate of progress [in X-ray crystallography] is determined, not so much by the lack of problems to investigate or the limited power of X-ray analysis, as by the restricted number of investigators who have had a training in the technique of the new science, and by the time it naturally takes for its scientific and technical importance to become widely appreciated.

  

  William Lawrence Bragg
  • Science
  • Training
  • Progress

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