Problem Quotes

• 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

• Employers and business leaders need people who can think for themselves - who can take initiative and be the solution to problems.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Needs
  • Leader
  • Solutions

• He's a likeable guy. I never had a problem with him until this happened. But about a year go, he got these animals and they were crapping all over my driveway and my yard and we were tracking it in the house. I asked him to please keep them on his land, but they kept coming over.

  

  J. M. Roberts
  • Problem
  • Never
  • Happened

• If there is a problem somewhere, this is what happens. Three people will try to do something concrete to settle the issue. Ten people will give a lecture analyzing what the three are doing. One hundred people will commend or condemn the ten for their lecture. One thousand people will argue about the problem. And one person-only one- will involve himself so deeply in the true solution that he is too busy to listen to any of it. Now...which person are you?

  

  Elias Chacour
  • People
  • Solution
  • Issue

• We don't have any problem finding enough things to do; the problem we have is making sure we don't overload ourselves inadvertently.

  

  Jimmy Carter
  • Problem

• I believe that the problem of global climate change will ultimately spur our global society to respond and while the condition does not appear to be reversible, we will find ways to adapt to it.

  

  Vint Cerf
  • Believe
  • Change
  • Climate

• The problem now is that young people, young indigenous people, are not so interested in preserving traditional knowledge. So for them, seeing that it was important for us and for the outside world, this traditional knowledge, it was a big deal to them.

  

  Ciro Guerra
  • Knowledge
  • Traditional
  • Young People

• Any reductionist program has to be based on an analysis of what is to be reduced. If the analysis leaves something out, the problem will be falsely posed.

  

  Thomas Nagel
  • Consciousness
  • Program
  • Analysis

• I chose to be a photographer twenty-two years ago, but I don't know that I'd make that choice again. Back in the early eighties, I still thought I was doing okay, trying to order and shape the world with my camera. Now that I know a bit more about living and dying, about our planet and its complex problems, I'm a lot less comfortable with my images of people. Still, I haven't a clue what else to do.

  

  Eugene Richards
  • Choice
  • Camera
  • Planet

• The ideal way to start interesting research, at least in my view, is to depart from a problem or question to which you do not know the answer.

  

  Benedict Anderson
  • Research
  • Answer
  • View

• 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

• When you have a problem, if you tell the truth, the problem becomes part of your past. If you lie, it becomes part of your future.

  

  Rick Pitino
  • Truth
  • Problem
  • Lie

• Science is beginning to catch up with global health problems.

  

  William Foege
  • Problem

• 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

• If the poor only had profiles there would be no difficulty in solving the problem of poverty.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Poor
  • Difficulty
  • Solving

• Undertaker was always a leader in the dressing room, always a man's man. No one ever doubted what he said because his word was good. He was a guy that set the dressing room standard. If you had an issue or personal problem, you could go to Undertaker and he would help you.

  

  Bret Hart
  • Help
  • Leader
  • Issue

• Gold has intrinsic value. The problem with the dollar is it has no intrinsic value. And if the Federal Reserve is going to spend trillions of them to buy up all these bad mortgages and all other kinds of bad debt, the dollar is going to lose all of its value. Gold will store its value, and you'll always be able to buy more food with your gold.

  

  Peter Schiff
  • Kind
  • Gold
  • Mortgage

• That problem has been going on since men and women and their children moved from the plains and into caves. How many times have you heard Howard Cunningham talking to Marian about shopping? Too many.

  

  Henry Winkler
  • Men
  • Women
  • Children

• I regard the people as a great being, inspired by a single idea. This is my problem. I strove to solve it in this opera.

  

  Modest Mussorgsky
  • Ideas
  • Inspired
  • Regard

• An there is always the question: is it really proven that retaliatory actions solve the security problem?.

  

  Moshe Sharett
  • Action
  • Security
  • Solve

• Everybody is sitting around saying, 'Well, jeez, we need somebody to solve this problem of bias.' That somebody is us. We all have to try to figure out a better way to get along.

  

  Wilma Mankiller
  • Trying
  • Problem
  • Bias

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

  

  Vladimir Lenin
  • Problem
  • Building
  • Property

• People always say to me, "What's wrong with Hollywood? They don't want to make female-driven movies." And that's not where the problem lies. It lies with us, in society. When we make these movies, nobody goes to see them.

  

  Charlize Theron
  • People
  • Society
  • Movies

• 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

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