Problem Quotes

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

  

  Rik Mayall
  • Problem

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

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Success
  • Diamond
  • Acres

• If there was special interests affecting police work, I believe that would be called corruption. So, if it has do with donating money versus a popular vote, I think we have a bigger problem in this country and somebody's gotta wake up to that.

  

  Garry McCarthy
  • Believe
  • Control
  • Special

• The fact that drilling won't solve every problem is no excuse to do nothing at all.

  

  Sarah Palin
  • Problem
  • Drilling

• The tantalizing and compelling pursuit of mathematical problems offers mental absorption, peace of mind amid endless challenges, repose in activity, battle without conflict, refuge from the goading urgency of contingent happenings, and the sort of beauty changeless mountains present to senses tried by the present day kaleidoscope of events.

  

  Morris Kline
  • Present
  • Challenges
  • Mountain

• The Negro is the child of two cultures - Africa and America. The problem is that in the search for wholeness all too many Negroes seek to embrace only one side of their natures.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Problem
  • Search
  • Cultures

• Grissom comes from a place where we know he had a deaf mother, he was raised in a silent household, on some level, had a father who potentially was not around and he learned what he knew by himself in the back yard, with bugs and animals. He's not comfortable being a supervisor and that's his problem.

  

  William Petersen
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Animal

• If there is a solution to a problem, there is no need to worry. And if there is no solution, there is no need to worry.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Problem
  • Worry
  • Needs

• One problem we discovered, for example, was that our "create a new account" button was in the wrong place...By simply moving it to the left side, mirroring the way people read, we saw a huge improvement in the way people used the site.

  

  Marc Benioff
  • People
  • Way
  • Moving

• I don't have a problem with it. I'll do it for the rest of the season.

  

  Allen Iverson
  • Problem
  • Rest
  • Season

• There's a difference between maliciously offending somebody - on purpose - and somebody being offended by...truth. If you're offended by the truth, that's your problem. I have no obligation to not offend you if I'm speaking the truth. The truth is supposed to offend you; that's how you know you don't got it.

  

  Brad Stine
  • Truth
  • Purpose
  • Difference

• 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 see in industrialization the central problem of building in our time. If we succeed in carrying out this industrialization, the social, economic, technical, and also artistic problems will be readily solved.

  

  Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
  • Time
  • Economic
  • Industrialization

• One of the biggest problems of our contemporary civilization is that there's been an interruption of transmission. People have no past in their present.

  

  Eugene Green
  • People
  • Past
  • Civilization

• Question every assumption and go towards the problem, like the way they flew to the moon. We should have more moon shots and flights to the moon in areas of societal importance.

  

  Sebastian Thrun
  • Moon
  • Assumption
  • Importance

• Rejection would be a disaster for the U.S., but ratification alone will not end our problems in Iraq. Even if the constitution is ratified, the insurgents are not going to lay down their arms.

  

  Andrew Bacevich
  • Constitution
  • Rejection
  • Disaster

• The problem with the world is that we draw the circle of our family too small.

  

  Mother Teresa
  • Problem
  • Draw

• Look at nature, work independently, and solve your own problems.

  

  Winslow Homer
  • Problem
  • Looks

• 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

• You can live each day in a world filled with 'problems,' or rise each morning and embrace a world filled with unseen solutions...eager for you to find them. The decision is yours...both worlds exist. The one you choose is the one you will create.

  

  Michael McMillian
  • Decision
  • Choose
  • Solutions

• In order to succeed greatly, you have to be prepared to fail greatly. If you can't do both of them, you've got a problem.

  

  Mike Tyson
  • Problem
  • Succeed
  • Fail

• The persistent problem in photography is how to look at it.

  

  Ben Maddow
  • Problem
  • Photograhy

• The problem when arguing with those who believe in atheistic evolution is that they move goal posts by redefining atheism or evolution or the word 'species.'

  

  Ray Comfort
  • Evolution
  • Atheism
  • Redefining

• In my first publication I might have claimed that I had come to the conclusion, as a result of serious study of the literature and deep thought, that valuable antibacterial substances were made by moulds and that I set out to investigate the problem. That would have been untrue and I preferred to tell the truth that penicillin started as a chance observation. My only merit is that I did not neglect the observation and that I pursued the subject as a bacteriologist. My publication in 1929 was the starting-point of the work of others who developed penicillin especially in the chemical field.

  

  Alexander Acosta
  • Serious
  • Study
  • Chance

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