Problem Quotes

• 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

• My problem was that I was blond. There were no heroes with blond hair. Robert Taylor and Henry Fonda, they all had dark hair. The only one I found was Van Johnson, who wasn't too cool. He was a nice, homely American boy. So I created my own image. It worked.

  

  Michael Caine
  • Nice
  • Dark
  • Hair

• The problem is that when you grow absolutely certain that all authorities are corrupt, then that would include the Palestinian authorities as well.

  

  Elia Suleiman
  • Corrupt
  • Authorities
  • Palestinian

• 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 remember the first guy who offered me a joint in the bathroom. I said 'No, man, I've got enough problems.'

  

  Steven Tyler Aerosmith
  • Men
  • Remember
  • Guy

• A situation where a solution to a stakeholder problem is imposed by a government agency or the courts must be seen as a managerial failure.

  

  R. Edward Freeman
  • Government
  • Failure
  • Agency

• I always had a deep affection for Malcolm and felt that he had a great ability to put his finger on the existence and the root of the problem. He was an eloquent spokesman for his point of view and no one can honestly doubt that Malcolm had a great concern for the problems we face as a race.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Problem
  • Affection
  • Point Of View

• It's what counts, isn't it, on the Sunday, rather than pre-season testing. If you lock up, you do a little mistake, it's nothing, but if you do it on Sunday, you lose a place or you have to box for a flat spot or something like that. It's a much bigger problem.

  

  Lando Norris
  • Mistake
  • Nothing
  • Something

• The biggest problem is not to let people accept new ideas, but to let them forget the old ones.

  

  John Maynard Keynes
  • People
  • Problem
  • Ideas

• Imagine any problem you have to be a huge, locked door standing in front of you. Now see yourself taking a golden key out of your pocket. You brought the key here with you when you arrived on this planet, but you sometimes forget to use it. See yourself putting it into the keyhole, then watch the door swing open. On the key are inscribed these words, "Unconditional Love."

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Words
  • Door
  • Imagine

• How to achieve the moral breakdown of the enemy before the war has started - that is the problem that interests me. Whoever has experienced war at the front will want to refrain from all avoidable bloodshed.

  

  Adolf Hitler
  • War
  • Achieve
  • Bloodshed

• Ike's problem was that he was a musician that always wanted to be a star; and was a star, locally, but never internationally... so he then changed the name to Ike and changed my name to Tina because if I ran away, Tina was his name. It was patented as you call it.

  

  Tina Turner
  • Problem
  • Changed
  • Musician

• Chess problems demand from the composer the same virtues that characterize all worthwhile art: originality, invention, conciseness, harmony, complexity, and splendid insincerity

  

  Vladimir Nabokov
  • Art
  • Virtue
  • Chess

• The world is one big data problem.

  

  Andrew McAfee
  • World
  • Problem
  • Data

• One [of the two ideas for PROOF] was to write about two sisters who are quarreling over the legacy of something left behind by their father. The other was about someone who knew that her parent had had problems of mental illness [and that] she might be going through the same thing.

  

  David Auburn
  • Writing
  • Father
  • Parent

• I learned from the Macarturos. I had never been at a table with a labor organizer and a playwright and a performance artist and an anthropologist and a human rights lawyer. Usually at most gatherings, it's all writers. But suddenly I was at a table with all these different people and I learned from each of them, learned from the work they're doing, learned new ways to solve my problems.

  

  Sandra Cisneros
  • People
  • Different
  • Artist

• We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on.

  

  Richard Feynman
  • Science
  • Responsibility
  • Humanity

• I think it's a problem if you don't compensate people that have got no money, because I really feel you're exploiting them.

  

  Nick Broomfield
  • Money
  • Problem
  • Exploiting

• What's wrong with our children? Adults telling children to be honest while lying and cheating. Adults telling children to not be violent while marketing and glorifying violence... I believe that adult hypocrisy is the biggest problem children face in America.

  

  Marian Wright Edelman
  • Believe
  • Children
  • America

• Our problem is not to be rid of fear but rather to harness and master it.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Fear
  • Problem
  • Master

• I liked quantum mechanics very much. The subject was hard to understand but easy to apply to a large number of interesting problems.

  

  Willis Lamb
  • Interesting
  • Number
  • Quantum

• If you ever hear yourself or anyone you care about starting to express the belief that a problem is permanent, it’s time to immediately shake that person loose. No matter what happens in your life, you’ve got to be able to believe, 'This, too, shall pass,' and that if you keep persisting, you’ll find a way.

  

  Anthony Robbins
  • Believe
  • Care
  • Belief

• It's a good problem to have, if you call it a problem. And it is not a problem. Any time you have a chance to get an off week, it's a good thing. We have given ourselves a good opportunity to rest some guys. It would be nice to sweep our division. It would be great to get 12 wins, but so would having everyone healthy for a playoff game.

  

  Brian Urlacher
  • Opportunity
  • Chance
  • Playoff game

• For there is but one problem - the problem of human relations. We forget that there is no hope or joy except in human relations.

  

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery
  • Hope
  • Problem
  • Human Relations

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