Problem Quotes

• Stealing things is everybody's problem. We Apple Inc. own a lot of intellectual property, and we don't like when people steal it. So people are stealing stuff and we're optimists. We believe that 80 percent of the people stealing stuff don't want to be; there's just no legal alternative.

  

  Steve Jobs
  • Stealing
  • Intellectual Property
  • Apple Inc.

• The solution to the novel's legal problem is a satisfyingly intricate one, and nobody will want his money back on the plot. But the echoes that will remain in your mind after you've finished Reversible Errors will mainly have to do with the novel's other elements.

  

  Wendy Lesser
  • Solutions
  • Elements
  • Finished

• Effective leaders know that resources are never the problem; it's always a matter or resourcefulness.

  

  Anthony Robbins
  • Matter
  • Leaders
  • Resources

• People learn a lot about what they think they know about other people from what they see in the media. If they see certain types of images reproduced over and over again for other groups that limit them to narrow types of roles and portrayals, they start to take those prejudices into their interactions with those people in real society, and that creates all kinds of discriminatory problems.

  

  Darnell M. Hunt
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Real

• As the week wore on, Ivan contemplated the merits of inertia as a problem-solving technique with growing favor

  

  Lois McMaster
  • Growing
  • Week
  • Technique

• Architecture is too slow in its realisation to be a 'problem solver'.

  

  Cedric Price
  • Architecture
  • Slow
  • Solver

• Finlay was the godfather of a problem that's rampant everywhere today. He called the people who made his work 'collaborators'... nowadays it's 'fabricators'... talented people who are grateful, desperate and thwarted. There's plenty of them.

  

  Alexander Stoddart
  • Work
  • Problem
  • Fabricators

• The problem is that if you're self-conscious about being a person on whom nothing is lost, isn't something lost - some kind of presence? You're distracted by trying to be totally, perfectly impressionable.

  

  Ben Lerner
  • Problem
  • Distracted
  • Self-Conscious

• Fear is one thing that can ruin everything. It's the greatest problem.

  

  Boman Irani
  • Fear
  • Problem
  • Ruin

• Life is not long for anybody, and the problem is only to make something of it.

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
  • Life
  • Long
  • Problem

• I'm not trying to make excuses for David Seaman, but I think the lights may have been a problem.

  

  Kevin Keegan
  • Thinking
  • Trying
  • May

• For true peace of mind we must acknowledge whatever fault we live upon, whatever time bomb ticks in our closet, and enjoy our Shangri-la nonetheless. It isn't the absence of the problem; it is how one lives in its presence that matters.

  

  Chungliang Al Huang
  • Mind
  • Enjoy
  • Absence

• SpongeBob's voice is really pingy and forward and nasally. The problem is, if you live in the extreme of that for more than 10 minutes, it can be a little grating, and it can be hard on your voice. Also, it gets in the way of the acting to be forcing your voice into this place.

  

  Ethan Slater
  • Voice
  • Sponge Bob
  • Forcing

• I know that’s probably not always true, but I operate on the principle that if it sounds great when you’re just playing it on the piano or guitar and singing it, then making it into a stylistic statement is just not a problem. It’s just going to be a matter of time, turning the crank and getting an arrangement out of the song.

  

  Dan Wilson
  • Song
  • Singing
  • Making

• There's nothing wrong with having a collection, but it becomes a problem when it overwhelms your space. When you're not displaying it properly, you're not enjoying it and it turns into clutter.

  

  Niecy Nash
  • Space
  • Enjoy
  • Turns

• America does not need another political campaign based on denial and avoidance of some of our real problems. It needs a crusade to reform and renew our country, its institutions and political system.

  

  Richard Lamm
  • Political
  • Institutions
  • Campaigns

• One of them, for example, which will probably haunt me more than any other is the problem of communication.

  

  Georges Simenon
  • Problem
  • Communication
  • Haunt

• White women are a problem, that's, you know - we all live with that.

  

  William Kristol
  • Live
  • Problem

• Our problem is this: we usually discover him within some denominational or Christian ghetto. We meet him in a province and, having caught some little view, we paint him in smaller strokes. The Lion of Judah is reduced to something kittenish because our understanding cannot, at first, write larger definitions.

  

  Calvin Miller
  • Writing
  • Understanding
  • Christ

• Sure, things could always have been done better, but I just wish people would drop their political hammers for a few weeks, as happened in 2001, and work on the problem at hand.

  

  Mitch Daniels
  • People
  • Work
  • Political

• Marketers want to get their messages in front of you. They must get their messages in front of you, just to survive. The only problem is-do you really want more marketing messages?

  

  Seth Godin
  • Marketing
  • Messages
  • Fronts

• She turned to Frizz. "So you understand the problem? You can't let Tally know about Radical Honesty. There's no telling what she'll do if she finds out you could ruin her plans." Frizz's eyebrows rose. "So let me get this straight, Aya-chan. You want me, a person who can't lie, to lie about the fact that I can't lie?" "We need another plan," Hiro said.

  

  Scott Westerfeld
  • Lying
  • Honesty
  • Rose

• The more we are using clean energy, renewable energy sources, the less environmentally problematic facilities end up being a problem for everybody, but particularly for folks who have to suffer the consequences of some of these facilities.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Up
  • Energy
  • Suffering

• People who end up with the good jobs are the proactive ones who are solutions to problems, not problems themselves, who seize the initiative to do whatever is necessary to get the job done.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Job
  • Action
  • Solutions

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