Problem Quotes
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I think we still do have a PR problem in the sense that these institutions portray themselves quite often as a museum without the contemporary wing. For a young cutting-edge person, why would you get into that sort of business, which is very clearly geared towards dead or almost dead people?
Esa-Pekka Salonen -
Probably fewer than 2% of handguns and well under 1% of all guns will ever be involved in a violent crime. Thus, the problem of criminal gun violence is concentrated within a very small subset of gun owners, indicating that gun control aimed at the general population faces a serious needle-in-the-haystack problem.
Gary Kleck
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I’ll still criticize the media. I never had a problem with the media. I just didn’t appreciate the way I was being covered.
Bart Scott -
Women and fiction remain, so far as I am concerned, unsolved problems.
Virginia Woolf -
Positive thinking is just one small part of positive psychology. Plus, as an approach to well-being, positive thinking only helps you to the extent that it yields one or more positive emotions. The problem with positive thinking is that it sometimes just stays up "in the head" and fails to drip down to become a fully embodied experience.
Barbara Fredrickson -
Mathematics is not yet ready for such problems.
Paul Erdos -
I'm very low-maintenance, and that is a problem. I'm not demanding at all, and sometimes I feel that I should be throwing tantrums. But since I don't party or socialise, and am very low-key, I think that makes me very low-maintenance. Actually, I'm the most boring person at a party.
Esha Gupta -
Teaching Plato in Palestine shows how philosophical thinking can illuminate important topics-in particular, the problem of finding ways to engage people with opposed ideologies in fruitful debate. The lively narratives, based on the author's experiences of working with various groups interested in using philosophical tools to clarify their thought and action, will engage a wide range of readers.
Gary Gutting
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The political process is not tied to any particular doctrine. Genuine political doctrines, rather, are the attempt to find particular and workable solutions to this perpetual and shifty problem of conciliation.
Bernard Crick -
Every major industrial society believes that it has a serious youth problem.
Edgar Friedenberg -
I know a helluva lot. I'm not the only one who knows these things. Many people know more than I do. That's fortunately not my problem. My problem is what I am supposed to use it for. What do I do with it? It's confusing.
Erlend Loe -
I think Facebook's biggest problem is the glut of information that Facebook's power users are overwhelmed with.
Sean Parker -
We must not depict socialism as if socialists will bring it to us on a plate all nicely dressed. That will never happen. Not a single problem of the class struggle has ever been solved in history except by violence. When violence is exercised by the working people, by the mass of exploited against the exploiters -- then we are for it!
Vladimir Lenin -
Mathematics, even in its present and most abstract state, is not detached from life. It is just the ideal handling of the problems of life.
Cassius Jackson Keyser
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That’s the problem with fiction — or the charm, if you want. Even mediocre plots have a way of sinking their hooks into you, until you find yourself concerned for the fates of characters who aren’t even fully convincing.
Charles McGrath -
The easy solution isn't the solution, it's the problem.
Henry Rollins Black Flag -
Here is the secret of inspiration: Tell yourself that thousands and tens of thousands of people, not very intelligent and certainly no more intelligent than the rest of us, have mastered problems as difficult as those that now baffle you.
William Feather -
Part of the irony of environmentalism is questing for solutions when you know you're part of the problem.
Diane Ackerman -
Fighting with corruption is highly, is an issue, is a problem. It's highly on the agenda in our country.
Dmitry Peskov -
If I have a problem with somebody, I go ahead and say what's on my mind.
Nico Hulkenberg
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My wife says I'm making a noise like a stranded whale. I think I have a major snoring problem.
Rex Hunt -
I used to spend so much time reacting and responding to everyone else that my life had no direction. Other people's lives, problems, and wants set the course for my life. Once I realized it was okay for me to think about and identify what I wanted, remarkable things began to take place in my life.
Melody Beattie -
There are a lot of services trying to solve the information discovery problem, and no one has got it right yet.
Steve Chen -
The problem with evil people is that they can see only evil in others. It is one of the worst curses of being evil, that you can no longer experience good.
Michael Gruber