Problem Quotes

• I can't think of a time in the history of man when food was in excess. We're dealing with the same old problems we've dealt with for 60,000 years.

  

  Homaro Cantu
  • Problem
  • Years
  • Excess

• Paper after paper, study after study, have shown that chairs give us back problems because they shorten our hip flexors, give us weak backs, of course it make us sedentary. We take years off our lives probably by sitting in chairs, but we like them because they're comfortable. You go to an African village, you find me a chair with a back. That's a rare thing out there.

  

  Daniel Lieberman
  • Giving
  • Pain
  • Study

• 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

• You will only be remembered for two things: the problems you solve or the ones you create.

  

  Mike Murdock
  • Problem
  • Things
  • Remembered

• You can't solve a problem as complex as inequality in one legal clause.

  

  Theresa May
  • Problem
  • Legal
  • Clause

• The major problem with the notion of transformation is that it forever hangs on to some form of self and never lets it go. It perpetuates the notion that self gets better and better, more and more divine, when in truth, the divine increases in proportion as the self decreases or falls away. The notion of a divinized self only increases or inflates the self; for those who buy into this notion, the journey may well end in total disillusionment. Offhand

  

  Bernadette Roberts
  • Truth
  • Journey
  • Transformation

• For students, understanding the separate and unique functions of each branch of government can help them understand how different kinds of government officials can help solve different kinds of problems.

  

  Sandra Day O'Connor
  • Different
  • Kind
  • Unique

• If you were to go to a restaurant and disagree with Daniel Boulud, he'd probably throw something at you. Restaurant chefs have a problem with caterers because we accommodate special requests, but great service is about getting exactly what you want.

  

  David Castle
  • Service
  • Special
  • Disagree

• I have a friend who, if she has a bad hair day, it affects her whole mood because it is part of her sexuality, her confidence. I don't have that problem any more.

  

  Cathy Freeman
  • Hair
  • Mood
  • Sexuality

• I would say that when you have a big dream or you're trying to solve a big problem, there will always be people who tell you that you can't. Here's my advice: don't listen.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Dream
  • Problem
  • Solve

• If I do something I think is new, it will be misunderstood, but if people like it, I will be disappointed because I haven't pushed them enough. The more people hate it, maybe the newer it is. Because the fundamental human problem is that people are afraid of change. The place I am always looking for-because in order to keep the business I need to make a little compromise between my values and customers' values-is the place where I make something that could almost-but not quite-be understood by everyone.

  

  Rei Kawakubo
  • Business
  • Change
  • Something

• The once rather old-fashioned science of paleontology finds itself in a maelstrom of excitement and controversy. Astrophysicists, atmospheric scientists, geochemists, geophysicists, and statisticians are all contributing to the extinction problem. And the general public is taking part through television talk shows, magazine cover stories, newspaper editorials, and even the occasional mention in gossip columns.

  

  David M. Raup
  • Scientist
  • Gossip
  • Excitement

• There's certain things that we do work with Russia on and then there's certain things when they do something wrong, I have no problem calling them out on it.

  

  Nikki Haley
  • Problem
  • Certain
  • Calling

• I believe that humanity has an uphill battle to wage in its fight to attain real health, and I honestly believe - from hard-earned experience - that homeopathy can offer some solution to this problem.

  

  George Vithoulkas
  • Problem
  • Solution
  • Homeopathy

• Whenever there is a simple error that most laymen fall for, there is always a slightly more sophisticated version of the same problem that experts fall for.

  

  Amos Tversky
  • Problem
  • Error
  • Laymen

• A lot of people live much more simply than in the old days. That doesn't bother me. Keeping busy is the problem. Television guest shot fees are going down. You can do a dozen guest shots a year, but you're not making that much money.

  

  Harry Morgan
  • People
  • Money
  • Television

• My back and hip situation is well-documented. Last Friday, the pain was so bad that I took a lot of pain pills. But that didn't seem to work, so I succumbed to temptation and went and bought a bottle. ... I have a problem with alcohol.

  

  Eddie Sutton
  • Work
  • Pain
  • Temptation

• 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

• I think that the big age problem in the job market today is really on the part of employers and that they don't seem to be calculating the cost of age discrimination to them when they practice it.

  

  Nick Corcodilos
  • Age
  • Problem
  • Job market

• I think you hear, at least as an undertone, and it's going to grow louder, is that we believe that capitalism is the mantra of the day and anything that creeps towards socialism is a problem.

  

  Tim Scott
  • Capitalism
  • Socialism
  • Mantra

• Sometimes, when you can't fix the problem on your own, you need to make some compromises and find the partners who can get the job done for you.

  

  Andrew Bacevich
  • Problem
  • Sometimes
  • Compromise

• The same organizational principles which called us forth into self-reflection have called forth self-reflection out of the planet itself. And the problem then is for us to suspect this, act on our suspicion, and be good detectives, and track down the spirit in its lair. And this is what shamans are doing. They are hunters of spirit.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Spirit
  • Track
  • Suspicion

• We can no longer have forbidden areas of the human mind, or cultural machinery. We have taken upon ourselves the acquisition of so much power that we now must understand what we are. We cannot travel much further with the definitions of man that we inherit from the Judeo-Christian tradition. We need to truly explore the problem of consciousness.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Mind
  • Consciousness
  • Tradition

• Mathematics is not yet ready for such problems.

  

  Paul Erdos
  • Problem
  • Mathematics

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