Problem Quotes

• Police business is a hell of a problem. It's a good deal like politics. It asks for the highest type of men, and there's nothing in it to attract the highest type of men.

  

  Raymond Chandler
  • Problem
  • Highest

• The overriding problems are brought on by the existence of the ego, a maladaptive behavioral complex in the psyche that gets going like a tumor. If it's not treated - if there's not pharmacological intervention - it becomes the dominant constellation of the personality.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Personality
  • Existence
  • Ego

• Louis Kelso of San Francisco, a lawyer-economist, has for years felt that he has a radical answer to the problem.

  

  William Francis Buckley
  • Politics
  • Economy
  • Radical

• I feel like I want to write some songs and I don't know how to go about doing it. Usually it's the lyrics that are a problem, and I think I am not really cut out to be a lyricist.

  

  Mike Gordon
  • Thinking
  • Writing
  • Song

• Living in a time of the increasing struggle of the mechanization of man, photography has become another example of this paradoxical problem of how to humanize, how to overcome a machine on which we are thoroughly dependent... the camera.

  

  Ernst Haas
  • Technology
  • Struggle
  • Photography

• With each one, I love working on the story and the characters. The stunts, each time, we keep pushing ourselves harder and harder. And they are stunts, so there's always a danger in doing them, but fortunately, I have not had a problem. I have not missed a day of work, ever, in my career. I'm always there early. And I train very hard, and we prepare very carefully for each one.

  

  Tom Cruise
  • Career
  • Story
  • Danger

• Most problems, decisions, and performances are multidimensional, but somehow the results have to be reduced to a few key indicators which are to be institutionally rewarded or penalized... The need to reduce the indicators to a manageable few is based not only on the need to conserve the time (and sanity) of those who assign rewards and penalties, but also to provide those subject to these incentives with some objective indication of what their performance is expected to be and how it will be judged... key indicators can never tell the whole story.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Decision
  • Expected
  • Judged

• The English Patient' is about the coming together of a French-Canadian nurse, an English patient, a Sikh in a turban and me, Caravaggio, and each of us is seeking a resolution to our own problems.

  

  Willem Dafoe
  • Together
  • Patient
  • Nurse

• I always thought we had an environmental problem, but I hadn't realized how urgent it was. James Lovelock writes that by the end of this century there will be one billion people left.

  

  Vivienne Westwood
  • People
  • Writing
  • Environmental

• A business owner is the boss, but it's a job, a place that is stable and profitable. An entrepreneur is an artist of sorts, throwing his/herself into impossible situations and seeking out problems that require heart and guts to solve. Both are fine, but choose.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Artist
  • Situation
  • Impossible

• There's a disposition great defenders have - a genuine pride that scores are a problem, people that score on me is a problem.

  

  Brett Brown
  • Pride
  • Score
  • Defenders

• If you've got a problem, take it out on a drum.

  

  Neil Peart Rush
  • Problem
  • Drum

• When you're a mayor and you have a problem you blame the provincial government. If you are provincial government and you have a problem you blame the federal government. We don't blame the Queen any more, so once in a while we might blame the Americans.

  

  Jean Chretien
  • Problem
  • Government
  • Blame

• The field of consciousness is tiny. It accepts only one problem at a time. Get into a fist fight, put your mind on the strategy of the fight, and you will not feel the other fellow's punches.

  

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery
  • Feel
  • Fight
  • Consciousness

• I would say that, basically, global warming is a non-problem.

  

  Ivar Giaever
  • Problem
  • Global
  • Warming

• The problem I see with most contests is that the people judging have never competed in a bodybuilding contest. I feel that to have the knowledge necessary to judge a bodybuilding competition, you must have walked in those shoes.

  

  Rich Piana
  • People
  • Competition
  • Necessary

• It may not be irrelevant to note that even very modest forms of life, like earthworms, dung beetles and fiddler crabs, have no trouble identifying the real problems they must deal with if they are to survive.

  

  Edward Goldsmith
  • Trouble
  • Deals
  • Modest

• But the problem with coaching is that it is a full-time job. By that I mean for at least 40 weeks in a year you have to be with the player, either travelling or training. Right now I don't want to do that

  

  Richard Krajicek
  • Problem
  • Training
  • Coaching

• I believe we're past the point where the government or the private sector can solve all problems, it's all about partnerships.

  

  David L. Cohen
  • Believe
  • Government
  • Private

• The problem with working with a coach isn't that we don't know what to do. The real problem is that we don't want to change our mind.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Problem
  • Working
  • Coach

• The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem.

  

  Milton Friedman
  • Government
  • Planning
  • Libertarian

• And this speaks to the larger problem that no one wants to talk about: the restoration of the Roman rite is a precondition for a long-term fix for the problem.

  

  Richard Morris
  • Problem
  • About
  • Restoration

• As much as 95% of quality related problems in the factory can be solved with seven fundamental quantitative tools.

  

  Kaoru Ishikawa
  • Quality
  • Fundamentals
  • Factories

• We need a legal and political understanding of the right of the refugee, whereby no solution for one group produces a new class of refugees - you can't solve a refugee problem by producing a new, potentially greater refugee problem.

  

  Judith Butler
  • Problem
  • Understanding
  • Solution

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