Problem Quotes
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The creative act always requires a stepping back. It's called the incubation period. The incubation period - one of the four phases of creativity - is when you're not consciously thinking of a problem, and you're letting it marinate. So this is why you hear time and again, people saying they had that "Eureka" moment in the bath, like Archimedes, or in the shower, or while going for a walk or in a coffeehouse.
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Mathematics is not yet ready for such problems.
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The measure of a man cannot be whether he ever makes mistakes, because he will make mistakes. It's what he does in response to his mistakes. The same is true of companies. We have to apologize, we have to fix the problem, and we have to learn from our mistakes.
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The problem for me was, I lived my childhood in my 20s. You should really try to live your childhood when you're a child, because if you do it when you're 26, it can be dangerous.
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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!
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Since 1946, the Cubs have had two problems: They put too few runs on the scoreboard and the other guys put too many. So what is the new management improving? The scoreboard.
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We need uniform protection of traditional marriage. You can't have different definitions on something as fundamental as marriage. The Marriage Protection Amendment is the only solution to this problem.
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Our problem is that when you lose the touchstone, which is humanity, then when you have something like humans dying, it needs to feel profound.
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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.
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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.
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Anybody who wants to make television has a tremendous problem because it's a financially restrictive media in this day and age.
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The problem with the British film industry is the nervousness and insecurity about - and genuflection toward - Los Angeles.
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For every problem, there exists a solution...and at the very least...an opportunity.
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People asking questions, lost in confusion, well I tell them there's no problem, only solutions.
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The easy solution isn't the solution, it's the problem.
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No matter what the problem is, it's a people problem.
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If a cat spoke, it would say things like, 'Hey, I don't see the problem here.'
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I'm not saying that there weren't other inherent problems with the score that couldn't have been overcome with a bit of remixing, but why did they ask me to do it, and why did Griffin ask me to do it this way, for a film that had nothing to do with American vernacular?
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To feel that one has a place in life solves half the problem of contentment.
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Life is going to present you with tons of problems, it's what you do about them that matters.
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It could be enough, maybe, or at least a start, but the problem is that at night I tumble into dreams that aren't dreams at all. I tumble into memories and wake up aching for a dying world and a quiet, cold life that offered me nothing but sitting in a still room.
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We must treat water as if it were the most precious thing in the world, the most valuable natural resource. Be economical with water! Don't waste it! We still have time to do something about this problem before it is too late.
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People at rehab were stealing my hats and pens and notebooks and asking for autographs. I couldn't concentrate on my problem.
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My English teacher wanted to have sex with me in Junior High. The only problem was, my English teacher was a guy. I smacked him in his face with an eraser, chased him with a stapler and stapled his nuts to a stack of papers.
