Problem Quotes

• Perhaps my problem in marriage-and it is the problem of many women-was to want both intimacy and independence. It is a difficult line to walk, yet both needs are important to a marriage.

  

  Hedy Lamarr
  • Important
  • Difficult
  • Independence

• People come to me with their heads held high and announce that they do not eat sugar anymore, as though they have tackled one of life's deadly sins. My response is to ask them how long they have had this problem and if they have considered seeing a psychiatrist.

  

  Emily Luchetti
  • Sins
  • Psychiatrist
  • Announce

• You won't find a solution by saying there is no problem

  

  William Rotsler
  • Problem
  • Saying
  • Solution

• Selfishness at the core is to think you have a special problem- a problem that God cannot deal with, that God didn’t deal with at the cross. You do not have anything special that has been dealt out to you.

  

  Eric Ludy
  • God
  • Deal
  • Selfishness

• Solving specific problems is what drives me. I am not interested in having a career. I never have been.

  

  Sean Parker
  • Problem
  • Careers

• When you first start off trying to solve a problem, the first solutions you come up with are very complex, and most people stop there. But if you keep going, and live with the problem and peel more layers of the onion off, you can often times arrive at some very elegant and simple solutions.

  

  Steve Jobs
  • Problem
  • Solutions

• Piers looked up at him. 'You're new. What's your name?' 'Neythen, my lord.' 'Sounds like a terrible illness. No, more like a bowel problem. I'm sorry, Lord Sandys, your son has contracted neythen and won't live a month. No, no, there's nothing I can do. Sandys would have preferred hearing that to syphilis.

  

  Eloisa James
  • Name
  • Illness
  • Syphilis

• History does not pose problems without eventually producing the solutions.

  

  Marian Wright Edelman
  • History
  • Problem
  • Solutions

• The world is not an unsolved problem for scientists or sociologists. The world is a living mystery.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • World
  • Mystery
  • Scientist

• The problem with the race to the bottom is that you might win

  

  Seth Godin
  • Problem
  • Win
  • Race

• I think growing up in a big family taught me a lot of problem solving and how to share and compromise, and that's been helpful in my marriage.

  

  Sarah Jessica Parker
  • Family
  • Marriage
  • Share

• I realized when I was taking care of my problems that the band is all I really care about.

  

  Steven Tyler Aerosmith
  • Problem
  • Care

• Our great problem, is that children now know whatever they want to know - at the press of a button they can discover all horrors of the adult world. They know very early on that the world is sometimes a very dark, difficult and complex place, and the literature they read must reflect that. Otherwise we're just entertaining them to pass the time.

  

  Michael Morpurgo
  • World
  • Children
  • Dark

• Whenever you work on something and try to solve one problem, and you end up helping or solving many other problems, it is a sign that what you are doing is good.

  

  Nathan Seiberg
  • Work
  • Problem
  • Solving

• Our generation, unfortunately, is stuck to our phones - and, like, Twitter - constantly, which I have no problem with. I'd say we're not describing the children of America or anything like that, but there is something to take from it: It is kind of sad how we can't go thirty minutes without checking our phone.

  

  Israel Broussard
  • Problem
  • Generation
  • Phone

• The big problem with motherhood of girls, it seems to me, is that we're both women.

  

  Elizabeth Noble
  • Problem
  • Woman
  • Motherhood

• Don't just analyze a problem - solve it.

  

  Robert Zoellick
  • Problem
  • Solve

• The problem with the old ideology was that it suppressed the individual by starting with society. But it is from a sense of individual duty that we connect the greater good and the interests of the community

  

  Tony Blair
  • Community
  • Interest
  • Individual

• The problem is, with a lot of children's films, they are very commercial.

  

  Michel Gondry
  • Children
  • Problem
  • Film

• The expression of a man's face is commonly a help to his thoughts, or glossary on his speech; but the countenance of Newman Noggs, in his ordinary moods, was a problem which no stretch of ingenuity could solve.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Help
  • Speech
  • Solve

• Congress seems drugged and inert most of the time... its idea of meeting a problem is to hold hearings or, in extreme cases, to appoint a commission.

  

  Shirley Chisholm
  • Congress
  • Cases
  • Meetings

• Birds are extremely valued as indicators of overall environmental health. If there's a problem in a wild bird population, it's indicative that something went wrong.

  

  Jim Elliot
  • Problem
  • Bird
  • Environmental

• The problem of an eidos in history, hence, arises only when a Christian transcendental fulfillment becomes immanentized. Such an immanentist hypostasis of the eschaton, however, is a theoretical fallacy.

  

  Eric Voegelin
  • History
  • Problem
  • Christian

• Humans build their societies around consumption of fossil water long buried in the earth, and these societies, being based on temporary resources, face the problem of being temporary themselves.

  

  Charles Bowden
  • Long
  • Earth
  • Water

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