Problem Quotes

We called my dad MacGyver when I was a kid, and I learned a lot from him. He just enjoys problem solving in that way. I do, too, which is something I inherited.

I've had trouble being in relationships and writing. This has been a real problem for me. I don't know if it's because I'm not free to fantasize or create these fantasy things about other people

Somebody tell my fam I got a gambling problem.

History makes one wise, but not competent to solve concrete problems.

The solution to the problem of life is seen in the vanishing of this problem.

It's only by thinking even more crazily than philosophers do that you can solve their problems.

All countries have problems with China's economic power.

I love seeing people having fun. Everyone over in L.A. is too cool for it. That's the problem.

I have been taking some classes in woodworking. It's really helpful just looking at a problem, and having a very tangible way in constructing it.

If you have a problem, if you have a fire in your house, would you want - don't want your neighbors to give you a hand? That's what we have.

Ego problems are endemic in every walk of life, but in the movie business egomaniacs are megalomaniacs.

Today our problem is not making miracles, but managing them.

Nicholas this is one of those 'yes' or 'no' questions again. You seem to have a problem with those. Did you or did you not kill a woman - Jo

This is the problem with being Indian. It's hard to be one of the family members. Everybody is white usually [in the movie].

I'm thrilled to feel that I can rely on myself totally and absolutely; that my children are being brought up so that when they meet a problem they can't cop out by foisting it off on God.

Obviously Iran is a very large problem. It's hard to decide what the number one issue [is], but that is a very threatening problem.

The interesting part is, that being the United States Secretary of State, most places I went didn't have a problem with me being a woman, because I was representing the United States.

The deeper and richer a personality is, the more full it is of paradox and contradiction. It is only a shallow character who offers us no problems of contrast.

It does not matter that we cannot fathom this mystery. The only real problem comes when we think that we have.

My daughter has a problem picking things up in her room. So if you leave your clothes on the floor, so if you leave your clothes on the floor, they're gone when you come home.

If I have a problem, I want to work it out, right now.

The spinning wheel and the spinning wheel alone will solve, if anything will solve, the problem of the deepening poverty of India.

We should not be putting kids in cages and hoping that is going to fix their psychological problems of any type.

For any alliance to work, the focus must remain on solving specific problems.

So long as the stereotype is used as a way of understanding how to fix the problem as opposed to demonizing a people or writing them off, then I think it's OK.

I think actually the marketing community is approaching a crisis: There are just too many messages competing for too little attention. That is the fundamental problem.

Now you have Donald Trump ready to execute policy on the basis that the Muslims are the problem, not ISIS. Oh Jesus, it's a circular firing squad.

New York white youth were killing victims; that was a 'sociological' problem. But when black youth killed somebody, the power structure was looking to hang somebody.

I might say this, that the problem of the, the solution for the Afro-American is two-fold - long-range and short-range.

I think that the problem of the American negro goes beyond the principle of any organization whether it's a religious, political, or otherwise.

The problem [ of the twenty-two million Afro-Americans] is so broad that it's going to take the inner working of all organizations.

I believe that a psychological, cultural, and philosophical migration back to Africa will solve our problem.

I look at the problem of the twenty-two million Afro-Americans as being a problem that's so broad in scope that it's almost impossible for any organization to see it in its entirety.

Solve the race problem here, and once you solve the race problem here, you don't have to send these billions of dollars abroad.

Until the white man in America sits down and talks with The Honorable Elijah Muhammad, he won't even know what the race problem - what makes the race problem what it is.

Since integration is so slow, and the white man knows the problem must be solved, the only thing that he can do tomorrow is, is separate, because we're already separated.

My films are doing well in Polish cinemas, so I don't really have problems financing them, and my international accolades are helpful.

I don't have a problem with being a woman. Women's bodies are so beautiful.

Your subconscious is always working in the background, unlocking things and solving problems.

I have no problem going on record with this and probably have gone on record with this before, there aren't that many people who I respect. There just aren't.

You're a musician and you live and die by people responding to your music. It's a business just like anything else and if people don't like your music, that's kind of your problem.

Very rarely do I work on mechanics now. I tend to solve problems within the music itself.

The problem is that when government controls the economy, those who can influence government keep winning, and everybody else just stays the same.

The problem is, if El Chapo builds a tunnel under the fence, we need to deal with that too.

Roberta Jacobson is in charge of a department within the State Department with which, on other occasions, I have had problems with regarding the answers they gave me.

If the manager really is the problem, try to get reassigned elsewhere in the organization or start looking for one in which you can play to your strengths.

Throughout history, one of the biggest problems is that the correct course of action is not always obvious, and the obvious course of action is not always correct.

Excessive wealth is a great problem masquerading as a great good.

The high cost of living is a minor problem when compared to the cost of high living.

Where to start is the problem, because nothing begins when it begins and nothing's over when it's over, and everything needs a preface: a preface, a postscript, a chart of simultaneous events.