Problem Quotes

The problem is that once the rules of art are debunked, and once the unpleasant realities the irony diagnoses are revealed and diagnosed, 'then' what do we do?

... good intentions are not sufficient to solve our problems.

Whatever the marketplace, if talented people are given resources, they're going to keep driving us to having better, simpler, cheaper solutions to problems.

In my books, I never portray violence as a reasonable solution to a problem. If the lead characters in the story are driven to it, it's at the extreme end of their experience.

The problem with doing a schlocky or big budget studio film is that it wouldn't actually be fun for me. It wouldn't be exciting.

Weight has never been a problem with me because when you dance, it just stays off.

My dentist said to me the other day: I've enough problems in my life, so why should I see your films?

If a problem is insoluble, it is Necessity. Leave it alone.

The highest levels of performance come to people who are centered, intuitive, creative, and reflective - people who know to see a problem as an opportunity.

At our college we were taught a universal approach to find out about a person: what problems the person has, what difficulties, what personal tendencies and likings.

We need to get rid of the debt ceiling law. It's anachronistic and it's a problem.

Through American history, we have had populist movements that often, often, often have this ugly racial element. But, often, there are warning signs of some deeper social and economic problem.

We are not here to solve the problems; the problems are here to solve us.

Problems are good, not bad. Welcome them and become the solution. When you have solved enough problems, people will thank you.

As I've said before, free money scams are a problem.

You have to acknowledge a problem exists before you can actually go about finding a solution.

Well they do have a use, but we should never believe that any international conference is going to suddenly solve problems like the condition of the global environment.

God is enough like us to understand our problems and enough above us to be able to solve them.

Money should not, and must not, change our commitment to solving problems and building this state.

It was you readers who really came through, proving once again that when the American people decide to "get involved" in a problem, it is best not to let them have any sharp implements.

It is well known that when Thomas A. Eddison was stymied by a problem, he would lie down and take a short nap.

Build something that fixes something people are having a problem with, and you're lined up for great things.

Hope does not take away your problems. It can lift you above them.

If you have a problem with the Moon in the sky and you are unhappy, change yourself, because the Moon won't change!

I think a lot of the problem is that at 8 o'clock there's nothing on for kids.

If you have a problem with my answer that's your problem, not my problem.

When I hit bottom, I can attack the problem and get to where I want to be.

Oftentimes, when people write me 4,000-word letters, I write them back and tell them if their problem's that complicated, they probably need a lawyer or a cop, and not me.

I don't have a crazy rider clause saying I have to stay at fancy hotels. I don't have a problem with staying at a Marriott. But I will admit that I've gotten just basic, regular service there.

Sometimes you look out the window and you look at all the windows, and think inside very single one of them is somebody with some huge, weird, terrible problem, some great jokes.

One of my biggest problems with comedy was that I did not understand some of the jokes.

Our problem is not the lack of knowing; it is the lack of doing. Most people know far more than they think they do

The problem with criticism today is that is instant, constant, global and permanent.

The problem comes when you say that danger is part of the equation. Then you don't do any more work on safety. That shouldn't happen.

The problem of the environment is the extension of good housekeeping of the thinking woman.

Most of our problems in the United States can be traced to a blatant disregard for private property.

I have a disturbing problem with losing things. My vulnerability to loss-distress could properly be labeled not only inordinate, but neurotic.

Right,' said Kai, 'that'll be no problem in a city of two and a half million people. Let me just go dig out my special Lunar detector, and I'll get right on that.

Neither you nor I nor Einstein nor the Supreme Court of the United States is brilliant enough to reach an intelligent decision on any problem without first getting the facts

The ultimate way to solve human problems is with nonviolence.

The only problem in the past has been my kids. I'd want to bring them to London with me, but they are at an important stage in high school.

I don't think that Iran with a nuclear capability will be just the problem of the state of Israel. This is a matter that concerns the whole world.

I smuggled the camera, it was no problem to smuggle the camera there. And I took 60 photos, two films, during the time when there was no one in the control room, in the building.

Sure, things could always have been done better, but I just wish people would drop their political hammers for a few weeks, as happened in 2001, and work on the problem at hand

None of my problems come from the people I've killed.

It is almost always wrong that the time isn't ripe to decide something. That is always said of difficult problems.

People want what they want. And I guess that is a reason we have this big credit card problem and a lot of these foreclosures.

I was actually a pretty good student. My problem was that I didn't know what I wanted to study.

Activism that challenges the status quo, that attacks deeply rooted problems, is not for the faint of heart.

Spiritual growth thrives in the midst of our problems, not in their absence. Spiritual growth occurs in the trenches of life, not in the classroom.