Problem Quotes

If you are trying to sell someone your idea and you can't even define it to yourself, then that is a problem.

The problem with paradise is that it's temporary: You don't belong here and the neighbors are nobody you care to know, so it's only blissful for a week or so.

Besides problems of traditional societies, the Caucasus has to cope with quite a few unsettled territorial conflicts that also nurture authoritarian governmental structures.

I'm quite a physical person and I gesticulate a lot, which can be a problem when you're in Hollywood and they do everything in a minimalist way.

The problem with fantasy is the greatest benefit of fantasy: it prevents us from living in the present moment.

Most Americans approach the problems of the Middle East with a pro-Israeli bias - and rightly so.

My mother and I had a lot of distance between us emotionally, although, on the surface, most of the time, we appeared good and friendly, and all that. But I was a problem. I was a street kid.

I think sleeping was my problem in school. If school had started at 4:00 in the afternoon, I'd be a college graduate today.

You cannot solve a problem unless you diagnose the problem.

No matter what the problem is, it's a people problem.

Buddha's teachings are scientific methods to solve the problems of all living beings permanently.

Without improving our mind there is no way to solve our human problems.

I have not heard people in the Republican Party yet admit that they have a problem. And when they do say that they have a problem I don't know that I believe 'em.

It's great, but there is one problem. She doesn't sleep. At night she seems to turn into a vampire. She wakes up every night five or 10 times, asking for things, singing, calling out.

I'm on Facebook and Twitter, and occasionally I will tweet something. Somehow my problem is that I don't think I have anything interesting to tweet about.

The problem with most Americans is that they don't like any question that takes more than ten seconds to answer.

Music is a secret and unconscious mathematical problem of the soul.

For a good man fame is always a problem.

Most opportunities are disguised as problems.

The economy is not the problem, how people respond is the problem!

Great companies don't throw money at problems, they throw ideas at problems.

If you do not find me funny, that is your problem and I am not going away.

I think the problem with growing up and idealizing self-destructive artists is that you only see the beauty they created rather than all the pain that went along with it.

My feeling was, you plant some seeds. If they grow, great; if they don't, you don't take it personally. Not my problem; I just kept planting. Just like a farmer.

If you let the image of the messenger get in the way of whatever message there may be, however large or small, that's your problem, not his.

The problem of life is to change worry into thinking and anxiety into creative action.

Great mathematics is achieved by solving difficult problems not by fabricating elaborate theories in search of a problem.

What initially attracts us and what later becomes 'the problem' are usually one and the same.

[P]hilosophy . . .consists chiefly in suggesting unintelligible answers to insoluble problems.

The secret of science is to ask the right question, and it is the choice of problem more than anything else that marks the man of genius in the scientific world.

One of the problems with dealing with anarchism is that there are many people whose ideas are anarchist, but who do not necessarily call themselves anarchists.

The only problem with the way they do my character is that they have her get redeemed too early.

There is no problem with global warming. It stopped in 1998. The last two years of global cooling have erased nearly 30 years of temperature increase.

Upon the solution of this problem, or upon sufficient proof of the impossibility of synthetical knowledge a priori, depends the existence or downfall of metaphysics.

I had a lot of vocal problems when I was younger. I don't know if it's down to leading a healthier lifestyle or what but my range has increased.

Always try in interviews to avoid the cliches about the problems of public life.

I think the core problem is much closer to recognizing where force is of value, where it is useful, and to distinguish that from situations in which war is not useful or is indeed counterproductive.

By defining the problem as 'hunger', the emergency food system is helping to direct our attention away from the more fundamental problem of poverty, and the even more basic problem of inequality.

Nancy Pelosi said that when it comes to cleaning up government, the Democrats have drained the swamp. The only problem with that is what's left after you drain the swamp: snakes everywhere.

If you own the problem, you own the customer. If you lose the problem, you lose the customer. It's that simple.

The point is there is more information now then you can pass along comfortably in an oral tradition, say a strictly speaking culture. That is a problem.

The individual problem is the world problem. Therefore let us return to the problem of individual perfection and the establishing of peace in the heart and in the mind of the individual.

It seems to me that the real problem is the mind itself and not the problem which the mind has created and tries to solve.

Our conflict is in relationship, at all levels of our existence; and the understanding of this relationship, completely and extensively, is the only real problem that each one has.

This ambiguity is another example of a growing problem with mathematical notation: There aren't enough squiggles to go around.

Game management is accomplished by staying constantly alert and then reading and reacting to potential problem situations before they materialize. It all boils down to paying attention to details.

There are two kinds of people in boxing. Those who say, 'Oh, boy; Tom Hauser is writing an article about me,' and those who say, 'Big problem; Tom Hauser is writing an article about me.'

We don't have any problem finding enough things to do; the problem we have is making sure we don't overload ourselves inadvertently.

It's important to meet with the people who can shape future events, and who might be causing a current problem. And to ignore them means that the problem will continue.

We have this obsession with broken homes. Everyone wants to find a problem with it, but not me. I had great homes. Both my parents remarried and I got more people to learn from!