Best 4184 quotes in «problem quotes» category

The trouble is that America's become a utopia accessible only to some people. Others get trampled on. Perhaps it's a problem of size. Robin Dunbar, an anthropologist, once gave the ideal number of a given community as 148. That seems about right to me. There's something idealistic about that - in a group of 148 people you can get to know everybody.

The trick is to fix the problem you have, rather than the problem you want.

The true problem of living is to keep our hearts sweet and gentle in the hardest conditions and experiences.

The true problem with virtual reality is that orientation is no longer possible. We have lost our points of reference to orient ourselves. The de-realized man is a disoriented man.

The truth is that history constantly presents new problems in the guise of old.

The truth is never the problem; The problem is always the problem.

The turnover of fashion is just so quick and so throwaway, and I think that is a big part of the problem. There is no longevity.

The truth is, we usually only show our unhappiness to another woman. I suppose this is one of our problems. And yet it is also one of our strengths.

The truth seems . . . to be that in the ultimate and essential problem the economic factor is relatively superficial and unimportant.

The two tendencies are antithetical in significant respects. These are distinctions that should be kept in mind, however one feels that the problems and dilemmas that constantly arise should be resolved.

The ultimate solution to the problem of spiritual complacency is to create a systematically embedded culture of holy urgency.

The U.N. can be very frustrating and at times impotent, but it can also be a valuable forum for discussion and resolution of world problems. We should not walk away from it just because it's failed to live up to its promise.

The ultimate way to solve human problems is with nonviolence.

The ultimate solutions to problems are rational; the process of finding them is not.

The U.N. is one of many competitors in a marketplace of global problem solving.

The United States has to be a leader in the world, because the problem is: If we are not leading, nobody else will.

The United States wants to be part of the solution to its problems and not, in part, the maker of their problems.

The ups and downs, the problems and stress, along with all the happiness, have given me optimism and hope because I am living proof of survival.

The US dollar is our currency but your problem.

The use of force is always an answer to problems. Force isn't an attractive answer, though.

The U.S. is facing a structural competitiveness problem that is leading to the weakest economy we have seen in generations.

The U.S. generally wants to solve problems with coercion. That's kind of the default way the American state wants to try to solve problems. So there are many parallels between that: mass incarceration, mass surveillance, and militarism.

The U.S. government is gradually homing in on the more important chat forums and websites. The problem is, by now, many of these sites have gone underground, in some cases, changing their names and domains, adding logins and passwords, and locking out anyone who doesn't speak Arabic. Government bureaucracies are simply not agile or adept enough to keep up with this constantly evolving challenge.

The various levels of problems and issues are interwoven, so that solving any one of them without simultaneously addressing the others rarely works for long.

The victims of problems of the family are the children. The children. Even of problems that neither husband nor wife have a say in.

The wheel of government will continue to work, even as these people come in and we wait for them, but the issue is, there's always one thing, that a new administration confronts.For the Bush administration, it was terrorism. For this administration, it's going to be cyber-security, not Russian hacking. That's a symptom of the bigger problem, but the bigger issue of cyber, how they deal with that. So, we may see something else we're not anticipating. That's going to be their challenge.

The whole problem with people is they don't know what matters and what doesn't.

The whole problem of life, then, is this: how to break out of one's own loneliness, how to communicate with others.

The whole problem is spirituality-not finances. Spiritually strong = welfare strong.

The whole idea of a stereotype is to simplify. Instead of going through the problem of all this great diversity - that it's this or maybe that - you have just one large statement; it is this.

The whole [scientific] process resembles biological evolution. A problem is like an ecological niche, and a theory is like a gene or a species which is being tested for viability in that niche.

The wish fulfillment of growing younger is not necessarily all it's cracked up to be. You have new problems that arise which you are not anticipating and you deal with the same problems you would deal with if you were ageing normally: what is the end of life about? What have I accomplished?

The world could be fixed of its problems if every child understood the necessity of their existence.

The world is a complex, interconnected, finite, ecological - social - psychological - economic system. We treat it as if it were not, as if it were divisible, separable, simple, and infinite. Our persistent, intractable global problems arise directly from this mismatch.

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

The world is not something separate from you and me; the world, society, is the relationship that we establish or seek to establish between each other. So you and I are the problem, and not the world, because the world is the projection of ourselves, and to understand the world we must understand ourselves. That world is not separate from us; we are the world, and our problems are the world's problems.

The world is not a problem; the problem is your unawareness.

The world is one big data problem.

The world’s biggest problem is the unequal distribution of capitalism. If there were capitalism everywhere, you wouldn’t have food shortages.

The worst part is the difficult moments when suddenly you are away from your friends and your family, and you can't be close to them because you are working. And sometimes there are birthdays or Mother's Days or some problems at home when you can't be there. So, it becomes a difficult thing.

The worst thing about our problems is that nobody has nothing to do with them

The worst problems for children stem from parental conflict, before, during, and after divorce or within marriage.

The young women seem to think that they can only go out with or marry a man who is superior to them. The problem there is that they are wanting to be defeated, as opposed to finding a partner.

They're saying President Obama doesn't have any friends. The problem is that he can't get Congress to approve one.

They say I get into too many bunkers. But is no problem. I am the best bunker player.

They say that God makes problems just to see what you can stand, before you do as the devil pleases.

They never differentiate between drug users and drug addicts... I've done most drugs there are socially, I never had a problem.

They're the problems of poverty, of the rights of the individual, of the changes brought about by technology. They're the ones that count, more than religion!

They solved the problem of coexistence through the use of individual stereo headphones.

..things are never as complicated as they seem. It is only our arrogance that prompts us to find unnecessarily complicated answers to simple problems.