Best 4184 quotes in «problem quotes» category

Don't try to solve the entire problem on day one.

Don't undermine the science just because you don't like the economics. That's a dangerous slope, because the problem of course is you're not undermining just that, you're undermining the basis of rational decision-making in society.

Don’t you think there’s a problem when we live in a society that considers a woman’s greatest accomplishment being pretty for a man?

Doubt is to certainty as neurosis is to psychosis. The neurotic is in doubt and has fears about persons and things; the psychotic has convictions and makes claims about them. In short, the neurotic has problems, the psychotic has solutions.

Do what you can as you can. Trouble, problems, will come no matter what you do , and you must respond as they come.

Do what you want I don't care. That's the thing to say to an actor. Most people don't understand that. Not to manipulate them. That's what you say to an actor. You got a problem with the whole environment in doing that? Fine, what are we going to do to make the scene work? Now you have someone on your side. Now you have someone working with you.

Do you have a problem? I have a gun. I'll shoot you. No problem.

Do you have any problems, other than that you're unemployed, a moron, and a dork?

Draw your chair up, and hand me my violin, for the only problem which we have still to solve is how to while away these bleak autumnal evenings.

Drug prices are a problem. Access is a problem.

Drugging out symptoms does not solve the problem, it helps us ignore it - until the vehicle breaks down.

Dualism makes the problem insoluble; materialism denies the existence of any phenomenon to study, and hence of any problem.

During the Boom Years, it was so easy to lose sight of basic values. For example, there was lots of nonsense said and written about the so-called "New Economy." Some people said all economic laws have been overturned! Then all the problems developed. Corporations were heavily fined for illegalities. Many of their senior-level executives were indicted, convicted, and sent to prison.

During my time in prison, I told myself that I wanted to be a part of the solution and not the problem.

During the offseason, I go to the movies almost every day. You hear about women buying shoes? I buy DVDs. I definitely have a problem.

During the process of stepwise refinement, a notation which is natural to the problem in hand should be used as long as possible.

Dysfunctions can occur in each of the self-regulatory subfunctions-in how personal experiences are self-monitored and cognitively processed, in the evaluative self-standards that are adopted, and in the evaluative self-reactions to one's own behavior.. Problems at any one of these points can create self-dissatisfactions and dejection. dysfunctions in all aspects of the self system are most apt to produce the most chronic self-disparagement and despondency

Each year has been so robust with problems and successes and learning experiences and human experienes that a year is a lifetime at Apple. So this has been ten lifetimes.

Each problem has hidden in it an opportunity so powerful that it literally dwarfs the problem.

Economic losses like this are really as serious a problem as embezzlement and corruption.

Economics has become increasingly an arcane branch of mathematics rather than dealing with real economic problems.

Effective communication is the best way to solve problems.

Effective leaders know that resources are never the problem; it's always a matter or resourcefulness.

Election made me more aware, more conscious, more sensitive. Not just of sexism but of discrimination in all areas - class, gender, race. I had realized that there were problems .

Emphasize reconciliation, not resolution. It is unrealistic to expect everyone to agree about everything. Reconciliation focuses on the relationship, while resolution focuses on the problem. When we focus on reconciliation, the problem loses significance and often becomes irrelevant.

Empirical interest will be in the facts so far as they are relevant to the solution of these problems.

Empathy is like a universal solvent. Any problem immersed in empathy becomes soluble.

Emotions are far harder things to understand than algebra and geometry, yet we spend hours in elucidating mathematics and expect such a problem as that of human relationships to solve itself.

Engineering is easy - it's the people problems that are hard.

Enduring faith is not blind or obedient, it is keenly attentive and responsible; it is not fed by awe, but by quickening interest; prosperity is not the disappearance of problems, but the continual engagement with the process of finding solutions. Wisdom is not given from on high, but must be painstakingly unraveled from the knots in his own guts.

English is no problem for me because I am actually English. My whole family are English; I was brought up listening to various forms of the English accent.

Enormous problems arise when human mistakes are made on the grand scale available to a superhero... Heroes are painful, superheroes are a catastrophe. The mistakes of superheroes involve too many of us in disaster.

Environmentalism has become a special interest, incapable of addressing large, complex, and global problems such as global warming.

Esso has been the main one in America spreading the disinformation that there is no global warming problem.

Entrepreneurship is the art of finding profitable solutions to problems.

Equipping one side of an ethnic conflict and then prodding it to resolve its ethnic problems by force of arms is a very bad policy.

Even if it were, you run into the same problem with international commerce: if you create a device that is famous for compromised security and it has an American back door, nobody is gonna buy it.

Ethiopia did not have the same problem [of corruption]. African leaders looked at us with envy.

Europe is being absolutely swamped and destroyed with the crime and the problems, and it could be some sinister plot.

Even here in California with more contemporary buildings. I have a real problem with the low doorframes. It's a curse! That's just another of the many problems I have to live with.

Even if you build the perfect reactor, you're still saddled with a people problem and an equipment problem.

Even one who has been to God a million times with the same problem need not fear exhausting the grace of God.

Europe is a strong market for the U.S. If it has problems, if there's a lack of consumer confidence, if there's a deeper recession, this will deeply affect jobs in the U.S.

Even if one succeeds in making a silk purse out of a sow's ear, there remains the problem of what to do with a one-eared sow.

Even if we can solve the carbon problem for coal, it is still a non-renewable resource. At some point, coal supplies will drop.

Even today with the problems that we face, who would you rather be? Which country would you trade places with?

Every age has its problem, by solving which humanity is helped forward.

Even when the views are contradictory, talks are the only way forward and problems should be resolved through dialogue.

Everybody agrees that whatever the solutions are to the big problems, they ... can never be without some element of education.

Everybody is talking about the behavior. Behaviors float downstream to us. We need to paddle upstream. The problems that are causing the behaviors, that's what's waiting for us. It's a crucial paradigm shift.