Best 4184 quotes in «problem quotes» category

Of all the problems which were open to me for study, typhus was the most urgent and the most unexplored. We knew nothing of the way in which contagion spread

Of all the public services, education is the one I'm most interested in. You get a more dynamic economy, you deal with most social problems, and it's morally right.

Of course design is about problem solving, but I cannot resist adding something personal.

Of course, Annabeth wouldn't be able to breathe, but at the moment, that seemed like a minor problem.

Of all the statements that have been made with respect to theories on the origin of life, the statement that the Second Law of Thermodynamics poses no problem for an evolutionary origin of life is the most absurd… The operation of natural processes on which the Second Law of Thermodynamics is based is alone sufficient, therefore, to preclude the spontaneous evolutionary origin of the immense biological order required for the origin of life.

Often in life, the most important question we can ask ourselves is: do we really have the problem we think we have?

Often men believe women are the same, and once they figure what works for one woman they apply that same method to all the other women they are intimate with, and that's one of the major problems.

Often, the most striking and innovative solutions come from realizing that your concept of the problem was wrong.

Oh, the relationship with actors and managers and agents and things is a terrible problem sometimes.

Oliver . . . well. Who knew if Oliver’s problem was the disease or just a bad attitude?

Once again, he who ignores the problems of revolutionary strategy would do better not to talk about revolutions at all.

On a film set, we're all glorified troubleshooters, really, as directors. It's not if a problem arises. It's when.

Once confined to fantasy and science fiction, time travel is now simply an engineering problem.

Once we truly understand that our waking experience is dreamlike, we no longer have to treat life as a serious problem.

Once you get the government involved in agriculture you'll have nothing but problems and expenses.

Once you get your own family clear in your head, whatever your problems are with it. You're better prepared for being an adult in the world.

Once you become aware that the main business that you are here for is to know God, most of life's problems fall into place of their own accord.

Once you have women liberated, it's amazing how many other problems get resolved--pover ty, education, health. Women are the key in any community.

Once your children are grown up and have children of their own, the problems are theirs and the less the older generation interferes the better.

Once your kids get older and get out of the house, it's not like it stops. They're on the phone with me every day; I'm intimately involved in their problems.

One cannot deal with a problem with the same thinking that creates it.

One cannot legislate problems out of existence. It has been tried.

One could go on for ever as to whether the paint should be thick or thin, whether to paint the woman or the square, hard-edge or soft, but after a while such questions become a bore. They are merely problems in aesthetics, having only to do with the outer man.

One feature which will probably most impress the mathematician accustomed to the rapidity and directness secured by the generality of modern methods is the deliberation with which Archimedes approaches the solution of any one of his main problems.

One of life's best coping mechanisms is to know the difference between an inconvenience and a problem.

One of my biggest problems is I get bored too easily, and I like to experiment too much, to the point where I confuse myself and I confuse my fans.

One of my favorite bloggers who can articulate his ideas clearly is Avinash Kaushik. The only problem? His ideas are so awesome his posts are a mile long, but I promise they are worth the time.

One of my biggest problems in life has been my inability to lie.

One of my trips was to meet with the Gulf Cooperation Council with all the Saudi foreign ministers, and when we started the meeting I said 'Perhaps you've noticed that I'm not dressed the same as my predecessors", but no-one had a problem and I was never treated with anything other than respect...So I did not have problems with that, interestingly enough.

One of the difficulties in getting to the bottom of the poor prospects for retirement is that the policy and intellectual elites, including corporate leadership, who are dealing with this problem, rarely have the same difficulties as the great majority of middle-income Americans.

One of my problems is to find the self.

One of our biggest problems in terms of effectiveness is that we have hopes, but our opposition has interests. We measure everything against our hopes, including politicians that we are voting for or choosing amongst. We don't measure up to our hopes ourselves. How can we expect anybody else to?

One of our problems is our sense of discipline - dancers have an extraordinary sense of self-discipline.

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

One of the biggest problems with having a dream come true is recognizing it when it arrives.

One of the biggest problems with the modern feminist movement is its failure to bring men along with us.

One of the biggest problems in literature is the lack of subtlety.

One of the biggest problems out there that I hear from my friends in the business community is that there's no lending, that it's tough to get a loan today.

One of the greatest problems of our time is that many are schooled but few are educated.

One of the few greatest satisfactions of this life is to handle problems efficiently and well.

One of the great problems with Americans is that - being a decent people - they assume that everyone else is equally decent.

One of the many problems with the American left has been its image as something rather too solemn, mirthless, herbivorous, dull, monochrome, righteous, and boring.

One of the greatest problems of humanity is how to live in a multi religious society without losing one's religion - without relativising everything.

One of the greatest problems that money creates is that you never know whether you are loved or your money is loved, whether you are desirable or your money is desirable. And it is so difficult to figure out, that one would have preferred not to have had money; at least life would have been simple.

One of the great drivers of the alienation that has made Donald Trump possible is that the growth in the American economy has been weak. In the decade from 2005 to 2015, there was not one year when the US hit three per cent growth. And to the extent there's been growth, virtually all of it has been collected by the top 10 per cent of the population. Obviously, if we knew how to make growth faster, we would. We don't. And it's very difficult to make growth more broadly shared. Because it's not just the US that has this problem.

One of the main problems of our time is that men are deprived of their human qualities that are wrongly called feminine, and women are deprived of their human qualities that are wrongly called masculine.

One of the great things with comedy is that there's no such thing as a mediocre comedy; it's either uproarious or crap. That's the problem.

One of the high spots of the decade for me was offering the bill which culminated in the tax act of 1986, which brought rates down. That was the most difficult problem to solve: how to make the tax system of the United States more fair. We tried to make it simpler, but we failed on that one.

One of the problems I have with many writers is their stories are all somewhat similar. They might be very good, but they're always on the same turf. I don't have those limitations.

One of the problems with defending free speech is you often have to defend people that you find to be outrageous and unpleasant and disgusting.