Best 4184 quotes in «problem quotes» category

The same thinking and actions that created our problems cannot be used to solve them.

The science of anti-Semitism has as its object Judaism as a social problem, being thus, necessarily, the synthesis of all sciences that can contribute to its solution.

The second German secret weapon is anti-Semitism, because if it is consistently pursued by Germany, it will become a universal problem which all nations will be forced to consider.

These days, the problem isn't how to innovate; it's how to get society to adopt the good ideas that already exist.

The sense of paralysis proceeds not so much out of the mammoth size of the problem but out of the puniness of the purpose.

The serious problems in life...are never fully solved. If ever they should appear to be so it is a sure sign that something has been lost. The meaning and purpose of a problem seem to lie not in its solution but in our working at it incessantly.

The severity of your problems is a matter of perspective. Change your perspective and most of them become insignificant. Some of them will no longer exist as problems - but opportunities instead.

The Shirky Principle declares that complex solutions, like a company, or an industry, can become so dedicated to the problem they are the solution to, that often they inadvertently perpetuate the problem.

The shortage of fresh water is the major ecological problem of this moment.

The single most important problem is our misguided focus on identifying the single most important problem!

The single story creates stereotypes, and the problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue, but that they are incomplete. They make one story become the only story.

The size of your miracle depends on the size of your problem.

The social problem of the twentieth century is whether civilized nations can restore themselves to sanity after their nineteenth-century aberrations of individualism and capitalism.

The sociopaths - that's the real problem. The whole street demeanor is about pretending to be a sociopath as well so that the real ones can't find you.

The small perplexities of small minds eddy and boil about you. Confident from the experience that has led you out of these same dangers, you attack each problem as it appears, unafraid.

The software patent problem is not limited to Mono. Software patents affect everyone writing software today.

The solution of every problem is another problem

The solution to any problem -work, love, money, whatever -is to go fishing, and the worse the problem, the longer the trip should be.

The solution to our drug problem is not in incarceration.

The solution is always spiritual, and it almost never has anything to do with the problem ... laughter is carbonated holiness.

The solution of the problem lies in seeing it—in the seeing, without wanting a solution, or dissolution—just seeing what’s there. . . .

The solution to this problem [welfare-statism] must take a positive form: the restoration of a faith in what free men can accomplish.

The solution of the Monty Hall problem hinges on the concept of information, and more specifically, on the relationship between added information and probability.

The solution to our water problems is more rain.

The solution to your problem is to see who has it.

The solutions to the problems of the distraught lower strata of society are problems that can only be solved in the context of an overall political, cultural, economic development.

The solution to all the problems of daily life is to cherish others.

The solution to the problem of life is seen in the vanishing of this problem.

The solutions to Africa's problems lie in Africa, not in Live Aid concerts.

The solution to a problem changes the nature of the problem.

The spirit of rebellion can only exist in a society where a theoretical equality conceals great factual inequalities. The problem of rebellion, therefore, has no meaning except within our own Western society.

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

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

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

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