Quotes and Sayings about Problems
"We have almost a city has probably two or three hundred committees. Every committee is dealing with just one problem and has nothing to do with the other problems."
- Alvar Aalto
(Related: Committee, Nothing, Problems)
"I think we have some serious problems now, but, if you look back over the last thirty or forty years that my book deals with, I think we are in better shape now than we would have been if all of those cases had not come down."
- Floyd Abrams
(Related: Deals, Now, Problems, Years)
"In my experience, problems most frequently arise from those who report for television, with little field experience in your area but an insatiable appetite for a sound bite."
- Alvin Adams
(Related: Experience, Appetite, Problems, Sound, Television)
"It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes."
- Douglas Adams
(Related: Mistake, Problems)
"Your ability as republican volunteers, to rise to this challenge will mean that the two governments and others cannot easily hide from their obligations and their responsibility to resolve these problems."
- Gerry Adams
(Related: Ability, Challenge, Problems, Republican, Responsibility, Will)
"Philosophy: Unintelligible answers to insoluble problems."
- Henry B. Adams
(Related: Answers, Problems)
"There are very few personal problems that cannot be solved through a suitable application of high explosives."
- Scott Adams
(Related: Problems)
"Engineers like to solve problems. If there are no problems handily available, they will create their own problems."
- Scott Adams
(Related: Problems, Will)
"Be careful that what you write does not offend anybody or cause problems within the company. The safest approach is to remove all useful information."
- Scott Adams
(Related: Cause, Company, Information, Problems)
"One of the embarrassing problems for the early nineteenth-century champions of the Christian faith was that not one of the first six Presidents of the United States was an orthodox Christian."
- Mortimer Adler
(Related: Faith, Christian, First, Problems, states, United)
"Because thought has by now been perverted into the solving of assigned problems, even what is not assigned is processed like a problem."
- Theodor Adorno
(Related: Thought, Now, Problems)
"My goal was to develop into an independent research scientist studying clinical problems at the laboratory bench, but I felt that postgraduate residency training in internal medicine was necessary."
- Peter Agre
(Related: Goal, Medicine, Problems, Research, Training)
"The long, cold Minnesota winters instilled in me a fascination for exotic far off places; I aspired toward a career in tropical diseases and world health problems."
- Peter Agre
(Related: Health, Career, Problems, World)
"In my opinion, a master is morally obliged to seize every sort of opportunity and to try to solve the problems of the position without fear of some simplifications."
- Alexander Alekhine
(Related: Fear, Opportunity, Opinion, Problems)
"Complexity is one of the great problems in environmental design."
- Christopher Alexander
(Related: Design, Environmental, Complexity, Problems)
"One of the nice things about problems is that a good many of them do not exist except in our imaginations."
- Steve Allen
(Related: Problems)
"Comedy just pokes at problems, rarely confronts them squarely. Drama is like a plate of meat and potatoes, comedy is rather the dessert, a bit like meringue."
- Woody Allen
(Related: Comedy, Drama, Problems)
"Indians have a big problem with alcohol and drugs. I grew up with an admiration for their culture and was sensitive to their problems."
- Kirstie Alley
(Related: Admiration, Alcohol, Culture, Drugs, Problems)
"Traveling these days has a lot of problems and also it wears you out more."
- Mose Allison
(Related: Problems, Traveling)
"Yes, women are stronger than us. They face more directly the problems that confront them, and for that reason they are much more spectacular to talk about. I don't know why I am more interested in women, because I don't go to any psychiatrists, and I don't want to know why."
- Pedro Almodovar
(Related: Women, Problems, Reason, Talk, Want)
"The resistance of policy-makers to intelligence is not just founded on an ideological presupposition. They distrust intelligence sources and intelligence officials because they don't understand what the real problems are."
- Aldrich Ames
(Related: Intelligence, Policy, Distrust, Problems)
"We have the means and the capacity to deal with our problems, if only we can find the political will."
- Kofi Annan
(Related: Problems, Will)
"All the characters in my films are fighting these problems, needing freedom, trying to find a way to cut themselves loose, but failing to rid themselves of conscience, a sense of sin, the whole bag of tricks."
- Michelangelo Antonioni
(Related: Conscience, Fighting, Freedom, Problems, Sense, Sin, Trying)
"I learnt a lot about myself, I learnt a lot about other people and the problems they have. If I was lucky enough to live to a hundred, how I will feel about two per cent of my life being that way, I don't know."
- Jeffrey Archer
(Related: Life, People, Being, Problems, Will)
"I'm very interested in portraying homosexual man and woman in my films because I'm interested in their lives and their problems."
- Dario Argento
(Related: Man, Problems, Woman)
"Remarkable is the greater openness of the Catholic Church towards people of other religious traditions and persuasions. The development has not been without problems, since some people have resisted it and others have pushed openness beyond the desirable point."
- Francis Arinze
(Related: People, Development, Church, Problems, Religious, Remarkable, Traditions)
"We have problems which will be addressed by Haitians."
- Jean-Bertrand Aristide
(Related: Problems, Will)
"One of my biggest problems with comedy was that I did not understand some of the jokes."
- Desi Arnaz
(Related: Comedy, Jokes, Problems)
"We learn by our problems. We correct our deficiencies if there are any."
- Joe Arpaio
(Related: Problems)
"If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them."
- Isaac Asimov
(Related: Knowledge, Ignorance, Problems)
"Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not."
- Isaac Asimov
(Related: Science, Catastrophes, Fiction, May, Problems, Writers)
"As a designer, you have to solve a lot of problems. Even though people are wearing clothes that are supposed to look beautiful, they'll have to do all kinds of things."
- Colleen Atwood
(Related: People, Clothes, Problems)
"One cannot legislate problems out of existence. It has been tried."
- Norman Ralph Augustine
(Related: Existence, Problems)
"As we take our places in the General Assembly and at the Council meetings, let us begin all our work in the name of God, for the solution of all our problems is a spiritual one."
- Warren R. Austin
(Related: Work, God, Meetings, Name, Problems, Solution, Spiritual)
"The return of democracy in our land has indeed thrown the problems of development into bolder relief."
- Ibrahim Babangida
(Related: Development, Democracy, Land, Problems)
"Avoid problems, and you'll never be the one who overcame them."
- Richard Bach
(Related: Problems)
"All of the problems we're facing with debt are manmade problems. We created them. It's called fantasy economics. Fantasy economics only works in a fantasy world. It doesn't work in reality."
- Michele Bachmann
(Related: Work, Debt, Economics, Fantasy, Problems, Reality, World)
"Peace congresses often start by dealing with some of the less important questions in excessive detail, so at the end there is no time to discuss the most important problems."
- Fredrik Bajer
(Related: Peace, Time, Detail, End, Problems, Questions)
"A sign that a peace association is going adrift is its exclusion of other political parties, with whom it could collaborate effectively on most of the problems besetting the cause of peace."
- Fredrik Bajer
(Related: Peace, Cause, Problems)
"I'm having the same problems today that I had when I first started, saying that outrageous adult animation works."
- Ralph Bakshi
(Related: Animation, First, Problems, Saying, Today)
"Most Americans approach the problems of the Middle East with a pro-Israeli bias - and rightly so."
- George Ball
(Related: Americans, Problems)
"Coping with the demands of everyday life would be exceedingly trying if one could arrive at solutions to problems only by actually performing possible options and suffering the consequences."
- Albert Bandura
(Related: Life, Consequences, Options, Problems, Suffering, Trying)
"Black women don't have the same body image problems as white women. They are proud of their bodies. Black men love big butts."
- Tyra Banks
(Related: Love, Men, Women, Body, Problems)
"The incorrectness and weaknesses of a theory cause other minds to formulate the problems more exactly and in this way scientific progress is made."
- Robert Barany
(Related: Progress, Cause, Problems, Theory)
"Obama specializes in knocking down straw men. "I reject the view that says our problems will simply take care of themselves," he said, implying that's the view of Republicans. It's the view of almost no one."
- Fred Barnes
(Related: Men, Care, Problems, Republicans, Will)
"Enhancing revenues will help us improve education and solve our infrastructure problems."
- Roy Barnes
(Related: Education, Help, Problems, Will)
"In my first year as governor, we solved some of the problems that had begun to undermine the Open Records Act. We gave the act teeth by providing criminal penalties for knowing violations."
- Roy Barnes
(Related: Act, First, Open, Problems)
"I want a pit crew... I hate the procedure I currently have to go through when I have car problems."
- Dave Barry
(Related: Car, Hate, Problems, Want)
"One of Brando's problems is that he can't have a conversation with anyone."
- Peter Bart
(Related: Conversation, Problems)
"Pretty people aren't as accepted as other people. It's like, 'She's pretty and thin and she's got to have problems. She's messed up.'"
- Mischa Barton
(Related: People, Pretty, Problems)
"As the war on terrorism spreads and prolongs, the fruits of ending the threat of terrorism around the world will be tempered with a whole new series of problems to be addressed and resolved."
- Charles Foster Bass
(Related: War, Ending, Problems, Terrorism, Will, World)
"I think that in some ways everybody is like Roger. Everybody thinks that when their friends have a problem, that they know the answer and that it's much easier to analyze the problems of other people than your own."
- Jennifer Beals
(Related: People, Friends, Problems)
"We all know what the problems are: it's tax and spend. One party will tax and spend, the other party won't tax but will spend. It's both of them together."
- Glenn Beck
(Related: Tax, Party, Problems, Will)
"And I've come to the place where I believe that there's no way to solve these problems, these issues - there's nothing that we can do that will solve the problems that we have and keep the peace, unless we solve it through God, unless we solve it in being our highest self. And that's a pretty tall order."
- Glenn Beck
(Related: God, Peace, Being, Nothing, Order, Pretty, Problems, Self, Will)
"Polite strangers often tell soothing lies about our physical appearance that prevent many of us from facing, discussing and solving our real problems."
- Martha Beck
(Related: Appearance, Lies, Problems, Strangers)
"The idea that you surrender your identity when you relinquish national powers is unhelpful. No, indeed, precisely the opposite is the case: if done in an intelligent way, you attain the sovereignty to better solve national problems in cooperation with others."
- Ulrich Beck
(Related: Idea, Cooperation, Identity, Problems, Surrender)
"One of my problems is to find the self."
- Max Beckmann
(Related: Problems, Self)
"One of the problems we saw in the last presidential election in our party is that our nominee, while winning the election, which we ought never to forget, often lost sight of the difference between strategy and tactics."
- Paul Begala
(Related: Strategy, Winning, Difference, Forget, Party, Problems, Sight)
"I am a drinker with writing problems."
- Brendan Behan
(Related: Problems, Writing)
"I have been dealing with back problems since 1995 when I was with the Blackhawks, and I've only missed part of one season because of it. That was last season in Toronto."
- Ed Belfour
(Related: Problems)
"Instant telecommunication allows better and updated information, lessons learnt and problems encountered to be exchanged and debated, it alerts us more quickly to problems and brings to many households around the world visions and information which hopefully spur us to action."
- Carol Bellamy
(Related: Action, Information, Problems, Visions, World)
"And most importantly perhaps, children can learn about their rights, share their knowledge with the children of other nations, identify problems with them and establish how they might work together to address them."
- Carol Bellamy
(Related: Work, Knowledge, Children, Rights, Nations, Problems)
"From dear, dear Gloria Swanson, I learned how to live long, happy and free of health problems. I owe her my life."
- Dirk Benedict
(Related: Health, Life, Problems)
"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."
- Robert Foster Bennett
(Related: Problems, Promise, Resolution, World)
"The old problems - love, money, security, status, health, etc. - are still here to plague us or please us."
- Shelley Berman
(Related: Health, Love, Money, Old, Problems, Security)
"And religion causes most of the problems, war, and economics of course, and study your history or you're going to repeat it; and if you're burning a Harry Potter book you need some serious counseling, you don't get it, you're missing the whole point."
- Michael Berryman
(Related: History, Religion, War, Causes, Economics, Problems, Study)
"The problems of our country are very fast to recognize."
- Peter Bichsel
(Related: Country, Problems)
"Research has shown time and time again that infants who receive the high-quality child care and early education programs do better in school, have more developed social skills, and display fewer behavior problems."
- Judy Biggert
(Related: Education, Time, Behavior, Care, Problems, Research, School)
"Meanwhile, hard-working Americans are increasingly faced with workplace conditions in which critically important safeguards are watered down, emerging problems are ignored, and enforcement is scaled back."
- Tim Bishop
(Related: Americans, Problems)
"Look at the Palestinians with the huge, huge percentage of unemployed. What does that breed? Anyone who's unemployed in the world, you feel there's no meaning and there's a risk that you drift over to something desperate. Yes, we have to tackle the social problems as well."
- Hans Blix
(Related: Meaning, Problems, Risk, World)
"Every solution breeds new problems."
- Arthur Bloch
(Related: Problems, Solution)
"I began to see that my problems, seen spiritually, were really my soul's plusses."
- Lionel Blue
(Related: Soul, Problems)
"Bill Clinton was in the line of great progressive presidents who faced the realities in his own time and applied innovative solutions to problems."
- Sidney Blumenthal
(Related: Time, Problems)
"One of the problems of writing is that anyone who commits themselves to that process has to believe that they're good."
- Steven Bochco
(Related: Problems, Writing)
"Our oil problems are only going to get worse. Our trade balance is only going to get worse. So we have to slow the growth of U.S. oil consumption, particularly imported oil consumption."
- Sherwood Boehlert
(Related: Growth, Balance, Oil, Problems, Trade)
"Well everybody in Casablanca has problems. Yours may work out."
- Humphrey Bogart
(Related: Work, May, Problems)
"What is the source of all this trouble? I'm saying that the source is basically in thought. Many people would think that such a statement is crazy, because thought is the one thing we have with which to solve our problems. That's part of our tradition."
- David Bohm
(Related: Thought, People, Problems, Saying, Tradition, Trouble)
"Thought is constantly creating problems that way and then trying to solve them. But as it tries to solve them it makes it worse because it doesn't notice that it's creating them, and the more it thinks, the more problems it creates."
- David Bohm
(Related: Thought, Problems, Trying)
"Yet it looks as if the thing we use to solve our problems with is the source of our problems. It's like going to the doctor and having him make you ill. In fact, in 20% of medical cases we do apparently have that going on. But in the case of thought, its far over 20%."
- David Bohm
(Related: Medical, Thought, Fact, Problems)
"In the Seventies, a lot of executions via electric chair failed because of technical problems. Seed tells the true story of someone who survived and sought revenge. They buried him alive to make it seem he was dead."
- Uwe Boll
(Related: Problems, Revenge)
"Let God's promises shine on your problems."
- Corrie Ten Boom
(Related: God, Problems, Promises)
"In Britain, because I live here, I can also run into problems of envy and competition. But all this is just in a day's work for a writer. You can't put stuff out there without someone calling you a complete fool. Oh, well."
- Alain de Botton
(Related: Work, Competition, Day, Envy, Fool, Problems, Writer)
"The geographical isolation and lack of television made world happenings and problems seem remote."
- Paul D. Boyer
(Related: Isolation, Problems, Television, World)
"Everybody wants to solve everybody's problems."
- Lara Flynn Boyle
(Related: Problems)
"There have been as many investigative reporters on this newspaper working on Clinton's many problems as I can remember there were working on Watergate."
- Ben Bradlee
(Related: Problems)
"I must be out of it, but I don't know any good journalists who have excused Clinton's problems."
- Ben Bradlee
(Related: Problems)
"The world presents enough problems if you believe it to be a world of law and order; do not add to them by believing it to be a world of miracles."
- Louis D. Brandeis
(Related: Law, Miracles, Order, Problems, World)
"That a literature in our time is living is shown in that way that it debates problems."
- Georg Brandes
(Related: Time, Literature, Living, Problems)
"And frankly, being a woman I think gives me a slightly different take on a lot of the issues and on a lot of the solutions to the problems we face."
- Carol Moseley Braun
(Related: Being, Problems, Woman)
"I needed to explain that Louisiana's coast accepts the drainage from two-thirds of the United States and, while the necessary levees constructed upstream have prevented floods, they have also contributed to problems downstream."
- John Breaux
(Related: Problems, states, United)
"The moment I saw the model and heard about the complementing base pairs I realized that it was the key to understanding all the problems in biology we had found intractable - it was the birth of molecular biology."
- Sydney Brenner
(Related: Key, Problems, Understanding)
"We are constantly being put to the test by trying circumstances and difficult people and problems not necessarily of our own making."
- Terry Brooks
(Related: People, Being, Circumstances, Problems, Trying)
"I love to have battles of the wits with people that can dish fast and dirty - and it leads to problems occasionally, 'cause I can sound mean without attempting to be mean."
- Alton Brown
(Related: Love, People, Problems, Sound)
"Undoubtedly, there are numerous problems with the immigration system here in The United States."
- Corrine Brown
(Related: Problems, states, United)
"America knows it has got to deal with its deficit problems so that it, too, can promise it is making its proper and best contributions to the world economy."
- Gordon Brown
(Related: America, Economy, Problems, Promise, World)
"The one thing that can solve most of our problems is dancing."
- James Brown
(Related: Dancing, Problems)
"I've completed the first part of my preparations without injury problems. My speed is good and I'm doing lots of volume for strength."
- Jonathan Brown
(Related: Strength, First, Injury, Problems)
"I've criticized President Bush for his failure to use his veto pen. There's plenty of blame to go around. The question is how to solve problems. It's not bailouts. What made America great? Free markets, free enterprise, manufacturing, job creation. That's how we're gonna do it, not by enlarging government."
- Scott Brown
(Related: Government, Failure, America, Blame, Creation, Job, Manufacturing, Pen, President, Problems, Question)
"Temporary solutions often become permanent problems."
- Craig Bruce
(Related: Problems)
"One of the biggest problems with the modern feminist movement is its failure to bring men along with us."
- Tammy Bruce
(Related: Men, Failure, Problems)
"We had some problems - my children were kidnapped during that time, and it just changed my whole way of thinking, from being in show business and everything else."
- Solomon Burke
(Related: Business, Time, Being, Children, Problems, Thinking)
"If human beings are perceived as potentials rather than problems, as possessing strengths instead of weaknesses, as unlimited rather that dull and unresponsive, then they thrive and grow to their capabilities."
- Barbara Bush
(Related: Problems)
"But my problem with fantasy, and horror, and related genres, is that sometimes the problems are illogical."
- Octavia Butler
(Related: Fantasy, Horror, Problems)
"The people ask much, often more than any government can give. We must resist the temptation to promise solutions to all problems."
- Jane Byrne
(Related: Government, People, Problems, Promise, Temptation)
"As I visited the various neighborhoods in the campaign, I learned fast that it's a mistake to think that all of the wisdom and possible solutions to our problems are available only in this building."
- Jane Byrne
(Related: Wisdom, Mistake, Building, Problems)
"I have come to Germany to learn at first hand the problems involved in the reconstruction of Germany and to discuss with our representatives the views of the United States Government as to some of the problems confronting us."
- James F. Byrnes
(Related: Government, First, Germany, Problems, states, United)
"When we have all data online it will be great for humanity. It is a prerequisite to solving many problems that humankind faces."
- Robert Cailliau
(Related: Faces, Humanity, Problems, Will)
"The past several months I have been able to meet with people across this country. One thing is clear: America craves for real solutions to the problems we face. That's why I'm running for President of the United States."
- Herman Cain
(Related: People, America, Country, Months, Past, President, Problems, Running, states, United)
"I found collaborating with congenial doctors about problems that physicists could help solve was very satisfying. I also like educating anybody who would listen!"
- John Cameron
(Related: Doctors, Help, Problems)
"It would be naive to imagine we have solved all our income security problems simply because the roles of the federal and provincial governments in the area of skills training have been clarified."
- Kim Campbell
(Related: Income, Problems, Security, Training)
"I have become down-hearted, I have become discouraged, I have become depressed. I'm just like you. I'm a human being and I have my problems."
- Dyan Cannon
(Related: Being, Problems)
"Marriage is an attempt to solve problems together which you didn't even have when you were on your own."
- Eddie Cantor
(Related: Marriage, Problems)
"As an adoptive parent myself of foster children, I have seen firsthand the glaring problems of the system currently facing this Nation."
- Dennis Cardoza
(Related: Children, Nation, Problems)
"Liquor prohibition led to the rise of organized crime in America, and drug prohibition has led to the rise of the gang problems we have now."
- Drew Carey
(Related: America, Crime, Liquor, Now, Problems, Prohibition)
"If critics have problems with my personal life, it's their problem. Anybody with half a brain would realize that it's the charts that count."
- Mariah Carey
(Related: Life, Problems)
"Logic is the last scientific ingredient of Philosophy; its extraction leaves behind only a confusion of non-scientific, pseudo problems."
- Rudolf Carnap
(Related: Confusion, Logic, Philosophy, Problems)
"We had problems like all families but we had a lot of love. I was extremely loved. We always felt we had each other."
- Jim Carrey
(Related: Love, Problems)
"That was one of the big problems when I was at Harvard studying music. We had to write choral pieces in the style of Brahms or Mendelssohn, which was distressing because in the end you realized how good Brahms is, and how bad you are."
- Elliott Carter
(Related: Music, End, Problems, Style)
"The problems come when your personal life and relationships come under scrutiny in the press and often very uncomplimentary things are printed about you."
- Helena Bonham Carter
(Related: Life, Press, Problems, Relationships)
"One of the problems with computers, particularly for the older people, is they were befuddled by them, and the computers have gotten better. They have gotten easier to use. They have gotten less expensive. The software interfaces have made things a lot more accessible."
- Steve Case
(Related: Computers, People, Problems, Software)
"Abortion is defended today as a means of ensuring the equality and independence of women, and as a solution to the problems of single parenting, child abuse, and the feminization of poverty."
- Robert Casey
(Related: Equality, Parenting, Women, Abortion, Abuse, Independence, Poverty, Problems, Solution, Today)
"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."
- Rosanne Cash
(Related: Day, Kids, Problems)
"Another example of that was that even during the economic problems of the 1945 government, we managed to carry out other aspects of our policy and other ideals. Through the establishment of national parks, for instance."
- Barbara Castle
(Related: Government, Policy, Example, Ideals, Problems)
"Problems look mighty small from 150 miles up."
- Roger B. Chaffee
(Related: Problems)
"We never had a huge squad and we never had a great deal of choice. But in many ways that helps because you've got to make do with what you've got. You don't have too many problems about picking the team you just hope that everyone turns up on the day."
- Jack Charlton
(Related: Hope, Choice, Day, Problems)
"From the depth of need and despair, people can work together, can organize themselves to solve their own problems and fill their own needs with dignity and strength."
- Cesar Chavez
(Related: Work, People, Strength, Despair, Dignity, Needs, Problems)
"Design is directed toward human beings. To design is to solve human problems by identifying them and executing the best solution."
- Ivan Chermayeff
(Related: Design, Problems, Solution)
"Any bull market covers a multitude of sins, so there may be all sorts of problems with the current system that we won't see until the bear market comes."
- Ron Chernow
(Related: May, Problems)
"Second, there are two problems with respect to mobile homes in particular. One is we obviously don't want to put them in a flood plain, because if there's another flood, you're going to lose the mobile home."
- Michael Chertoff
(Related: Home, Problems, Respect, Want)
"I had all of one nanosecond to savor the news before we had to move on to other problems."
- Warren Christopher
(Related: News, Problems)
"Environmental degradation, overpopulation, refugees, narcotics, terrorism, world crime movements, and organized crime are worldwide problems that don't stop at a nation's borders."
- Warren Christopher
(Related: Environmental, Crime, Nation, Problems, Terrorism, World)
"The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult."
- Winston Churchill
(Related: Victory, Defeat, Problems)
"I have a computer screen near my seat where I monitor the overall health of the vehicle and pick up any problems that might be occurring early on or once we see any kind of a malfunction or anything unusual that's happening, we can look at the data and figure out what that is."
- Laurel Clark
(Related: Health, Computer, Problems)
"I have all sorts of problems and feel discouraged."
- Camille Claudel
(Related: Problems)
"Almost every time I am in a lectureship on a college campus, young people will say, If there is a God and if he is a loving and merciful God, how do you explain the problems of suffering and death and all the tragedies that happen to people?"
- John Clayton
(Related: Death, Time, God, People, College, Problems, Suffering, Will)
"I feel sometimes that in children's books there are more and more grim problems, but I don't know that I want to burden third- and fourth-graders with them."
- Beverly Cleary
(Related: Books, Burden, Children, Problems, Want)
"When the target audience is American teenage kids, you can have problems. My generation prized really fine acting and writing. Sometimes you have to go back to the basic principles which underpin great visual comedy."
- John Cleese
(Related: Acting, American, Comedy, Kids, Principles, Problems, Teenage, Writing)
"The United States strongly condemns the illegal disclosure of classified information. It puts people's lives in danger, threatens our national security, and undermines our efforts to work with other countries to solve shared problems."
- Hillary Clinton
(Related: Work, People, Countries, Danger, Information, National security, Problems, states, United)
"The new rage is to say that the government is the cause of all our problems, and if only we had no government, we'd have no problems. I can tell you, that contradicts evidence, history, and common sense."
- William J. Clinton
(Related: Government, History, Cause, Common sense, Problems)
"I have no problems with private schools. I graduated from one and so did my mother. Private schools are useful and we often use public funds to pay for their infrastructures and other common needs."
- Jim Clyburn
(Related: Mother, Needs, Problems, Public, Schools)
"Two new reports indicate that, under Bush, the Army is overstretched and under enormous strain. The National Guard and reserves have been weakened and we are experiencing numerous recruiting problems."
- Jim Clyburn
(Related: Army, Problems)
"For too long we have swept the problems of mental illness under the carpet... and hoped that they would go away."
- Richard J. Codey
(Related: Illness, Problems)
"There may be problems we still need to tease out, but we will leave no stone unturned in our bid to make London the host city."
- Sebastian Coe
(Related: London, May, Problems, Will)
"It's not the people in the South who create racial problems - it's the people who are governing."
- Nat King Cole
(Related: People, Problems)
"Problems emerge and some people try to sweep them under the rug."
- Bill Condon
(Related: People, Problems)
"There's one major difference between James Bond and me! He is able to sort out problems!"
- Sean Connery
(Related: Difference)
"They criticize me for harping on the obvious; if all the folks in the United States would do the few simple things they know they ought to do, most of our big problems would take care of themselves."
- Calvin Coolidge
(Related: Care, Obvious, Problems, states, United)
"Aerobic dancing is already adjusting to injury problems and will probably phase out to some extent."
- Kenneth H. Cooper
(Related: Dancing, Injury, Problems, Will)
"I used to think that it didn't make any difference how far you ran if you had a good, strong musculoskeletal system and no underlying cardiovascular problems."
- Kenneth H. Cooper
(Related: Difference, Problems)
"It is reasonable to expect the doctor to recognize that science may not have all the answers to problems of health and healing."
- Norman Cousins
(Related: Health, Science, Answers, Healing, May, Problems)
"The real cure for our environmental problems is to understand that our job is to salvage Mother Nature. We are facing a formidable enemy in this field. It is the hunters... and to convince them to leave their guns on the wall is going to be very difficult."
- Jacques Yves Cousteau
(Related: Environmental, Nature, Mother, Cure, Enemy, Job, Problems)
"Most of the albums that have taken long have been related to illness and fatigue or producer problems."
- David Coverdale
(Related: Fatigue, Illness, Problems)
"I have felt terribly from the beginning when I saw the problems and recognized that they would be ongoing. We were hired to put back the contours of the greens as closely as possible to George Thomas's designs and were real proud of what we did. It's a sad situation now."
- Ben Crenshaw
(Related: Beginning, Now, Problems)
"Everybody's a mad scientist, and life is their lab. We're all trying to experiment to find a way to live, to solve problems, to fend off madness and chaos."
- David Cronenberg
(Related: Life, Chaos, Madness, Problems, Trying)
"The Crosby family is sort of legendary for all of its traumas and familial problems, even though it has this appearance of being this perfect world. It had quite a dark side to it."
- Denise Crosby
(Related: Family, Appearance, Being, Problems, World)
"I would ask my dad what he did, and he'd say, 'I listen to people's problems.' In some way what he did for a living is in my genes."
- Marcia Cross
(Related: Dad, People, Living, Problems)
"When a violent minority that crosses color lines comes to believe that killing those you know or do not know is a reasonable solution to problems, we are in need of another vision."
- Stanley Crouch
(Related: Vision, Killing, Minority, Problems, Solution)
"I think war is based in greed and there are huge karmic retributions that will follow. I think war is never the answer to solving any problems. The best way to solve problems is to not have enemies."
- Sheryl Crow
(Related: War, Enemies, Greed, Problems, Will)
"When you have to cope with a lot of problems, you're either going to sink or you're going to swim."
- Tom Cruise
(Related: Problems)
"Perhaps many of the perplexing problems of the new music could be put into a new light if we were to reintroduce the ancient idea of music being a reflection of nature."
- George Crumb
(Related: Music, Nature, Idea, Being, Light, Problems, Reflection)
"The divorce was rough on all of us. I don't blame Hollywood for my family's problems. But having all of it reported in the press made it more of an ordeal."
- Kieran Culkin
(Related: Family, Blame, Divorce, Hollywood, Press, Problems)
"Television and radio do a wonderful job in focusing attention on the problems of our society."
- Richard J. Daley
(Related: Society, Attention, Job, Problems, Television)
"It has to be because unemployment problems in northwest Indiana are similar to those in southeast Chicago."
- Richard M. Daley
(Related: Chicago, Problems, Unemployment)
"That's an economic development program in the metropolitan area. If they don't see that, and you don't get these things done, then you're competing with Texas and California and Atlanta; then you really have problems."
- Richard M. Daley
(Related: Development, Problems)
"I believe the way I describe the problems in Chicago is that it's a metropolitan area. I've said that everywhere. The uneducated child is not just my problem, it's the state's problem. It's also the federal government's problem."
- Richard M. Daley
(Related: Government, Chicago, Problems, State)
"I think the state has some serious problems. Just look at the layoffs going on across the state, not just in Chicago. It affects the middle class. It pushes people down."
- Richard M. Daley
(Related: People, Chicago, Class, Middle class, Problems, State)
"Alcohol and drug addiction are problems, and we should use outside agencies that know the business. They do business all over the country. Why don't we contract them to do it? See, we should be in certain businesses."
- Richard M. Daley
(Related: Business, Addiction, Alcohol, Country, Problems)
"So you keep raising these taxes, and all of a sudden the business community says, 'Why are we here? We can go someplace else and use their phones.' That's one of the problems that directly affects the business community."
- Richard M. Daley
(Related: Business, Community, Problems, Taxes)
"First National Bank laid off 1,000 people; where do they go? There are no jobs for them. So we are having serious economic problems in this country. We are in a real economic crisis."
- Richard M. Daley
(Related: People, Country, Crisis, First, Jobs, Problems)
"You don't realize how useful a therapist is until you see yourself on e and discover you have more problems than you ever dreamed of."
- Claire Danes
(Related: Problems)
"Focus 90% of your time on solutions and only 10% of your time on problems."
- Anthony J. D'Angelo
(Related: Time, Focus, Problems)
"When solving problems, dig at the roots instead of just hacking at the leaves."
- Anthony J. D'Angelo
(Related: Problems)
"We're not trying to reinvent the wheel; for any environmental organization to claim sole responsibility for any kind of victory is insane, because everybody attacks these problems as a group."
- Ted Danson
(Related: Environmental, Victory, Problems, Responsibility, Trying)
"We must correct the problems and inequities in the way we conduct and decide elections in the United States."
- Tom Daschle
(Related: Elections, Problems, states, United)
"One of our problems is our sense of discipline - dancers have an extraordinary sense of self-discipline."
- Siobhan Davies
(Related: Discipline, Problems, Self, Sense)
"It's true that it's within the realm of cultural politics that young people tend to work through political issues, which I think is good, although it's not going to solve the problems."
- Angela Davis
(Related: Politics, Work, People, Problems)
"I got problems. I freak out, go to a shrink, go through all kinds of therapy and stuff, but I'm learning how to deal with it. That's why I've chosen one hour a night to get all of my aggressions out. to really tell the world the way I feel."
- Jonathan Davis
(Related: Learning, Night, Problems, Therapy, World)
"Many soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan suffer from serious, long-term, physical and mental health problems, due to their service. It is unconscionable to cut the already limited health care benefits available to these brave men and women."
- Mark Dayton
(Related: Health, Men, Women, Afghanistan, Benefits, Care, Iraq, Mental health, Problems, Service, Soldiers)
"Thats why my biggest problems were with LL and Run."
- Kool Moe Dee
(Related: Problems)
"People think when you get a record deal all your problems will go away. We know that the bigger we get, the more problems we'll have. I guess Puff Daddy was somewhat - what's the word? - prophetic in that respect."
- Brad Delson
(Related: People, Problems, Respect, Will, Word)
"And they didn't have to get into a lot of legal speak or talk ER terms, they were real people. I think that's why so many actresses were attracted to it. And it was just about problems that you could identify with so much, right off the bat."
- James Denton
(Related: Legal, People, Problems, Right, Talk)
"I had rapidly become aware there were problems with the Kalifa group."
- Gerard Depardieu
(Related: Problems)
"Each problem that I solved became a rule, which served afterwards to solve other problems."
- Rene Descartes
(Related: Problems)
"We only think when we are confronted with problems."
- John Dewey
(Related: Problems)
"Technology causes problems as well as solves problems. Nobody has figured out a way to ensure that, as of tomorrow, technology won't create problems. Technology simply means increased power, which is why we have the global problems we face today."
- Jared Diamond
(Related: Technology, Power, Causes, Problems, Today, Tomorrow)
"We in science are spoiled by the success of mathematics. Mathematics is the study of problems so simple that they have good solutions."
- Whitfield Diffie
(Related: Science, Success, Mathematics, Problems, Study)
"People meet in bars after work all over the world and talk about the great problems of life and death and the world and politics and they don't take themselves seriously. They can do nothing else except chat about these things in bars after work."
- Whitfield Diffie
(Related: Death, Life, Politics, Work, People, Nothing, Problems, Talk, World)
"This is one of the major problems we have. By the way, it was endorsed by leadership on both sides of the aisle and both ends of the Capitol, by the NRA and also by the gun control groups."
- John Dingell
(Related: Leadership, Control, Problems)
"There is in my opinion a great similarity between the problems provided by the mysterious behavior of the atom and those provided by the present economic paradoxes confronting the world."
- Paul Dirac
(Related: Behavior, Opinion, Paradoxes, Present, Problems, World)
"One of the problems with sex education... is that it also strips kids - especially girls - of their modesty to have every detail of anatomy, physiology and condom usage made explicit."
- James Dobson
(Related: Education, Sex, Detail, Girls, Kids, Modesty, Problems)
"I submit that those who run the American military at the top, and those whose boots are on the ground and who run the machinery and equipment, are sending a signal: You asked us to do something. Give us some time and we will solve the problems and we will do it."
- Pete Domenici
(Related: Time, American, Military, Problems, Will)
"Instead of begging OPEC to drop its oil prices, let's use American leadership and ingenuity to solve our own energy problems."
- Pete Domenici
(Related: Leadership, American, Energy, Oil, Problems)
"Islam is in principle egalitarian, and has always had problems with power."
- Mary Douglas
(Related: Power, Islam, Problems)
"There are two problems in my life. The political ones are insoluble and the economic ones are incomprehensible."
- Alec Douglas-Home
(Related: Life, Problems)
"My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation."
- Arthur Conan Doyle
(Related: Work, Existence, Mind, Problems, Routine)
"Mission accomplished, we didn't have any problems as far as violence goes."
- Dr. Dre
(Related: Mission, Problems, Violence)
"Today the fate of humankind is even more crucially linked than ever before. The boundaries between the problems of "others" and "our" problems are being increasingly erased."
- Janez Drnovsek
(Related: Being, Fate, Problems, Today)
"Every day is a gift with a child, no matter what problems you have."
- Carol Ann Duffy
(Related: Day, Problems)
"There are plenty of problems in the world, many of them interconnected. But there is no problem which compares with this central, universal problem of saving the human race from extinction."
- John Foster Dulles
(Related: Problems, Race, World)
"Cities all over the world are getting bigger as more and more people move from rural to urban sites, but that has created enormous problems with respect to environmental pollution and the general quality of life."
- Alan Dundes
(Related: Environmental, Life, Quality, People, Cities, Pollution, Problems, Respect, World)
"I think we were the first picture to cut on Final Cut Pro. So we were the guinea pigs, because we got a deal on the system. But with that comes all sorts of technological problems I couldn't begin to describe."
- Griffin Dunne
(Related: First, Problems)
"Every movie is wildly different. So many of the problems are the same, but they take on different guises."
- Griffin Dunne
(Related: Problems)
"The problems of all of humanity can only be solved by all of humanity."
- Friedrich Durrenmatt
(Related: Humanity, Problems)
"Kolkata is a great city, has great food and great people. We had some problems finding the kind of old buildings we were looking for, and even handling the crowds, but on the whole it was fun shooting there."
- Sanjay Dutt
(Related: Food, People, Crowds, Fun, Old, Problems)
"Once the image was in the digital environment, one of the problems was, we had no means to reproduce the color spectrum, grey scale, and contrast that film produces, without converting the digital file to film, evaluating it, then going back and changing the digital image."
- John Dykstra
(Related: Contrast, Environment, Film, Problems)
"It is characteristic of all deep human problems that they are not to be approached without some humor and some bewilderment."
- Freeman Dyson
(Related: Humor, Deep, Problems)
"There are sometimes problems for which there is no immediate solution, and there are sometimes problems for which there is no solution."
- Lawrence Eagleburger
(Related: Problems, Solution)
"Conscious of our many problems, I seek today to lay a foundation to our public policy. My fundamental purpose is to devote my term of office to raising the standard of public service in New Jersey."
- Charles Edison
(Related: Policy, Purpose, Office, Problems, Public, Public policy, Service, Today)
"Our democracy poses problems and these problems must and shall be solved by courageous leadership."
- Charles Edison
(Related: Leadership, Democracy, Problems)
"Politics is a contest among people of diverse backgrounds and philosophies, advocating different solutions to common problems. The system only works when principled, energetic people participate."
- Bob Ehrlich
(Related: Politics, People, Problems)
"It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer."
- Albert Einstein
(Related: Problems)
"In matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between large and small problems, for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same."
- Albert Einstein
(Related: Truth, People, Difference, Justice, Problems, Treatment)
"Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them."
- Albert Einstein
(Related: Intellectuals, Problems)
"We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them."
- Albert Einstein
(Related: Problems, Thinking)
"We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them."
- Albert Einstein
(Related: Problems, Thinking)
"To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science."
- Albert Einstein
(Related: Imagination, Science, Old, Possibilities, Problems, Questions)
"Unlike presidential administrations, problems rarely have terminal dates."
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
(Related: Problems)
"The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny."
- Albert Ellis
(Related: Life, Mother, Control, Blame, Destiny, Ecology, President, Problems, Years)
"My focus is not on solving nature's deeper mysteries. It is on using nature's deeper mysteries to solve important societal problems."
- Philip Emeagwali
(Related: Nature, Focus, Problems)
"I have expertise in five different fields which helps me to easily understand the analogy between my scientific problems and those occurring in nature."
- Philip Emeagwali
(Related: Nature, Expertise, Problems)
"In all my novels, I deal with the many problems and prejudices which exist for Black people in Britain today."
- Buchi Emecheta
(Related: People, Problems, Today)
"With any child entering adolescence, one hunts for signs of health, is desperate for the smallest indication that the child's problems will never be important enough for a television movie."
- Nora Ephron
(Related: Health, Adolescence, Problems, Television, Will)
"I hope we'll be able to solve these problems before we leave."
- Paul Erdos
(Related: Hope, Problems)
"To be completely stripped bare of any image power or my hair. To step onstage and get the response that I got blew any problems I had about self-image out the door."
- Melissa Etheridge
(Related: Power, Hair, Problems, Self)
"Umpires, like players, are expected to show constant improvement each season and at each level. Inconsistent plate work and the inability to handle situations are probably the two biggest problems that minor league umpires face."
- Jim Evans
(Related: Work, Improvement, Problems)
"I always knew I wanted to be a character in the movies. When I was growing up, I had to have a lot of surgery, and I spent a lot of time recovering at home and in the hospital. Watching movies took me away from my own problems and gave me a total escape."
- Josh Ryan Evans
(Related: Home, Movies, Time, Character, Growing up, Problems)
"I was a wonderful parent before I had children. I was an expert on why everyone else was having problems with theirs. Then I had three of my own."
- Adele Faber
(Related: Children, Problems)
"I believe that global warming is a myth. And so, therefore, I have no conscience problems at all and I'm going to buy a Suburban next time."
- Jerry Falwell
(Related: Time, Conscience, Global warming, Myth, Problems)
"We've taken on the major health problems of the poorest - tuberculosis, maternal mortality, AIDS, malaria - in four countries. We've scored some victories in the sense that we've cured or treated thousands and changed the discourse about what is possible."
- Paul Farmer
(Related: Health, Countries, Mortality, Problems, Sense)
"And we reduce almost all male-female problems by working on both the female and the male. And that usually means having both sexes take responsibility."
- Warren Farrell
(Related: Problems, Responsibility, Sexes)
"We've had no problems with the actors, but we keep a really loose set."
- Peter Farrelly
(Related: Actors, Problems)
"I'd rather have happiness than money. People ask for it. Sometimes when I don't have it. I make other people's problems my problem because they want me to; they ask me to."
- Brenda Fassie
(Related: Happiness, Money, People, Problems, Want)
"There are no problems that exist in the District that have been solved elsewhere in the country. Whatever problems exist in this city exist other places."
- Chaka Fattah
(Related: Country, Problems)
"We have major fiscal problems on our hand."
- Chaka Fattah
(Related: Problems)
"The town, the team, it's a family. That has helped. For some people who have had to deal with some of the problems I have had to deal with don't have football as an out."
- Brett Favre
(Related: Family, People, Football, Problems)
"Here is the secret of inspiration: Tell yourself that thousands and tens of thousands of people, not very intelligent and certainly no more intelligent than the rest of us, have mastered problems as difficult as those that now baffle you."
- William Feather
(Related: People, Now, Problems, Rest)
"And finally, no matter how good the science gets, there are problems that inevitably depend on judgement, on art, on a feel for financial markets."
- Martin Feldstein
(Related: Science, Art, Financial, Problems)
"I think there are problems with compact disc copy protection that can't be resolved."
- Edward Felten
(Related: Problems, Protection)
"When I speak of "cycles," I am referring to lengthy intervals of relative homogeneity, if not in the resolving of problems, than at least with respect to the consistency of their capacity to productively irritate."
- Brian Ferneyhough
(Related: Consistency, Problems, Respect)
"I have problems with machines which aren't gestural."
- Luc Ferrari
(Related: Machines, Problems)
"An author who sets about to depict events of the past that have run their course is suspected of wishing to avoid the problems of the present day, of being, in other words, a reactionary."
- Lion Feuchtwanger
(Related: Being, Day, Events, Past, Present, Problems, Wishing, Words)
"I believe that a scientist looking at nonscientific problems is just as dumb as the next guy."
- Richard P. Feynman
(Related: Dumb, Problems)
"We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on."
- Richard P. Feynman
(Related: Time, Beginning, Future, Problems, Race, Responsibility, Years)
"It is hard for people outside the White House to understand the constant daily problems and issues that come up that require the president's attention, but he can not let himself get too personally involved."
- Fred F. Fielding
(Related: People, Attention, President, Problems)
"When I go on stage man I just want people to have fun, I don't want people to think about their problems, I want people to get energy and nutrition and food from that so they can go back into the real world and work on their problems."
- Jon Fishman
(Related: Food, Work, People, Energy, Fun, Man, Problems, Want, World)
"One of the great problems of the world today is undoubtedly this problem of not being able to talk to scientists, because we don't understand science; they can't talk to us because they don't understand anything else, poor dears."
- Michael Flanders
(Related: Science, Being, Poor, Problems, Scientists, Talk, Today, World)
"It was so difficult for the fans to understand my problems with baseball."
- Curt Flood
(Related: Baseball, Fans, Problems)
"No one could have nicer sisters. No sibling problems there."
- Henry Fonda
(Related: Problems, Sisters)
"Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them."
- Henry Ford
(Related: Time, People, Energy, Problems, Trying)
"What's right about America is that although we have a mess of problems, we have great capacity - intellect and resources - to do some thing about them."
- Henry Ford
(Related: America, Intellect, Problems, Right)
"There are no big problems, there are just a lot of little problems."
- Henry Ford
(Related: Problems)
"There are some guys you have problems beating because of their style - I always had difficulties with guys like Michael Chang and Andre Agassi because their returns were so good and they played so well in defence."
- Guy Forget
(Related: Difficulties, Problems, Style)
"Young people can get very discouraged and get hooked on drugs or on alcohol because of problems they perceive as insurmountable. It is important that they realize a mistake need not ruin their future, but they must also know that not everything in life is a bed of roses."
- Maureen Forrester
(Related: Life, Mistake, People, Alcohol, Bed, Drugs, Future, Problems, Roses, Ruin)
"Perhaps naively I thought people understand what humor was, that it was invented by the human race to cope with the dark areas of life, problems and terrors."
- Bill Forsyth
(Related: Humor, Life, Thought, People, Problems, Race)
"I'm also very proud to be a part of a trilogy of films that, if they do nothing else, allow people to check their problems at the door, sit down and have a good time."
- Michael J. Fox
(Related: Time, People, Nothing, Problems)
"I never participated in far-reaching political decisions, since I never belonged to the circle of the closest associates of Adolf Hitler, neither was I consulted by Adolf Hitler on general political questions, nor did I ever take part in conferences about such problems."
- Hans Frank
(Related: Decisions, Problems, Questions)
"Whatever the medium, there is the difficulty, challenge, fascination and often productive clumsiness of learning a new method: the wonderful puzzles and problems of translating with new materials."
- Helen Frankenthaler
(Related: Challenge, Difficulty, Learning, Problems)
"Over 120 Aboriginal communities run their own health services - some have been doing so for 30 years. They struggle with difficult medical problems. They also try to deal with counselling, stolen generations issues, family relationships, violence, suicide prevention."
- Malcolm Fraser
(Related: Family, Health, Medical, Generations, Prevention, Problems, Relationships, Struggle, Suicide, Violence, Years)
"That's what Kiss is all about - not just music, but entertainment, y'know? We're there to take you away from your problems, and rock and roll all night and party every day for those two hours you're at the concert."
- Ace Frehley
(Related: Music, Kiss, Day, Entertainment, Night, Party, Problems)
"I don't see this planet being... they're talking about how they're turning around the environmental problems here, but I think it's already too late."
- Ace Frehley
(Related: Environmental, Being, Problems, Talking)
"Money should not, and must not, change our commitment to solving problems and building this state."
- Dave Freudenthal
(Related: Change, Money, Building, Commitment, Problems, State)
"I went to the Capitol and came to court specifically to draw attention to the problems of the world that directly affect my state of mind and my physical body and to offer a way to clean up the world. This is my intent."
- Lynette Fromme
(Related: Attention, Body, Court, Mind, Problems, State, World)
"I do not have the answers and as a woman I do not intend to play my own thoughts over the truth. I can clearly state the problems and tell you that I suffer from them."
- Lynette Fromme
(Related: Truth, Thoughts, Answers, Play, Problems, State, Woman)
"Up to now we have faced external problems in an isolated fashion. One of these problems is precisely the drug trade and what has been the result? A very weak and fragile position."
- Alberto Fujimori
(Related: Fashion, Now, Problems, Result, Trade)
"There has been a tendency through the years for reason and moderation to prevail as long as things are going tolerably well or as long as our problems seem clear and finite and manageable."
- J. William Fulbright
(Related: Moderation, Problems, Reason, Years)
"Most original viewers of the Mickey Mouse Club didn't face the crush of family and social problems children have today."
- Annette Funicello
(Related: Family, Children, Mouse, Problems, Today)
"The most important and urgent problems of the technology of today are no longer the satisfactions of the primary needs or of archetypal wishes, but the reparation of the evils and damages by the technology of yesterday."
- Dennis Gabor
(Related: Technology, Needs, Problems, Today, Wishes, Yesterday)
"Total physical and mental inertia are highly agreeable, much more so than we allow ourselves to imagine. A beach not only permits such inertia but enforces it, thus neatly eliminating all problems of guilt. It is now the only place in our overly active world that does."
- John Kenneth Galbraith
(Related: Beach, Guilt, Now, Problems, World)
"I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the Scriptures, but with experiments, and demonstrations."
- Galileo Galilei
(Related: Problems)
"The real problems are cultural. The problems of the people who take drugs as a cultural trap - I think there's a real problem there, the crack stuff, the hopelessness of the junkie. The urban angst."
- Jerry Garcia
(Related: People, Drugs, Problems)
"Good buildings come from good people, ad all problems are solved by good design."
- Stephen Gardiner
(Related: Design, People, Problems)
"Twenty-five years ago, the notion was you could create a general problem-solver software that could solve problems in many different domains. That just turned out to be totally wrong."
- Howard Gardner
(Related: Problems, Software, Wrong, Years)
"We are all faced with a series of great opportunities - brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems."
- John W. Gardner
(Related: Problems)
"The more everybody knows about all aspects of the problems we face, the better off all of us will be. Less time spent explaining things means more time for coming up with creative solutions."
- Jesse James Garrett
(Related: Time, Problems, Will)
"One of the problems that we face through the media attention that these artists receive is that there has been an awful lot of talk about opera and classical music being elite and being for an elitist group."
- Lesley Garrett
(Related: Music, Artists, Attention, Being, Media, Opera, Problems, Talk)
"You learn, right, a lot of people's problems - why they get upset, why they get down, why they turn to drink - is because they can't say one word and it's N-O, no."
- Paul Gascoigne
(Related: People, Problems, Right, Word)
"Security is, I would say, our top priority because for all the exciting things you will be able to do with computers - organizing your lives, staying in touch with people, being creative - if we don't solve these security problems, then people will hold back."
- Bill Gates
(Related: Computers, People, Being, Problems, Security, Will)
"I believe that if you show people the problems and you show them the solutions they will be moved to act."
- Bill Gates
(Related: People, Act, Problems, Will)
"This crisis exposed very significant problems in the financial systems of the United States and some other major economies. Innovation got too far out in front of the knowledge of risk."
- Timothy Geithner
(Related: Knowledge, Financial, Crisis, Innovation, Problems, Risk, states, United)
"The natural capital is not income, but we spend our natural capital as if it were revenue, as if it were going to come back next year without any problems, whereas these renewals in nature can take hundreds of years."
- Susan George
(Related: Nature, Income, Problems, Years)
"A genocide in Africa has not received the same attention that genocide in Europe or genocide in Turkey or genocide in other part of the world. There is still this kind of basic discrimination against the African people and the African problems."
- Boutros Boutros Ghali
(Related: People, African, Attention, Discrimination, Europe, Genocide, Problems, Turkey, World)
"China will be the answer to Japan's problems."
- Carlos Ghosn
(Related: Problems, Will)
"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."
- Alexi Giannoulias
(Related: Business, Community, Friends, Problems, Today)
"I've been working at performing for five years now. I've been working in Australia and Spain and England. When I was only 15 or 16, 1 was performing in bars; I could have had legal problems, but it's also the only way to get to know what music is all about."
- Andy Gibb
(Related: Legal, Music, England, Now, Problems, Spain, Years)
"I think one of the problems the Democrats have today is that they are an elitist party."
- Ed Gillespie
(Related: Democrats, Party, Problems, Today)
"It's been interesting how kids have had hardly any problems watching it, but adults have more trouble. This happened way back even with Jabberwocky and Time Bandits."
- Terry Gilliam
(Related: Time, Kids, Problems, Trouble)
"I've got problems and if you sentence me to additional time, I'm going to compound them."
- Gary Gilmore
(Related: Time, Problems)
"I think one of the great problems we have in the Republican Party is that we don't encourage you to be nasty. We encourage you to be neat, obedient, loyal and faithful and all those Boy Scout words, which would be great around a campfire but are lousy in politics."
- Newt Gingrich
(Related: Politics, Party, Problems, Republican, Words)
"But sadly, one of the problems with being on public radio is that people tend to think you're being sincere all the time."
- Ira Glass
(Related: Time, People, Being, Problems, Public)
"It would be naive to think that the problems plaguing mankind today can be solved with means and methods which were applied or seemed to work in the past."
- Mikhail Gorbachev
(Related: Work, Mankind, Past, Problems, Today)
"Really you just gotta keep chugging along and keep a positive attitude and get through all the problems. You gotta face them, otherwise you don't get through."
- Lesley Gore
(Related: Attitude, Positive, Problems)
"I realize that homosexuality is a serious problem for anyone who is - but then, of course, heterosexuality is a serious problem for anyone who is, too. And being a man is a serious problem and being a woman is, too. Lots of things are problems."
- Edward Gorey
(Related: Being, Homosexuality, Man, Problems, Woman)
"Call it holistic or holographic thinking, it's been quite effective imagining the world's problems are all right in front of you on a smaller scale with your band. You deal with those relationships, and that's where real major change begins."
- Stone Gossard
(Related: Change, Problems, Relationships, Right, Thinking, World)
"The real technical problems came because people working on the project didn't really follow my proposal at all, but set out to do other things instead of making a laser."
- Gordon Gould
(Related: People, Problems, Project)
"Deep inside us, we know what every family therapist knows: the problems between the parents become the problems within the children."
- Roger Gould
(Related: Family, Children, Deep, Parents, Problems)
"Some autistic children cannot stand the sound of certain voices. I have come across cases where teachers tell me that certain children have problems with their voice or another person's voice. This problem tends to be related to high-pitched ladies' voices."
- Temple Grandin
(Related: Children, Ladies, Problems, Sound, Teachers, Voice)
"One of my sensory problems was hearing sensitivity, where certain loud noises, such as a school bell, hurt my ears. It sounded like a dentist drill going through my ears."
- Temple Grandin
(Related: Hearing, Hurt, Problems, School, Sensitivity)
"Children between the ages of five to ten years are even more variable. They are going to vary from very high functioning, capable of doing normal school work, to nonverbal who have all kinds of neurological problems."
- Temple Grandin
(Related: Work, Children, Problems, School, Years)
"I use my mind to solve problems and invent things."
- Temple Grandin
(Related: Mind, Problems)
"I like to figure things out and solve problems."
- Temple Grandin
(Related: Problems)
"A women under stress is not immediately concerned with finding solutions to her problems but rather seeks relief by expressing herself and being understood."
- John Gray
(Related: Women, Being, Problems, Stress)
"We are really the victims of our own problems."
- Jimmy Greaves
(Related: Problems, Victims)
"One cannot escape the harsh fact that as a ministerial profession, the priesthood has very serious problems. They are not new. They did not develop yesterday or last year."
- Andrew Greeley
(Related: Fact, Problems, Profession, Yesterday)
"My parents love each other. They work through their problems."
- Brian Austin Green
(Related: Love, Work, Parents, Problems)
"When they discover I have a green card there may be some problems."
- Bruce Greenwood
(Related: May, Problems)
"The government has made $44 trillion in promises we can't afford to keep. We must get serious now about our long-term budgetary problems, recognizing that the sooner we act, the less painful the choices will be."
- Judd Gregg
(Related: Government, Act, Choices, Now, Problems, Promises, Will)
"She encouraged any artistic impulse I had, and my father discouraged any artistic impulse I had. They took out their problems with each other on me and my sister."
- Bill Griffith
(Related: Father, Sister, Problems)
"If this Nation really wants to create an effective border security policy, we need to have a debate that includes a discussion about actual solutions to our problems, which means taking all of the political grandstanding and baiting out of the equation."
- Raul Grijalva
(Related: Policy, Debate, Nation, Problems, Security)
"The game of life is a lot like football. You have to tackle your problems, block your fears, and score your points when you get the opportunity."
- Lewis Grizzard
(Related: Life, Opportunity, Football, Problems)
"Here's to alcohol: the cause of, and answer to, all of life's problems."
- Matt Groening
(Related: Life, Cause, Problems)
"Foreign policy will require a strategic agility that, whenever possible, gets ahead of problems, strengthens U.S. security and alliances, and promotes American interests and credibility."
- Chuck Hagel
(Related: Policy, American, Credibility, Foreign policy, Problems, Security, Will)
"Everybody likes Johnny Cash. I think the sad part of it is his health is givin' him problems."
- Merle Haggard
(Related: Health, Problems)
"I haven't had any problems with my back since I got the foot surgery."
- Merle Haggard
(Related: Problems)
"We didn't do anything wrong, but among the lessons learned, given the magnitude of the problems we now face in Afghanistan, a major U.S. force on the ground would convince the world we were in for the long-haul recovery of a country devastated by 21 years of warfare."
- Alexander Haig
(Related: Afghanistan, Country, Force, Now, Problems, World, Wrong, Years)
"Every cinematographer I worked with had his own way of solving problems."
- Conrad Hall
(Related: Problems)
"Chronic Lyme causes arthritis, heart problems, stroke - even death."
- Daryl Hall
(Related: Death, Heart, Causes, Problems)
"The temptations are great to simply retreat to the domain of private life and give up on our public problems."
- Lee H. Hamilton
(Related: Life, Problems, Public, Temptations)
"I think there's a great beauty to having problems. That's one of the ways we learn."
- Herbie Hancock
(Related: Beauty, Problems)
"The point is to solve problems, not point fingers."
- Jane Harman
(Related: Problems)
"If I can bring some light to bear on problems like that, I feel that people will be enlightened not only on the question but also on a way of approaching such questions."
- Marvin Harris
(Related: People, Light, Problems, Question, Questions, Will)
"Writing as a woman presents enormous problems but I have attempted it several times and haven't had many complaints."
- Jim Harrison
(Related: Complaints, Problems, Woman, Writing)
"We wanted to enjoy what we were doing and we had business things we had to straighten out and personnel problems and it sort of took a little time to do it."
- Debbie Harry
(Related: Business, Time, Problems)
"Indiscriminate firing by police on people is absolute barbarism. Instead of solving their problems, the government is trying to suppress the people by force."
- Sheikh Hasina
(Related: Government, People, Force, Police, Problems, Trying)
"The Middle East is literally going up in flames, as is California, and Katrina's problems haven't been solved, and Congress' response is to criticize Federal judges."
- Alcee Hastings
(Related: Congress, Judges, Problems)
"Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them."
- Paul Hawken
(Related: Art, Work, Management, Problems)
"I think an old style of addressing environmental problems is ebbing, but the rise of the so-called conservative, political movement in this country is not a trend towards the future but a reaction to this very broad shift that we are undergoing."
- Paul Hawken
(Related: Environmental, Conservative, Country, Future, Old, Problems, Style)
"If you give me any problem in America I can trace it down to domestic violence. It is the cradle of most of the problems, economic, psychological, educational."
- Salma Hayek
(Related: America, Problems, Violence)
"A Negro woman has the same kind of problems as other women, but she can't take the same things for granted."
- Dorothy Height
(Related: Women, Problems, Woman)
"The problems of language here are really serious. We wish to speak in some way about the structure of the atoms. But we cannot speak about atoms in ordinary language."
- Werner Heisenberg
(Related: Atoms, Language, Problems)
"If you believe, as the Greeks did, that man is at the mercy of the gods, then you write tragedy. The end is inevitable from the beginning. But if you believe that man can solve his own problems and is at nobody's mercy, then you will probably write melodrama."
- Lillian Hellman
(Related: Gods, Beginning, End, Man, Mercy, Problems, Tragedy, Will)
"My problems aren't so different from anybody else."
- Mariel Hemingway
(Related: Problems)
"I suspect that a substantial fraction of human problems in the world today, not just cults, result from the mismatch between the current environment and the environment in which we evolved."
- Keith Henson
(Related: Environment, Problems, Result, Today, World)
"From a consideration of the immense volume of newly discovered facts in the field of physics, especially atomic physics, in recent years it might well appear to the layman that the main problems were already solved and that only more detailed work was necessary."
- Victor Francis Hess
(Related: Work, Consideration, Facts, Physics, Problems, Years)
"But clearly at the same time you've got to get out there and connect with voters and actually respond to the needs, the frustrations, whatever problems their now saying are not being adequately solved."
- Patricia Hewitt
(Related: Time, Being, Needs, Now, Problems, Saying)
"I mean you might say he had a travelling post office, but also Barney was very, very active. He was a legal officer for the NAACP and they had a lot of problems after Pease."
- Betty Hill
(Related: Legal, Office, Post, Problems)
"I think beauty comes from within. If you're happy and look at life in the best way you can, even when there are problems, it can make you beautiful on the outside."
- Faith Hill
(Related: Beauty, Life, Problems)
"As problems like identity theft become more prevalent, now more than ever, Americans need to take their financial health seriously - and this information is of the utmost importance."
- Ruben Hinojosa
(Related: Health, Financial, Americans, Identity, Importance, Information, Now, Problems, Theft)
"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."
- Christopher Hitchens
(Related: American, Problems)
"One of the problems with putting Huck Finn into a movie or on the stage is, you always make the white people stupid and racist. The point is, they don't know they're racist."
- Hal Holbrook
(Related: People, Problems)
"When the problems in Northern Ireland started, it was not a question of Protestantism or Catholicism, because the Catholic church was the only church at that time-it was a nationalist conflict."
- Harri Holkeri
(Related: Time, Church, Catholicism, Conflict, Ireland, Problems, Protestantism, Question)
"I think we have grave problems. I am very much concerned about environmental questions, even though in Finnish society, we are not facing the most urgent problems."
- Harri Holkeri
(Related: Environmental, Society, Grave, Problems, Questions)
"In every European nation, there have been problems in history when the society was too divided."
- Harri Holkeri
(Related: History, Society, Nation, Problems)
"No use to shout at them to pay attention. If the situations, the materials, the problems before the child do not interest him, his attention will slip off to what does interest him, and no amount of exhortation of threats will bring it back."
- John Holt
(Related: Attention, Interest, Problems, Will)
"Such a structure would also raise a number of problems: first of all, which Timorese to pay compensation to? It would open a can of worms in terms of who was really a victim and who was not."
- Jose Ramos Horta
(Related: First, Open)
"The importance to the nation of a generously adequate food supply for the coming year cannot be overemphasized, in view of the economic problems which may arise as a result of the entrance of the United States into the war."
- David F. Houston
(Related: Food, War, Importance, May, Nation, Problems, Result, states, United)
"I finally faced the fact that it isn't a crime not having friends. Being alone means you have fewer problems."
- Whitney Houston
(Related: Being, Crime, Fact, Friends, Problems)
"It is hard to convince a high-school student that he will encounter a lot of problems more difficult than those of algebra and geometry."
- Edward W. Howe
(Related: Geometry, Problems, Will)
"The man who has no problems is out of the game."
- Elbert Hubbard
(Related: Man, Problems)
"I've always had problems with guys!"
- Vanessa Hudgens
(Related: Problems)
"The three great problems of this century; the degradation of man in the proletariat, the subjection of women through hunger, the atrophy of the child by darkness."
- Victor Hugo
(Related: Women, Darkness, Hunger, Man, Problems)
"Firemen can do almost everything. You already trust them in life-threatening situations; why not let them help you with your everyday problems, too?"
- David Hunt
(Related: Trust, Life, Help, Problems)
"Much of what we now consider to be problems concerning immigration and assimilation really concern Mexican immigration and assimilation."
- Samuel P. Huntington
(Related: Concern, Now, Problems)
"The three major administrative problems on a campus are sex for the students, athletics for the alumni, and parking for the faculty."
- Robert M. Hutchins
(Related: Sex, Problems, Students)
"Visionary people face the same problems everyone else faces; but rather than get paralyzed by their problems, visionaries immediately commit themselves to finding a solution."
- Bill Hybels
(Related: People, Faces, Problems, Solution)
"We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems."
- Lee Iacocca
(Related: Problems)
"Running the test suite like this allows us to catch problems when they are just introduced."
- Miguel de Icaza
(Related: Problems, Running)
"There is a lot of work just in terms of traveling and logistics and people and gear and all that kind of stuff. But I never really have problems playing music. That never seems like work."
- James Iha
(Related: Work, Music, People, Problems, Traveling)
"Unfortunately, bureaucratic problems at the federal level are causing many other small Washington companies to be denied federal funding that would help transfer their ideas from their laboratories into our homes and hospitals."
- Jay Inslee
(Related: Ideas, Help, Hospitals, Problems, Washington)
"It was about this time that I began experiencing the beginnings of my battles with an anxiety disorder. We were touring a lot and there were some developing personal problems within the band."
- Jack Irons
(Related: Time, Anxiety, Beginnings, Disorder, Problems)
"I'm very fortunate in that I don't have money problems. I have lunch with my wife at home. I don't have to commute, so I have much more time with my family."
- Kazuo Ishiguro
(Related: Family, Money, Time, Home, Wife, Problems)
"One of the problems that we are confronted with is, when we decide to buy or build a home, we don't get a clear picture of what closing costs will be of that home."
- Alphonso Jackson
(Related: Home, Problems, Will)
"When I look out at the people and they look at me and they're smiling, then I know that I'm loved. That is the time when I have no worries, no problems."
- Etta James
(Related: Time, People, Problems)
"I think isolation is one of the greatest problems, an ever-growing obstacle to political solidarity."
- Elfriede Jelinek
(Related: Isolation, Problems, Solidarity)
"It's important for that to exist in a society that doesn't present you with any genuine problems."
- Tom Jenkinson
(Related: Society, Present, Problems)
"It caused more problems as a young kid, because the simple process of perceiving words on a piece of paper was hard for me. Many people think dyslexic people see things backwards. They don't see things backwards."
- Bruce Jenner
(Related: People, Problems, Words)
"Now, I was on drugs, and that didn't help a whole lot. He hated that. That was part of where Chet and I had problems, so I take complete blame for that."
- Waylon Jennings
(Related: Blame, Drugs, Help, Now, Problems)
"A probing analysis of the problems of evolution forms the basis of my prose."
- Johannes Vilhelm Jensen
(Related: Evolution, Problems, Prose)
"The Nation needs to take a new approach to our energy problems."
- Bobby Jindal
(Related: Energy, Nation, Needs, Problems)
"And what I wanted to do was, I wanted to explore problems and areas where we didn't have answers. In fact, where we didn't even know the right questions to ask."
- Donald Johanson
(Related: Answers, Fact, Problems, Questions, Right)
"Eighty percent of the problems that beset unification immediately disappeared when the President signed the bill increasing the authority and the responsibility of the Secretary of Defense."
- Louis A. Johnson
(Related: Authority, Defense, President, Problems, Responsibility)
"There are no problems we cannot solve together, and very few that we can solve by ourselves."
- Lyndon B. Johnson
(Related: Problems)
"Most government officials are rushing headlong to solve the problems of 50 years ago, with their ears assailed by the sound of snails whizzing by."
- Eric Johnston
(Related: Government, Problems, Sound, Years)
"It has to be real, and I think a lot of the problems we have as a society is because we don't acknowledge that family is important, and it has to be people who are present, you know, and mothers and fathers, both are not present enough with children."
- James Earl Jones
(Related: Family, Society, People, Children, Fathers, Mothers, Present, Problems)
"We didn't really want to be an overnight success as that brings with it its own problems."
- Kelly Jones
(Related: Success, Problems, Want)
"I think recent revelations about who's in what bed speak to the problems with what happened in the Gulf."
- Stephanie Tubbs Jones
(Related: Bed, Problems)
"The citizens of America expect more. They deserve and they want more than a recital of problems."
- Barbara Jordan
(Related: America, Problems, Want)
"Throughout out history, when people have looked for new ways to solve their problems, and to uphold the principles of this nation, many times they have turned to political parties. They have often turned to the Democratic Party."
- Barbara Jordan
(Related: History, People, Nation, Party, Principles, Problems)
"We are a people trying not only to solve the problems of the present: unemployment, inflation... but we are attempting on a larger scale to fulfill the promise of America."
- Barbara Jordan
(Related: People, America, Inflation, Problems, Promise, Trying, Unemployment)
"Maybe it's like becoming one with the cigar. You lose yourself in it; everything fades away: your worries, your problems, your thoughts. They fade into the smoke, and the cigar and you are at peace."
- Raul Julia
(Related: Peace, Thoughts, Problems)
"The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown."
- Carl Jung
(Related: Life, Problems)
"One of the problems you have when you read with kids is that once they like something they want you to read it a hundred times."
- Norton Juster
(Related: Kids, Problems, Want)
"Such problems are not solved in one day but there is a great step toward peace and security in the region."
- Paul Kagame
(Related: Peace, Day, Problems, Security)
"One of the great problems with Americans is that - being a decent people - they assume that everyone else is equally decent."
- Meir Kahane
(Related: People, Americans, Being, Problems)
"Problems are only opportunities in work clothes."
- Henry J. Kaiser
(Related: Work, Clothes, Problems)
"Ray would be in trouble, he would get drunk, he would try and kill J.R on three different occasions, he would make mistakes with financial affairs, and have various human problems, but he didn't have any mean bones in his body! That was a little bit of what the show was about."
- Steve Kanaly
(Related: Financial, Mistakes, Problems, Trouble)
"Once Ray was a Ewing, all the problems were solved."
- Steve Kanaly
(Related: Problems)
"Then the war became a real problem and along with other shortages, they started to have paper problems."
- Gil Kane
(Related: War, Problems)
"The most important thing I learned as a foreign correspondent in about 80 countries is that it takes a very shallow knowledge of history to think that there are solutions to most problems."
- Robert D. Kaplan
(Related: History, Knowledge, Countries, Problems)
"What one does in the studio is to pose a series of problems to oneself. I've got to look for some deeper meaning, for some reason for this thing to be in the world. There's enough stuff in the world."
- Anish Kapoor
(Related: Meaning, Problems, Reason, World)
"An enormous amount of direct advertising from pharmaceutical companies are offering a kind of instantaneous solution to problems."
- Leon Kass
(Related: Advertising, Problems, Solution)
"Government alone cannot solve the problems we deal with in our correctional facilities, treatment centers, homeless shelters and crisis centers - we need our faith-based and community partners."
- Dirk Kempthorne
(Related: Government, Faith, Community, Crisis, Problems, Treatment)
"The very concept of history implies the scholar and the reader. Without a generation of civilized people to study history, to preserve its records, to absorb its lessons and relate them to its own problems, history, too, would lose its meaning."
- George F. Kennan
(Related: History, People, Meaning, Problems, Study)
"Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. And man can be a s big as he wants. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings."
- John F. Kennedy
(Related: Destiny, Man, May, Problems)
"The basic problems facing the world today are not susceptible to a military solution."
- John F. Kennedy
(Related: Military, Problems, Solution, Today, World)
"The problems of the world cannot possibly be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need men who can dream of things that never were."
- John F. Kennedy
(Related: Men, Dream, Obvious, Problems, World)
"I find that the three major administrative problems on a campus are sex for the students, athletics for the alumni and parking for the faculty."
- Clark Kerr
(Related: Sex, Problems, Students)
"Problems are the price of progress. Don't bring me anything but trouble. Good news weakens me."
- Charles Kettering
(Related: Progress, News, Problems, Trouble)
"You're basing your laws and your whole outlook on natural life on mythology. It won't work. That's why you have all these problems in the world. Name them: India, Pakistan, Ireland. Name them-all these problems. They're all religious problems."
- Jack Kevorkian
(Related: Life, Work, Ireland, Laws, Mythology, Name, Problems, Religious, World)
"The day is not far off when the economic problem will take the back seat where it belongs, and the arena of the heart and the head will be occupied or reoccupied, by our real problems - the problems of life and of human relations, of creation and behavior and religion."
- John Maynard Keynes
(Related: Life, Religion, Heart, Behavior, Creation, Day, Problems, Will)
"We will learn together how to solve the problems of the country."
- Nestor Kirchner
(Related: Country, Problems, Will)
"I'm a political scientist and I study these things, and I know that economic problems, with the rising unemployment and inflation and low productivity and so forth, were a factor in that election, in that defeat of President Carter."
- Jeane Kirkpatrick
(Related: Defeat, Inflation, President, Problems, Productivity, Study, Unemployment)
"When you do find humor in trying times, one of the first and most important changes you experience is that you see your perplexing problems in a new way - you suddenly have a new perspective on them."
- Allen Klein
(Related: Experience, Humor, First, Perspective, Problems, Trying)
"Like sheep that get lost nibbling away at the grass because they never look up, we often focus so much on ourselves and our problems that we get lost."
- Allen Klein
(Related: Focus, Problems, Sheep)
"The studies indicate that focusing our attention on someone else, takes our mind off of our own problems. We stay healthier and thereby live longer."
- Allen Klein
(Related: Attention, Mind, Problems)
"Everybody goes through obstacles and problems and issues and turn their backs on people that we are fond of and love just because we hurt; and everybody goes through that."
- Boris Kodjoe
(Related: Love, People, Hurt, Obstacles, Problems)
"I try not to spend too much time on partisan politics. Life's too short for that. I don't really believe that there have been many human problems solved by politics."
- Dean Koontz
(Related: Politics, Time, Life, Problems)
"The EU will face problems similar to the US: an increasing gap between the citizens and decision makers in Brussels and a perceived or even real lack of democracy."
- David Korten
(Related: Decision, Democracy, Problems, Will)
"But in 2000, the injuries really started to kick in and my elbow gave a lot of problems. At the end of the year I had to take 20 months off before I could come back into the game."
- Richard Krajicek
(Related: End, Months, Problems)
"My work caused me to interview hundreds of women about their lives and their problems."
- Judith Krantz
(Related: Women, Work, Problems)
"We are conscious that religions cannot solve the economic, political and social problems of this earth."
- Hans Kung
(Related: Earth, Problems)
"Teens are dealing with the same problems now in the '90s as they did back in the '70s, the only real difference is the clothes we wear!"
- Mila Kunis
(Related: Clothes, Difference, Now, Problems)
"Once the troops move into Cambodia, the colleges and universities of this country were on the verge of civil war. Many closed down. The students were up in arms. And it looked very much like there were going to be real problems in this country."
- William Kunstler
(Related: War, Country, Problems, Students, Troops)
"Obviously, a skirt does present certain problems that I had to be aware of. But when it came to the shoot and we were rolling, I didn't really pay it any attention. It wasn't too bad."
- Chiaki Kuriyama
(Related: Attention, Present, Problems)
"A successful person isn't necessarily better than her less successful peers at solving problems; her pattern-recognition facilities have just learned what problems are worth solving."
- Ray Kurzweil
(Related: Successful, Problems, Worth)
"So I think that is one of the reasons we can face some regional problems, which are very difficult, very dramatic and is necessary to have instruments to solve these problems. NATO is such instrument."
- Aleksander Kwasniewski
(Related: Problems)
"Real leadership means tackling tough problems ourselves and not leaving them to our children."
- Jon Kyl
(Related: Leadership, Children, Problems)
"People don't want to suffer. They want to sound good immediately, and this is one of the biggest problems in the world."
- Steve Lacy
(Related: People, Problems, Sound, Want, World)
"There is no reason to have problems between country and country, between government and government, when there is a separation of powers."
- Ricardo Lagos
(Related: Government, Country, Problems, Reason, Separation)
"For that story, I took as my subject a young woman whom I got to know over the course of a couple of visits. I never saw her having any health problems - but I knew she wanted to be married."
- Jhumpa Lahiri
(Related: Health, Problems, Woman)
"We had every problems starting a big top could have. The tent fell down on the first day. We had problems getting people into the shows. It was only with the courage and arrogance of youth that we survived."
- Guy Laliberte
(Related: People, Courage, Arrogance, Day, First, Problems, Youth)
"I know when I'm working I seldom get into trouble. My educated guess is that boredom has caused most of the problems with Hollywood celebrities."
- Hedy Lamarr
(Related: Boredom, Hollywood, Problems, Trouble)
"I would say practical progressive, which means that the Republican party or any political party has got to recognize the problems of a growing and complex industrial civilization. And I don't think the Republican party is really wide awake to that."
- Alf Landon
(Related: Civilization, Party, Problems, Republican)
"They cannot count on the press and they cannot count on Congressional committees to bring the problems of the scientific community to their own attention, or to police the scientific community."
- Serge Lang
(Related: Attention, Community, Police, Press, Problems)
"There are also scientific problems with the concept that each of the creation days was a long period of time."
- Walter Lang
(Related: Time, Creation, Problems)
"It seems we will continue to have problems with this classification and it may be because it comes under the heading of creation rather than preservation."
- Walter Lang
(Related: Creation, May, Problems, Will)
"I don't believe war is a way to solve problems. I think it's wrong. I don't have respect for the people that made the decisions to go on with war. I don't have that much respect for Bush. He's about war, I'm not about war - a lot of people aren't about war."
- Avril Lavigne
(Related: War, People, Decisions, Problems, Respect, Wrong)
"In the Radiation Laboratory we count it a privilege to do everything we can to assist our medical colleagues in the application of these new tools to the problems of human suffering."
- Ernest Lawrence
(Related: Medical, Privilege, Problems, Suffering, Tools)
"The problems in California have been that it's been very difficult to site and build new power plants."
- Kenneth Lay
(Related: Power, Plants, Problems)
"There are absolutely no problems that had anything to do with Jeff's departure."
- Kenneth Lay
(Related: Departure, Problems)
"The rights of copyright holders need to be protected, but some draconian remedies that have been suggested would create more problems than they would solve."
- Patrick Leahy
(Related: Rights, Problems, Remedies)
"If you want to solve very complex problems, you will have to end up letting machines work out a lot of the details for themselves, and in ways that we don't understand what they are doing."
- Joshua Lederberg
(Related: Work, End, Machines, Problems, Want, Will)
"Customers need to be given control of their own data-not being tied into a certain manufacturer so that when there are problems they are always obliged to go back to them."
- Tim Berners Lee
(Related: Control, Being, Problems)
"Think as you work, for in the final analysis, your worth to your company comes not only in solving problems, but also in anticipating them."
- Tom Lehrer
(Related: Work, Company, Problems, Worth)
"I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up."
- Tom Lehrer
(Related: Problems)
"Liberals like using government to solve problems in OUR country and conservatives are using our government to solve problems in OTHER countries."
- Matthew Lesko
(Related: Government, Countries, Country, Liberals, Problems)
"Sadly, the President's budget proposal for the upcoming year once again puts cutting taxes for the wealthiest Americans over addressing our country's severe fiscal problems."
- Carl Levin
(Related: Americans, Country, President, Problems, Taxes)
"For the past ten years I have had no financial problems."
- Gyorgy Ligeti
(Related: Financial, Past, Problems, Years)
"I reject the notion that America is in a well-deserved decline, that she and her citizens are unexceptional. I do not believe America is the problem in the world. I believe America is the solution to the world's problems."
- Rush Limbaugh
(Related: America, Problems, Solution, World)
"Freight mobility and movement, while not a sexy policy issue, is a highly important one. Capacity constraints and congestion on our nation's freight rail system create many problems."
- Bill Lipinski
(Related: Policy, Nation, Problems)
"Yet, despite our many advances, our environment is still threatened by a range of problems, including global climate change, energy dependence on unsustainable fossil fuels, and loss of biodiversity."
- Dan Lipinski
(Related: Change, Climate, Climate change, Dependence, Energy, Environment, Loss, Problems)
"There is nothing so good for the human soul as the discovery that there are ancient and flourishing civilized societies which have somehow managed to exist for many centuries and are still in being though they have had no help from the traveler in solving their problems."
- Walter Lippmann
(Related: Soul, Being, Discovery, Help, Nothing, Problems)
"It sets its face rightfully against the doctrines of the Anarchist and the Communist, who seek to solve the social problems not by patient endeavor, but by brutal destruction."
- Henry Cabot Lodge
(Related: Destruction, Problems)
"She has great problems of her own to solve, very grim and perilous problems, and a right solution, if we can attain to it, would largely benefit mankind."
- Henry Cabot Lodge
(Related: Mankind, Problems, Right, Solution)
"True Americanism recognizes the enormous gravity of the social and labor problems which confront us."
- Henry Cabot Lodge
(Related: Gravity, Labor, Problems)
"The Administration has made critical mistakes and errors in judgment leading up to the war in Iraq. The President refuses to acknowledge these mistakes, and thus, no corrective action has been taken to prevent these problems from happening again."
- Zoe Lofgren
(Related: War, Action, Errors, Iraq, Judgment, Leading, Mistakes, President, Problems)
"People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society."
- Vince Lombardi
(Related: Society, Work, People, Football, Problems, Will)
"I really try to say things as they basically are and it so happens that it is a good message that things are getting better, but there are still problems."
- Bjorn Lomborg
(Related: Problems)
"I think it's great that we have organisations like Greenpeace. In a pluralistic society, we want to have people who point out all the problems that the Earth could encounter. But we need to understand that they are not presenting a full and rounded view."
- Bjorn Lomborg
(Related: Society, People, Earth, Problems, Want)
"Of course, the world is full of problems. But on the other hand it's important to get the sense... are we generally moving in the right direction or the wrong direction?"
- Bjorn Lomborg
(Related: Direction, Problems, Right, Sense, World, Wrong)
"I like being small - I've known so many women with big boobs who feel overweight or end up with back problems."
- Eva Longoria
(Related: Women, Being, End, Problems)
"I grew up in a household without a lot of problems and they have been very supportive from day one."
- Mario Lopez
(Related: Day, Problems)
"I want to say this about my state. When Strom Thurmond ran for president, we voted for him. We're proud of it. And if the rest of the country had followed our lead, we wouldn't have had all these problems over all these years either."
- Trent Lott
(Related: Country, President, Problems, Rest, State, Want, Years)
"Be thankful for problems. If they were less difficult, someone with less ability might have your job."
- James A. Lovell
(Related: Ability, Job, Problems)
"Sound science must be our guide in choosing which problems to tackle and how to approach them."
- Frank Luntz
(Related: Science, Problems, Sound)
"Sometimes I think our problems are made worse by the kind of business we're in. Playing these road shows is a weird experience."
- Loretta Lynn
(Related: Business, Experience, Problems, Road)
"I don't go to church regular. But I pray for answers to my problems."
- Loretta Lynn
(Related: Church, Answers, Problems)
"The criminal is trying to solve his immediate problems."
- Naguib Mahfouz
(Related: Problems, Trying)
"We are passing through a very sensitive time, and on the whole, this country is facing very big problems."
- Naguib Mahfouz
(Related: Time, Country, Problems)
"It is thus necessary to examine all things according to their essence, to infer from every species such true and well established propositions as may assist us in the solution of metaphysical problems."
- Maimonides
(Related: May, Problems, Solution)
"We are built to conquer environment, solve problems, achieve goals, and we find no real satisfaction or happiness in life without obstacles to conquer and goals to achieve."
- Maxwell Maltz
(Related: Happiness, Life, Goals, Environment, Obstacles, Problems, Satisfaction)
"The more workers you have in your organization, the better you are implanted in the working class, the more likely you are to come up with the concrete problems of the class."
- Ernest Mandel
(Related: Class, Problems, Workers)
"I dream of the realization of the unity of Africa, whereby its leaders combine in their efforts to solve the problems of this continent. I dream of our vast deserts, of our forests, of all our great wildernesses."
- Nelson Mandela
(Related: Dream, Leaders, Problems, Unity)
"As part of our renewal - we need to fight problems, not just wait for them to take place."
- Nong Duc Manh
(Related: Fight, Problems)
"There are a whole lot of historical factors that have played a part in our being where we are today, and I think that to even to begin to understand our contemporary issues and contemporary problems, you have to understand a little bit about that history."
- Wilma Mankiller
(Related: History, Being, Problems, Today)
"War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace."
- Thomas Mann
(Related: Peace, War, Problems)
"I think life is full of challenges and problems. I don't believe that anyone is perfect. We all make mistakes. It's not a bed of roses, and you have to work real hard at it."
- Nigel Mansell
(Related: Life, Work, Bed, Mistakes, Problems, Roses)
"The problems with First Ladies is that you have to set the standard. My role is to be both star and slave."
- Imelda Marcos
(Related: First, Ladies, Problems)
"Jamaica has problems; America has problems; everywhere has problems."
- Ziggy Marley
(Related: America, Problems)
"When people come to Jamaica, we don't want them to think about the problems of Jamaica. So let them come be in their paradise."
- Ziggy Marley
(Related: People, Paradise, Problems, Want)
"I think that one of the problems that jazz has is that it's so incestuous that it's starting to kill itself."
- Branford Marsalis
(Related: Jazz, Problems)
"Welcome those big, sticky, complicated problems. In them are your most powerful opportunities."
- Ralph Marston
(Related: Problems)
"The people at home don't care what your problems are. They just know that you're doing that show and you're supposed to do the best you can do. It's not a 9-5 type of job. I've considered myself very lucky to do that kind of work."
- Wink Martindale
(Related: Home, Work, People, Care, Job, Problems)
"It is not advantageous for Russia in its present state to fight against Chechnya. The army is a mess. It must be made combat ready. That will take time. Russia has a lot of economic, social and political problems much more important than Chechnya."
- Aslan Maskhadov
(Related: Time, Army, Fight, Present, Problems, Russia, State, Will)
"I like real problems, the human condition - twisted, darker stuff."
- Drea De Matteo
(Related: Problems)
"All the mathematical sciences are founded on relations between physical laws and laws of numbers, so that the aim of exact science is to reduce the problems of nature to the determination of quantities by operations with numbers."
- James C. Maxwell
(Related: Nature, Science, Determination, Laws, Numbers, Problems)
"I'm a very lucky guy. I had so many people help me over the years that I never had many problems. If I had a problem, I could sit down with someone and they would explain the problem to me, and the problem become like a baseball game."
- Willie Mays
(Related: People, Baseball, Help, Problems, Years)
"Because we build the worlds we wouldn't mind living in. They contain scary things, problems, but also a sense of rightness that makes them alive and makes us want to live there."
- Anne McCaffrey
(Related: Living, Mind, Problems, Sense, Want)
"Warmaking doesn't stop warmaking. If it did, our problems would have stopped millennia ago."
- Colman McCarthy
(Related: Problems)
"Our farmers and ranchers have never faced as many problems as they do today with drought, range fires, high gas prices and an ever tightening budget on agriculture subsidies."
- Michael McCaul
(Related: Agriculture, Problems, Today)
"It might seem unfair to reward a person for having so much pleasure over the years, asking the maize plant to solve specific problems and then watching its responses."
- Barbara McClintock
(Related: Pleasure, Problems, Reward, Years)
"Do you have any problems, other than that you're unemployed, a moron, and a dork?"
- John McEnroe
(Related: Problems)
"Yes, but also one of the problems for a novelist in Ireland is the fact that there are no formal manners. I mean some people have beautiful manners but there's no kind of agreed form of manners."
- John McGahern
(Related: People, Fact, Ireland, Manners, Problems)
"The study also included the disturbing revelation that most of the troops who reported having mental health problems also reported that they did not seek or did not receive care for their problems."
- John M. McHugh
(Related: Health, Care, Mental health, Problems, Study, Troops)
"We have already seen evidence that, notwithstanding the addition of substantial resources, we are experiencing great stress in recruiting and not inconsequential retention problems."
- John M. McHugh
(Related: Problems, Stress)
"One of the problems with the Internet is that a lot of times it is inaccurate."
- Vince McMahon
(Related: Internet, Problems)
"The solution to adult problems tomorrow depends on large measure upon how our children grow up today."
- Margaret Mead
(Related: Children, Measure, Problems, Solution, Today, Tomorrow)
"Problems only exist in the human mind."
- Anthony de Mello
(Related: Mind, Problems)
"You couldn't pay me enough to be a law enforcement officer. Their job is a tough job. You have to solve people's problems, you have to baby-sit people, you have to always be doing this cat-and-mouse game with the bad guys. My respect for them is immense."
- Christopher Meloni
(Related: People, Baby, Job, Law, Problems, Respect)
"These are national problems that require national solutions."
- Thomas Menino
(Related: Problems)
"I have just explained my idea of how a constructive period of reflection, one that would send a clear message to the citizens of Europe: You should now what our priorities are. For Germany this means: Unemployment is one of one of our biggest problems."
- Angela Merkel
(Related: Idea, Germany, Now, Priorities, Problems, Reflection, Unemployment)
"A molecular manufacturing technology will let us build molecular surgical tools, and those tools will, for the first time, let us directly address the problems at the very root level."
- Ralph Merkle
(Related: Technology, Time, First, Manufacturing, Problems, Tools, Will)
"Strange about parents. We have such easy access to them and such daunting problems of communication."
- James Merrill
(Related: Communication, Parents, Problems)
"Enter every activity without giving mental recognition to the possibility of defeat. Concentrate on your strengths, instead of your weaknesses... on your powers, instead of your problems."
- Paul J. Meyer
(Related: Possibility, Defeat, Giving, Problems)
"There are no insoluble problems. Only time-consuming ones."
- James A. Michener
(Related: Time, Problems)
"I was a Navy officer writing about Navy problems and I simply stole this lovely Army nurse and popped her into a Navy uniform, where she has done very well for herself."
- James A. Michener
(Related: Army, Navy, Problems, Writing)
"We're also fairly stubborn, I think, fairly independent. We have our share of difficulties with our federal government, although I've tried to as I am here encourage a better way of discussing those problems."
- Dan Miller
(Related: Government, Difficulties, Problems)
"My view is that while you do occasionally have differences you ought to have a process where you can sit down and talk about things. How else do you solve problems?"
- Dan Miller
(Related: Problems, Talk)
"The man who is forever disturbed about the condition of humanity either has no problems of his own or has refused to face them."
- Henry Miller
(Related: Humanity, Problems)
"Problems are only opportunities with thorns on them."
- Hugh Miller
(Related: Problems)
"My research interests since then have shifted strongly towards the economic and regulatory problems of the financial services industry, and especially of the securities and options exchanges."
- Merton Miller
(Related: Financial, Options, Problems, Research)
"What a pity human beings can't exchange problems. Everyone knows exactly how to solve the other fellow's."
- Olin Miller
(Related: Pity, Problems)
"We have no quarrel with America. We all know NATO is the strongest military machine in the world. We simply want them to stop being so busy with our country and worry about their own problems."
- Slobodan Milosevic
(Related: America, Being, Country, Machine, Military, Problems, Quarrel, Want, World, Worry)
"Around 1967 Dan Bobrow wrote a program to do algebra problems based on symbols rather than numbers."
- Marvin Minsky
(Related: Numbers, Problems)
"The basic idea in case-based, or CBR, is that the program has stored problems and solutions. Then, when a new problem comes up, the program tries to find a similar problem in its database by finding analogous aspects between the problems."
- Marvin Minsky
(Related: Idea, Problems)
"There was a failure to recognize the deep problems in AI; for instance, those captured in Blocks World. The people building physical robots learned nothing."
- Marvin Minsky
(Related: People, Failure, Building, Deep, Nothing, Problems, World)
"We wanted to solve robot problems and needed some vision, action, reasoning, planning, and so forth. We even used some structural learning, such as was being explored by Patrick Winston."
- Marvin Minsky
(Related: Action, Vision, Being, Learning, Planning, Problems)
"We have problems with our physical security, operational security through to management."
- Kevin Mitnick
(Related: Management, Problems, Security)
"It was used for decades to describe talented computer enthusiasts, people whose skill at using computers to solve technical problems and puzzles was - and is - respected and admired by others possessing similar technical skills."
- Kevin Mitnick
(Related: Computers, People, Problems, Skill)
"Expect problems and eat them for breakfast."
- Alfred A. Montapert
(Related: Problems)
"You can also make explicit certain social problems which, again, would be prejudged or not encountered at all in real life, because people have set up defenses against it. Fantasy allows you to get past defenses."
- Elizabeth Moon
(Related: Life, People, Fantasy, Past, Problems)
"In life there are no problems, that is, objective and external choices; there is only the life which we do not resolve as a problem but which we live as an experience, whatever the final result may be."
- Alberto Moravia
(Related: Life, Experience, Choices, May, Problems, Result)
"Goals help you overcome short-term problems."
- Hannah More
(Related: Goals, Help, Problems)
"One of the greatest problems of our time is that many are schooled but few are educated."
- Thomas More
(Related: Time, Problems)
"Every single day of making a movie is going to bring new problems."
- Marguerite Moreau
(Related: Day, Problems)
"If a poem is not memorable, there's probably something wrong. One of the problems of free verse is that much of the free verse poetry is not memorable."
- Robert Morgan
(Related: Poetry, Problems, Wrong)
"I think it would be stupid for us to try and tell people who are dancing in a discotheque about the problems of the world. That is the very thing they have come away to avoid."
- Giorgio Moroder
(Related: People, Dancing, Problems, World)
"Nelson Mandela is, for me, the single statesman in the world. The single statesman, in that literal sense, who is not solving all his problems with guns. It's truly unbelievable."
- Toni Morrison
(Related: Problems, Sense, World)
"I would solve a lot of literary problems just thinking about a character in the subway, where you can't do anything anyway."
- Toni Morrison
(Related: Character, Literary, Problems, Thinking)
"Each show comes with its own set of problems to work through."
- Vic Morrow
(Related: Work, Problems)
"I never struggled with injury problems because of my preparation - in particular my stretching."
- Edwin Moses
(Related: Injury, Preparation, Problems)
"You will only be remembered for two things: the problems you solve or the ones you create."
- Mike Murdock
(Related: Problems, Will)
"As a person who has spent my career as a child psychologist and have dealt with many children who have struggled with many problems in families, I have seen families ripped apart by so many things that sometimes law has tried to deal with."
- Timothy Murphy
(Related: Career, Children, Law, Problems)
"If one of us, any of us, any American is traveling in a town somewhere in America and a medical crisis hits them, for someone who is diabetic or perhaps has heart disease or some other problems, where do we get the records to determine what to do?"
- Timothy Murphy
(Related: Medical, Heart, America, American, Crisis, Disease, Problems, Traveling)
"I think that practising the law, particularly litigation, and particularly in Glasgow, has always been difficult enough without adding to it by having problems with professional colleagues or former colleagues."
- Len G. Murray
(Related: Law, Problems)
"Funding privatized accounts with Social Security dollars would not only make the program's long term problems worse, but many believe it represents a first step toward undermining the program's fundamental goals."
- Patty Murray
(Related: Goals, First, Problems, Security)
"If we ever start communicating with living creatures from other planets, the number one priority is, how are you going to communicate information? Even between different cultures here on Earth, you get into communication problems."
- Story Musgrave
(Related: Communication, Earth, Information, Living, Problems)
"This country has far more problems than it deserves and far more solutions than it applies."
- Ralph Nader
(Related: Country, Problems)
"If we follow the traditional way of thought, there will always be traditional enemies. Extremist circles from both sides will find causes to give rise to problems."
- Fatos Nano
(Related: Thought, Causes, Enemies, Problems, Will)
"We must level with the people and explain to them that Social Security will first face funding problems in 2042 that can be fixed now with changes that do not undermine and ultimately drain from the entire program."
- Grace Napolitano
(Related: People, First, Now, Problems, Security, Will)
"When we were engaged in the problems of survival we had no time to have anything to do with culture."
- Nursultan Nazarbayev
(Related: Time, Survival, Culture, Problems)
"If people can't deal with their problems, they numb themselves a little bit."
- Kevin Nealon
(Related: People, Problems)
"Socialism is... not only a way of life, but a certain scientific approach to social and economic problems."
- Jawaharlal Nehru
(Related: Life, Problems, Socialism)
"One of the problems the internet has introduced is that in this electronic village, all the village idiots have internet access."
- Peter Nelson
(Related: Idiots, Internet, Problems)
"It is a Modern day, and these times need Modern solutions to Modern problems."
- Corin Nemec
(Related: Day, Problems)
"My effectiveness is best placed in solving problems through federal solutions."
- George Nethercutt
(Related: Problems)
"Aerial flight is one of that class of problems with which men will never have to cope."
- Simon Newcomb
(Related: Men, Class, Problems, Will)
"Before we move forward with new efforts to lower the barriers to international free trade, we must review the consequences of the policies of the past and address the problems of the present."
- Bob Ney
(Related: Consequences, Past, Present, Problems, Trade)
"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."
- Charles Jules Henry Nicole
(Related: Nothing, Open, Problems, Study)
"Democracy is finding proximate solutions to insoluble problems."
- Reinhold Niebuhr
(Related: Democracy, Problems)
"Keep the problems of clients and prospects confidential. Divulge information only with their consent."
- Arthur C. Nielsen
(Related: Clients, Information, Problems)
"That's one of the problems with making music your business, it becomes a business. You're no longer just this kid who is a fan and going to see every show. I've been in a bar every night for the last 15 years. Going to see bands for me is work."
- Mojo Nixon
(Related: Music, Work, Business, Night, Problems, Years)
"The presidency has many problems, but boredom is the least of them."
- Richard M. Nixon
(Related: Boredom, Presidency, Problems)
"When one sings, one does not speak about the problems of the every day. One speaks about the things which inspire us, which helped us."
- Yannick Noah
(Related: Day, Problems)
"I think labels have been used alot during this election process to divide people, and at this point in time we really need people to come together, and be their own person, come with their own suggestions, and really solve the problems that we have facing this country."
- Kristi Noem
(Related: Time, People, Country, Problems)
"People in this room must have back problems, I'm sure some of us do, and it is really, really one of the worst pains and debilitating parts of your body that you can actually have because you really can't do anything in your life when you have it."
- Greg Norman
(Related: Life, People, Body, Problems)
"Problems arise in that one has to find a balance between what people need from you and what you need for yourself."
- Jessye Norman
(Related: People, Balance, Problems)
"I think one of the political problems we have in this country is the perspective that all soccer moms think alike, all African-Americans think alike."
- Anne Northup
(Related: African, Country, Perspective, Problems, Soccer)
"When we see the shadow on our images, are we seeing the time 11 minutes ago on Mars? Or are we seeing the time on Mars as observed from Earth now? It's like time travel problems in science fiction. When is now; when was then?"
- Bill Nye
(Related: Science, Time, Travel, Earth, Fiction, Now, Problems, Shadow)
"I'm not saying that there weren't other inherent problems with the score that couldn't have been overcome with a bit of remixing, but why did they ask me to do it, and why did Griffin ask me to do it this way, for a film that had nothing to do with American vernacular?"
- Michael Nyman
(Related: American, Film, Nothing, Problems, Saying)
"My task over the last two years hasn't just been to stop the bleeding. My task has also been to try to figure out how do we address some of the structural problems in the economy that have prevented more Googles from being created."
- Barack Obama
(Related: Being, Economy, Problems, Years)
"I think it's one of the Times' problems that they haven't made it clear to readers what various formats mean."
- Daniel Okrent
(Related: Problems)
"There are nuclear weapons in China, Iran, Korea and Pakistan. It wouldn't take much to send a couple of warheads off on this planet somewhere that would cause a lot of environmental damage, then if you have got someone who wants to retaliate you have real problems."
- Edward James Olmos
(Related: Environmental, Cause, Problems, Weapons)
"There are children playing in the streets who could solve some of my top problems in physics, because they have modes of sensory perception that I lost long ago."
- J. Robert Oppenheimer
(Related: Perception, Children, Physics, Problems)
"More than ever before, Americans are suffering from back problems: back taxes, back rent, back auto payments."
- Robert Orben
(Related: Americans, Suffering, Taxes)
"The biggest problems with movies are expectations."
- Frank Oz
(Related: Movies, Expectations, Problems)
"People don't want their lives fixed. Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. Their distractions. Their stories resolved. Their messed cleaned up. Because what would they have left? Just the big scary unknown."
- Chuck Palahniuk
(Related: People, Problems, Want)
"I know that we shall meet problems along the way, but I'd far rather see for myself what's going on in the world outside, than rely on newspapers, television, politicians and religious leaders to tell me what I should be thinking."
- Michael Palin
(Related: Leaders, Newspapers, Politicians, Problems, Religious, Television, Thinking, World)
"Common sense tells us that the government's attempts to solve large problems more often create new ones. Common sense also tells us that a top-down, one-size-fits-all plan will not improve the workings of a nationwide health-care system that accounts for one-sixth of our economy."
- Sarah Palin
(Related: Government, Health, Common sense, Economy, Problems, Will)
"The lesson of the last year is this: foreign policy can't be managed through the politics of personality, and our President would do well to take note of an observation John F. Kennedy made once he was in office - that all of the world's problems aren't his predecessor's fault."
- Sarah Palin
(Related: Politics, Policy, Fault, Foreign policy, Observation, Office, Personality, President, Problems, World)
"Science has not solved problems, only shifted the points of problems."
- Charles Henry Parkhurst
(Related: Science, Problems)
"The importance of certain problems concerning the facts will be inherent in the structure of the system."
- Talcott Parsons
(Related: Facts, Importance, Problems, Will)
"Empirical interest will be in the facts so far as they are relevant to the solution of these problems."
- Talcott Parsons
(Related: Facts, Interest, Problems, Solution, Will)
"It is almost always wrong that the time isn't ripe to decide something. That is always said of difficult problems."
- Chris Patten
(Related: Time, Problems, Wrong)
"I do as much debugging as possible on the Mac, but I occasionally must debug problems in the PC world, which is significantly slower."
- Robert Patterson
(Related: Problems, World)
"I never doubted that equal rights was the right direction. Most reforms, most problems are complicated. But to me there is nothing complicated about ordinary equality."
- Alice Paul
(Related: Equality, Direction, Rights, Nothing, Problems)
"You are priests, not social or political leaders. Let us not be under the illusion that we are serving the Gospel through an exaggerated interest in the wide field of temporal problems."
- Pope John Paul II
(Related: Illusion, Interest, Leaders, Political leaders, Problems)
"Wars generally do not resolve the problems for which they are fought and therefore... prove ultimately futile."
- Pope John Paul II
(Related: Problems)
"Violence and arms can never resolve the problems of men."
- Pope John Paul II
(Related: Men, Problems, Violence)
"All the problems we face in the United States today can be traced to an unenlightened immigration policy on the part of the American Indian."
- Pat Paulsen
(Related: Policy, American, Problems, states, Today, United)
"I believe in supporting African solutions to African problems."
- Donald M. Payne
(Related: African, Problems)
"Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don't have any problems, you don't get any seeds."
- Norman Vincent Peale
(Related: Problems, Solution)
"We must keep on trying to solve problems, one by one, stage by stage, if not on the basis of confidence and cooperation, at least on that of mutual toleration and self-interest."
- Lester B. Pearson
(Related: Confidence, Cooperation, Problems, Self, Trying)
"We cannot solve life's problems except by solving them."
- M. Scott Peck
(Related: Life, Problems)
"Problems do not go away. They must be worked through or else they remain, forever a barrier to the growth and development of the spirit."
- M. Scott Peck
(Related: Development, Growth, Problems, Spirit)
"It is only because of problems that we grow mentally and spiritually."
- M. Scott Peck
(Related: Problems)
"We suddenly saw how people reacted in the event of massive social upheaval, and the way that the little problems in your life don't go away. You don't stop being frightened of spiders just because the world's blown up."
- Simon Pegg
(Related: Life, People, Being, Problems, Spiders, World)
"Letterman... he got his problems. We don't get along too well."
- Harvey Pekar
(Related: Problems)
"I do not believe in excuses. I believe in hard work as the prime solvent of life's problems."
- James Cash Penney
(Related: Work, Life, Excuses, Hard work, Problems)
"My own way of thinking is to ponder long and I hope deeply on problems and for a long time which I keep away for years and years and I never really let them go."
- Roger Penrose
(Related: Time, Hope, Problems, Thinking, Years)
"I'm pretty tenacious when it comes to problems."
- Roger Penrose
(Related: Pretty, Problems)
"You have problems, you think drink helps, then you have two problems."
- George Peppard
(Related: Problems)
"Foreman told Ray to plead guilty and he'd then give his brother $500, if Ray didn't cause any problems at the guilty plea hearing, and he could take that $500 and hire a lawyer to set aside the plea. Foreman actually put that in writing."
- William Pepper
(Related: Brother, Cause, Hearing, Problems, Writing)
"Later on, there were some problems with our navy, so he made me the head of the navy - all things that I hardly knew anything about. I was basically an ignorant young man."
- Shimon Peres
(Related: Man, Navy, Problems)
"Most of man's problems upon this planet, in the long history of the race, have been met and solved either partially or as a whole by experiment based on common sense and carried out with courage."
- Frances Perkins
(Related: History, Courage, Common sense, Man, Problems, Race)
"When you play a concerto with a small orchestra, you don't feel it is as important as Carnegie Hall. You try to work out all the little problems. Once that's all done, trust comes in."
- Itzhak Perlman
(Related: Trust, Work, Play, Problems)
"I think that witnessing ecological problems visible from space is one of the new and essential roles of astronauts."
- Philippe Perrin
(Related: Problems, Space)
"Some problems are so complex that you have to be highly intelligent and well informed just to be undecided about them."
- Laurence J. Peter
(Related: Problems)
"The great paradox of the 21st century is that, in this age of powerful technology, the biggest problems we face internationally are problems of the human soul."
- Ralph Peters
(Related: Age, Technology, Soul, Paradox, Problems)
"I have a horror of people who speak about the beautiful. What is the beautiful? One must speak of problems in painting!"
- Pablo Picasso
(Related: People, Horror, Problems)
"Everything I did, all my actions, all of the problems I had I dedicate to God and to Chile, because I kept Chile from becoming Communist."
- Augusto Pinochet
(Related: God, Actions, Problems)
"People have an awful lot of problems that society has put on them and a lot to work through because of it."
- Dana Plato
(Related: Society, Work, People, Problems)
"If one looks at the different problems of the integral calculus which arise naturally when one wishes to go deep into the different parts of physics, it is impossible not to be struck by the analogies existing."
- Henri Poincare
(Related: Deep, Physics, Problems, Wishes)
"The first thing to make clear is that scientists, freely making their own choice of problems and pursuing them in the light of their own personal judgment, are in fact co-operating as members of a closely knit organization."
- Michael Polanyi
(Related: Choice, Fact, First, Judgment, Light, Problems, Scientists)
"There is no point trying to figure out who is guilty or not at un-balancing the planet. I think we need to figure out and solve the problems together and not isolate from each other."
- Sarah Polley
(Related: Problems, Trying)
"One of the problems that we have as American journalists is that we bring the American cultural baggage with us and we plop it down and it follows us around and that's just a fact of life."
- John Pomfret
(Related: Life, American, Fact, Problems)
"I think that's the main threat in Bosnia and Rwanda and Zaire. There doesn't seem to be much willingness to engage these problems unless they directly affect national security interests."
- John Pomfret
(Related: National security, Problems)
"On my return to Pittsburgh, I resolved to go back to the fundamental problems of electronic structure that I had contemplated abstractly many years earlier."
- John Pople
(Related: Problems, Years)
"If your goal is anything but profitability - if it's to be big, or to grow fast, or to become a technology leader - you'll hit problems."
- Michael Porter
(Related: Technology, Leader, Goal, Problems)
"What I have in advance are people I want to write about and a problem or problems that I see those people encountering and that I want to explore - it all proceeds sentence by sentence, paragraph by paragraph, and scene by scene."
- Chaim Potok
(Related: People, Problems, Want)
"Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership."
- Colin Powell
(Related: Leadership, Failure, Care, Confidence, Day, Help, Leading, Problems, Soldiers)
"Writing gives me the opportunity to explore ideas, play with language, solve problems, use my imagination, and draw on my own childhood."
- Jack Prelutsky
(Related: Imagination, Opportunity, Ideas, Childhood, Language, Play, Problems, Writing)
"My attitude toward graduate students was different, I must say. I used graduate students as colleagues: I gave them the best problems to work on, and I encouraged them."
- Frank Press
(Related: Work, Attitude, Problems, Students)
"Moreover, resolving the mother of all problems - the Israeli-Palestinian question - requires cooperation between Europe and the U.S."
- Romano Prodi
(Related: Mother, Cooperation, Europe, Problems, Question)
"One of my biggest problems this season was with the clutch at the start of the race. I hate to risk the car."
- Alain Prost
(Related: Car, Hate, Problems, Race, Risk)
"I have had some problems because the French don't like people to have success, they don't like the number one."
- Alain Prost
(Related: Success, People, Problems)
"One of the problems of our youth is that the family unit is broken up. When we'd sit down to dinner together as a family, we'd learn about each other. We had something people don't get today."
- Paul Prudhomme
(Related: Family, People, Problems, Today, Youth)
"All of my problems are rather complicated - I need an entire novel to deal with them, not a short story or a movie. It's like a personal therapy."
- Manuel Puig
(Related: Problems, Therapy)
"If the novelist shares his or her problems with the characters, he or she is able to study his personal unconscious."
- Manuel Puig
(Related: Problems, Study, Unconscious)
"Len and I had parted musical ways and this was one of the problems."
- Suzi Quatro
(Related: Problems)
"The relationship of the two problems is rather the reverse. To a great extent disarmament is dependent on guarantees of peace. Security comes first and disarmament second."
- Ludwig Quidde
(Related: Peace, First, Problems, Security)
"We have no problems with Jews and highly respect Judaism as a holy religion."
- Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
(Related: Religion, Judaism, Problems, Respect)
"If we have any problems, it's always with the government of the United States."
- Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
(Related: Government, Problems, states, United)
"I have never had problems sleeping the night before a race."
- Bobby Rahal
(Related: Night, Problems, Race)
"Freud has shown one thing very clearly: that we only forget our infancy by burying it in the unconscious; and that the problems of this difficult period find their solution under a disguised form in adult life."
- Herbert Read
(Related: Life, Forget, Problems, Solution, Unconscious)
"Women candidates have two unique problems. They have trouble raising money and being taken seriously by the media."
- Maureen Reagan
(Related: Money, Women, Being, Media, Problems, Trouble)
"Within the covers of the Bible are the answers for all the problems men face."
- Ronald Reagan
(Related: Men, Bible, Answers, Problems)
"Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them."
- Ronald Reagan
(Related: Government, Problems)
"Governments tend not to solve problems, only to rearrange them."
- Ronald Reagan
(Related: Problems)
"I don't think any one person is the cause of all of someone else's problems."
- Helen Reddy
(Related: Cause, Problems)
"Yoga is wonderful. It clears up most health problems. It also gives you an overview."
- Helen Reddy
(Related: Health, Problems, Yoga)
"The usual comment from psychologists and psychiatrists was that it's best not to encourage people to look at their dreams because they are liable to stir up problems for themselves."
- Henry Reed
(Related: Dreams, People, Problems)
"I believe in love at first sight. You want that connection, and then you want some problems."
- Keanu Reeves
(Related: Love, Connection, First, Problems, Sight, Want)
"I think it would take a real stretch to think that I caused the problems with the economy."
- Harry Reid
(Related: Economy, Problems)
"First of all we have to recognize that despite all the problems - and in some cases failures - that this regime has been much more successful, much more resilient, than people had anticipated."
- Mitchell Reiss
(Related: People, Successful, First, Problems)
"As far as I can see there are no problems with people in our band as far as the relationships go anyway."
- Adam Rich
(Related: People, Problems, Relationships)
"After 9/11, we realized that all these silly culture wars, and arguing about rock lyrics... who cares? You know, we, for some reason, remembered what our real problems are."
- Frank Rich
(Related: Culture, Problems, Reason, Silly)
"I've never had a problem with drugs. I've had problems with the police."
- Keith Richards
(Related: Drugs, Police, Problems)
"I don't understand that, because I think that what people like most about the show is that they recognize themselves in the characters and their problems, so the more believable the family is, the more we can draw the audience in."
- Patricia Richardson
(Related: Family, People, Problems)
"Problems are the price you pay for progress."
- Branch Rickey
(Related: Progress, Problems)
"Each Warrior wants to leave the mark of his will, his signature, on important acts he touches. This is not the voice of ego but of the human spirit, rising up and declaring that it has something to contribute to the solution of the hardest problems, no matter how vexing!"
- Pat Riley
(Related: Ego, Problems, Solution, Spirit, Voice, Will)
"If you have a positive attitude and constantly strive to give your best effort, eventually you will overcome your immediate problems and find you are ready for greater challenges."
- Pat Riley
(Related: Attitude, Positive, Effort, Problems, Will)
"One of my problems, so to speak, is that, in America, we tend to thing in relatively short-term. In the Middle East and Asia and other parts of the world, they think in terms of centuries or 500 years or 1,000 years."
- Jay Rockefeller
(Related: America, Problems, World, Years)
"I often wonder if we could not solve the world's problems on a similar basis of harmony."
- Artur Rodzinski
(Related: Harmony, Problems, Wonder, World)
"And our size: The company this year is going to be close to $50 billion, so if that's the case and you can continue to grow that fast, I would rather put my energies to solving customer problems and growing our business than worrying about integrating and laying people off."
- Kevin Rollins
(Related: Business, People, Company, Customer, Problems)
"My father worked hard, but we were still very poor; and I didn't want anybody arguing about money, so I became the entertainer - the one who wanted everyone to be happy. I didn't want there to be any problems."
- Diana Ross
(Related: Money, Father, Poor, Problems, Want)
"Being overweight and obesity are major risk factors for many chronic diseases for South Dakotans of all ages. When people are overweight or obese, they have more health problems and more serious health problems, in addition to higher health care costs."
- Mike Rounds
(Related: Health, People, Being, Care, Obesity, Problems, Risk)
"I think the most beautiful thing is that we're not parting because there were problems. We're parting because we're celebrating each others' growth."
- Kelly Rowland
(Related: Growth, Parting, Problems)
"Considering what Americans have been confronted with in the last ten years, domestically and internationally, it's clear that we need emotional outlets; we have to have some peace from our problems."
- Pete Rozelle
(Related: Peace, Americans, Problems, Years)
"People are interested in pro football because it provides them with an emotional oasis; they don't want football to get involved in the same types of court cases, racial problems and legislative issues they encounter in the rest of American life."
- Pete Rozelle
(Related: Life, People, American, Court, Football, Problems, Rest, Want)
"The problems of puzzles are very near the problems of life."
- Erno Rubik
(Related: Life, Problems)
"The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem."
- Theodore Isaac Rubin
(Related: Problems, Thinking)
"Even today with the problems that we face, who would you rather be? Which country would you trade places with?"
- Marco Rubio
(Related: Country, Problems, Today, Trade)
"As you see the political problems are closely connected with the economical problems. With the help of politics, we will open the way for the economy and this is why all these problems are included in the program of the newly elected government."
- Ibrahim Rugova
(Related: Government, Politics, Economy, Help, Open, Problems, Will)
"Don't blame the boss. He has enough problems."
- Donald Rumsfeld
(Related: Boss, Blame, Problems)
"When you take a look at the problems our country is facing, debt is No. 1. The math is downright scary and the credit markets aren't going to keep on giving us cheap rates."
- Paul Ryan
(Related: Country, Credit, Debt, Giving, Problems)
"Unfortunately, the real focus in this country has not been on the rest of the world. It's been on our own issues and our own problems. Fair enough. But it means that our simple hopes that everything will just work out abroad aren't really coming to pass."
- Jeffrey Sachs
(Related: Work, Country, Focus, Problems, Rest, Will, World)
"Among the many problems which beset the novelist, not the least weighty is the choice of the moment at which to begin his novel."
- Vita Sackville-West
(Related: Choice, Problems)
"What I have now are good problems of trying to decide and what I really want to do is good work next. My phone's ringing a lot more and I've got nine lines so when it doesn't ring, it's very frustrating."
- Bob Saget
(Related: Work, Now, Problems, Trying, Want)
"The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them."
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
(Related: Nature, Machine, Man, Problems)
"In and after 1964 when I began to concern myself with the biological issues, and particularly from 1967 onwards, the extent of the problems over which I felt uneasy increased to such a point that in 1968 I felt a compelling urge to make my views public."
- Andrei Sakharov
(Related: Concern, Problems, Public)
"My present work concerns the problems connected with the theory of elementary particles, the theory of gravitation and cosmology and I shall be glad if I can manage to make some contribution to these important branches of science."
- Andrei Sakharov
(Related: Science, Work, Present, Problems, Theory)
"While it is important to maintain a balanced approach to solving our nation's energy problems, we must commit ourselves to recognize some areas as 'off limits,' and the Artic National Wildlife Reserve is a national symbol of that commitment."
- Ken Salazar
(Related: Commitment, Energy, Limits, Nation, Problems, Symbol, Wildlife)
"One of the problems with a candidate like Bob Kennedy, and his brother before him, was that people assumed they didn't need contributions."
- Pierre Salinger
(Related: Brother, People, Problems)
"The other aspect is that you become much more aware of the structural problems that pertain to that continent. You feel the need to act to try and solve them."
- Walter Salles
(Related: Act, Problems)
"From a very young age, militarism and trying to solve the world's problems through militarism is something that has always resonated with me as being a bad idea."
- Justin Sane
(Related: Age, Idea, Being, Problems, Trying, World)
"What we should be teaching are the problems and holes and I think there are legitimate problems and holes in the theory of evolution. And what we need to do is to present those fairly from a scientific point of view. And we should lay out areas in which the evidence supports evolution and the areas in the evidence that does not."
- Rick Santorum
(Related: Evolution, Present, Problems, Teaching, Theory)
"There is no magic wand that can resolve our problems. The solution rests with our work and discipline."
- Jose Eduardo Dos Santos
(Related: Work, Discipline, Magic, Problems, Solution)
"It is quite an illusion to imagine that one adjusts to reality essentially without the use of language and that language is merely an incidental means of solving specific problems of communication or reflection."
- Edward Sapir
(Related: Communication, Illusion, Language, Problems, Reality, Reflection)
"To know that once you decide to look at life outside of the narrow limits of just your world and start to understand that you can make a difference in very simple ways - in volunteering and all the way up to bigger world problems."
- Susan Sarandon
(Related: Life, Difference, Limits, Problems, World)
"The human brain must continue to frame the problems for the electronic machine to solve."
- David Sarnoff
(Related: Machine, Problems)
"Problems are not the problem; coping is the problem."
- Virginia Satir
(Related: Problems)
"Although as a sailor I despised politics - for I loved my sailor's life and still love it today - conditions forced me to take up a definite attitude towards political problems."
- Fritz Sauckel
(Related: Life, Love, Politics, Attitude, Problems, Today)
"A lot of the problems teenagers go through, it's better for them to go through them on their own. If you always have a crutch, you don't learn anything."
- Ben Savage
(Related: Problems, Teenagers)
"I suspect that some apparently homosexual people are really heterosexuals who deeply phobic about the opposite sex or have other emotional problems."
- Marilyn vos Savant
(Related: Sex, People, Problems)
"In a movie you have all these logistical problems; all these practical problems. But you're also going to have people come who can do things that you can't do, and you get to direct their talents."
- John Sayles
(Related: People, Problems)
"There is no question that Iraq is one of the main problems. You'd have to be blind not to see what a magnet and generating force it's become for terrorist groups."
- Otto Schily
(Related: Blind, Force, Iraq, Problems, Question)
"If you think technology can solve your security problems, then you don't understand the problems and you don't understand the technology."
- Bruce Schneier
(Related: Technology, Problems, Security)
"I was never really comfortable doing comedy. Though it was good the first couple of years, there were problems, and it became a stifling experience. I was happy it ended."
- Rick Schroder
(Related: Experience, Comedy, First, Problems, Years)
"Goals must never be from your ego, but problems that cry for a solution."
- Robert H. Schuller
(Related: Goals, Ego, Problems, Solution)
"Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines."
- Robert H. Schuller
(Related: Problems)
"I never had many problems to do my music and to give it to a record company. Rarely do they try to argue with me about my music, probably because it's still too far-out."
- Klaus Schulze
(Related: Music, Company, Problems)
"Bush is a very poor impromptu speaker. He does fine in small groups but when speaking without a script in front of large groups or answering questions he wasn't prepped for, he has problems."
- Peter Schuyler
(Related: Poor, Problems, Questions)
"Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will - his personal responsibility in the realm of faith and morals."
- Albert Schweitzer
(Related: Faith, Environment, Exercise, Man, Morals, Problems, Responsibility, Will)
"One of the problems with even suggesting that purpose of a Federal law is for law enforcement officers to assist in protecting the public outside their jurisdictions is that it may give them encouragement or even a sense of obligation to do so."
- Bobby Scott
(Related: Purpose, Encouragement, Law, May, Obligation, Problems, Public, Sense)
"It is a sore point, because you do have advantages if you have access to more than one language. You also have problems, because on bad days you don't trust yourself, either in your first or your second language, and so you feel like a complete halfwit."
- W. G. Sebald
(Related: Trust, First, Language, Problems)
"I've learned by hanging out in Hollywood, where I disagree politically with most people, that most people's hearts are in the right place, and the only thing we have to argue about is the way to solve the problems."
- Tom Selleck
(Related: People, Hollywood, Problems, Right)
"Despite reforms in steroid control, serious problems still occur in and out of baseball."
- Jim Sensenbrenner
(Related: Control, Baseball, Problems)
"Football, basketball, and the Olympic sports all have their problems with banned substances."
- Jim Sensenbrenner
(Related: Sports, Basketball, Football, Problems)
"I think different people have different problems and different relations to the exhibition of their work."
- Richard Serra
(Related: Work, People, Problems)
"I am drawn to Christ but I have real problems with the Catholic Church."
- Andres Serrano
(Related: Church, Christ, Problems)
"The chief cause of problems is solutions."
- Eric Sevareid
(Related: Cause, Problems)
"The only time I have problems is when I sleep."
- Tupac Shakur
(Related: Time, Problems, Sleep)
"I think President Bush tried to step up on Social Security even though the polls showed that was unpopular. He has not been successful and backed off, but I admire people who take on big problems."
- Donna Shalala
(Related: People, Successful, President, Problems, Security)
"Because I am afraid of commitment. This movie certainly has some bearing and is some reflection of my real feeling about relationships, because I do have commitment issues. My friends tell me I have intimacy problems, but they don't know me, so who cares what they think?"
- Garry Shandling
(Related: Commitment, Feeling, Friends, Intimacy, Problems, Reflection, Relationships)
"She's true to herself and she's determined. She has things going against her, but she forges ahead despite all of that. I think that's encouraging. She's got some problems, but she has hope and tries to plow through things. I think that's a good role model."
- Molly Shannon
(Related: Encouraging, Hope, Problems)
"To devise an information processing system capable of getting along on its own - it must handle its own problems of programming, bookkeeping, communication and coordination with its users. It must appear to its users as a single, integrated personality."
- Cliff Shaw
(Related: Communication, Information, Personality, Problems, Programming)
"It must be able to assist in devising the method of solution of problems and not merely solve them."
- Cliff Shaw
(Related: Problems, Solution)
"A lot of us don't want to be quite that serious about world problems. Our life is there to enjoy, not to be an eternal dissident, eternally unhappy with how things are and with the state of mankind."
- Robert Sheckley
(Related: Life, Mankind, Problems, State, Want, World)
"For solving a surprisingly large and varied number of problems, crowds are smarter than individuals."
- Michael Shermer
(Related: Crowds, Problems)
"The external world is committed to helping Georgia settle its problems."
- Eduard Shevardnadze
(Related: Problems, World)
"But the Americans have no extra money. They have their own problems. They can provide financial assistance for two, three, four, or six months at most."
- Eduard Shevardnadze
(Related: Money, Financial, Americans, Months, Problems)
"The serious problems facing the world today will never be solved until women are able to use their full potential on behalf of themselves, their families, and their global and local communities, as the World Bank and others have discovered."
- Jenny Shipley
(Related: Women, Potential, Problems, Today, Will, World)
"Surely, serious problems can't be solved just by talking about them."
- Nigel Short
(Related: Problems, Talking)
"In the Peace Corps, the volunteer must be a fully developed, mature person. He must not join to run abroad or escape problems."
- Sargent Shriver
(Related: Peace, Problems)
"The problems seem so easy out there on the stump. Deficits shrink with a rhetorical flourish."
- Hugh Sidey
(Related: Problems)
"One of the problems I have with a lot of movies these days is that everything is too well lit. In the world of digital creations there is a tendency to show too much."
- Bill Sienkiewicz
(Related: Movies, Problems, World)
"Brazil has rediscovered itself, and this rediscovery is being expressed in its people's enthusiasm and their desire to mobilize to face the huge problems that lie ahead of us."
- Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva
(Related: Lie, People, Enthusiasm, Being, Brazil, Desire, Problems)
"The deepest problems of modern life derive from the claim of the individual to preserve the autonomy and individuality of his existence in the face of overwhelming social forces, of historical heritage, of external culture, and of the technique of life."
- Georg Simmel
(Related: Life, Culture, Existence, Individuality, Problems)
"I love living. I have some problems with my life, but living is the best thing they've come up with so far."
- Neil Simon
(Related: Love, Life, Living, Problems)
"A fresh pair of eyes can often find problems."
- Mike Simpson
(Related: Eyes, Problems)
"My top most priority is to deal with India's massive social and economic problems, so that chronic poverty, ignorance and disease can be conquered in a reasonably short period of time."
- Manmohan Singh
(Related: Time, Disease, Ignorance, Poverty, Problems)
"The animation of the canvas is one of the hardest problems of painting."
- Alfred Sisley
(Related: Animation, Painting, Problems)
"It is a law of life that problems arise when conditions are there for their solution."
- Walter Sisulu
(Related: Life, Law, Problems, Solution)
"In the fall of the year 2000, there just happened to be a decision point when they asked me to become Chief Executive Officer of the company. It was a time when, as you remember, we were starting to have some real problems in the California energy markets."
- Jeffrey Skilling
(Related: Time, Decision, Company, Energy, Problems)
"To my mind, the best SF addresses itself to problems of the here and now, or even to problems which have never been solved and never will be solved - I'm thinking of Philip K. Dick's work here, dealing with questions of reality, for example."
- John Sladek
(Related: Work, Example, Mind, Now, Problems, Questions, Reality, Thinking, Will)
"If you make every game a life and death proposition, you're going to have problems. For one thing, you'll be dead a lot."
- Dean Smith
(Related: Death, Life, Problems)
"What a player does best, he should practice least. Practice is for problems."
- Duke Snider
(Related: Practice, Problems)
"And I think the American people look to the leaders to lead. They look to the leaders to take on the big problems. And the president deserves a lot of credit for doing that."
- John W. Snow
(Related: People, American, Credit, Leaders, President, Problems)
"The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication."
- Susan Sontag
(Related: Problems, World)
"If the terrorists have the sympathy of people, it's much harder to find them. So we need people on our side, and that leads us to be responsible leaders of the world, show some concern with the problems."
- George Soros
(Related: Sympathy, People, Concern, Leaders, Problems, World)
"We must break problems down into small, digestible bits. We must define the concepts that we use and explain what components they consist of. We must tackle small problems."
- Abdolkarim Soroush
(Related: Problems)
"Most of my books have caused distribution and printing problems in the past."
- Peter Sotos
(Related: Books, Past, Printing, Problems)
"I don't sell enough books to pay for the lawyers, however. And these various problems finally became too much."
- Peter Sotos
(Related: Books, Lawyers, Problems)
"Problems can become opportunities when the right people come together."
- Robert South
(Related: People, Problems, Right)
"I must tell you, I haven't done the drug problem that is faced by cops and people on the border. It's a hard show to do, but I think it's going to say a lot about drugs and the problems related to them. I just hope people can watch it, it's a pretty strong show."
- Aaron Spelling
(Related: People, Hope, Drugs, Pretty, Problems)
"Death is the solution to all problems. No man - no problem."
- Joseph Stalin
(Related: Death, Man, Problems, Solution)
"Death solves all problems - no man, no problem."
- Joseph Stalin
(Related: Death, Man, Problems)
"If we rationalize our problems when He points them out, we will spend less and less time meditating because we won't want to face God in that area of our lives."
- Charles Stanley
(Related: Time, God, Problems, Want, Will)
"I'm still going to make mistakes, but I don't have any problems with publicly professing my faith now. It just took me a long time to get to the right place in my relationship with Christ."
- Scott Stapp
(Related: Faith, Time, Christ, Mistakes, Now, Problems, Right)
"My problems were not what ended Creed."
- Scott Stapp
(Related: Problems)
"We've got the children so we have to deal with each other because we have to deal with children's problems, you know, and our own problems. But some days it's fine, and then some days we just are at each other's throat."
- Ringo Starr
(Related: Children, Problems)
"I endured many weeks of it, but I had a big background in martial arts and fighting as a kid, so kind of all the problems got brushed away and I was ready."
- Jason Statham
(Related: Fighting, Problems)
"Well, one of the problems of working on a story with a character that sacred in the religions of the world or in a picture about that person, is that you have to forget about that and play it as real as you can because you can't look at yourself and judge yourself."
- Rod Steiger
(Related: Character, Forget, Play, Problems, World)
"Over any such tangled wave of problems the S-1 secret would be dominant and yet we will not know until after that time probably, until after that meeting, whether this is a weapon in our hands or not."
- Henry L. Stimson
(Related: Time, Meeting, Problems, Will)
"Again, one of the problems I have with television, as I mentioned before, is it's trivial in many ways, and I think that a lot of folks out there are looking for new metaphors and new ways of thinking about things."
- J. Michael Straczynski
(Related: Metaphors, Problems, Television, Thinking)
"Companies need to understand that the quicker they report product safety problems to CPSC, the quicker we can take action together and protect consumers from injuries."
- Hal Stratton
(Related: Action, Problems, Safety)
"Well they do have a use, but we should never believe that any international conference is going to suddenly solve problems like the condition of the global environment."
- Maurice Strong
(Related: Environment, Problems)
"I am on the board of corporations who contribute both to environmental problems and their solutions. And I am on the NGO side: the Earth Council and other organizations."
- Maurice Strong
(Related: Environmental, Corporations, Earth, Problems)
"I've never had any health problems and I'm Ruben, man, all the way through."
- Ruben Studdard
(Related: Health, Man, Problems)
"News is so often a report of conflict, an account of problems, a thing of the day and even of the minute, that sometimes I think we make the background darker and the shadows deeper than they actually are."
- Arthur H. Sulzberger
(Related: Conflict, Day, News, Problems, Shadows)
"Global capital markets pose the same kinds of problems that jet planes do. They are faster, more comfortable, and they get you where you are going better. But the crashes are much more spectacular."
- Larry Summers
(Related: Problems)
"It all went back to problems we had talked about before, you know, such as the British not believing in formation bombing and not believing in daytime bombing."
- Stuart Symington
(Related: Problems)
"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."
- Thomas Szasz
(Related: Certainty, Doubt, Neurosis, Problems)
"The real problem is what to do with the problem-solvers after the problems are solved."
- Gay Talese
(Related: Problems)
"As my manager says, 'These are wonderful problems.'"
- Jeffrey Tambor
(Related: Manager, Problems)
"Social Security faces financial problems down the road because of demographics."
- John S. Tanner
(Related: Financial, Faces, Problems, Road, Security)
"Christianity does not remove you from the world and its problems; it makes you fit to live in it, triumphantly and usefully."
- Charles Templeton
(Related: Christianity, Problems, World)
"Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country."
- Margaret Thatcher
(Related: Home, Country, Problems, Running, Understanding, Will, Woman)
"In a free society, government reflects the soul of its people. If people want change at the top, they will have to live in different ways. Our major social problems are not the cause of our decadence. They are a reflection of it."
- Cal Thomas
(Related: Change, Government, Society, Soul, People, Cause, Problems, Reflection, Want, Will)
"When you look at where the real problems are among minorities in our society, particularly blacks, it's at the bottom. It's the people who are in school systems that don't educate, neighborhoods where there is a lot of crime, drugs, the whole bit."
- Clarence Thomas
(Related: Society, People, Crime, Drugs, Problems, School)
"Human education is concerned with certain changes in the intellects, characters and behavior of men, its problems being roughly included under these four topics: Aims, materials, means and methods."
- Edward Thorndike
(Related: Education, Men, Behavior, Being, Problems)
"Hollywood can be hard on women, but it did not cause my problems."
- Gene Tierney
(Related: Women, Cause, Hollywood, Problems)
"Mankind's problems can no longer be solved by national governments. What is needed is world government."
- Jan Tinbergen
(Related: Government, Mankind, Problems, World)
"Shortly after that, we got management problems over in England, and Judas Priest asked me to join."
- Glenn Tipton
(Related: Management, England, Problems)
"Recounting of a life story, a mind thinking aloud leads one inevitably to the consideration of problems which are no longer psychological but spiritual."
- Paul Tournier
(Related: Life, Consideration, Mind, Problems, Spiritual, Thinking)
"Who is more in touch with the problems of this country? One of those guys who goes off to Oxford or to University of Yale, or someone who has lived in buses, in the Metro, in the street?"
- Gloria Trevi
(Related: Country, Problems, University)
"I like characters with problems. I like to understand them... To play alcoholics, fetishists, strange girls, you have to dig deep within yourself. It's 'elsewhere' that interests me."
- Marie Trintignant
(Related: Deep, Girls, Play, Problems)
"Most of the problems a President has to face have their roots in the past."
- Harry S. Truman
(Related: Past, President, Problems)
"One of the key problems today is that politics is such a disgrace, good people don't go into government."
- Donald Trump
(Related: Government, Politics, People, Disgrace, Key, Problems, Today)
"Too often, people think that solving the world's problems is based on conquering the earth, rather than touching the earth, touching ground."
- Chogyam Trungpa
(Related: People, Earth, Problems, World)
"Forget your enemies. It's your friends you frustrate that cause all the problems."
- Michael J. Tucker
(Related: Cause, Enemies, Forget, Friends, Problems)
"Everybody has problems."
- Tanya Tucker
(Related: Problems)
"You can't work on 15 problems at the same time."
- Fred L. Turner
(Related: Time, Work, Problems)
"You need to decide what problems, what opportunities, what projects you're going to work on."
- Fred L. Turner
(Related: Work, Problems, Projects)
"You take your problems to a god, but what you really need is for the god to take you to the inside of you."
- Tina Turner
(Related: God, Problems)
"Niger is not an isolated island of desperation. It lies within a sea of problems across Africa - particularly the 'forgotten emergencies' in poor countries or regions with little strategic or material appeal."
- Desmond Tutu
(Related: Countries, Desperation, Lies, Poor, Problems, Sea)
"The nature of a democracy consists to an important degree in the right of the people to criticize problems and mistakes."
- Walter Ulbricht
(Related: Nature, People, Democracy, Mistakes, Problems, Right)
"God is much in the difficult home problems as in the times of quiet and prayer."
- Evelyn Underhill
(Related: Home, God, Prayer, Problems, Quiet)
"Sex is a conversation carried out by other means. If you get on well out of bed, half the problems of bed are solved."
- Peter Ustinov
(Related: Sex, Bed, Conversation, Problems)
"The economic and social problems would tend to become, like the military situation, more and more difficult as time went on and we became more and more isolated."
- Eamon de Valera
(Related: Time, Military, Problems)
"The decisions and problems of Uruguay will be resolved by Uruguayans."
- Tabare Vazquez
(Related: Decisions, Problems, Will)
"Latinos must be proud. We have the same rights in the U.S. as anybody else. Instead of crying and getting upset about visa problems and having our families come join us, go fight for your rights. Make yourself a productive individual in the society."
- Patricia Velazquez
(Related: Society, Fight, Rights, Problems)
"The challenge with Postfix, or with any piece of software, is to update software without introducing problems."
- Wietse Venema
(Related: Challenge, Problems, Software)
"With respect to the FBI, they had problems communicating in a vertical way, within the FBI itself, so that information of importance could get pushed up to those who were decision-makers."
- Richard Ben Veniste
(Related: Decision, Importance, Information, Problems, Respect)
"There is no miracle cure for the many problems of the world."
- Guy Verhofstadt
(Related: Cure, Problems, World)
"I love you all too much, it's one of just of my problems."
- Herve Villechaize
(Related: Love, Problems)
"Animals can adapt to problems and make inventions, but often no faster than natural selection can do its work - the world acts as its own simulator in the case of natural selection."
- Vernor Vinge
(Related: Work, Animals, Inventions, Problems, World)
"It is time for everyone to sit down - the NCAA, the NBA, the players union and the coaching fraternity - and come up with suitable solutions to these problems."
- Dick Vitale
(Related: Time, Coaching, Problems)
"Courage means to keep working a relationship, to continue seeking solutions to difficult problems, and to stay focused during stressful periods."
- Denis Waitley
(Related: Courage, Problems)
"My poems are almost all written as Diane. I don't have any problems with that, and if other women choose to identify with this, I think that's terrific."
- Diane Wakoski
(Related: Women, Poems, Problems)
"When I introduced a black soldier, Lt. Flap, in 1971, the Stars and Stripes banned the strip. They were having racial problems and thought it would increase the tensions."
- Mort Walker
(Related: Thought, Problems, Stars)
"The problems that I really like to solve are our cultural problems."
- Larry Wall
(Related: Problems)
"You will find peace not by trying to escape your problems, but by confronting them courageously. You will find peace not in denial, but in victory."
- J. Donald Walters
(Related: Peace, Victory, Denial, Problems, Trying, Will)
"The purpose of random testing is not to catch, punish, or expose students who use drugs, but to save their lives and discover abuse problems early so that students can grow up and learn in a drug-free environment."
- John Walters
(Related: Purpose, Abuse, Drugs, Environment, Problems, Students, Testing)
"We know that if we can prevent kids from trying drugs in their teenage years, we dramatically reduce the likelihood that they will go on to have problems later in life."
- John Walters
(Related: Life, Drugs, Kids, Problems, Teenage, Trying, Will, Years)
"It has become much more difficult to smuggle dangerous substances across our borders over the past three years, and this is creating real problems for drug traffickers."
- John Walters
(Related: Past, Problems, Years)
"It is wise to direct your anger towards problems - not people; to focus your energies on answers - not excuses."
- William Arthur Ward
(Related: Anger, People, Answers, Excuses, Focus, Problems)
"What I try to do is factor in how people use computers, what people's problems are, and how these technologies can get applied to those problems. Then I try to direct the various product groups to act on this information."
- John Warnock
(Related: Computers, People, Act, Information, Problems)
"Elia Kazan understood my problems. He was able to bring out the very best in me. He gave me credit for my intelligence."
- Ethel Waters
(Related: Intelligence, Credit, Problems)
"All the problems of the world could be settled easily if men were only willing to think. The trouble is that men very often resort to all sorts of devices in order not to think, because thinking is such hard work."
- Thomas J. Watson
(Related: Men, Work, Hard work, Order, Problems, Thinking, Trouble, World)
"Letting your mind play is the best way to solve problems."
- Bill Watterson
(Related: Mind, Play, Problems)
"Mick's not good on his own problems, but he's very good at other people's. He's been wonderful over the years. I don't mean I ring him up every week, but he's fantastic."
- Charlie Watts
(Related: People, Problems, Years)
"Women don't like advice. They don't want you to fix their problems, they just want you to listen."
- Shawn Wayans
(Related: Women, Advice, Problems, Want)
"I've always thought that a lot of the problems in the world would be solved if a spaceship did arrive, then anyone with one head and two arms and two legs would be your brother! It wouldn't matter where they were from or what they believed or anything. It might be good for us."
- Sigourney Weaver
(Related: Thought, Problems, World)
"After spending three years of my life looking into this, I am more convinced than ever that the U.S. government's responsibility for the drug problems in South Central Los Angeles and other inner cities is greater than I ever wrote in the newspaper."
- Gary Webb
(Related: Life, Government, Cities, Problems, Responsibility, Years)
"It's also very important in Latin America. If we can deal with the drug problem there, some of their strife there, it's less likely we have immigration problems here."
- Anthony Weiner
(Related: America, Problems)
"Liberals often don't see the problems, and conservatives don't see the promise, of government."
- William Weld
(Related: Government, Liberals, Problems, Promise)
"I had an instinctive feeling that the people who have little or no school training should have something coming into their homes weekly which dealt with their problems in a simple, helpful way... so I wrote in a plain, common-sense way on the things that concerned our people."
- Ida B. Wells
(Related: People, Feeling, Problems, School, Training)
"No, I don't have any problems leaving disappointments behind. I've had lots of good days at golf and a few disappointments, so you never know what's around the corner."
- Lee Westwood
(Related: Disappointments, Golf, Problems)
"Policy makers still think that if we just hand out more money the world's problems will be solved."
- Paul Weyrich
(Related: Money, Policy, Problems, Will, World)
"We experience problem-solving sessions as war zones, we view competing ideas as enemies, and we use problems as weapons to blame and defeat opposition forces. No wonder we can't come up with real lasting solutions!"
- Margaret J. Wheatley
(Related: Experience, War, Ideas, Blame, Defeat, Enemies, Opposition, Problems, Weapons, Wonder)
"In virtually every organization, regardless of mission and function, people are frustrated by problems that seem unsolvable."
- Margaret J. Wheatley
(Related: People, Mission, Problems)
"In this present culture, we need to find the means to work and live together with less aggression if we are to resolve the serious problems that afflict and impede us."
- Margaret J. Wheatley
(Related: Work, Aggression, Culture, Present, Problems)
"I think there's a lot of problems with being a two-party system."
- Meg White
(Related: Being, Problems)
"I've often had people ask me, would you allow a homosexual to be your friend. Yes, I will. And the reason I will is because I know that that person has problems, and if I can minister to those problems, I will."
- Reggie White
(Related: People, Friend, Problems, Reason, Will)
"Physics is becoming so unbelievably complex that it is taking longer and longer to train a physicist. It is taking so long, in fact, to train a physicist to the place where he understands the nature of physical problems that he is already too old to solve them."
- Eugene Wigner
(Related: Nature, Fact, Old, Physics, Problems)
"It takes so long to train a physicist to the place where he understands the nature of physical problems that he is already too old to solve them."
- Eugene Wigner
(Related: Nature, Old, Problems)
"Well, some mathematics problems look simple, and you try them for a year or so, and then you try them for a hundred years, and it turns out that they're extremely hard to solve."
- Andrew Wiles
(Related: Mathematics, Problems, Years)
"We've lost something that's been with us for so long, and something that drew a lot of us into mathematics. But perhaps that's always the way with math problems, and we just have to find new ones to capture our attention."
- Andrew Wiles
(Related: Attention, Mathematics, Problems)
"I hope that seeing the excitement of solving this problem will make young mathematicians realize that there are lots and lots of other problems in mathematics which are going to be just as challenging in the future."
- Andrew Wiles
(Related: Hope, Excitement, Future, Mathematicians, Mathematics, Problems, Will)
"I loved doing problems in school."
- Andrew Wiles
(Related: Problems, School)
"Pure mathematicians just love to try unsolved problems - they love a challenge."
- Andrew Wiles
(Related: Love, Challenge, Mathematicians, Problems)
"Many of those who once were so passionately in love with Christ now run about pursuing their own interests. They're burdened down with stress and problems, chasing after riches and the things of this world."
- David Wilkerson
(Related: Love, Christ, Now, Problems, Stress, World)
"As long as they are medicated the right way with the asthma medicine they won't have any problems."
- Dominique Wilkins
(Related: Medicine, Problems, Right)
"We have no hope of solving our problems without harnessing the diversity, the energy, and the creativity of all our people."
- Roger Wilkins
(Related: People, Creativity, Hope, Diversity, Energy, Problems)
"Incidentally, one of the most worrying problems in the impact of Western modernity on traditional culture is that it quite rapidly communicates its own indifference or anxiety or even hostility about age and ageing."
- Rowan D. Williams
(Related: Age, Ageing, Anxiety, Culture, Indifference, Modernity, Problems)
"The surgery will always be a huge part of my life. I'm going to need to help people with weight problems for the rest of my life so that I can maintain my weight."
- Carnie Wilson
(Related: Life, People, Help, Problems, Rest, Weight, Will)
"Throughout the country, I see the same design problems and solutions over and over."
- Douglas Wilson
(Related: Design, Country, Problems)
"Snow and adolescence are the only problems that disappear if you ignore them long enough."
- Earl Wilson
(Related: Adolescence, Problems, Snow)
"I mean that the function of the police is to solve problems that have law-enforcement consequences in a way that is based on a genuine partnership with the neighborhood in both the venting of the problem and the discussion of the solution."
- James Q. Wilson
(Related: Consequences, Law, Partnership, Police, Problems, Solution)
"The hardest problems of pure and applied science can only be solved by the open collaboration of the world-wide scientific community."
- Kenneth G. Wilson
(Related: Science, Collaboration, Community, Open, Problems, World)
"There is no doubt that environmentally related diseases will continue to pose problems in the future."
- Samuel Wilson
(Related: Doubt, Future, Problems, Will)
"For many years my inherited arthritis had given me problems."
- Marie Windsor
(Related: Problems, Years)
"You have to go understand that life and baseball is littered with all kinds of obstacles and problems along the way. You have to learn how to overcome them to be successful in life."
- Dave Winfield
(Related: Life, Successful, Baseball, Obstacles, Problems)
"I'm sick of people sittin' in chairs stating their problems. Then we roll the videotape... then we have our experts on the topic... I'm in the 'What's next?' phase of my career."
- Oprah Winfrey
(Related: People, Career, Experts, Problems)
"Coppola has problems getting financing, so why should I not have problems getting financing."
- Alex Winter
(Related: Problems)
"All marriages are happy. It's trying to live together afterwards that causes all the problems."
- Shelley Winters
(Related: Causes, Problems, Trying)
"In Hollywood, all marriages are happy. It's trying to live together afterwards that causes the problems."
- Shelley Winters
(Related: Causes, Hollywood, Problems, Trying)
"Had the Hebrews not been disturbed in their progress a thousand and more years ago, they would have solved all the great problems of civilization which are being solved now under all the difficulties imposed by the spirit of the Middle Ages."
- Isaac Mayer Wise
(Related: Civilization, Progress, Being, Difficulties, Now, Problems, Spirit, Years)
"Don't get involved in partial problems, but always take flight to where there is a free view over the whole single great problem, even if this view is still not a clear one."
- Ludwig Wittgenstein
(Related: Problems)
"At our college we were taught a universal approach to find out about a person: what problems the person has, what difficulties, what personal tendencies and likings."
- Markus Wolf
(Related: College, Difficulties, Problems)
"An activist is someone who makes an effort to see problems that are not being addressed and then makes an effort to make their voice heard. Sometimes there are so many things that it's almost impossible to make your voice heard in every area, but you can sure try."
- Joanne Woodward
(Related: Being, Effort, Problems, Voice)
"Another hero was Tom Swift, in the books. What he stood for, the freedom, the scientific knowledge and being and engineer gave him the ability to invent solutions to problems. He's always been a hero to me. I buy old Tom Swift books now and read them to my own children."
- Steve Wozniak
(Related: Knowledge, Ability, Being, Books, Children, Freedom, Old, Problems)
"Child psychology and animal psychology are of relatively slight importance, as compared with the sciences which deal with the corresponding physiological problems of ontogeny and phylogeny."
- Wilhelm Wundt
(Related: Importance, Problems, Psychology)
"It's time to look beyond the budget ax to assure access to health care for all. It's time to look for bipartisan solutions to the problems we can tackle today, and to work together for tomorrow - building a health care system that works for all Americans."
- Ron Wyden
(Related: Health, Time, Work, Americans, Building, Care, Problems, Today, Tomorrow)
"There were no strategic mistakes that could affect Russia's history and it further development. No, there were no such mistakes. Tactical errors were made in some less significant options, problems and so on. But, on the whole, Russia embarked on a correct path and it changed."
- Boris Yeltsin
(Related: History, Development, Errors, Mistakes, Options, Problems, Russia)
"I think the producers, for the most part, don't want to see prices skyrocket because that will only create problems for them down the road and would also be a, you know, would be a very serious shock for a world economy that can't afford serious shocks right now."
- Daniel Yergin
(Related: Economy, Now, Problems, Right, Road, Want, Will, World)
"That's one of our biggest problems, it's always somebody else's fault instead of our own fault."
- Don Young
(Related: Fault, Problems)
"People with fertility problems are not alone. It is a very very common problem for couples today. I've seen statistics that are just staggering."
- Michael Zaslow
(Related: People, Problems, Statistics, Today)
"There are some common problems in the Balkans in the settlement of which Bulgaria should also participate."
- Todor Zhivkov
(Related: Problems)