Problem Quotations | Page 2

The problem with relegating black history to one really short month, the shortest month, is not only are we telling the same stories over and over again - which are amazing, George Washington Carver is incredible, there's nobody like Frederick Douglass - but there are so many.

Hypocrisy is the essence of snobbery, but all snobbery is about the problem of belonging.

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.

'Pretty Little Liars' is very all-consuming of my time, but I guess it's a great problem to have... there have been other things that have come that were on the table and then were not.

The problem is there is no such thing as a viable democracy made up of experts, zealots, politicians and spectators.

I think that the problem with network television is that they cling to the whole business model like they are clinging to the side of a cliff.

It's amazing to me that we live in such a wonderful country where anyone can have a problem in life and get up, dust themselves off and start all over again.

Sometimes when you have multimedia, people use it too much. It has to be a tool and not the end product, if you can use it as a tool. The same thing apples when you are recording. We had this problem in the 80's, we got so computerized there was no heart and soul in the music anymore.

While I am a capitalist at heart and I have no problems with commercialization as such, I believe that while it's okay if education becomes a profitable business, it's not okay if it becomes corrupt.

I'm sure I'm a schizophrenic. The problem is I can't tell the difference between which one's which, which one is the real me.

My feeling was, you plant some seeds. If they grow, great; if they don't, you don't take it personally. Not my problem; I just kept planting. Just like a farmer.

The genesis of a poem for me is usually a cluster of words. The only good metaphor I can think of is a scientific one: dipping a thread into a supersaturated solution to induce crystal formation. I don't think I solve problems in my poetry; I think I uncover the problems.

There are some common problems in the Balkans in the settlement of which Bulgaria should also participate.

My problem was I let myself become known before I knew myself.

Experience is a great advantage. The problem is that when you get the experience, you're too damned old to do anything about it.

You can't expect to make all this money and not go through problems. You can't expect God to give you everything you want without taking something away.

President Barack Obama has it right - there is a lot to change about Washington. The problem is, not much will get changed unless we confront the runaway filibuster in the U.S. Senate.

Congress seems drugged and inert most of the time... its idea of meeting a problem is to hold hearings or, in extreme cases, to appoint a commission.

I'd personally like to see the Human Rights Act go because I think we have had some problems with it.

You can focus on things that are barriers or you can focus on scaling the wall or redefining the problem.

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.

I read recently that the problem with stereotypes isn't that they are inaccurate, but that they're incomplete. And this captures perfectly what I think about contemporary African literature. The problem isn't that it's inaccurate, it's that it's incomplete.

Consciousness is what makes the mind-body problem really intractable.

Across the board, people are looking at the problem, but simply not changing anywhere near fast enough.

No observational problem will not be solved by more data.

The biggest problem in South Africa is that we have a disrupted timeline. Historically, politically, spiritually, economically, in people's minds, in people's heads.

You believe in God, then you don't believe anymore and when you have a big problem, you pray anyway.

George Carlin maintained that anything and everything is funny given the right context. This context also includes your own history with a given group. What I can get away with and where I can go is not a problem with my audience because they know me.

I had an immense advantage over many others dealing with the problem inasmuch as I had no fixed ideas derived from long-established practice to control and bias my mind, and did not suffer from the general belief that whatever is, is right.

The whole problem of the sound-work is distancing oneself from the dramatic.

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.

Whatever creativity is, it is in part a solution to a problem.

My life used to be like that game of freeze tag we played as kids. Once tagged, you had to freeze in the position you were in. Whenever something happened, I'd freeze like a statue, too afraid of moving the wrong way, of making the wrong decision. The problem is, if you stand still too long, that's your decision.

In a much larger sense, the problem of Sabah is directly influenced by the duplicity of imperial Britain. For whatever devious reason, the dismantling of the British empire created divisions and violence due to ethnic and religious differences.

To get high data transfer rates in communicating information, you would love to use optical fibers. The problem is that light is extremely hard to manipulate. So we make a perfect copy of the information carried by the light. We transfer it to matter - the condensate.

Maybe it's stress or anger or adrenaline or disillusionment or a bullying nature or simple fear of getting killed themselves, but there is a problem if a cop cannot tell the difference between a menacing gangster and the far more common person they encounter whose life is a little frayed and messy.

There is a real and evident problem of democracy in Georgia, and this was the core reason of my entrance into politics. We have no rule of law. It's absolutely absent.

The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, 'Is there a meaning to music?' My answer would be, 'Yes.' And 'Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?' My answer to that would be, 'No.'

Peer attachments are not the problem themselves. It's when they compete with adult attachments that the problems emerge. It's just like when siblings get attached to each other. If they start revolving around each other, then the parents can't do anything with them because it's a competing attachment.

Pure mathematicians just love to try unsolved problems - they love a challenge.

My sexuality has never been a problem to me but I think it has been for other people.

Albania is going through a deep crisis because it lacks the rule of law, an independent judiciary, and freedom of the media. I don't think if we stop protesting the problem is solved.

The race problem in the United States is the type of unpleasant problem which we would rather do without but which refuses to be buried.

We have no problems with Jews and highly respect Judaism as a holy religion.

The greatest problem is not with flat-out white racists, but rather with the far larger number of Americans who believe intellectually in racial equality but are quietly oblivious to injustice around them.

You know, I said I have this problem that I need to more carefully read Akron's text because it's too much, too much fantasy, and so I am busy with other stuff - it's funny, it's nice to hear that someone is studying that carefully and now I know a little bit more about that.

It is almost always wrong that the time isn't ripe to decide something. That is always said of difficult problems.

The Italians live well. They have problems, like all countries, but they are well-dressed, the women are pretty.

I have problems with machines which aren't gestural.

Perhaps the biggest problem in journalism is the cult divide between journalists and corporate owners.

We do have a problem in this country. You can either make a movie and ignore that, or you can acknowledge it and say, this is the water that we're living in. You know this - the movie lives in this - it's centered around this particular problem, and I chose to acknowledge it.

Surely, serious problems can't be solved just by talking about them.

The problem with the stigma around mental health is really about the stories that we tell ourselves as a society. What is normal? That's just a story that we tell ourselves.

I have no problem with women in the military, if that's what they want to do.

I'm going bald. I'm having a major problem with it.

I have no problem with cheating. Whatever you can get away with.

Here's how I see obesity: as a symptom. The larger problem is over-consumption. In a society that identifies consumption with patriotism, valorizes 'growth' above all else and assigns status according to how much you consume, we compete with each other to see who can consume the most.

When somebody says that all statements are false, the obvious problem is that as an assertion it's self-defeating.

The good news in investing is there are no HR problems. If there are no humans, there are no problems!

You cant win if youre chasing the wrong problem.

You only mature when you face problems you can't deal with.

Under-representation of women and other inequality among researchers is a problem that will not solve itself as women acquire competence.

Liberalism seems to be related to the distance people are from the problem.

The fact that drilling won't solve every problem is no excuse to do nothing at all.

Science is beginning to catch up with global health 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.

The problem with feature filmmaking is that it offers you this mirage of being able to achieve perfection, as the theory of it is that you have control of every part of the film, though in reality, it is as inexact as the next thing in your life.

Our major obligation is not to mistake slogans for solutions.

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.

The problem is that for women, the average time is just over 14 minutes... men are left with about 12 minutes during which time they need to think of something to do!

Thank God, I have sort of a pan-European accent rather than Russian, which doesn't sound very pleasantly to Americans. For them, we speak with a rather rude pitch, and that might be our actors' problem there. Now I've begun working with language coaches in Los Angeles to get rid of the accent completely.

The problem with holistic management is it's so profoundly simple, but it's not easy. And it's profoundly simple. You're almost insulting people's intelligence to explain it twice, just about making better decisions of where you want to go in your life, bringing in environmental, social, economic issues simultaneously.

Always try the problem that matters most to you.

I meet so many that think population growth is a major problem in regard to climate change. But the number of children born per year in the world has stopped growing since 1990. The total number of children below 15 years of age in the world are now relatively stable around 2 billion.

You need to impress me, outwit me, compete with me? Go ahead, knock yourself out, I have no problem with that at all.

The animation of the canvas is one of the hardest problems of painting.

I think the problem is, exceptional women will always succeed. But there are plenty of less-exceptional men who succeed. Until we get the less-exceptional women succeeding equally, we do not have full equality.

The problem is that in order to publish a book in mainland China, you have to agree to be subject to censorship. That's the nature of the system. I don't challenge that system on its face. It's their system. But as an author, I have a choice to make whether I'll participate or I won't.

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.

Everything I do, I go to black people. If I have a problem at the airport, I'll go to the black ticket agent. I hope they notice me because I'll get better service. If I'm at a restaurant, I look for the black waiter. Rent-a-Car, give you the upgrade.

I have dyslexia, and I never did learn to read music, and I even had a problem in reading because everything was turned upside down, so I just had to draw from the lyrics and the voice that I would hear in my mind.

When I came to America in 1978, I was a huge sports fan - the problem was, my sport was cricket. Shockingly enough, no one wanted to talk cricket with me!

Clearly, I reject the view that there is one way that is right for everyone and for every problem

Money should not, and must not, change our commitment to solving problems and building this state.

I can't even be around children. It's a problem. My ovaries start screaming.

A good puzzle, it's a fair thing. Nobody is lying. It's very clear, and the problem depends just on you.

The problems seem so easy out there on the stump. Deficits shrink with a rhetorical flourish.

To every problem there is already a solution whether you know it or not.

What a liberating thing to realize that our problems are probably our richest sources for rising to the ultimate virtue of compassion.

There are some problems that technology can't solve.

The problem with smear campaigns is that too often they work.

The problem with losing your anonymity is that you can never go back.

Technical problems are like gremlins. They come and go.

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

To the biologist the problem of socialism appears largely as a problem of size.

Whenever a theory appears to you as the only possible one, take this as a sign that you have neither understood the theory nor the problem which it was intended to solve.

Each show comes with its own set of problems to work through.

The decisions and problems of Uruguay will be resolved by Uruguayans.

The relentless pursuit of perfection has been my problem over the years. It's maybe held me back.

There is no doubt that environmentally related diseases will continue to pose problems in the future.