Problem Quotations | Page 3

If you are a professional, the speed with which you react to a potential problem separates the men from the boys.

I never had a problem with genre because a genre actually is like a uniform - you put yourself into a certain uniform.

Courage means to keep working a relationship, to continue seeking solutions to difficult problems, and to stay focused during stressful periods.

One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.

Wars generally do not resolve the problems for which they are fought and therefore... prove ultimately futile.

Possible ideas and thoughts are vast in number. A distinct word for every distinct idea and thought would require a vast vocabulary. The problem in language is to express many ideas and thoughts with comparatively few words.

Everyone with all those good intentions came to help Indonesia rebuild from the tsunami; but the co-ordination problem was very big, because they came with their own way of doing business; they came with the inflexibility of their own governance.

I've always dreamed of having an album. The problem is that it's just very difficult to make an album nowadays because through technology, music shifts so fast, especially electronic music. Once you make five songs, the first one you did is already old and you wished you would have put it out right away. So that's kind of the difficult part.

How to use your leisure time is the biggest problem of a ballplayer.

There was a second problem that was still not a technical problem... the project became classified. I couldn't work on it after having gone to all that trouble. I was considered a security risk, so I could not get a clearance.

Everyone has the idea of owning good companies. The problem is that they have high prices in relations to assets and earnings, and that takes all of the fun out of the game.

I talked my parents into sending me to Roedean at 16. I had this idea that if I could get into Cambridge, then I could join Footlights. My problem was that I went to a comprehensive in Brighton. I thought I'd have to start from a good school, and the best I could think of was Roedean.

For much of Toyota's history, we have ensured the quality and reliability of our vehicles by placing a device called an andon cord on every production line - and empowering any team member to halt production if there's an assembly problem. Only when the problem is resolved does the line begin to move again.

My goal is to live the truly religious life and express it through my music. If you can live it, there's no problem about the music, because it's part of the whole thing.

I don't view myself as a practitioner of a particular skill or method. I'm constantly looking at what's the most interesting problem that I could possibly work on. I really try to figure out what sort of scientist I need to be in order to solve the problem I'm interested in solving.

It's a noisy environment we all live in, whether it's traffic or the workplace, so it's very difficult to think about your life in general. A lot of people are afraid to do that. They like to hide behind their work and not face up to a big problem in their life.

From all this it follows what the general character of the problem of the development of a body of scientific knowledge is, in so far as it depends on elements internal to science itself.

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.

Break any problem into, or make any changes in, small increments.

I think each film I do has less and less dialogue. It really helps a lot for foreign sales, because when I go to Europe, there's very little problem with communication. All the gags are visual. The music they can understand, and it helps communicate a lot better.

He who seeks for methods without having a definite problem in mind seeks in the most part in vain.

Prostitution presents a moral, economic and social problem that cannot be resolved juridically.

In my view, Africa's real problems are cultural.

Peace is a day-to-day problem, the product of a multitude of events and judgments. Peace is not an 'is,' it is a 'becoming.'

If I'm too strong for some people that's their problem.

The chief problem of low-income farmers is poverty.

There are no accounting issues, no trading issues, no reserve issues, no previously unknown problem issues.

You can't work on 15 problems at the same time.

Science is bound, by the everlasting vow of honour, to face fearlessly every problem which can be fairly presented to it.

What's the problem with 'never?' It keeps you from trying. It ensures that you will fail. End of story.

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.

The only problems I've ever had with being honest is telling people how I feel about them or saying how I feel about other people.

You can't solve a problem as complex as inequality in one legal clause.

The problem is not simply that the Singularity represents the passing of humankind from center stage, but that it contradicts our most deeply held notions of being.

It is once again the vexing problem of identity within variety; without a solution to this disturbing problem there can be no system, no classification.

My problem is that I think everybody needs to work as hard as I worked when I was in my prime.

When money is seen as a solution for every problem, money itself becomes the problem.

Problems are not the problem; coping is the problem.

If a problem cannot be solved, enlarge it.

I have always tried to live by the philosophy that when there is a big problem that needs fixing, you should run towards it, rather than away from it.

Fear is one thing that can ruin everything. It's the greatest problem.

The inability to delegate is one of the biggest problems I see with managers at all levels.

Money is a huge issue for manic depressives. Sometimes the problem is not nearly on the same scale as it has been for me, but nonetheless, it's difficult to deal with. Many get themselves into debt that can take years to clear up, write bad cheques, shoplift and borrow huge amounts from family and friends.

When I listen to music from different eras, I sense different things. The 1940s music, there's so much optimism and romance, maybe because they just solved the biggest problem on Earth at that time - World War II. In the 1960s, there was so much creativity and innovation in sound.

I tried to fit it in with some previous broad conceptual understanding of some part of mathematics that would clarify the particular problem I was thinking about.

A Negro woman has the same kind of problems as other women, but she can't take the same things for granted.

Meth production and use is a serious problem in Kentucky and across the country. Clearly, there is a growing need for a national strategy to combat this crisis. Increasing public awareness is a significant means for prevention.

'Star Trek' is the McDonald's of science fiction; it's fast food storytelling. Every problem is like every other problem. They all get solved in an hour. Nobody ever gets hurt, and nobody needs to care. You give up an hour of your time, and you don't really have to get involved. It's all plastic.

Atheists have as much conscience, possibly more, than people with deep religious conviction, and they still have the same problem of how they reconcile themselves to a bad deed in the past. It's a little easier if you've got a god to forgive you.

Any kind of problem you have in your life, you come to Bikram. Your life becomes the best in the world.

Antibiotics are a very serious public health problem for us, and it's getting worse. Resistant microbes outstrip new antibiotics. It's an ongoing problem. It's not like we can fix it, and it's over. We have to fight continued resistance with a continual pipeline of new antibiotics and continue with the perpetual challenge.

There is no miracle cure for the many problems of the world.

The problem of direct colour photography has been facing us since the turn of the last century.

I got a lot of problems, but I'm really good at intuiting what I need to do to be happy with whatever I create. I know when to stop myself, I know when to start, I know when to leave something alone. I guess I just kind of indulge that completely, and so I just take my time.

I got more guts than brains, and that's my problem.

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.

If God, as some now say, is dead, He no doubt died of trying to find an equitable solution to the Arab-Jewish problem.

The more the schemata are differentiated, the smaller the gap between the new and the familiar becomes, so that novelty, instead of constituting an annoyance avoided by the subject, becomes a problem and invites searching.

I'm on Facebook and Twitter, and occasionally I will tweet something. Somehow my problem is that I don't think I have anything interesting to tweet about.

The criminal is trying to solve his immediate problems.

The greatest problem in the world today is intolerance. Everyone is so intolerant of each other.

A women under stress is not immediately concerned with finding solutions to her problems but rather seeks relief by expressing herself and being understood

Shortly after that, we got management problems over in England, and Judas Priest asked me to join.

One of my problems is to find the self.

Dealing with Greece's problems will be more difficult if Greece is not a member of the eurozone.

Sometimes the weekend gets hijacked by work, but as my mother would say, this is the right problem.

I assume that if people get to know me, they'll like me. If they don't, it's not my problem.

You would have a huge statelessness problem if you don't consider a child born abroad a U.S. citizen.

As an expert, I can deal with complex problems. As a mother it is much, much harder.

There's lots of problem solving in any marriage, but when you have this collective goal that is a human being, it's an inspiring rally point.

Ego is one of the biggest weapons that is used to take us down. It's self-destructive. It's a problem on all levels - even regular people can have big ego problems.

Business must be the solution, not the problem.

Each time I write a new piece, whether a novel, a picture book, a speech or anything, really, it has so much to do with what I'm going through personally or a problem I'm trying to work out. When I wrote my novel 'Baby,' my three children had all just gone out the door.

I was drawn to biology and history and, of course, art. And I loved languages. The biggest problem I had is that I wasn't taught about the connections between all these things. I think that would have given life a lot more meaning and it would be a lot more enjoyable.

I know people who've had a nose job, and they've walked out feeling a million dollars, and their confidence is tenfold. Good on them! Natural beauty comes in all different shapes and sizes, but if you think surgery would right something you have a problem with, then why shouldn't you do it?

If you swap it about, do television, theatre, film, you can go on surprising yourself. The problem is you get employed to do something you've already done. They want something from that sheep pen of performances they've seen you do.

There is a greater fatigue concerning the African problem today than five or 10 years ago. The situation now in Africa is worse today than it was 10 years ago.

There can be theory but, you know, the problem is you've got to be able to test it. So theories are one thing, testing is another.

The problem is, we live in a society where all that interests us is power and money. So we don't have any interest in our children, and what we leave for our children is not important.

The problem in Hollywood is that they try to become the only kind of cinema in the world, okay? The imposition everywhere of a unique culture, which is Hollywood culture, and a unique way of life, which is the American way of life.

I regret the 1998 - 99 lockout. I regret that we didn't work harder to educate our players and our owners about what the damage would be. I never can quite come up with the answer on what else we should have done, but I always blame a part of the problem on us and some part on the players.

The definition of a good mathematical problem is the mathematics it generates rather than the problem itself.

I've learned over decades of building that a deadline is a potent tool for problem-solving.

There's certainly nothing original about the observation that conscious experience poses a hard problem.

The only problem I have with American money is that it's all kind of the same color, so I'm always having to look. Whereas with Australian money, you have purple, blue, yellow... We keep it nice and simple.

Einstein wrestled with a problem back before we even knew the universe was expanding, and he was looking for a way to keep the universe from collapsing. And so he discovered, in his theory of gravity, something like this dark energy - he called it a cosmological constant - could play this role, pushing things away.

Where I am right now I'm pretty good at. You know, I understand that there's a problem. I'm addressing it. I'm doing the work that I have to do.

If we don't somehow stem the tide of childhood obesity, we're going to have a huge problem.

Is my strike zone bigger than others? Yeah. It might be bigger than others, but I don't have a problem with it.

Not every problem someone has with his girlfriend is necessarily due to the capitalist mode of production.

The problem for Rome, then, is how and when the intervention should be done with a sense of the possibility of going too far in limiting the freedom of theologians. This is not an easy time - neither for Rome nor for the theologians.

My effectiveness is best placed in solving problems through federal solutions.

The only problem was that I couldn't communicate with Dario. He speaks Italian and I don't. We had a translator the whole time. I just felt that something was lost with the go between. He was a delightful man, but I wish we could have spoken the same language.

Rather than spend so much time wondering if I'm going to get hired, or is it a problem that I've got this black-tar history, I've just got to keep doing what I'm doing and try to be decent.

You need to decide what problems, what opportunities, what projects you're going to work on.

Businesses that run well are almost like marriages. Everything has to be up for discussion, or there will be real problems.

I’ve never really talked about this, but I would go days without eating. Or maybe I’d have some fruit and then go to the gym for three hours. I knew I had a problem…It was a gradual process but I changed myself.

I don't know what the problem with Capitol is. Some one's got to wake 'em up. Prod 'em a little bit.

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

Among the many problems which beset the novelist, not the least weighty is the choice of the moment at which to begin his novel.