Problem Quotations | Page 4

Anybody that's got a problem with me is probably envious or wants to be me, and that's how I've always looked at it.

The problem with fame is you no longer belong to you. You lose your persona and become the object of other people's obsession.

The problem is not the occupation, but how people deal with it.

The primary difference that I have found between the system of education in India and other countries, particularly the U.S., is that they focus on problem solving and relating theories to reality around them. These two things are lacking in the education system in India.

When I first started acting, somebody once said to me that anything that is a problem that prevents you from getting a job will eventually be a strength. It works both ways. The odder you are, the harder it is to get work, but once you sort of establish it, you have no competition.

I just am a clean air freak. I grew up in the woods. I worked in China for a bit and was exposed to all the resources being used and the pollution and felt strongly that for our generation, the biggest economic and societal problem is energy.

My parents love each other. They work through their problems.

I think there are problems with compact disc copy protection that can't be resolved.

The problem with State of the Union speeches is that they are, by their nature and design, alphabet soup. It's hard to know what a president really cares about when they run down a laundry list and check every issue box under the sun for fear they will offend some constituency if they don't.

It's so necessary to try and record the cultural memory of people. To set it down for generations to come. To better understand where we are headed. The problem is, a good portion of what we choose to remember is about willed forgetting. Which we all do, I believe, to protect ourselves from what is too difficult.

There's a fundamental problem with how the software business does things. We're asking people who are masters of hard-edged technology to design the soft, human side of software as well. As a result, they make products that are really cool - if you happen to be a software engineer.

The most important problem that Turkey has is education.

To a poet the mere making of a poem can seem to solve the problem of truth, but only a problem of art is solved in poetry.

Joe Jackson is a great man. The problem that people have with my father is that he tells it like it is. He's just straight up and doesn't beat around the bush. Tough love.

The turnover of fashion is just so quick and so throwaway, and I think that is a big part of the problem. There is no longevity.

When facing terrorism, especially in the wake of awful events, there is a tendency to despair, to see in the battle a problem without a solution.

I guess I have to prove myself all over again, even if it's to the world. I don't have a problem doing that.

Illegality will never solve the problem of political lawlessness.

Esso has been the main one in America spreading the disinformation that there is no global warming problem.

The problem most nonprofits have is that they are run by romantics who are great to hang out with, but they have no clue.

I just want to put some positive stuff out there. If it works, great. If it doesn't, no problem.

There are sometimes problems for which there is no immediate solution, and there are sometimes problems for which there is no solution,

Cult recruiting methods based on dosing victims with the brain chemicals released during capture bonding would make cults even more of a problem than they are now.

Most of my books have caused distribution and printing problems in the past.

If there is a problem, and you don't say anything about it, it's like a cancer and it becomes bigger.

The problem to solve is, whether a single or a double government would be most advantageous; and, in considering that point, I am met by this difficulty - that I cannot see that the present form of government is a double government at all.

Don't just analyze a problem - solve it.

As long as you blame someone or something else - something outside you that's bigger than you are - as the source of your problems, the problems won't get solved.

I had a terrible stammering problem when I was young, and as a result I spent a lot of time alone.

We are afraid of ideas, of experimenting, of change. We shrink from thinking a problem through to a logical conclusion.

I don't know how to relax, that's my problem.

I want to build a machine that can drill wells for water. With this problem of water in many places in Africa, we need to find a solution for how you can dig wells so you can be pumping water from deeper places.

I never struggled with injury problems because of my preparation - in particular my stretching.

Producing words isn't a problem for me. And I usually write two books at a time. When one horse gets winded, you jump on the other.

Man is still the greatest miracle and the greatest problem on this earth.

Industries with rapid change are the enemy of the investor. Tech businesses, particularly biotech, is a problem from that point of view. All industries work with change, but you should ideally be investing in businesses with a low rate of change, not a high rate of change.

Privacy is one of the biggest problems in this new electronic age.

'Peace Mom' is my most heartfelt, but I am most proud of 'Myth America' because I nailed the problem and gave the solutions long before the Occupy Movement. I think it's a great organic class analysis.

To the great majority of white Americans, the Negro problem has distinctly negative connotations. It suggests something difficult to settle and equally difficult to leave alone. It is embarrassing. It makes for moral uneasiness.

I guess if you take yourself seriously as an artist there starts either the problem or the beauty of doing good artwork.

No problem is too big to run away from.

Every movie is wildly different. So many of the problems are the same, but they take on different guises.

I have a problem sometimes with being too hyper.

The marathon always starts after 30K. That's where the problems start. You start without any problems, without any pain. All the pain comes after 30K. Sometimes, it's possible to have pain even in the finger.

To resolve problems through negotiation is a very childish approach.

Indecision may or may not be my problem.

It's odd that you can get so anesthetized by your own pain or your own problem that you don't quite fully share the hell of someone close to you.

I never worry about the problem. I worry about the solution.

If liberals want to send tens of millions of dollars down the drain, I have no problem with that.

The problem isn't that people don't understand how good things are. It's that they know, from personal experience, that things really aren't that good.

Sexual harassment at work... is it a problem for the self-employed?

Normal people with normal problems can be hilarious.

In my personal belief, the big problem with climate change is getting people to understand the magnitude and scale that we're dealing with. If you buy a vehicle that gets 35 miles to the gallon, that means nothing; it's not enough. We need to make changes across society and in every piece of the energy pie.

The problem with naming a No. 2 is you really want to throw all your weight behind the guy who is going to be the leader.

There is a slight problem with being a conceptual artist these days: You won't get paid. But this levels the field and takes the art of money out of the field of serious art. The only conceptual artists who would conceive of making money on the Internet are a lowbrow species known as hustlers.

The fact that you had disruptions in the peace process was not only in Rwanda. We had the same problem in Cambodia, we had the same problem in Mozambique, we had the same problem in Salvador.

The actor has a constant problem of personal identity.

Ohioans are practical. We're a can-do people. Give us a problem, we'll give you a solution.

The whole idea of a stereotype is to simplify. Instead of going through the problem of all this great diversity - that it's this or maybe that - you have just one large statement; it is this.

I'm just the biggest klutz. That's the problem. I don't get hurt doing cool things.

Certainly, I am writing as a 21st-century woman, so I am much more inclined to view her as a three-dimensional woman. I think we keep coming up with this stubborn problem of a woman being judged by her appearance rather than her accomplishments. We are much more inclined to ask: was Cleopatra beautiful?

There's nobody who doesn't have problems with the church, because there's sin in the church. But there's no other place to be a Christian except the church.

The problems of puzzles are very near the problems of life.

It is evident that one cannot say anything demonstrable about the problem before having resolved these preliminary questions, and yet we hardly possess the necessary information to solve some of them

Too many problem-solving sessions become battlegrounds where decisions are made based on power rather than intelligence.

I have no problem with G14. How can I oppose something that as far as I am concerned, does not exist?

An there is always the question: is it really proven that retaliatory actions solve the security problem?.

I started having a lot of problems with my voice in my mid-30s.

With everything that's thrown at you, whether it be problems at home, problems at work - whatever - basically, if you remain positive, you can see your way out of that.

I have no problem paying my dues and I have no problem going out and working the club circuit.

I think the problem starts with the general appreciation of the music in the larger society.

I don't really know why I care so much. I just have something inside me that tells me that there is a problem, and I have got to do something about it. I think that is what I would call the God in me.

We in science are spoiled by the success of mathematics. Mathematics is the study of problems so simple that they have good solutions

On climate change, we often don't fully appreciate that it is a problem. We think it is a problem waiting to happen.

If you only take offense when the president of your party is compared to Hitler, then you're part of the problem.

The problem of evil... Why does God permit it? Or, if God is omnipotent, in which case permission and creation are the same, why did God create it?

But, when I had this feeling and started painting sacred art, as I had this feeling to do, then it come to me: my problem is I'll get a lot of criticism and another problem is my work's not good enough to sell.

You shouldn't have counseling at the end of life. You ought to have counseling 20 years before you're going to die. You ought to plan these things out. And I don't have any problem with things like living wills. But they ought to be done within the family.

I don't have a problem with Werner Herzog.

The experience of learning how to get straight to the core of a problem proved to be of immense value later when I had a long succession of responsibilities in large, complex government departments.

There are many projects I couldn't get off the ground because they didn't have white heroes. It's a problem that everyone who's been working in Hollywood has been facing.

One problem with the focus on speculation is that it tends to promote the growth of the great intellectual cancer of our times: conspiracy theories.

When antibiotics first came out, nobody could have imagined we'd have the resistance problem we face today. We didn't give bacteria credit for being able to change and adapt so fast.

Let's face it; God has a big ego problem. Why do we always have to worship him?

What I have a problem with is money and name at the expense of talent and culture.

At the risk of sounding like a spoilsport, I'd say that pagans have about the same experience of otherness and isolation as anyone else. We're not special in that regard. But this is because the problem of loneliness is almost universal - and that, to my mind, makes it much more serious.

I'm hopeless at small talk and have a problem making eye contact.

The only problem with the way they do my character is that they have her get redeemed too early.

You have a huge amount of confidence when you're younger, which slowly ebbs away for the rest of your life. You think: 'No problem. I can do that. Why shouldn't I do it?'

I have always had a problem with my weight.

My favourite subjects at school were algebra and logic: making a big problem into something small.

Getting hit on by both genders is such a champagne problem.

Suicide doesn't solve your problems. It only makes them infinitely, un-countably worse.

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.

I'm pretty transparent and have no problem sharing my weaknesses.

The Constitution of the United States allows us to change; I don't have a problem with that.

I didn't inherit any great success and the problems that came with it, and yet I was able to keep working and supporting myself and later a family. I'm crazy fortunate.

There is no problem with the opening of new houses of prayer for Lutherans and Pentecostals.

I am an animal rights campaigner myself, and I donate money and time to those charities, but I think sometimes the problem with animal rights campaigners, including myself, is that we don't think about people's feelings, too.

My dad was a very conservative Republican businessman, so obviously I considered it a problem when I realized I was a lesbian.