Problem Quotes - Page 92

27 percent to 55 percent of casino revenues come from problem or pathological gamblers

No problem exists in isolation, one must first reduce it to its basic components, then tackle each component in turn.

We need to reorganize our entire system of retirement plan investing and to develop federal standards of fiduciary duty for pension trustees and fund managers. These require "top down" intervention. But we also need investors to look after their own economic interests, a bottom up approach to our problems that is well within our individual power to undertake.

Many scientists will have to contribute to the solution of the great problem; they will have to follow up and measure all those phenomena in which the atomic structure is directly expressed.

Intrinsic value is not measured by how much money you make, it's measured by the size of the problem you solve.

I've never been keen on open adoption. It doesn't seem to solve the main problem with adoption, which is that somebody feels she was abandoned by someone else.

To me, a politician's job is to listen to constituents' problems and try to sort them out.

We don't have any problem finding enough things to do; the problem we have is making sure we don't overload ourselves inadvertently.

If you realize that the ultimate happiness for all depends not on disorder of the emotions for either sex, but in harmonizing the emotions, all the problems will vanish.

Can the mind resolve a psychological problem immediately?

I had a problem with cops pulling me over all the time for speeding. When I was doing Hill Street Blues, the cops said how much they loved the show as they were writing me up; meanwhile my insurance went through the roof.

If you own the problem, you own the customer. If you lose the problem, you lose the customer. It's that simple.

Some things are sent to test us. Clearly you must be good at problem solving if you are being set tough exams.

I think the core problem is much closer to recognizing where force is of value, where it is useful, and to distinguish that from situations in which war is not useful or is indeed counterproductive.

Always try in interviews to avoid the cliches about the problems of public life.

I had a lot of vocal problems when I was younger. I don't know if it's down to leading a healthier lifestyle or what but my range has increased.

Upon the solution of this problem, or upon sufficient proof of the impossibility of synthetical knowledge a priori, depends the existence or downfall of metaphysics.

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?'

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

One of the problems with dealing with anarchism is that there are many people whose ideas are anarchist, but who do not necessarily call themselves anarchists.

Most business problems can be solved if you can teach yourself to look beyond the dollar sign.

The most successful executives are often men who have built their own companies. Ironically their very success frequently brings to them and members of their families personal problems of an intensity rarely encountered by professional managers. And these problems make family businesses probably the most difficult to operate.

What initially attracts us and what later becomes 'the problem' are usually one and the same.

Great mathematics is achieved by solving difficult problems not by fabricating elaborate theories in search of a problem.

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.