Problem Quotes - Page 97

The same thinking and actions that created our problems cannot be used to solve them.

A possibility thinker notices a problem just long enough to get excited about the solution.

The problem right now, which I've been pointing out very bluntly to American officials in Washington, is that the U.S. has no economic presence in Afghanistan. The Afghans can't point and say, "Oh, the Americans built that road. They built that telecommunications facility. They built that electricity powerhouse," because nothing has been built so far.

Wow,” says Peter, “when your guidance counselor tells you to die, you really have problems.

13.5 Mrs. Wolfe asks whether Mr. Iqbal expects her Susan to undertake compulsory headstands. 13.6 Mr. Iqbal infers that, considering Susan's academic performance and weight problems, a headstand regime might be desirable.

Writers ever since writing began have had problems, and the main problem narrows down to just one word - life.

Unemployment is higher in Europe than in the United States and primarily concentrated in immigrant minority populations, so people are worried about what's going to happen and if American-style ghettos are emerging in Europe. There are some of the problems there that America sees associated with the lack of economic inclusion - family breakdown, gang behavior, and racial tensions. I get the sense that in Europe they are much more concerned about these issues than in the United States.

Government is not the problem, and government is not the solution. We - the American people - we are the solution.

Science is beginning to catch up with global health problems.

The problem wiv some blokes is that wen they ain't drunk, they're sober.

Our most important problems cannot be solved; they must be outgrown.

The balancing of present wants against the future is really the central problem of ethics.

How far we are going to read a poet when we can read about a poet is a problem to lay before biographers.

If we do not like what we see in that mirror the problem is not to fix the mirror, we have to fix society.

First problem. To produce wealth. Second problem. To distribute it.

The problem is not what other people think, do or say; it is your reaction.

Given the racist and patriarchal patterns of the state, it is difficult to envision the state as the holder of solutions to the problem of violence against women of color. However, as the anti-violence movement has been institutionalized and professionalized, the state plays an increasingly dominant role in how we conceptualize and create strategies to minimize violence against women.

No problem is insoluble, given a big enough plastic bag.

The problem turned out to be that I never was that kind of an artist.

I suppose people also have to be a little more careful or circumspect if they're going to leverage their celebrity to promote their political aims. The problem is that politics is about the accretion of power, and it's very difficult not to get giddy with power.

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.

The revival in religion will be a rhetorical problem - new persuasive words for defaced or degraded ones.

Any reductionist program has to be based on an analysis of what is to be reduced. If the analysis leaves something out, the problem will be falsely posed.

The problem today is that there are no deserts, only dude ranches.

'Tis not every question that deserves an answer.