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Problem Quotes (displaying: 1 - 30 of 3745 quotes )

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Problems are not the problem; coping is the problem.
Virginia Satir
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Problem is, you can’t accept that his relationship had a real short shelf life. You’re like a dog at the dump, baby – you’re just lickin’ at the empty tin can, trying to get more nutrition out of it. And if you’re not careful, that can’s gonna get stuck on your snout forever and make your life miserable. So drop it.” “But I love him.” “So love him.” “But I miss him.” “So miss him. Send him some love and light every time you think about him, then drop it.
Elizabeth Gilbert
Problem is, once I sit at my desk and put all these down on paper. I realize something vital is missing. It doesn't crystallize - no crystals, just pebbles. And I'm not transported anywhere.
Haruki Murakami
Problems worthy of attacks, prove their worth by hitting back
Adam Smith
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Problems of the heart always bruised the soul.
Paulo Coelho
Problems may be solved in the study which have baffled all those who have sought a solution by the aid of their senses.
Arthur Conan Doyle
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Problems may be solved in the study which have baffled all those who have sought a solution by the aid of their senses. To carry the art, however, to its highest pitch, it is necessary that the reasoner should be able to use all the facts which have come to his knowledge; and this in itself implies, as you will readily see, a possession of all knowledge, which, even in these days of free education and encyclopaedias, is a somewhat rare accomplishment.
Arthur Conan Doyle
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Problems in science are sometimes made easier by adding complications.
Daniel Dennett
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Problems call forth our courage and our wisdom; indeed, they create our courage and wisdom.
M. Scott Peck
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Problems that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected as questions asked in the wrong way.
Alan Watts
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Problems cannot be solved with the same mind set that created them.
Albert Einstein
Problems of human behavior still continue to baffle us, but at least in the Library we have them properly filed.
Anita Brookner
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Problem solving, and I don't mean algebra, seems to be my life's work. Maybe it's everyone's life's work.
Beverly Cleary
Problems are inevitable. Misery is a choice.
Ann Landers
Problems are only opportunities with thorns on them.
Hugh Miller
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Problems only exist in the human mind.
Anthony de Mello
Problems do not go away. They must be worked through or else they remain, forever a barrier to the growth and development of the spirit.
M. Scott Peck
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Problems emerge and some people try to sweep them under the rug.
Bill Condon
Problem solving is hunting. It is savage pleasure and we are born to it.
Thomas Harris
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Problems arise in that one has to find a balance between what people need from you and what you need for yourself.
Jessye Norman
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Problems can become opportunities when the right people come together.
Robert South
Problems look mighty small from 150 miles up.
Roger B. Chaffee
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Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
Robert H. Schuller
Problems are the price of progress. Don't bring me anything but trouble. Good news weakens me.
Charles Kettering
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Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
Henry J. Kaiser
Problems are the price you pay for progress.
Branch Rickey
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There's a joke people tell in the Soviet Union: Mitterrand, Bush and Gorbachev have a meeting with God. Mitterrand says, 'My country faces many difficult problems-- lagging exports, Muslim minorities, European unification. How long will it be before France's problems are solved?' God says, 'Fifteen years.' Mitterrand begins to cry. 'I'm an old man,' says Mitterrand. 'I'll be dead by then. I'll never see France's problems solved.' Then Bush says, 'My country faces many difficult problems-- recession, crime, racial prejudice. How long will it be before America's problems are solved?' God says, 'Ten years.' Bush begins to cry. 'I'm an old man,' says Bush. 'I'll be out of office by then. I won't get any credit for solving America's problems.' Then Gorbachev says, 'My country faces many, many difficult problems. How long will it be before the Soviet Union's problems are solved?' God begins to cry.
P. J. O'Rourke
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Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience. Our problem is that people all over the world have obeyed the dictates of leaders…and millions have been killed because of this obedience…Our problem is that people are obedient allover the world in the face of poverty and starvation and stupidity, and war, and cruelty. Our problem is that people are obedient while the jails are full of petty thieves… (and) the grand thieves are running the country. That’s our problem.
Howard Zinn
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Another savage trait of our time is the disposition to talk about material substances instead of about ideas. The old civilisation talked about the sin of gluttony or excess. We talk about the Problem of Drink--as if drink could be a problem. When people have come to call the problem of human intemperance the Problem of Drink, and to talk about curing it by attacking the drink traffic, they have reached quite a dim stage of barbarism. The thing is an inverted form of fetish worship; it is no sillier to say that a bottle is a god than to say that a bottle is a devil. The people who talk about the curse of drink will probably progress down that dark hill. In a little while we shall have them calling the practice of wife-beating the Problem of Pokers; the habit of housebreaking will be called the Problem of the Skeleton-Key Trade; and for all I know they may try to prevent forgery by shutting up all the stationers' shops by Act of Parliament.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Look at all the things that can go wrong for men. There’s the nothing-happening-at-all problem, the too-much-happening-too-soon problem, the dismal-droop-after-a-promising-beginning problem; there’s the size-doesn’t-matter-except-in-my-case problem, the failing-to-deliver-the-goods problem…and what do women have to worry about? A handful of cellulite? Join the club. A spot of I-wonder-how-I-rank? Ditto.
Nick Hornby