Problem Quotes - page 4

The problem with not having anybody to tell you what to do, I understood, is that there was nobody to tell you what not to do. (Augusten Burroughs)
The huge problem in our society is the enormous ignorance of the ideas that underlie modern art. View quote
Thom Mayne
If we will maintain our hope and confidence in the genius of our people, they will work out this problem, and their ability and industry will bring us back to normal conditions. View quote
Frank B. Kellogg
We have a saying in Tibet: If a problem can be solved there is no use worrying about it. If it can't be solved, worrying will do no good. View quote
Heinrich Harrer
To solve the problem of organizing world peace we must establish world law and order. View quote
Arthur Henderson
To deal with the true causes of war one must begin by recognizing as of prime relevancy to the solution of the problem the familiar fact that civilization is a partial, incomplete, and, to a great extent, superficial modification of barbarism. View quote
Elihu Root
As long as the problem of world reconstruction remains the center of interest for all nations, blocs having similar attitudes will form and operate even within the League itself. View quote
Hjalmar Branting
When Solomon said there was a time and a place for everything he had not encountered the problem of parking his automobile. View quote
Bob Edwards
Do the best you can in every task, no matter how unimportant it may seem at the time. No one learns more about a problem than the person at the bottom. View quote
Sandra Day O'Connor
The writer operates at a peculiar crossroads where time and place and eternity somehow meet. His problem is to find that location. View quote
Flannery O’Connor
The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problem. (Mahatma Gandhi)
It may sound surprising when I say, on the basis of my own clinical practice as well as that of my psychological and psychiatric colleagues, that the chief problem of people in the middle decade of the twentieth century is emptiness. View quote
Rollo May
For me, unemployment and poverty in the Greater Montreal area is not mainly a problem of structure, or design, or statistics. It is a profoundly human situation. View quote
Kim Campbell
I have arrived at the conviction that the neglect by economists to discuss seriously what is really the crucial problem of our time is due to a certain timidity about soiling their hands by going from purely scientific questions into value questions. View quote
Friedrich Hayek
Our art culture makes no attempt to search the past for precedents, but transforms the entire past into a sequence of provisional responses to a problem that remains intact. View quote
André Malraux
You know what your problem is, it's that you haven't seen enough movies - all of life's riddles are answered in the movies. View quote
Steve Martin
The world's problem is not too many people, but lack of political and economic freedom. View quote
Julian Simon
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. View quote
Georges Cuvier
Violent crime is a solved problem - all they have to do is repeal the laws that keep those intelligent, capable, and responsible men and women from arming themselves, and violent crime evaporates like dry ice on a hot summer day. View quote
L. Neil Smith
Our first and most pressing problem is how to do away with warfare as a method of solving conflicts between national groups within a society who have different views about how the society is to run. View quote
Margaret Mead
The perfect detective story cannot be written. The type of mind which can evolve the perfect problem is not the type of mind that can produce an artistic job of writing. (Raymond Chandler)
An early insight in my work on the economics of information concerned the problem of appropriability - the difficulty that those who pay for information have in getting returns. View quote
Joseph Stiglitz
The problem with putting two and two together is that sometimes you get four, and sometimes you get twenty-two. View quote
Dashiell Hammett
But the problem is that when I go around and speak on campuses, I still don't get young men standing up and saying, 'How can I combine career and family?' View quote
Gertrude Stein
Everyone talks about rock these days; the problem is they forget about the roll. View quote
Keith Richards