Problem Quotes

The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.

See, the problem is that God gives men a brain and a penis, and only enough blood to run one at a time.

It is wise to direct your anger towards problems - not people; to focus your energies on answers - not excuses.

The real question of life after death isn't whether or not it exists, but even if it does what problem this really solves.

Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.

All your quirks and all your problems - even your depressions and your failures - that's what makes you you.

I usually solve problems by letting them devour me.

The task of a writer is not to solve the problem but to state the problem correctly.

To every problem, there is a most simple solution.

We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.

No problem is so formidable that you can't walk away from it.

The problem with the world is that everyone is a few drinks behind.

If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.

One of the greatest problems of our time is that many are schooled but few are educated.

Whenever a theory appears to you as the only possible one, take this as a sign that you have neither understood the theory nor the problem which it was intended to solve.

I do not fix problems. I fix my thinking. Then problems fix themselves.

I'm not a writer with a drinking problem, I'm a drinker with a writing problem.

The main problem with this great obsession for saving time is very simple: you can't save time. You can only spend it. But you can spend it wisely or foolishly.

Your problem is you're... too busy holding onto your unworthiness.

We have normality. I repeat, we have normality. Anything you still can't cope with is therefore your own problem.

The easiest way to solve a problem is to deny it exists.

That is my problem with life, I rush through it, like I'm being chased. Even things whose whole point is slowness, like drinking relaxing tea. When I drink relaxing tea I suck it down as if I'm in a contest for who can drink relaxing tea the quickest.

Don't magnify your problems, magnify your God...he's got you covered.

Never let a problem to be solved become more important than a person to be loved.

Engineers like to solve problems. If there are no problems handily available, they will create their own problems.

Everything I did, all my actions, all of the problems I had I dedicate to God and to Chile, because I kept Chile from becoming Communist.

I used to have a drug problem, now I make enough money.

If you're looking for Mr. Perfect, you‟re going to spend your whole life being disappointed, because he doesn‟t exist. You have to get the best deal you can, but there will always be problems.

There is no such thing as a problem breed. However, there is no shortage of 'problem owners'....

I am a drinker with writing problems.

One of the terrible fallacies of contemporary psychotherapy is that if people would just say how they felt, a lot of problems could be solved.

So I had this problem — work or starve. So I thought I'd combine the two and decided to become a writer.

Conservation is the application of common sense to the common problems for the common good.

A perfection of means, and confusion of aims, seems to be our main problem.

The problem with the gene pool is that there's no lifeguard.

The release of atomic power has changed everything except our way of thinking ... the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker. (1945)

The biggest problem is not to let people accept new ideas, but to let them forget the old ones.

Everything is a battlefield. If you fight with anger, you are part of the problem. If you fight with joy, you're part of the solution.

The eternal problem of the human being is how to structure his waking hours

I don't think we can solve the outside problems until we solve the ones within.

The formulation of the problem is often more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skill."

I love living. I have some problems with my life, but living is the best thing they've come up with so far.

Truth is a hard master, and costly to serve, but it simplifies all problems.

You know, doing what is right is easy. The problem is knowing what is right.

Grades are a problem. On the most general level, they're an explicit acknowledgment that what you're doing is insufficiently interesting or rewarding for you to do it on your own. Nobody ever gave you a grade for learning how to play, how to ride a bicycle, or how to kiss. One of the best ways to destroy love for any of these activities would be through the use of grades, and the coercion and judgment they represent. Grades are a cudgel to bludgeon the unwilling into doing what they don't want to do, an important instrument in inculcating children into a lifelong subservience to whatever authority happens to be thrust over them.

The leftist is anti-individualistic... He is not the sort of person who has an inner sense of confidence in his own ability to solve his own problems and satisfy his own needs.

Anticipating problems and figuring out how to solve them is actually the opposite of worrying: it's productive.

View the problem as an opportunity to grow.

A Negro woman has the same kind of problems as other women, but she can't take the same things for granted.

Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.

Problems cannot be solved by the same level of thinking that created them.

Knotty theological questions are the least worrying of problems to me. Why? Because they will be resolved in the hereafter, and meanwhile they can be safely shelved.

He who cannot describe the problem will never find the solution to that problem.

This is the problem of all great revelations: their significance so often exceeds the frame of our comprehension. We understand only after, always after. Not simply when it is too late, but precisely because it is too late.

You can not operate in this room unless you believe that you are Superman, and whatever happens, you're capable of solving the problem.

Every solution breeds new problems.

The problem of distinguishing prime numbers from composite numbers and of resolving the latter into their prime factors is known to be one of the most important and useful in arithmetic.

Socialism is... not only a way of life, but a certain scientific approach to social and economic problems.

The problem with surviving was that you ended up with the ghosts of everyone you'd ever left behind riding on your shoulders.

To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.

We are not a problem people, we are people with problems.

no matter how big you think your problems are, someone else's problems could always be bigger, which makes yours relatively small!

There is no use talking about the problem unless you talk about the solution

He who seeks for methods without having a definite problem in mind seeks in the most part in vain.

Not every problem someone has with his girlfriend is necessarily due to the capitalist mode of production.

No," I said finally. "Slowness in Answering," she said into the handheld. "When's the last time you slept?" "1940" I said promptly, which is the problem with Quickness in Answering.

To solve a problem or to reach a goal, you don't need to know all the answers in advance. But you must have a clear idea of the problem or the goal you want to reach.

The use of force is always an answer to problems[It] isn't an attractive answer, though.

Complexity is one of the great problems in environmental design.

There is nothing more negligent than attempting to address a problem one finds on a branch than by censoring the leaves.

Phoney: Here's your problem Fone Bone! We're off the map! Get a bigger map!

The chief cause of problems is solutions.

A serious problem in America is the gap between academe and the mass media, which is our culture. Professors of humanities, with all their leftist fantasies, have little direct knowledge of American life and no impact whatever on public policy.

Many people see technology as the problem behind the so-called digital divide. Others see it as the solution. Technology is neither. It must operate in conjunction with business, economic, political and social system.

You've just one problem. You stand too close to the ball after you've hit it.

The quantum theory of parallel universes is not the problem, it is the solution. It is not some troublesome, optional interpretation emerging from arcane theoretical considerations. It is the explanation, the only one that is tenable, of a remarkable and counter-intuitive reality.

The problem isn't how to make the world more technological. It's about how to make the world more humane again.

Nothing can take the sting out of the world’s economic problems like watching millionaires present each other with golden statues.

Every problem has a gift for you in its hands.

The problem with writing about religion is that you run the risk of offending sincerely religious people, and then they come after you with machetes.

The whole [scientific] process resembles biological evolution. A problem is like an ecological niche, and a theory is like a gene or a species which is being tested for viability in that niche.

We should concentrate our work not only to a separated housing problem but housing involved in our daily work and all the other functions of the city.

...the problem with words is that once spoken, they cannot find their way back to the speaker alone.

Getting older is no problem. You just have to live long enough.

The current neglect of the problem can only irritate this deplorable state of affairs. The Black Muslims should constitute a warning to our society, a warning that must be heeded if we are to preserve the society.

Sex is a conversation carried out by other means. If you get on well out of bed, half the problems of bed are solved.

Everyone who achieves success in a great venture, solves each problem as they came to it. They helped themselves. And they were helped through powers known and unknown to them at the time they set out on their voyage. They keep going regardless of the obstacles they met.

A problem clearly stated is a problem half solved.

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

Modern diplomats approach every problem with an open mouth.

The problems seem so easy out there on the stump. Deficits shrink with a rhetorical flourish.

No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.

I don't have a problem with my body. I'm not just going to strip off all my clothing, but if the part calls for it and I don't think there's any way round, I'm absolutely fine

Our problem is not to find better values but to be faithful to those we profess.

The problem with self-improvement is knowing when to quit.

Hypocrisy is the essence of snobbery, but all snobbery is about the problem of belonging.

Money should not, and must not, change our commitment to solving problems and building this state.

It is nice to know that the computer understands the problem. But I would like to understand it too.

Good writers are monotonous, like good composers. They keep trying to perfect the one problem they were born to understand.

It's so much easier to suggest solutions when you don't know too much about the problem.