Problem Quotes

The solution to a problem changes the nature of the problem.

It's obvious that the key problem facing humanity in the coming century is how to bring a better quality of life - for 8 billion or more people - without wrecking the environment entirely in the attempt.

I like looking nice, but I always put comfort over fashion. I don't find thin girls attractive; be happy and healthy. I've never had a problem with the way I look. I'd rather have lunch with my friends than go to a gym.

I used to be a discipline problem, which caused me embarrassment until I realized that being a discipline problem in a racist society is sometimes an honor.

If I'm too strong for some people, that's their problem.

Obesity among young Americans is a serious problem that can have serious ramifications in the long run.

The definition of a good mathematical problem is the mathematics it generates rather than the problem itself.

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.

The problem is that the right doesn't need any ideas to govern, but the left can't govern without ideas.

I think now that the great thing is not so much the formulation of an answer for myself, for the theater, or the play-but rather the most accurate possible statement of the problem.

Harvard Medical School, the University of South Florida and the American Psychiatric Association have all conducted studies showing that the earlier one begins gambling, the more likely it is he or she will become an addicted, problem gambler.

Inflation is not always the main problem, or indeed a problem at all. Sometimes, though rarely, deflation is a more serious threat, and we need to shelve many of the orthodoxies we have held so dear.

Herein lies our problem. If we level that much land to grow rice and whatever, then no other animal could live there except for some insect pest species. Which is very unfortunate.

I'm a late bloomer. Being a late bloomer is a problem when you decide at 40 you want to have children.

What we have found in this country, and maybe we're more aware of it now, is one problem that we've had, even in the best of times, and that is the people who are sleeping on the grates, the homeless, you might say, by choice.

I think there's been a big problem between religion, or organized religion, and spirituality.

Solving a problem created by debt... by creating more debt is a fool's errand.

But I used to have a bit of a gambling problem. And that would have been the answer to my prayers. It got worse when I started playing this character, too.

Even if the music industry simply gave away all their music people would complain that they don't have the bandwidth to download all the stuff - the problem would merely shift from availability to distribution.

The problem of social organization is how to set up an arrangement under which greed will do the least harm, capitalism is that kind of a system.

There is no problem with the opening of new houses of prayer for Lutherans and Pentecostals.

The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.

Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem.

I don't think that Iran with a nuclear capability will be just the problem of the state of Israel. This is a matter that concerns the whole world.

I've always had a problem with people who couldn't tell the truth or admit a mistake and say they're wrong.

We have almost a city has probably two or three hundred committees. Every committee is dealing with just one problem and has nothing to do with the other problems.

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.

My only problem is finding a way to play my fortieth fallen female in a different way from my thirty-ninth.

The problem for me is that I've never actually studied photography, so it's quite a steep learning curve. Cameras these days do so much for you automatically but I still think there's a point where you should actually know the technical side.

It is time to end the discrimination against people who need treatment for chemical addiction. It is time for Congress to deal with our Nation's number one public health problem.