Problem Quotes

When somebody says that all statements are false, the obvious problem is that as an assertion it's self-defeating.

There is always an easy solution to every problem - neat, plausible, and wrong.

If you procrastinate when faced with a big difficult problem... break the problem into parts, and handle one part at a time.

During these two and a half years that have followed the war, the most urgent problem we have encountered was: to activate the public enterprises, to bring them up to the level that international markets demand and we are just now getting them prepared for privatization.

The problem with doing a schlocky or big budget studio film is that it wouldn't actually be fun for me. It wouldn't be exciting.

I personally don't have a problem with naked bodies on television.

I'm not for gratuitous nudity, but if there's humor, I don't have a problem.

I assume that if people get to know me, they'll like me. If they don't, it's not my problem.

My life as a working theorist began three months after this preliminary study and background reading, when Oscar gently nudged me toward working on a particular problem.

You need to impress me, outwit me, compete with me? Go ahead, knock yourself out, I have no problem with that at all.

Resolution 1441 does not give anyone the right to an automatic use of force. Russia believes that the Iraqi problem should be regulated by the Security Council, which carries the main responsibility for ensuring international security.

No weapon has ever settled a moral problem. It can impose a solution but it cannot guarantee it to be a just one.

When you have an intense game, you're going to have arguments. I have no problem with it. I think it's healthy.

We are afraid of ideas, of experimenting, of change. We shrink from thinking a problem through to a logical conclusion.

I think it's too bad that everybody's decided to turn on drugs, I don't think drugs are the problem. Crime is the problem. Cops are the problem. Money's the problem. But drugs are just drugs.

Sexual harassment at work... is it a problem for the self-employed?

Both French and Latin are involved with nationalistic and religious implications which could not be entirely shaken off, and so, while they seemed for a long time to have solved the international language problem up to a certain point, they did not really do so in spirit.

The actor has a constant problem of personal identity.

Our nation's immigration policy has been of top concern in recent years, and for good reason. With between eight and twelve million illegal aliens in the United States, it is obviously a problem out of control.

I got a couple on per album but my problem was that I wanted to sing the songs and not let Roger sing them.

Space and time, not proteins and neurons, hold the answer to the problem of consciousness. When we consider the nerve impulses entering the brain, we realize that they are not woven together automatically, any more than the information is inside a computer.

In all secrets there is a kind of guilt, however beautiful or joyful they may be, or for what good end they may be set to serve. Secrecy means evasion, and evasion means a problem to the moral mind.

Because we only feed in the United States less than 1 per cent of the meals, most of them are eaten elsewhere. Most meals are eaten at home. So to make McDonald's the target is not going to solve the problem.

If you ask what you are going to do about global warming, the only rational answer is to change the way in which we do transportation, energy production, agriculture and a good deal of manufacturing. The problem originates in human activity in the form of the production of goods.

In all three cases, and for most human beings, the problem of suffering poses no difficult problem at all: one has a world picture in which suffering has its place, a world picture that takes suffering into account.

The problem with me, as far as getting married and having a family, is that my comedy is so important to me. So I don't know if I'll ever be as good a dad as my dad.

As far as I'm concerned I've never had a problem with anybody, no rivalry.

President Barack Obama has it right - there is a lot to change about Washington. The problem is, not much will get changed unless we confront the runaway filibuster in the U.S. Senate.

Of course the French are making very credible movies and it is still one of the greatest nations in terms of world cinema but the real problem is the decay in film criticism.

The real questions are: Does it solve a problem? Is it serviceable? How is it going to look in ten years?