Source: Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead
Source: Perfect Timing
“The problem with temptation is that you may not get another chance.”
“Your problem isn't the problem, it's your attitude about the problem.”
Variant: The problem is not the problem. The problem is your attitude about the problem. Got that? -Coach Brevin
Source: The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
“Captain, I think you have a problem with your brain being missing.”
“I usually know almost exactly how I feel. The problem is, I just can't tell anyone.”
Source: Princess in Love
“All human behavior has a reason. All behavior is solving a problem.”
Source: Disclosure
Source: Travels with Charley: In Search of America
“Believe me, when you die, it's everybody else's but your problem”
Source: The Gift
Source: A Walk to Remember
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2010s
Variant: Kids are never the problem. They are born scientists. The problem is always the adults. They beat the curiosity out of the kids. They out-number kids. They vote. They wield resources. That's why my public focus is primarily adults.
Source: Way of the Peaceful Warrior
Source: Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea
“a problem well put is half solved.”
“The Pattern of Inquiry” from Logic: Theory of Inquiry
Logic: Theory of Inquiry (1938)
Variant: It is a familiar and significant saying that a problem well put is half-solved.
“You're problem is, you underestimate me because I'm a woman.”
Source: Magic Burns
“Never tell your problems to anyone…20% don't care and the other 80% are glad you have them.”
“Want a Coke?” Abra asked. “Sugar solves lots of problems, that’s what I think.”
Source: Doctor Sleep
Source: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
“I don't have a problem with drugs, I have a problem with policemen.”
“The problem is I can think whatever I think but I still feel the way I feel.”
Source: The Boyfriend List: 15 Guys, 11 Shrink Appointments, 4 Ceramic Frogs and Me, Ruby Oliver
“Work is when you confront the problems you might otherwise be tempted to run away from”
Source: Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel
Source: The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself
Source: Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen
Source: The Son of Neptune
“I do not fix problems. I fix my thinking. Then problems fix themselves.”
“You can't improve sound by having only silence. The problem is to use each at the proper time.”
Source: The Phantom Tollbooth
“Complex problems do not demand complex solutions.”
Solution-Focused Pastoral Counseling: An Effective Short-Term Approach for Getting People Back on Track
Source: Cosmic Trigger: Die letzten Geheimnisse der Illuminaten oder An den Grenzen des erweiterten Bewusstseins
Ch. 12 : The West, Civilizations, and Civilization, § 2 : The West In The World, p. 310
Source: The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order (1996), Ch. 12 : The West, Civilizations, and Civilization, § 2 : The West In The World, p. 308
Context: Normatively the Western universalist belief posits that people throughout the world should embrace Western values, institutions, and culture because they embody the highest, most enlightened, most liberal, most rational, most modern, and most civilized thinking of humankind.
In the emerging world of ethnic conflict and civilizational clash, Western belief in the universality of Western culture suffers three problems: it is false; it is immoral; and it is dangerous.
Context: Cultural and civilizational diversity challenges the Western and particularly American belief in the universal relevance of Western culture. This belief is expressed both descriptively and normatively. Descriptively it holds that peoples in all societies want to adopt Western values, institutions, and practices. If they seem not to have that desire and to be committed to their own traditional cultures, they are victims of a “false consciousness” comparable to that which Marxists found among proletarians who supported capitalism. Normatively the Western universalist belief posits that people throughout the world should embrace Western values, institutions, and culture because they embody the highest, most enlightened, most liberal, most rational, most modern, and most civilized thinking of humankind.
In the emerging world of ethnic conflict and civilizational clash, Western belief in the universality of Western culture suffers three problems: it is false; it is immoral; and it is dangerous. … The belief that non-Western peoples should adopt Western values, institutions, and culture is immoral because of what would be necessary to bring it about. The almost-universal reach of European power in the late nineteenth century and the global dominance of the United States in the late twentieth century spread much of Western civilization across the world. European globalism, however, is no more. American hegemony is receding if only because it is no longer needed to protect the United States against a Cold War-style Soviet military threat. Culture, as we have argued, follows power. If non-Western societies are once again to be shaped by Western culture, it will happen only as a result of the expansion, deployment, and impact of Western power. Imperialism is the necessary logical consequence of universalism. In addition, as a maturing civilization, the West no longer has the economic or demographic dynamism required to impose its will on other societies and any effort to do so is also contrary to the Western values of self-determination and democracy. As Asian and Muslim civilizations begin more and more to assert the universal relevance of their cultures, Westerners will come to appreciate more and more the connection between universalism and imperialism.
Context: A world in which cultural identities — ethnic, national, religious, civilizational — are central, and cultural affinities and differences shape the alliances, antagonisms, and policies of states has three broad implications for the West generally and for the United States in particular.
First, statesmen can constructively alter reality only if they recognize and understand it. The emerging politics of culture, the rising power of non-Western civilizations, and the increasing cultural assertiveness of these societies have been widely recognized in the non-Western world. European leaders have pointed to the cultural forces drawing people together and driving them apart. American elites, in contrast, have been slow to accept and to come to grips with these emerging realities.
The Essential Calvin and Hobbes
Source: The Complete Calvin and Hobbes
“The problem with getting older is you still remember how things used to be.”
Source: Your Best Life Now: 7 Steps to Living at Your Full Potential
“You don't cause problems. An unpiloted vampire causes problems. You cause catastrophes.”
Magic Burns
Variant: You don't cause problems. You cause catastrophes.
Variant: Do you know that one of the great problems of our age is that we are governed by people who care more about feelings than they do about thoughts and ideas.
Source: Margaret Thatcher
“If people don't like you, or they think you're strange, then that's their problem.”
Source: A Walk to Remember
“Sometimes I get so caught up in my own problems that I forget how amazing the world is.”
Source: Runaway
“So that's how you're going to fix the family problem. Little Dragomirs. Good idea.”
Source: Last Sacrifice
Source: The Pilgrimage
“The biggest communication problem is we do not listen to understand.
We listen to reply.”
Source: Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story
“I always have a problem liking things I'm told I should like.”
Source: An Idiot Abroad: The Travel Diaries of Karl Pilkington
1950s, Three Ways of Meeting Oppression (1958)
Source: A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches
Context: A second way that oppressed people sometimes deal with oppression is to resort to physical violence and corroding hatred. Violence often brings about momentary results. Nations have frequently won their independence in battle. But in spite of temporary victories, violence never brings permanent peace. It solves no social problem; it merely creates new and more complicated ones.
“The problem with the French is that they don't have a word for "entrepreneur."”
Shirley Williams, Baroness Williams of Crosby, described this as a remark to Tony Blair in a discussion of the French economy during the G8 Summit, according to Jack Malvern (9 July 2002), "Bush and Blair, The Times. Alastair Campbell, Blair's director of communications, later said that Blair never heard Bush say this and never told Baroness Williams that he said it. See Lloyd Grove (2002-07-10) "The Reliable Source," Washington Post.
Attributed, Disputed
“You make problem, you have problem”
Source: Mindfulness Meditation
Source: City of Fallen Angels
Source: The Name of the Wind (2007), Chapter 32, “Coppers, Cobblers and Crowds” (p. 227)
“The only problem with one-man woman was that he was not a one-woman man.”
Source: I'm In No Mood For Love
Source: Serious Concerns
“I have all these great genes, but they're recessive. That's the problem here.”
20 Jun 90
Attack of the Deranged Mutant Killer Monster Snow Goons
Source: The Complete Calvin and Hobbes
Source: The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency
“Results are obtained by exploiting opportunities, not by solving problems.”
