Quotes about problems

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Source: Brida

Source: Perfect Timing

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

Source: Devil May Cry

Source: The Satanic Verses

Source: Night Embrace

Source: Asfixia

Source: Life of Pi

Source: Princess in Love

Source: Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking

Source: Blood Rites

Source: White Cat

Source: Choke

Source: Disclosure

Source: Travels with Charley: In Search of America

Source: The Gift

Source: A Walk to Remember

Source: A Walk to Remember

Comment on &quot;I am Neil deGrasse Tyson -- AMA&quot;, November 13, 2011 http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/mateq/i_am_neil_degrasse_tyson_ama/c2zg3g6, <br class="br">2010s <br class="br">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&#x27;s why my public focus is primarily adults.

Source: Way of the Peaceful Warrior

Source: Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea

Source: The Way of Kings

Source: Lucky

“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.

Source: Magic Burns

Source: Reading Lolita in Tehran (2003)

Source: Flirt

Source: Doctor Sleep

Source: Never Let Me Go

Source: Think Like a Freak

Source: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Source: Maximum Ride The Angel Experiment

Source: The Boyfriend List: 15 Guys, 11 Shrink Appointments, 4 Ceramic Frogs and Me, Ruby Oliver

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: Excession

Source: The Son of Neptune

Source: The Phantom Tollbooth

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

Source: One Day

Source: The Swan Thieves

Source: The Golem's Eye

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.

Source: The Lost Hero

The Essential Calvin and Hobbes
Source: The Complete Calvin and Hobbes

Source: Your Best Life Now: 7 Steps to Living at Your Full Potential

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

Source: A Walk to Remember

Source: Ender's Game

Source: Runaway

Source: Last Sacrifice

Source: Lover Enshrined

Source: Grip of the Shadow Plague

Source: The Pilgrimage

Source: Brain Droppings

Source: Kiss an Angel

Source: The Throne of Fire

Source: Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story

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.

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

Source: Sharp Objects

Source: Mindfulness Meditation

Source: City of Fallen Angels

Source: The Name of the Wind (2007), Chapter 32, “Coppers, Cobblers and Crowds” (p. 227)

Source: Point Blank

Source: To Say Nothing of the Dog

Source: I'm In No Mood For Love

Source: The Good, the Bad, and the Undead

Source: Blood of the Fold

Source: Serious Concerns

20 Jun 90
Attack of the Deranged Mutant Killer Monster Snow Goons
Source: The Complete Calvin and Hobbes

Source: Different Seasons

Source: Birth Matters: A Midwife's Manifesta

Source: The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency