Quotes about problems

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“The problem is, hope is the thing that can’t be reined in by rules or pinned down by bitter experience. It’s a blessing and curse.”

“It's like male geeks don't know how to deal with real live women, so they just assume it's a user interface problem. Not their fault. They'll just wait for the next version to come out- something more "user friendly.”

“Your problem, Werner,” says Frederick, “is that you still believe you own your life.”

“She looks honestly upset, but then, I’ve learned that I can’t read her. The problem with a really excellent liar is that you have to just assume they’re always lying.”

“Confidence is what you have before you understand the problem.”

“The only problem with seeing people you know is that they know you.”

“Some people talk to animals. Not many listen though. That's the problem.”

“We have a name," said Jace. "Magnes B-"
"Shut up." Alec hissed, thwacking Jace with his closed menu. Jace looked injured.
"Jesus," he rubbed his arm. "What's your problem?”

“There is no question that there is an unseen world. The problem is, how far is it from midtown and how late is it open?”

“I can't stand just sitting here not doing anything. You can't solve a problem by remote control.”

“Genuine peace must be the product of many nations, the sum of many acts. It must be dynamic, not static, changing to meet the challenge of each new generation. For peace is a process — a way of solving problems”

“Nicholas this is one of those 'yes' or 'no' questions again. You seem to have a problem with those. Did you or did you not kill a woman - Jo”

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

“Every victory is only the price of admission to a more difficult problem”

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

“Most people's problems would be solved if they would only give more things a chance.”

“The problem with every story is you tell it after the fact. Every play-by-play description on the radio, the home runs and strikeouts, even that's delayed a few minutes. Even live television is postponed a couple seconds. Even Sound and light can only go so fast.”

“But, like anyone in love, Madeleine believed that her own relationship was different from every other relationship, immune from typical problems.”

“The problem with growing up is that once you're grown up, the people who aren't grown up aren't fun anymore.”

“The problem with having so many people call me by nicknames was that when someone called me by my actual name, it usually meant something serious was happening.”

“Nothing is hidden, nothing is ever lost, nothing is ever forgotten. That's always been part of my problem.”

“To every problem, there is a most simple solution.”

“You'll never get ahead by blaming your problems on other people.”

“A problem isn't finished just because you've found the right answer.”

“It's not a problem. There are people out there with much worse problems than mine."-Cynthia
"Doesn't make yours any more fun to bear."-Liza
"No. But it does help with the self-pity."- Cynthia”

“Felix believed that the answer to every problem involved penguins; but it wasn't fair to birds, and I was getting tired of teleporting them back home. Somewhere in Antarctica, a whole flock of Magellanic penguins were undergoing psychotherapy.”

“The problem with people is that they're only human.”

“Keep me preoccupied
Keep me busy, busy, busy
So I won't have to think
I don't want to think
Because it only brings me pain
I just keep running away from
My problems
Keep me busy
Give me a million things to do
So I can keep running away from myself.”

“The problem is not that it's too difficult for children, but that it's too difficult for grown ups. Much of the world view of Einstein's thinking wasn't being taught when the grown ups were in school, but the children were comfortably familiar with it.”

“The major problems in the world are the result of the difference between how nature works and the way people think”

“The only permanent solution to your problems is to go inside and let go of the part of you that seems to have so many problems with reality. Once you do that, you'll be clear enough to deal with what's left.”

“To summarize the summary of the summary: people are a problem.”

“A stupid ruler is much more of a problem than an insane one.”

“A good boss asks what part she could have played in the problem. And then she asks herself what she can do better next time.”

“The whole problem with people is they don't know what matters and what doesn't.”

“The problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without.”

“You seek problems because you need their gifts.”

“Solutions to problems often come from knowing when to ask for help.”

“Every problem has a solution, although it may not be the outcome that was originally hoped for or expected.”

“We cannot solve the problems using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them”

“That's the problem with best friends. Sometimes they know you better than you know yourself.”

“Make small commitments and keep them. Be a light, not a judge. Be a model, not a critic. Be part of the solution, not part of the problem.”

“What brings you onto my property?" Rhev said, cradling his mug with both hands trying to absorb its warmth.
Got a problem"
I can't fix your personality, sorry”

“The problem, as I see it, is that you've been told and not told. You've been told, but none of you really understand, and I dare say, some people are quite happy to leave it that way.”

“Don't be pushed by your problems. Be led by your dreams.”

“You can't eat [literature], that's the problem," he said. "I've tried, it's very dry, and not at all nutritious.”

“The problem was you had to keep choosing between one evil or another, and no matter what you chose, they sliced a little bit more off you, until there was nothing left.”

“It doesn’t take time to change once you understand the problem… Somebody hands you a rattlesnake, it doesn’t take long to drop it, does it?”

“The real problem with being around James was that he was always the hero. And what did that make you? Either the sidekick or the villain.”

“If people don't think they have the power to solve their problems, they won't even think about how to solve them.”

“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)”

“It takes a huge effort to free yourself from memory, but when you succeed, you start to realize that you’re capable of far more than you imagined. You live in this vast body called the Universe, which contains all the solutions and all the problems. Visit your soul; don’t visit your past. The Universe goes through many mutations and carries the past with it. We call each of those mutations a ‘life,’ but just as the cells in your body change and yet you remain the same, so time does not pass, it merely changes.”

“If any man despises me, that is his problem. My only concern is not doing or saying anything deserving of contempt.”

“She had to face the fact that she couldn't protect everyone she loved. She couldn't solve every problem.”

“When insane things start to arrange themselves in sane patterns around you, you know you got problems.”

“As long as you think the problem is out there, that very thought is the problem”

“The young man or woman writing today has forgotten the problems of the human heart in conflict with itself which alone can make good writing because only that is worth writing about, worth the agony and the sweat.”

“The pain was so deep and so raw. There were days I would have died just to forget. The problem was, I couldn't figure out how to get her out of my mind. How do you kill that kind of pain?”

“Codependents are reactionaries. They overreact. They under-react. But rarely do they act. They react to the problems, pains, lives, and behaviors of others. They react to their own problems, pains, and behaviors.”

“If you can't solve a problem, it's because you're playing by the rules”

“The problem I have with all this religion stuff is that I can't relate to it. I think most people got into 'cos it gave them something to do on a Sunday, but since all the shops are now open it isn't required as much.”

“You can't talk your way out of a problem you behaved your way into!”

“Being scared isn't the problem. It's not running away that's the hard part.”

“The problem about the future is that it keeps turning into the present.”

“When a problem is disturbing you, don't ask, "What should I do about it?" Ask, "What part of me is being disturbed by this?”

“Words," he said, "is oh such a twitch-tickling problem to me all my life.”

“Getting old we can deal with. Being old is the problem”

“Life is problems. Living is solving problems.”

“Each person deserves a day away in which no problems are confronted, no solutions searched for.”

“Many people want the government to protect the consumer. A much more urgent problem is to protect the consumer from the government.”

“Never accept the proposition that just because a solution satisfies a problem, that it must be the only solution.”

“I forced myself to take another bite of bread, chewing casually. But inside I felt stricken, filled with unexpected yearning. And I realized the problem: no one I knew would have come up with that day for me., I thought,.”

“The problem with not having anybody to tell you what to do, I understood, is that there was nobody to tell you what not to do.”

“Oliver… well. Who knew if Oliver’s problem was the disease or just a bad attitude?”

“The mature response to the problem of existence is love.”

“And so the problem remained; lots of people were mean, and most were miserable, even the ones with digital watches.”

“So that is the design process or the creative process. Start with a problem, forget the problem, the problem reveals itself or the solution reveals itself and then you reevaulate it. This is what you are doing all the time.”

“She gave me the jabs and said I was covered for every worst-case scenario, including being bitten by a dirty chimp. I told her this is why we have over-population problems. Why are idiots who annoy dirty chimps being protected?”

“But it isn’t a rough draft either. The one I turned in several months ago was rough. There were some bad plot holes, some logical inconsistencies, pacing problems, and not nearly enough lesbian unicorns.”

“I would have, had someone not detonated their charges prematurely. (Nykyrian)
Yeah, Cruel. You have to watch that premature detonation problem of yours. (Hauk)”

“What are you doing in Nicky's room, Rachel? Oooh! He summoned you to the west coast, didn't he? Did you kill him? Good for you taking care of that little problem? I should give you a bunny!" - Algaliarept”

“True happiness comes not when we get rid of all of our problems, but when we change our relationship to them, when we see our problems as a potential source of awakening, opportunities to practice, and to learn.”

“If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you got a problem. Everything else is inconvenience.”

“It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.”

“I've always protected myself when it comes to love. And maybe that's the problem. By not letting myself get hurt now, it ripples into much bigger pain later.”

“Money problems can always be solved by a man not frightened by them.”

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

“To think in terms of either pessimism or optimism oversimplifies the truth. The problem is to see reality as it is.”

“Don’t try to make life a mathematics problem with yourself in the center and everything coming out equal. When you’re good, bad things can still happen. And if you’re bad, you can still be lucky.”

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

“From biscuit to brides, if there is anything their children really want, parents have a problem.”

“Think of the solution, not the problem”

“Order is the key to all problems.”

“The problem is, I can’t tell what’s real anymore, and what’s made up.”

“Character is both developed and revealed by tests, and all of life is a test… You will be tested by major changes, delayed promises, impossible problems, unanswered prayers, undeserved criticism, and even senseless tragedies.”

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

“Our triumph over sorrow is not that we can avoid it but that we can endure it. And therein lies our hope; that in spirit we might become bigger than the problems we face.”

“Because if you were the problem, chances were you could also be the solution. The only way to find out was to take another shot.”

“The problem with religion, because it's been sheltered from criticism, is that it allows people to believe en masse what only idiots or lunatics could believe in isolation.”