Problem Quotes
11076 quotes by 6223 authors
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Works of art are not so much finished as abandoned. Perhaps poems can be perfect. A short-short story might even be perfectible, as effective and…
— Bruce Holland Rogers
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Privilege is when you think that something's not a problem because it's not a problem for you personally,
— David Gaider
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Storytelling strengthens the imagination. To imagine is to envision, to see with the inward eye. This ability to imagine is the basis of all creativity.…
— Carol Birch
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The problem is that most people spend their lives looking but not truly seeing, or, as Sherlock Holmes, the meticulous English detective, declared to his…
— Joe Navarro
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We all faced painful ethical challenges before we even knew how to spell our names. There were tough choices. Tradeoffs. Confusing signals regarding how to…
— Price Pritchett
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In the central cases of physical pain, then, it appears that at least part of what is bad about our condition is the way it…
— L. W. Sumner
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Making art was really about the problem of the soul, of losing it. It was a technique for inhabiting the world. For not dissolving into…
— Rachel Kushner
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Most problems, if you give them enough time and space, will eventually wear themselves out
— Gautama Buddha
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Democracy is the only game in town. The problem is [when] people start to believe that it is not a game worth playing.
— Ivan Krastev
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The problem of environmental children's health is very urgent in Russia. Environmental situation now is the main factor, which determines young generation's health... the volume…
— Maria Cherkasova
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Give people, including yourself, clear permission to make mistakes . . . and to fix the problems. Since nobody's perfect, mistakes should be allowed. Cover-ups…
— Price Pritchett
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Women are the victims of war... as widows they've faced the trauma of being single parents and livelihoods of families are affected. A lot of…
— Kumari Jayawardena
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Traditional charity and aid are never going to solve the problems of poverty.
— Jacqueline Novogratz
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Sometimes in life there's no problem and sometimes in there is no solution. In this space - between these apparent poles - life flows.
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
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The leader is a person who has the possibility through destiny to know the people, to recognize their capacities, and to bring them to bear…
— Arthur Zajonc
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With global warming, I'm never going to time-travel. It's probably going to cause some major emission problems.
— Moon Bloodgood
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Contrary to popular accounts, very few scientists in the world - possibly none - have a sufficiently thorough, 'big picture' understanding of the climate system…
— Roy Spencer
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Economic losses like this are really as serious a problem as embezzlement and corruption.
— Li Jinhua
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Life is a continuous exercise in creative problem solving.
— Michael J. Gelb
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The American family is not simply changing; it is getting weaker. . . . Family decline drives some of our most urgent social problems. .…
— David Popenoe
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