Distress Quote by Neil Postman Download Open image “People in distress will sometimes prefer a problem that is familiar to a solution that is not.” — Neil Postman ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Distress Familiar Inspirational People Problem Problem solving Solutions Sometimes
It's so much easier to suggest solutions when you don't know too much about the problem. — Malcolm Forbes Copy Share Image
Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is a commonplace of modern technology that problems have solutions before there is knowledge of how they are to be solved. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
When we work with nature instead of trying to impose our will, the solution is often found within the problem. — David Holmgren Copy Share Image
To every problem there is already a solution whether you know it or not. — Grenville Kleiser Copy Share Image
A 'problem' is nothing more than a gorgeous opportunity to discover an even better solution. — Robin Sharma Copy Share Image
A problem only becomes a problem when we choose to see it as a problem — Robin Sharma Copy Share Image
When we can identify a problem and face the problem with confidence and enthusiasm, the solution is on the way. — Zig Ziglar Copy Share Image
The only difference between a problem and a solution is that people understand the solution. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“to whom will the technology give greater power and freedom? And whose power and freedom will be reduced by it?” — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
Cyberspace' is a metaphorical idea which is supposed to be the space where your consciousness is located when you're using computer technology on the… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
Textbooks, it seems to me, are enemies of education, instruments for promoting dogmatism and trivial learning. They may save the teacher some trouble, but… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
The whole problem with news on television comes down to this: all the words uttered in an hour of news coverage could be printed… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
“There being no international copyright laws, “pirated” editions abounded, with no complaint from the public, or much from authors, who were lionized.” — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
“The television commercial is not at all about the character of products to be consumed. It is about the character of the consumers of… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
“Many decisions about the form and content of news programs are made on the basis of information about the viewer, the purpose of which… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
“the world we live in is very nearly incomprehensible to most of us. There is almost no fact, whether actual or imagined, that will… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
“Huxley grasped, as Orwell did not, that it is not necessary to conceal anything from a public insensible to contradiction and narcotized by technological… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
“The written word is assumed to have been reflected upon and revised by its author,” — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
We do not measure a culture by its output of undisguised trivialities but by what it claims as significant. — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
That toil of growing up; The ignominy of boyhood; the distress Of boyhood changing into man; The unfinished man and his pain. — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
To pray is to open the door unto Jesus and admit Him into your distress. Your helplessness is the very thing which opens wide… — Ole Hallesby Copy Share Image
Soothing touch, whether it be applied to a ruffled cat, a crying infant, or a frightened child, has a universally recognized power to ameliorate… — Deane Juhan Copy Share Image
Want to talk third wave feminism, you could cite Ariel Levy and the idea that women have internalized male oppression. Going to spring break… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Being human, we would expel from our lives physical pain and mental anguish and assure ourselves of continual ease and comfort, but if we… — Spencer W. Kimball Copy Share Image
It was right then and there that she'd realized there was no quota on misery for people, no quantifiable threshold that once reached, got… — J.R. Ward Copy Share Image
You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might also pray in the fullness of your joy and in your… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
This isn't a romance. You're not a damsel in distress and I'm not the handsome prince come to save you. — CJ Roberts Copy Share Image
“Ivy waved the wet handkerchief, as much as to say, words cannot possibly articulate my profound distress. Then, because Ivy never settled for meaningful… — Gail Carriger Copy Share Image
They have stolen the public lands. They have grasped all to themselves, and by their unprincipled greed brought a crisis of unparalleled distress on… — Denis Kearney Copy Share Image
I believe that what so saddens the reformer is not his sympathy with his fellows in distress, but, though he be the holiest son… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Patience will benefit you in every hour, every time and every opportunity. It helps you to overcome your opponent, howsoever strong he may be.… — Abd al-Karim Qasim Copy Share Image