Top 100 Any Problem Quotes
#1. The problem that has no name-which is simply the fact that American women are kept from growing to their full human capacities-is taking a far greater toll on the physical and mental health of our country than any known disease.
Betty Friedan
#2. The problem with most people," Dad said once, not necessarily implying that I counted as most people, but not discounting the possibility either, "is that they want to be alive for as long as possible without having any idea whatsoever how to live.
Alexandra Fuller
#3. No matter what kind of problem I've run into, there's always been a solution for it. Now, obviously, there will be a point where there aren't any more solutions, and I'll have used up my time. We all do.
Dick Cheney
#4. It's obvious we can't ignore the problem any longer. Locally and nationally, we cannot wait to see how bad it gets. We need to act now.
Greg Nickels
#5. I do not own any camping gear, but this is not a problem, as I have watched every season of Survivor.
David Thorne
#6. The depth of any story is proportionate to the protagonist's commitment to their goal, the complexity of the problem, and the grace of the solution.
Steve House
#7. Not that any of the sysadmin's knowledge and skills were applicable here.
The psychological stance was the thing: the implicit faith, a little naive and a little cocky, that by banging his head against the problem for long enough he'd be able to break through in the end.
Neal Stephenson
#8. I think the biggest problem in the world is that we have a generation of young people, and maybe two, who don't think it's going to get any better.
John Denver
#9. I'm never horrible to anybody. My problem, and you can ask any of my friends, is that I'm too nice to everybody.
Paul Watson
#10. Humans are a social species more than any other, and in order to build a community, which for some reason humans have to do in order to live, we have to solve the communication problem. Language is the tool that was invented to solve that problem.
Daniel Everett
#11. Break any problem into, or make any changes in, small increments.
Anne Grant
#12. If people listen to music and dance every day, they find happiness and sacred solutions to any problem.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#13. The main problem is to free your mind when you play. I find that in my own playing, whenever I feel any kind of tension, I'm restricted to playing the most fundamental kinds of things.
Art Farmer
#15. The problem with most Americans is that they don't like any question that takes more than ten seconds to answer.
Gore Vidal
#16. One of the big breakthroughs, I think for me, was reading Robert A. Heinlein's four rules of writing, one of which was, 'You must finish what you write.' I never had any problem with the first one, 'You must write' - I was writing since I was a kid. But I never finished what writing.
George R R Martin
#17. Writing is not magic. It's a craft, a process, a set of steps. As with any process, things sometimes break down. Even in a good story, the writer runs into problems. So the act of writing always includes problem solving.
Roy Peter Clark
#18. There's this powerful phrase in the legal world, "Difficult cases make bad law." The exception is the difficult case. You can't generalize them by definition. So although they are fascinating, they don't solve any problem because they're so one of a kind.
Malcolm Gladwell
#19. Your imaginary friend isn't the problem, Amanda. The problem is that you don't seem to have any real friends.
Rebecca McNutt
#20. For any kind of problem, we must first undoubtedly believe that we can absolutely solve it! Then, the solution will come; it is our determination and our utter belief on this matter that shall bring the solution!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#21. I'm one of those people who was taught not to ruffle any feathers. Of course, I have no problem ruffling feathers.
Anne Heche
#22. Education does not solve any problem but it gives you the ability to solve the problem.
Debasish Mridha
#23. If you take any world problem, any issue on the planet, the solution to that problem certainly includes education. In education, the roadblock is the laptop.
Nicholas Negroponte
#24. The most dangerous belief for any software company today is that the solution to their adoption problem lies in better software engineering.
Stephen O'Grady
#25. I have absolutely no problem with anyone's life choices. What bothers me greatly is, when they try to force those life choices on others, in any manner.
Shon Mehta
#27. The kids who come backstage that have cancer or whatever, make them laugh and smile for a little while, what's the problem with that? There isn't any.
Jeff Dunham
#28. In the modern view, unbridled personal freedom is the only good to be pursued; any obstacle to it is a problem to be overcome.
Anthony Daniels
#29. My writing is progressing slowly, but at least it's moving forward. I'm sure that's the case. The only problem is that I'm never absolutely certain that what I've written is any good.
Mikhail Bulgakov
#30. This 'oh let's hug it out' without taking any responsibility is exactly the problem ... We are not silly irrational little girls. We are running a serious business with investments from the biggest VCs in the Valley.
Sarah Lacy
#31. Could any symbol be any more appropriate of the ambiguity of human transformation? What mushroom is it that grows at the end of history? Is it Stropharia cubensis, or is it the creation of Edward Teller? This is an unresolved problem.
Terence McKenna
#32. What's wrong with being alone anyway? Being alone is sometimes a great place to be, but people are always trying to correct this "problem" for you, even if you yourself don't have any kind of problem with it.
Amy Schumer
#33. The problem with any philosophical consideration is that once you open a door in your mind, you can never close it. Once you learn something, you can never convince your mind that you didn't learn it. If you learn the world is round, you can never fit in with a world that thinks it's flat.
Ted Dekker
#34. Keep yourselves from idols." The warning isn't given to them because it wasn't a real danger or because there was an off chance someone might fall into idolatry. It was given because this is our root problem on any given day. It is what we, especially as followers of Jesus, must fight against.
Joe Thorn
#35. We got everyone's attention, but we didn't solve any environmental problems.
Denis Hayes
#36. The problem is that the right doesn't need any ideas to govern, but the left can't govern without ideas.
Jose Saramago
#37. This was the fundamental problem with rockets - and no one had ever discovered any alternative for deep-space propulsion. It was just as difficult to lose speed as to acquire it, and carrying the necessary propellant for deceleration did not merely double the difficulty of a mission; it squared it.
Arthur C. Clarke
#39. I'd never had any problem finding inspiration; Ireland was always just there, you know? All this richness of culture was there to tap into.
Brendan Gleeson
#40. We can solve many problems in an appropriate way, without any difficulty, if we cultivate harmony, friendship and respect for one another.
Dalai Lama
#41. Anyone can be bored or unfulfilled at virtually any job. How one chooses to respond to boredom is key. Most women are resourceful: when faced with boredom, they find a way out. That's an essential skill. Those who don't have it will suffer, to be sure, but that is not society's problem.
Suzanne Venker
#42. There is no such thing as a strictly woman's problem. Any question affecting the welfare of society is a woman's problem.
Nancy Astor
#43. I've always felt like a kid, and I still feel like a kid, and I've never had any problem tapping into my childhood, and my kid side.
Paul Reubens
#44. The first kind builds character. You cannot grow without this kind of problem, any more than you can build muscles without exercise.
John C. Wright
#45. I don't have any sense of an audience when I'm writing. I don't consider the audience. Because all I'm interested in is the problem on the page.
Jim Crace
#46. You have not seen my face go across the screen for any off the field problems, period.
Terrell Owens
#47. If you stumble about believability, what are you living for? Love is hard to believe, ask any lover. Life is hard to believe, ask any scientist. God is hard to believe, ask any believer. What is your problem with hard to believe?
Yann Martel
#48. "When you have a fire in an aircraft, there's no place to go, exactly, there's no - and you can't find any oxygen from outside the aircraft to get in the aircraft, because the windows don't open. I don't know why they don't do that. It's a real problem."
Mitt Romney
#49. I think it can be hard for any man to sometimes be upstaged by his wife. So when I'm home, I work very hard to be Todd's wife and Jade's mother. I have no problem going back to those traditional roles. I try to be Giada, the young girl that he met 20 years ago and fell in love with.
Giada De Laurentiis
#50. The message from the moon which we have flashed to the far corners of this planet is that no problem need any longer be considered insoluble.
Norman Cousins
#52. The problem with movies is that movies end and your life doesn't.
This doesn't appear to cause any trouble, but it does cause confusion, which is almost as bad.
Tom O'Brien
#53. For most of us, fanfiction is a non-issue. Even for midlist writers. We will never be popular enough for people to play in our worlds with any frequency. The problem for us is getting people to read and care about our books that much in the first place.
Catherynne M Valente
#55. To die every day to every problem, every pleasure, and not carry over any problem at all; so the mind remains tremendously attentive, active, clear.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#56. The problem comes when you say that danger is part of the equation. Then you don't do any more work on safety. That shouldn't happen.
Damon Hill
#57. A typical medical practice is like an old-fashioned business which keeps all of its records on paper. It can probably track down any individual transaction if it needs to, but it's basically helpless when it comes to overall measurements of performance. And that's the big problem.
Mitch Kapor
#58. Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything.
George Lois
#59. Almost any problem, whether it's telling a family story, or telling a network-quality story, or answering a network note, becomes essentially instantly solvable, because you have a bunch of brains sitting in a room.
Loren Bouchard
#60. Her mouth has always lacked any type of filter, a problem exacerbated by her refusal to lie about anything. Two qualities guaranteed to turn every conversation into a battlefield.
Gena Showalter
#61. You don't have any problem with reality. You face it head on and tackle that bitch to the ground.
Sylvia Day
#62. Listen, I gather you have a problem working with a psychic. Believe me, I don't like working with a jackass any better.
Kim Harrington
#63. I believe through learning and application of what you learn, you can solve any problem, overcome any obstacle and achieve any goal that you can set for yourself.
Brian Tracy
#65. Space and time, not proteins and neurons, hold the answer to the problem of consciousness. When we consider the nerve impulses entering the brain, we realize that they are not woven together automatically, any more than the information is inside a computer.
Robert Lanza
#66. All his life, Klaus had believed that if you read enough books, you could solve any problem, but now he wasn't so sure.
Lemony Snicket
#68. I don't have any problem doing anything. The secret is I have no shame.
Dakota Johnson
#70. No, snakes are no problem. I'd go to any country, anywhere, any snakes, not a problem.
Steve Irwin
#71. The best way to deal with any economic problem is to let the market work it through.
Marc Faber
#72. The problem is with any practice is that it is a practice. That is why people don't win. The reason why people don't win is they get stuck in ideas, habits, and ways of seeing life.
Frederick Lenz
#73. It is this research into pure painting that is the problem at the present moment. I do not know any painters in Paris who are really searching for this ideal world.
Robert Delaunay
#74. The gift of the Holy Ghost operates equally with men, women, and even little children. It is within this wondrous gift and power that the spiritual remedy to any problem can be found.
Boyd K. Packer
#75. Get a black suit and just freeload, problem it's too God damned late now even to be any of the things I never wanted to be.
William Gaddis
#76. Just remember that you are tougher than any problem. Just keep putting in your best and you shall tame the beast that is the JEE.
Paras Arora
#77. The problem is, when you're making an animated movie, the studio has an illusion in their minds - and it's really not true - that because it's a drawing, it can be changed at any time.
Zack Snyder
#78. Heaven will solve our problems, but not, I think, by showing us subtle reconciliations between all our apparently contradictory notions. The notions will all be knocked from under our feet. We shall see that there never really was any problem.
C.S. Lewis
#79. If I "try" to play, I fail; if I force the play, I crush it; if I race, I trip. Any time I stiffen or brace myself against some error or problem, the very act of bracing would cause the problem to occur. The only road to strength is vulnerability.
Stephen Nachmanovitch
#80. He had a problem, like any other problem. The problem just hadn't been well posed. The problem was: Should he leave Penny or not?
Alan Lightman
#81. As soon as any idea is a consolation the tendency to falsify it becomes strong: hence the traditional problem of preventing the idea of God from degenerating in the believer's mind.
Iris Murdoch
#82. W. Edwards Deming, the father of the quality movement, taught that any time the majority of the people behave a particular way the majority of the time, the people are not the problem. The problem is inherent in the system.2 As a leader, you own responsibility for the system.
Chris McChesney
#83. Ideas can come from anywhere and at any time. The problem with making mental notes is that the ink fades very rapidly.
Rolf Smith
#84. There shouldn't be a separation of any religion in any way. Unfortunately, through the centuries there have been problems from the "My God is better than your God" mentality.
Kevin Sorbo
#85. My problem is, if any place I'm sleeping catches on fire, I've got a problem because it takes me 20 minutes to get everything moving in the morning.
Brian Dennehy
#86. Some people hate Jews. Fine, alright it's been done. I mean, that's part of my problem with it. Could you hate somebody new? I'm not giving you any suggestions but the Belgians have had a good run.
Gary Gulman
#87. It is rather a problem of how to secure the best use of resources known to any of the members of society, for ends whose relative importance only those individuals know.
Friedrich August Von Hayek
#88. The technology is here; it's never been easier to communicate and collaborate with people anywhere, any time. But that still leaves a fundamental people problem. The missing upgrade is for the human mind.
Jason Fried
#89. Never depend upon institutions or government to solve any problem. All social movements are founded by, guided by, motivated and seen through by the passion of individuals.
Margaret Mead
#90. If you give me any problem in America I can trace it down to domestic violence. It is the cradle of most of the problems, economic, psychological, educational.
Salma Hayek
#91. Any problem can be solved using the materials in the room.
Edwin Land
#92. I've never really had a problem with the imagination level of an audience. They're always smarter and savvier than any studio exec will give them credit for.
James Van Der Beek
#93. Take any problem in life and it will fall under one of three categories ... money, health or relationships.
John Harricharan
#94. I don't have a problem with my body. I'm not just going to strip off all my clothing, but if the part calls for it and I don't think there's any way round, I'm absolutely fine.
Keira Knightley
#95. Any problem can be solved between people if only they can trust each other
Michael Morpurgo
#96. American consumers have no problem with carcinogens, but they will not purchase any product, including floor wax, that has fat in it.
Dave Barry
#97. I did not see any major issues other than the jury substitutions. I can't know whether there's a problem there, until I read the transcript from the in-chambers conference, when those jurors were excused.
Catherine Crier
#98. Any judicial nominee who has said that the Constitution means what it says, not what judges would like it to mean, is going to be called an 'extremist.' That person will be said to be 'out of the mainstream.' But the mainstream is itself the problem.
Thomas Sowell
#99. I don't believe there's any problem in this country, no matter how tough it is, that Americans, when they roll up their sleeves, can't completely ignore.
George Carlin
#100. I've never fit in in any music world. I've always been an outsider. I mean, the fact that I live in Indiana - I live in a fly-over state. I'm not running away from anything, that's the problem. Most people go to cities because they don't like where they come from.
John Mellencamp
