Part Of The Problem Quotes

#1. I guess I strongly feel that we cannot pretend that the Third World is not part of our world. We cannot say 'OK, there's that problem over there, let's just close our eyes' - we cannot do that.

Susanne Bier

#2. The reason, simply put, is that seeking control is not the solution to the human condition but is part of the problem.

Skye Jethani

#3. Don't talk about the problem. Be a part of the solution.

Chris Vonada

#4. Overpopulation is perhaps the biggest problem facing us, and immigration is part of that problem. It has to be addressed.

David R. Brower

#5. We know that there are unaccounted-for Scud and other ballistic missiles in Iraq. And part of the problem is that, since 1998, there has been no way to even get minimal information about those programs except through intelligence means.

Condoleezza Rice

#6. Problem-solving becomes a very important part of our makeup as we grow into maturity or move up the corporate ladder.

Zig Ziglar

#7. I don't think it's right that I'm part of the problem. I can't be part of the solution if I'm part of the problem

Haruki Murakami

#8. Once again, when you fully understand the neural circuitry of the brain's reward center to seek survival and emotional rewards, it becomes easier to see how diets are part of the problem, and by themselves are never the solution.

Scott Abel

#9. Play is under attack in our nation's schools - and shrinking recess periods are only part of the problem. Homework is increasing. Cities are building new schools without playgrounds. Safety concerns are prompting bans of tag, soccer, and even running on the schoolyard.

Darell Hammond

#10. I'm part fairy,' said John. There was a quiet pause, and he eyed the man. 'Is that a problem?' 'No, sir. The United States military is very accepting of that sort of thing nowadays.

Adam Rex

#11. Feminism rotates between backlash and interest. And the cool thing about the Internet is that it's allowing women more access to their own history. Part of the problem before the Internet was that we didn't know which books to read. Someone had to tell you.

Kathleen Hanna

#12. If the national government doesn't fix your problem, you've got a problem. You've got to fix it yourself. That's just part of the American way.

Tony La Russa

#13. In America, it was decided to attempt the production of atomic bombs with an effort that would constitute a large part of the collective American war effort. In Germany, an effort one thousandth the scale of the American was applied to the problem of producing atomic energy that would drive engines.

Werner Heisenberg

#14. The problem we have had on the budget all along is a lack of adult supervision on the part of the White House. You can't blame members of Congress for looking out for their parochial interests. It is the president's responsibility to look out for the national interest.

Bruce Bartlett

#15. If you don't want to have to kill or capture every bad guy in the country, you have to reintegrate those who are willing to be reconciled and become part of the solution instead of a continued part of the problem. And then, above all, the resources.

David Petraeus

#16. When the love of your life dies, the problem is not that some part of you dies too, which it does, but that some part of you is still alive.

Jackie Kay

#17. Part of the problem is words. The fact that there are separate words for HE and SHE, HIM and HER. I've never thought about it before, how divisive this is. Like maybe if there was just one pronoun for all of us, we wouldn't get so caught on that difference.

David Levithan

#18. If philosophy gets you lost in the labyrinth of symbols that distance us from reality, then it is part of the problem; if it motivates positive action that can create a better world, philosophy is usually a gift.

Oli Anderson

#19. You have to be able to look objectively at the problem, deflating the emotional part of it.

Pearl Zhu

#20. We are either part of the problem, or part of the solution...what are we doing each day to try and solve the most troubling human problems?

Tim Spiess

#21. The first time I landed in New York and got a cab to my hotel, I was completely struck by it: a feeling of life and chaos, 24 hours around the clock, just like in London. And whatever your problem is, it's insignificant. You're just a small part of something very big.

America Ferrera

#22. When you change from being a part of the problem to being a part of the solution, allow somebody that.

Karla Faye Tucker

#23. The problem with feature filmmaking is that it offers you this mirage of being able to achieve perfection, as the theory of it is that you have control of every part of the film, though in reality, it is as inexact as the next thing in your life.

Kapil Sharma

#24. Global warming is part of natural cycle and there's nothing we can actually do to stop these cycles. The world is now facing spending a vast amount of money in tax to try to solve a problem that doesn't actually exist.

David Bellamy

#25. Part of the problem is voters know relatively little about Romney. And some of what they know about him complicates his task: Romney has a history of flip-flopping on issues, he's extraordinarily wealthy, and he can be tone-deaf about what moves voters. He just doesn't seem comfortable in his skin.

Ron Fournier

#26. Part of the problem that we have currently in the Middle East is that[Bashar] Assad has hung on to power with the very strong support of Russia and Iran and with the proxy of Hezbollah being there basically fighting his battles.

Hillary Clinton

#27. It doesn't matter how strong your opinions are. If you don't use your power for positive change, you are, indeed, part of the problem.

Coretta Scott King

#28. Men and women can absolutely be friends, and that's what we need to be. Part of the problem is that we aren't friends enough. Our relationships are negotiations, and that is not friendship.

Hill Harper

#29. If you only take offense when the president of your party is compared to Hitler, then you're part of the problem.

John Avlon

#30. Be a solution provider and not a part of the problem to be solved

Fela Durotoye

#31. That was the problem with Alison Fischer: you never knew which part of her to look at. He looked at her face

Nam Le

#32. Making ourselves the solution, rather than part of the problem is our greatest challenge.

Arron Wood

#33. I think it's harder for people than it should be. But as more and more of us become carbon neutral and change the patterns in our lives to be part of the solution instead of part of the problem, we are now beginning to see the changes in policy that are needed.

Al Gore

#34. The problem with fine art is that in most cases people have to make a special excursion to go and look at it: they can't afford to own it. So it isn't really part of their life in the way that music can be.

Brian Eno

#35. British politics is more nuanced. Part of the problem with New Labour is that they are a moving target.

Rory Bremner

#36. Everything is a battlefield. If you fight with anger, you are part of the problem. If you fight with joy, you're part of the solution.

Carlos Santana

#37. That's the problem with having a moral code. We want to destroy the jerkish part of the jerks, but we want to save the human being underneath.

David Levithan

#38. Part of the problem you have is that you don't have a dialogue between elected officials and their constituents. They've built these barricades, these barriers around themselves and tried to avoid interaction with their constituents.

Elizabeth Emken

#39. When someone has the control of the vehicle you are aboard, his problem is your problem. When someone is a part of your journey in life, his problem is your problem. When someone has a stake in your success, his problem is your problem. Confront it. Resolve it.

Priya Kumar

#40. In my travels, I have found two peoples, the Tibetans and the Fijians, who don't seem to have this problem. Their closeness with their environment, their religions, and their relationships with each other and nature make them feel part of everything.

Frederick Lenz

#41. Part of the modern ideology of love is to assume that love and sex always go together, and probably the greatest problem for human beings is that they just don't

Susan Sontag

#42. We should embrace our immigrant roots and recognize that newcomers to our land are not part of the problem, they are part of the solution.

Roger Mahony

#43. I think part of the problem sometimes is that there's so much happening in my books, to whittle it down into a single script is hard.

Sarah Dessen

#44. Sales pays for the company. Employees who don't "get" that are part of the problem.

Donal Daly

#45. Part of the problem is that people at our school don't listen. They just put on the headphones and tune out the world. It's intimidating.

Alexandra Robbins

#46. Calling gender violence a women's issue is part of the problem. It gives a lot of men an excuse not to pay attention.

Jackson Katz

#47. Capitalism is just a front lined big word people use to hide their ignorance in their sophisticated clothing. People have a full spectrum of words to snub their part of the problem to console that they are not the cause of a callous situation, so they cannot be a part of the solution.

M. T. Panchal

#48. When it comes to expanding opportunity, businesses and young adults are not the sources of the problem - they are a substantial part of the solution.

Gerald Chertavian

#49. Part of the problem is we had so far to go, given the deep homophobia in our society. But, the movement is very real. The movement is very real.

Cornel West

#50. Marijuana is a much bigger part of the American addiction problem than most people - teens or adults - realize.

John Walters

#51. The greatest problem we face is the growing number of people living in poverty. The related sense of hopelessness has to be impacting on every part of environmental management.

Richard Leakey

#52. Mr Howard's problem is for so long he's been a climate change sceptic, how can he, therefore, put himself to the country as part of a climate change solution for the future.

Kevin Rudd

#53. The problem was, I enjoyed Question Period too much and loved the challenge it provided. Far from being a dreaded burden, it had become an exciting part of my life; opposition members attacked me, I fought back, I won or lost or held them to draw, and the next day we did it all over again.

Jean Chretien

#54. Part of the problem is when we bring in a new technology we expect it to be perfect in a way that we don't expect the world that we're familiar with to be perfect.

Esther Dyson

#55. A problem I've always had with fashion magazines is that women are encouraged to copy other women. While I suspect that many men enjoy copying other men (consider the idea of the alpha male and beta males), and while part of what makes a man "superior" is how close he can get to "embodying manliness

Sheila Heti

#56. The greatest problem with Irish Wolfhounds, though, is that they don't live very long: their great hearts give out. A good deal of this is genetic, of course, but I think it is in part that they worry so for us, care so much.

Edward Albee

#57. I think - I think you have a conscience growing up in a loving family with a nurturing community. And I think what happens is, and that's part of the problem of being in the closet which is a very sick place. I mean it's self loathing. It's self denial. And you keep that separate.

James McGreevey

#58. The fear really hits you. That's what you feel first. And then it's the anger and frustration. Part of the problem is how little we understand about the ultimate betrayal of the body when it rebels against itself.

Charles Bronson

#59. I always wanted to do a baseball book; I love baseball. The problem is that a very large part of my following is in non-baseball playing countries.

Bill Bryson

#60. Good design, at least part of the time, includes the criterion of being direct in relation to the problem at hand - not obscure, trendy, or stylish. A new language, visual or verbal, must be couched in a language that is already understood.

Ivan Chermayeff

#61. There is no larger collective-action problem than the environment. The three biggest lies of the environmental movement is that every little bit helps, you can do your part, and together we can do it.

Clay Shirky

#62. Each and every one of us has unknowingly played a part in the obesity problem.

Indra Nooyi

#63. While there have been terrific advances in the state of technology around heuristics, behavior blocking, and things like that, technology is only a part of the approach to solving the problem with the more important aspect involving putting the right process in place.

John W. Thompson

#64. There's nothing wrong with making the best of one's declining years, but what does annoy me is the fatalism. Now that we're seriously in range of finding therapies that actually work against ageing, this apathy, of course, becomes an enormous part of the problem.

Aubrey De Grey

#65. Fifty percent of the game is mental and the other 50 percent is being mental. I've got that part down, no problem.

Basil McRae

#66. If you are not part of the solution to help better humanity then you are slowly becoming part of the problem!

Timothy Pina

#67. If we think we have ours and don't owe any time or money or effort to help those left behind, then we are a part of the problem rather than the solution to the fraying social fabric that threatens all Americans.

Marian Wright Edelman

#68. Many young activists tend to resist spirituality, thinking that religion has nothing to do with social change and is, in fact, part of the problem.

Adam Bucko

#69. If you are not a part of the solution, you are a part of the problem.

Eldridge Cleaver

#70. I accept that all photography is voyeuristic and exploitative, and obviously I live with my own guilt and conscience. It's part of the test and I don't have a problem with it.

Martin Parr

#71. India was a late comer to industrialization, and as such, we have contributed very little to the accumulation of greenhouse gas emissions that cause global warming. But we are determined to be part of the solution to the problem.

Manmohan Singh

#72. The most important part of aligning various expectations is to clearly describe the problem you are trying to solve and identify at least three different ways diverse users experience this problem. The more diverse your team, the better you'll be at doing this.

David Livermore

#73. Gang violence in America is not a sudden problem. It has been a part of urban life for years, offering an aggressive definition and identity to those seeking a place to belong in the chaos of large metropolitan areas.

Dave Reichert

#74. If you're not part of the solution ... then you're part of the problem.
Don't be part of the problem!

Timothy Pina

#75. If you you think there is a solution, you're part of the problem.

George Carlin

#76. The nature of your outcome or problem in large part depends upon you. Results are what you get when you follow the rules. Consequences are the results of negative choices. Your thoughts become your actions. Your thoughts should be focused on what you desire.

Bobby F. Kimbrough Jr.

#77. I think 'The Act of Killing' forced people to look at the problem, but the problem is actually a state run by thugs, or a shadow state, a part of the state that's run by thugs, and a military that enjoys complete legal - not just impunity, but immunity.

Joshua Oppenheimer

#78. People have decided that career politicians may be part of the problem, not part of the solution.

Carly Fiorina

#79. If I was just in one band, I would have a problem with the amount of time between records because I don't want to wave one flag. I just want to be part of something cool.

Josh Homme

#80. Part of the problem with a war on poverty today is that many Americans have decided that being poor is a character defect, not an economic condition.

Anna Quindlen

#81. Other men might respond by saying: Okay, this is interesting, but I don't think like that. I don't even think about gender. Maybe not. And that is part of the problem. That many men do not actively think about gender or notice gender.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#82. Gun control is not part of a strategy to defeat radical Islam or take ISIL down. However it is a problem back here at home. A million people have been adjudicated a danger to themselves or to others at the state court level.

Rand Paul

#83. There is only one possible solution to the race problem and that is a vital personal experience with Jesus Christ on the part of [all] races.

Billy Graham

#84. Place yourself ... You are either a.) part of the problem; b.) part of the solution, or c.) part of the landscape.

James D. Sass

#85. That was not part of the U.N. resolution; it was not part of the mandate to go on to Baghdad and, frankly, if we had gone into Baghdad and pushed Saddam Hussein off, we would have inherited an even bigger mess than the mess we inherited with the refugee problem.

Les Aspin

#86. The bottom line is this. When it comes to preventing violent extremism and terrorism in the United States, Muslim Americans are not part of the problem, you're part of the solution.

Denis McDonough

#87. Part of the irony of environmentalism is questing for solutions when you know you're part of the problem.

Diane Ackerman

#88. If we are going to be part of the solution, we have to engage the problems.

Majora Carter

#89. A large part of the problem, is that young people are being born into the world and growing up without much hope. And so, they become murderers, they become suicide bombers.

Arthur Hertzberg

#90. The modern scientific method in which experiments form part of a structured system of hypothesis, experimentation, and analysis is as recent as the seventeenth century; the problem-solving technology of cooking goes back thousands of years.

Bee Wilson

#91. Part of the challenge of innovation is coming up with the problem to solve, not just its solution.

Scott Berkun

#92. if you have the right people on the bus, the problem of how to motivate and manage people largely goes away. The right people don't need to be tightly managed or fired up; they will be self-motivated by the inner drive to produce the best results and to be part of creating something great.

James C. Collins

#93. Part of the problem of the city is the impermanence of success. We're only as good as our last deal,

Derek L. Worthington

#94. What happened at Hiroshima was not only that a scientific breakthrough had occurred and that a great part of the population of a city had been burned to death, but that the problem of the relation of the triumphs of modern science to the human purposes of man had been explicitly defined.

Archibald MacLeish

#95. That's part of the problem, the overkill. And when they make it complicated, they make it expensive and so then you can no longer stay in business.

Michele Bachmann

#96. Part of the problem I find with money books is that there's this whole set of money books that make you feel almost guilty to spend a dollar.

Hill Harper

#97. If you're not part of the problem, you're not ambitious enough

Josh Stern

#98. There are 3 ways of handling a situation. You can either become part of the problem, part of the solution or part of the pavement..

Cornelius Moore

#99. A confidence problem exists on the part of the people of the region who desire democratic rule in principle, but remain suspicious of both the fashion with which democratization is presented and the purposes of the democratic world.

Recep Tayyip Erdogan

#100. Working within the constraints of a problem is part of the fun and challenge of design.

Ellen Lupton