Problem Facing Quotes

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

David R. Brower

#2. When facing terrorism, especially in the wake of awful events, there is a tendency to despair, to see in the battle a problem without a solution.

Rich Cohen

#3. The highest percentage of respondents say that biggest problem in the country is the government. The biggest problem facing our country today is that our government is terrible. Dissatisfaction with the government, problem numero uno by a mile.

Rachel Maddow

#4. The biggest problem facing our world today is a lack of hope and a lack of meaning. [It's] basically just a postmodern world in which there is no right or wrong, no better or worse.

Jon Foreman

#5. The better you work to find the pain point and problem facing a diversity of users, the more clearly you can DEFINE the goal when you implement the process for culturally intelligent innovation.

David Livermore

#6. The problem is that the Iraqi people are facing atrocities from both sides - Zarqawi and also the American troops at times. The Zarqawi groups uses car bombs, the Americans use other bombs. You also know what they do in the prisons.

Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

#7. 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

#8. If you're facing what looks like a large problem, receive it as a compliment from the Universe. What a great soul you must be!

Mary Morrissey

#9. Science is not a body of facts. Science is a state of mind. It is a way of viewing the world, of facing reality square on but taking nothing on its face. It is about attacking a problem with the most manicured of claws and tearing it down into sensible, edible pieces.

Natalie Angier

#10. But it's a stigmatized problem, and it's a silent problem. This has to end. Suicide is not just a personal tragedy, it's a key issue of public policy and facing up to it requires political will.

Bob Rae

#11. This 'one big plan' thinking leads to a lot of the problems we're facing.

Clara Mamet

#12. The idea that global warming is the most important problem facing the world is total nonsense and is doing a lot of harm.

Freeman Dyson

#13. There is cold comfort to be drawn from the sure and certain knowledge that the correct way to deal with the problem you're facing in your job involves napalm, if

Charles Stross

#14. I used to get stuck trying to find the first sentence of a story, then I realised that it was often because I didn't know what problem a character was facing in the story. As soon as I did, I could have the character trying to do something about it or have the problem whack him between the eyes.

Morris Gleitzman

#15. The main international problem facing America is our lack of - our loss of influence in the world and our lack of an ability to define what U.S. interests really are.

Bob Barr

#16. But always look whether anything that you are facing as a problem is a negative thing or a positive thing. If it is a negative thing, then don't fight with it; don't bother about it at all. Just look for the positive in it, and you will be at the right door.

Osho

#17. Meditation is meeting eternity in the present moment. It is resolving every problem as it comes. It is resolving every tension as it creeps in. It is facing the challenges of life in a non-fearful way.

Vimala Thakar

#18. The system [of thought] doesn't stay with the difficult problem that produces unpleasant feelings. It's conditioned somehow to move as fast as it can toward more pleasant feelings, without actually facing the thing that's making the unpleasant feeling.

David Bohm

#19. People often ask, "What is the single most important environmental population problem facing the world today?" A flip answer would be, "The single most important problem is our misguided focus on identifying the single most important problem!

Jared Diamond

#20. There are many projects I couldn't get off the ground because they didn't have white heroes. It's a problem that everyone who's been working in Hollywood has been facing.

Euzhan Palcy

#21. Real faith comes when you facing a problem you can't help, you can't change, and you can't work it out

Cynthia A. Patterson

#22. That's true but I think the contemporary problem that we are facing increasing numbers of black people and other people of color being thrown into a status that involves work in alternative economies and increasing numbers of people who are incarcerated.

Angela Davis

#23. We're grappling with the same issue facing all advanced economies - how to revive growth and distribute its fruits more fairly. An America that can tackle that problem head-on can perhaps help revive a stagnant global economy.

David Ignatius

#24. Deficits. Most people of knowledge say it's the biggest single problem facing the economic free world.

David Hartman

#25. Thousands of climate scientists agree that global warming is not only the most threatening environmental problem but also one of the greatest challenges facing all of humanity. We must demand a separation between oil and state. We can get off oil and slow global warming.

Leonardo DiCaprio

#26. We talk about, you know, diet and that we shouldn't give our kids big things and obesity and fast food. Well, you know there are people who don't have that problem because they're not getting any food! We have so many deep problems and issues facing humanity.

Chris Noth

#27. It is assumed in many parts of the world that democracy is a group of people facing a certain problem, who come together to solve it in a way where everyone has an equal say.

David Graeber

#28. What really matters is not whether we have problems, but how we go through them. We must keep going on to make it through whatever we are facing.

Rosa Parks

#29. The only problem facing you in life is the belief in separation from your Source. Solve that one and all the other ones will vanish.

John Randolph Price

#30. The greatest political problem facing the world today is ... how to curb the oppressive power of government, how to keep it within reasonable bounds.

Leonard Read

#31. In fact the problem Leopardi is facing is speculative and metaphysical, a problem in the history of philosophy from Parmenides to Descartes and Kant: the relationship between the idea of infinity as absolute space and absolute time, and our empirical knowledge of space and time.

Italo Calvino

#32. Obesity is a problem that nearly every nation in the world is facing, but there is much that we can do to fix it.

Richard Attias

#33. Science has taught us how to put the atom to work. But to make it work for good instead of for evil lies in the domain dealing with the principles of human duty. We are now facing a problem more of ethics than physics.

Bernard Baruch

#34. The problem facing a comprehender is analogous to the problem that a detective faces when trying to solve a crime. In both cases there is a set of clues.

David Rumelhart

#35. Every problem, every dilemma, every dead end we find ourselves facing in life, only appears unsolvable inside a particular frame or point of view. Enlarge the box, or create another frame around the data, and problems vanish, while new opportunities appear.

Rosamund Stone Zander

#36. There are more people at Obama's table offering ideas than there were five years ago, but when it came to facing up to the Republicans' threat to force a double-dip recession if they didn't get their millionaires' tax cut, they still amounted to nothing. And therein lies our fundamental problem.

Eric Alterman

#37. The principal problem facing our economy today is jobs.

Jim Sensenbrenner

#38. Do you know what nearly all the sociologists say today in their study of young people? The greatest problem facing young people today is not sex - it is boredom.

Billy Graham

#39. You tell me: Can you live crushed under the weight of the present? Without a memory of the past and without the desire to look ahead to the future by building something, a future, a family? Can you go on like this? This, to me, is the most urgent problem that the Church is facing.

Pope Francis

#40. Life has let me down several times, that I have learnt to cope with my pain in different situations while at the same time, learning through comparing my past problems and the current obstacles am facing.

Auliq Ice

#41. Your biggest problem, is that you think the current problem you're facing is your problem

Tony Robbins

#42. That was the problem with snide comments; they invariably lost all their punch on repetition. Besides, when facing impending death, what did the odd witticism matter?

Lauren Willig

#43. When I married your daughter, I accepted full responsibility for both her and her happiness. If there are consequences to be faced, I have no problem facing them. His

Sylvia Day

#44. The problem that we are facing in the church today is that we have so many Christians who have made a decision to believe in Jesus but not a commitment to follow Him. We have people who are planning to, meaning to, trying to, wanting to, going to, we just don't have people who are doing it.

Tyler Edwards

#45. It's obvious that the key problem facing humanity in the coming century is how to bring a better quality of life - for 8 billion or more people - without wrecking the environment entirely in the attempt.

E. O. Wilson

#46. In reality, finding a way to raise taxes may well be the central political problem facing the United States.

David Leonhardt

#47. The deep problem facing everyone is how to break free when being a prisoner is the only comfortable way you know how to live.

Deepak Chopra

#48. To 'turn around' is to end up facing the same way. Maybe that is the problem, all the turning organizations around.

Henry Mintzberg

#49. I am not facing the problem of emigration. I want my music to be acknowledged here first of all, in this country: after that, we shall see - perhaps the question will than become urgent.

Alfred Schnittke

#50. It's a matter of life and death for this country. The Kenyan forests are facing extinction and it is a man-made problem.

Wangari Maathai

#51. The problem of direct colour photography has been facing us since the turn of the last century.

Gabriel Lippmann

#52. We estimate that there are perhaps 20,000 prehistoric hunter-gatherers frozen up in those glaciers. Now, if they simply thaw and wander around, it's not a problem, but if they find a leader - a Captain Caveman, if you will - we'll be facing an even more serious problem.

John Hodgman

#53. The most pressing problem facing America can't be solved in Washington DC. True hope and change can't be found at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. It can only be found at the foot of the cross on Calvary.

Todd Starnes

#54. The problem is that too often, and in too many ways, current systems of mass education are a catastrophe in themselves. Far from looking to the future, too often they are facing stubbornly towards the past.

Ken Robinson

#55. The people who are unprejudiced, but who ... feel it is so hopeless there is no use trying ... probably do just as much damage to the emotional atmosphere in which we are facing the problem as the fanatical Negrophobes.

Margaret Halsey

#56. The human race is facing all kinds of problems, and all we are doing is pointing fingers and saying, 'Your interpretation of the problem is different from my interpretations of the problem.'

Shane Smith

#57. The alleviation of human error, whether design or intrinsically human, continues to be the most important problem facing aerospace safety.

Jerome F. Lederer

#58. Facing problems? Good. Even cocoon does. It makes the wings stronger you know.

Vikrmn

#59. When a company is facing a problem, it always takes a stance and takes a decision, but at the same time it wants to make sure of what it can learn from it, what enhancements it can make.

Carlos Ghosn

#60. Facing problems is like looking at a sink piled up with dirty dishes. More you think more they stink. It takes only to roll up the sleeves and start washing them, one by one. In just ten minutes they are done.

Vinko Vrbanic

#61. Veganism is an answer for almost every problem facing the world in terms of hunger and climate change.

Sam Simon

#62. If you can manage to experience three positive emotions for every one negative emotion ... you dramatically improve your health and your ability to successfully tackle any problem you're facing.

Jane McGonigal

#63. Our general repression of matters disgusting prevents us facing up to a serious health problem. If we are the 'god that shits,' then we are in full flight from ourselves. I even wonder whether religion itself and the whole idea of a god is produced by our self-disgust.

Colin McGinn

#64. The biggest problem facing a monkey today is: trees. There's bloody great huge trees everywhere; getting in the way.

(Leaps And Bounds)

Peter Coomber

#65. Often, the greatest challenge facing an organization is recognizing and acting on opportunity rather than solving a problem.

Peter Ginter

#66. Having a Congress with a more diverse educational and professional background would serve the country well. And given the budget challenges facing America today, we might benefit from a few more cold, calculating problem solvers, and fewer courtroom impresarios.

John Sununu

#67. We can leave our legacy only if we are willing to change - to go beyond partisan labels, and to solve the problems facing Washingtonians.

Christine Gregoire

#68. The U.S. is facing a structural competitiveness problem that is leading to the weakest economy we have seen in generations.

Michael Porter

#69. one big problem and a great paradox in the arena of life is the problem of where or how a person is now and what, who and where he wants to be or have tomorrow. Had it not be this problem, we would have been relaxing all day long

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#70. And the formation of man is the most pressing problem facing humanity.

Bruce Chatwin

#71. When you're the president of the United States and you know that the biggest issue facing you is this cliff that we're about ready to head over if we don't get this spending and debt situation under control, it's very irresponsible not to take the action that is necessary to fix the problem.

John Thune

#72. I am not (yet) facing the problem of emigration. I want my music to be acknowledged here first of all, in this country: after that, we shall see - perhaps the question will then become urgent.

Alfred Schnittke

#73. Climate change is not an environmental problem. It is a civilizational problem. Climate change is not just another issue. If it is not addressed in very short order, it will swamp every other issue facing us today

Ross Gelbspan