Top 97 Problem Situation Quotes
#1. The problem with such guidelines is that they never seemed applicable to the real-world situation.
Tori L. Harris
#2. Knowledge is only potential power. For the power to be manifested, it must be applied. Most people know what they should do in any given situation, or in their lives, for that matter. The problem is that they don't take daily, consistent action to apply the knowledge and realize their dreams.
Robin S. Sharma
#3. More times than I can remember I look around and I ask why the hole I'm in looks so strangely familiar. Probably because it looks a whole lot like all the other ones I dug before I got around to digging this one.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#4. Our situation was so desperate that only the death of His own Son on a cruel and shameful cross was sufficient to resolve the problem.
Jerry Bridges
#5. Being naive simply means that we reject received wisdom that something is a problem. We are always naive relative to some definition of the situation, and if we try to become less so, we may accept a definition that confines the definition of small wins to narrower issues than is necessary.
Karl E. Weick
#6. When you approach a problem, strip yourself of preconceived opinions and prejudice, assemble and learn the facts of the situation, make the decision which seems to you to be the most honest, and then stick to it.
Chester Bowles
#7. When we accept ourselves as we are, we aren't "settling" or "keeping the problem in place." We're showing love and compassion for ourselves-for our feelings, our situation, and our history.
Nick Ortner
#8. I couldn't deal with anything. I wasn't enjoying what I was doing because of the situation. My Paiste rep, a symbol company, referred me to this doctor in LA. I went there and had a consultation done. So, he examined exactly what the problem was and I went for the operation and it was a success.
Charlie Benante
#9. You can always make a film somehow. You can beg, borrow, steal the equipment, use credit cards, use your friends' goodwill, wheedle your way into this or that situation. The real problem is, how do you get people to see it once it is made?
Walter Murch
#10. Thinking rationally is often different from "positive thinking," in that it is a realistic assessment of the situation, with a view towards rectifying the problem if possible.
Albert Ellis
#11. Satisfaction involves an active pursuit- it is the emotional reward we get after adapting to a new situation or solving a novel problem.
Mark Andrews
#12. In my books, women often solve the problem. Even if the woman is not the hero, she's a strong character. She does change the plot. She'll often rescue the male character from some situation.
Ken Follett
#13. Instead of worrying about your problem, think of ways to handle the situation.
Spiff
#14. We simply argue that climate change consequences was one of the impacts, but interestingly enough, even though a major effort was made in 2008 to try and resurrect the problem over food, now the consequences of the civil war are making the situation even worse.
Chris Barrie
#15. It would be just like programmers to shorten 'the year 2000 problem' to 'Y2K'- exactly the kind of thinking that created this situation in the first place.
Stephen C. Meyer
#16. The problem is going to be finding the right words and implementing it in a way that is really dealing with people that are inciting and not preventing honest discussion of the underlying causes of this horrendous political situation the world is in now.
Clare Short
#17. I don't think you should always stay calm in a tense situation, because you might not ever confront the problem. Maybe it's better to actually let yourself be tense - and find a solution.
Yoko Ono
#18. We have come dangerously close to accepting the homeless situation as a problem that we just can't solve.
Linda Lingle
#19. Don't cut up your credit cards, the problem is not the cards, it's the lack of financial literacy of the person holding the cards and always make the best out of a bad situation
Robert Kiyosaki
#20. We have no problems, only situations. Not all problems have solutions, but all situations have outcomes.
John Edward Gray
#21. And that's the first surprise about change: What looks like a people problem is often a situation problem.
Chip Heath
#22. The problem is not our situation but our perception of our situation
Graham Cooke
#23. 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
#24. Sometimes the situation is only a problem because it is looked at in a certain way. Looked at in another way, the right course of action may be so obvious that the problem no longer exists.
Edward De Bono
#25. It's not what you're faced with that's the problem, it's what you do with the situation. Your experience is not the important thing; what really matters is what you do with your experience.
Chris Oyakhilome
#26. The debt ceiling at some point has to be raised. I don't think there's anybody that questions the fact that if we ended up getting in a situation where the U.S. government was sending out IOUs like the state of California did at one point, that ends up creating quite a brand problem for our country.
Bob Corker
#27. There is a greater fatigue concerning the African problem today than five or 10 years ago. The situation now in Africa is worse today than it was 10 years ago.
Boutros Boutros-Ghali
#28. As long as you think that the cause of your problem is "out there" - as long as you think that anyone or anything is responsible for your suffering - the situation is hopeless. It means that you are forever in the role of victim, that you're suffering in paradise.
Byron Katie
#29. Often we use the word problem only because we have not learned that imagination and creativity can handle the situation.
Wayne W. Dyer
#30. Always attack the physics - never the people. In any problem, people will always have victory over any physical situation as long as they work together.
Matthew Akers
#31. We shall be able to solve the problem when it will be clearly evident to all that there is no other, no cheaper way out of the present situation.
Albert Einstein
#32. I have tremendous empathy for people who are faced with any kind of a chronic problem. Sometimes when we're in this situation, it's as though our mind has us believe that if we ruminate about the pain we'll find a way out.
Cheryl Richardson
#33. It was very difficult.
We don't advertise this much, but those years that we went through were hell.
I don't want to overstate the situation, but everything was mortgaged to the hilt, cash was a real problem, and it did limit what we were able to do.
Gina Rinehart
#34. When companies create ridiculous and demoralizing rules to halt the outlandish behavior of a few individuals, it's a management problem. There's no sense in alienating your entire workforce because you don't know how to manage performance. It makes a bad situation that much worse.
Travis Bradberry
#35. The improvisational ability to lead adaptively relies on responding to the present situation rather than importing the past into the present and laying it on the current situation like an imperfect template.
Ronald A. Heifetz
#36. We need to regard every problem or situation as an opportunity to be triumphant and celebrate the victory of Jesus in our lives
Sunday Adelaja
#37. Unless you understand the history of a situation, you can't ever hope to solve problems.
Denis Healey
#38. You should be careful, tossing descriptors like that around in a situation like this. My 'problem' isn't little. Unless you're drawing some pretty wild comparisons. Please tell me you're not drawing wild comparisons. Or blood-relative comparisons.
Rachel Vincent
#39. Okay, maybe I don't have to solve every problem with my fists ... but every once in awhile, a situation arises that is substantially improved by the judicious application of force.
Matthew Woodring Stover
#40. I suppose the situation varies from field to field. If you're a mathematician, your proficiency in English may not be such a problem. If you're in the humanities or social sciences, there is no doubt that it is a handicap for you.
Henry Rosovsky
#41. I start with an idea or a problem or a conflict, or even a situation that might be pertinent to the lives of young people, then the characters grow from that point. I try to make strong characters that change and develop and learn from their mistakes.
Sharon Draper
#42. It is very helpful to have a partner on whom you can rely in any situation. But the problem starts because some people don't like it that one twin would be president and the other prime minister.
Lech Kaczynski
#43. Our mental attitude transforms a situation into either a problem or an opportunity.
Geshe Kelsang Gyatso
#44. That is always our problem, not how to get control of people, but how all together we can get control of a situation.
Mary Parker Follett
#45. I alone must solve my problem. I have to clear my mind of everything else, think hard, analyze, explore my options, plan a strategy for the immediate situation, and then do whatever it takes. Sometimes it means scraping off what I have done and starting over again and again.
Richard Schmid
#46. 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
#47. When a problem or a difficult situation arises, say to yourself, as if you already believe it: "This is for my benefit.
Chris Prentiss
#48. If a manager asks an academic consultant what to do and that consultant answers, then the consultant should be fired. No academic has the experience to know the context of a managerial problem well enough to give specific advice about a specific situation.
James G. March
#49. People think a lot, but most of that thinking is of a problem, project or situation - not about it
David Allen
#50. If you want to get over a problem, stop talking about it. Your mind affects your mouth and your mouth affects your mind. It's difficult to stop talking about a situation until you stop thinking about it.
Joyce Meyer
#51. Fight fire with fire, only adds more negative energy to the situation, making it worse.
Auliq Ice
#53. The difference between an opportunity and a problem is the individual that first faces the situation.
Adrian Williams
#54. You can't be afraid of the problem. Don't be afraid of failure; don't be afraid to make mistakes. Make sure you learn from each step; iterate, and stay as efficient as possible without being paralyzed by a difficult situation.
Jon Oringer
#55. Europe's greatest problem is cultural relativism. This has led to a situation where Europeans no longer know what they should be proud of and who they really are because a so-called liberal and leftist-imposed concept says that all cultures are the same.
Geert Wilders
#56. If you're working on something and it's not coming together, it's easy to say, "I don't want to show this, until I've figured it out." But a lot of times you don't really solve the problems, and then you start getting into a bad situation because you don't have the time to fix it.
Lee Unkrich
#57. Faith does not minimize our suffering. Faith does not say, "It's no big deal." Faith does not pretend that a situation is not painful or scary. What faith does do is take our problem to the One who really cares and can do something about it.
Matthew C. Mitchell
#58. I didn't think it was possible - but this situation has managed to get worse." "But you're so calm," she observed.
"That's usually when you can tell everything has gone to shit.
G.A. Aiken
#59. If a problem is fixable, if a situation is such that you can do something about it, then there is no need to worry. If it's not fixable, then there is no help in worrying. There is no benefit in worrying whatsoever.
Dalai Lama XIV
#60. Your problem is not that you are too busy; your problem is that you don't own your situation.
Rory Vaden
#61. Our greatest problems in life come not so much from the situations we confront as from our doubts about our ability to handle them.
Susan L. Taylor
#62. Whatever the situation and however disheartening it may be, it is a great hour when a man ceases adopting difficulties as an excuse for despondency and tackles himself as the real problem. No mood need be his master.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
#63. Philosophy can be said to consist of three activities: to see the commonsense answer, to get yourself so deeply into the problem that the common sense answer is unbearable, and to get from that situation back to the commonsense answer.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
#64. One problem with lyrical waxing, as Snediker has it, is that it often signals (or occasions) an infatuation with overarching concepts or figures that can run roughshod over the specificities of the situation at hand.
Maggie Nelson
#65. I don't speak French, but I took it for five years growing up. So, if I were in a situation where I had to be, like, 'Excuse me, pineapple dog house red, what time is it library?' - no problem.
Eugene Mirman
#66. Women developed it as an art. They've had to, in order to survive. The problem is that it limits you. You are in a controlling situation in duality.
Frederick Lenz
#67. If people choose to judge how you look, that's their situation. I didn't feel that it was a problem. I've played all kinds of parts. I've played glamorous, and unglamorous, and all kinds of people. People want to pigeon hole you, I think.
Jacqueline Bisset
#68. Perhaps the central problem we face in all of computer science is how we are to get to the situation where we build on top of the work of others rather than redoing so much of it in a trivially different way.
Richard Hamming
#69. A situation where a solution to a stakeholder problem is imposed by a government agency or the courts must be seen as a managerial failure.
R. Edward Freeman
#70. The ISIS situation is not just "their problem to deal with in the Middle East," it's OUR PROBLEM because it involves people Jesus died for.
Perry Noble
#71. Timothy Keller says my problem was not the situation I was in; rather, I struggled because I built my identity on something other than Jesus.
Laurel Griffith
#72. Someone once defined a social problem as a situation in which the real world differs from the theories of intellectuals. To the intelligentsia, it follows, as the night follows the day, that it is the real world that is wrong and which needs to change.
Thomas Sowell
#73. As the refugee crisis unfolds across Europe, another is looming in our backyard. The number of children crossing the southwest border unaccompanied has quietly surged more than a year after President [Barack] Obama referred to the problem as a quote "urgent humanitarian situation."
Joy-Ann Reid
#74. Why do women always have to go over and over a situation until it becomes a problem?
Jojo Moyes
#75. True," Brymmer said, and then found himself wrestling with the old Shall I Argue With The Boss Now problem, which perfectly defined a lose-lose situation. If you argued and were wrong, you would never have a future. If you argued and were right, you would never be forgiven.
Walt Cody
#76. Christians can be positive even in a negative situation because we know God has a purpose for allowing that problem.
Rick Warren
#77. I find being on set very invigorating. I never have a problem with that component of it, no matter the situation.
Michael Cera
#78. Take the situation of a scientist solving a problem, where he has certain data, which call for certain responses. Some of this set of data call for his applying such and such a law, while others call for another law.
George Herbert Mead
#79. In Re-framing, you interpret the event in a positive way. You change your language . Instead if defining it as a problem you re-frame it as a situation . A problem is something that is upsetting and stressful. A situation is something that you simply deal with .
Brian Tracy
#80. You can't do anything in life. The social barriers in life are so intense and horrific that every encounter is just fraught with so many problems and dread. Every social situation is a potential nightmare.
Larry David
#81. People have sort of a problem trying to see an end to a situation as being positive or romantic.
Jack White
#82. When confronted with a situation that appears fragmented or impossible, step back, close your eyes, and envision perfection where you saw brokenness. Go to the inner place where there is no problem, and abide in the consciousness of well-being.
Alan Cohen
#83. There is no thought or situation that you can't put up against inquiry. Every thought, every person, every apparent problem is here for the sake of your freedom.
Byron Katie
#84. Many kids who are bullied feel helpless. Sometimes, they think the only thing they can do is hope the problem will go away. But there are things you can do to get some control in the situation and it starts with developing a strategy and a support system.
Rosalind Wiseman
#85. I'm in a little bit of a different situation, because working in the business that I do and living in the city that I live in, I haven't had a problem with people who are gay. Since I was 10 I've been working alongside them, and some of my best friends are gay.
Jason Bateman
#86. The outcome of your situation is directly determined by your attitude towards your problem.
Corallie Buchanan
#87. When you're focused outside and believe that your problem is caused by someone else, rather than by your attachment to the story you're believing in the moment, then you are your own victim, and the situation appears to be hopeless.
Byron Katie
#88. Even if all philosophers do eat, some may eat more than others. This situation is called "lack of fairness". Or life.
Dennis E. Shasha
#89. America is an unsolvable problem: a nation divided and deeply in hate with itself. If it was a startup, we'd understand how unfixable the situation is; most of us would leave for a fresh start, and the company would fall apart. America is MySpace.
Michael Arrington
#90. For me, unemployment and poverty in the Greater Montreal area is not mainly a problem of structure, or design, or statistics. It is a profoundly human situation.
Kim Campbell
#91. If you have ever been in a life-or-death emergency situation, you will know that it wasn't a problem. The mind didn't have time to fool around and make it into a problem. In a true emergency, the mind stops; you become totally present in the Now, and something infinitely more powerful takes over.
Eckhart Tolle
#92. I think [ immigration] is still is a problem, whether it's 11 million or 2 million. Why is it - why have the situation decreased? Are we going to say because of the crackdown or are we going to say that the jobs are not here?
Joe Arpaio
#93. Narrow your life down to this moment. Your life situation may be full of problems - most life situations are - but find out if you have a problem at this moment. Do you have a problem now?
Eckhart Tolle
#94. 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
#95. You have a problem, just ask yourself one simple question: What would Ray Charles do in a situation like this?
Howard Korder
#96. The ecological situation is not a problem to be solved, but a wake-up call to a different way of being and relating.
Pat MacEnulty
#97. Solution - A method of fixing a problem or situation. Solution is a positive Netiquette Word.
David Chiles
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