Problem We Quotes

#1. Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days.

Zig Ziglar

#2. During these two and a half years that have followed the war, the most urgent problem we have encountered was: to activate the public enterprises, to bring them up to the level that international markets demand and we are just now getting them prepared for privatization.

Ibrahim Rugova

#3. We don't know what to do with sadness. That's the problem. We want to put it out of the way and we can't.

Rachel Joyce

#4. Because, therefore, we are defending a way of life, we must be respectful of that way of life as we proceed to the solution of our problem. We must not violate its principles and its precepts, and we must not destroy from within what we are trying to defend from without.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

#5. My thinking has always been that the worst problem we have with regard to lack of inclusion is the terribly low labor force participation rates and terribly high unemployment rates of young men, especially young men in ethnic minority groups and, in particular, young black men.

Edmund Phelps

#6. The problem we have is not Labour, in however it is configured.

Francis Maude

#7. 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

#8. It is true that you can say that death is natural, but it is also natural to fight death. But if you stand up and say this is a big problem, we should do something about this, that makes people very uncomfortable, because they've made their peace with death.

Peter Thiel

#9. The problem carbon is that everyone thinks we have an energy problem, we don't. We have plenty of energy. We have a carbon problem. Carbon is a material, so we have a material problem, not an energy problem.

William McDonough

#10. It's very satisfying to take a problem we thought difficult and find a simple solution. The best solutions are always simple.

Ivan Sutherland

#11. The only problem we've had is the amount of time it's taking people to develop titles.

Trip Hawkins

#12. Things that come from the private sector are in abundant supply; things that depend on the public sector are widely a problem. We're a world, as I said in The Affluent Society, of filthy streets and clean houses, poor schools and expensive television.

John Kenneth Galbraith

#13. The problem: we put more value on our stuff than on our space

Francine Jay

#14. It didn't matter how terrified I was. It didn't matter that there was no solution to the problem we faced. We would simply have to face it anyway. we didn't have to be brave or heroic, we merely had to persist. And I found that I could do that.

Rufi Thorpe

#15. The biggest problem we have as human beings is that we confuse our beliefs with reality.

Alan Kay

#16. We are one America. If we work together across party lines, there's no problem we can't solve and the 21st century will be America's greatest century.

George Pataki

#17. Number two, we're going to play with a lot of effort. Our guys are going to be in such good shape that fatigue is not going to be a problem. We're going to play with full effort from snap to whistle on every play the entire game.

Steve Spurrier

#18. Elise, you're taking this too seriously. We're men. If we have a problem, we punch one another. It's just how we handle things.

K.M. Shea

#19. It's a huge gap in security, it's a huge problem we've had with our immigration system for many years.

Adam Schiff

#20. The many refugees are not a Greek or German problem. They are a European problem. We should therefore develop a common strategy. That's why I am launching a cross-border movement for more democracy.

Yanis Varoufakis

#21. My sense of South Africa is that whenever we have a problem we've got to go to the brink before we sort it out. Why do we have to fuck this place up before we fix it? Let's start building now with what we have instead of breaking it first.

Jennifer Lindsey-Renton

#22. Successful problem solving requires finding the right solution to the right problem. We fail more often because we solve the wrong problem than because we get the wrong solution to the right problem.

Russell L. Ackoff

#23. I think the biggest problem we have is taking too long over things. Not in terms of getting it right, but sometimes we do things quickly that are really good.

Colin Greenwood

#24. For me, one of the major reasons to move beyond just the planting of trees was that I have tendency to look at the causes of a problem. We often preoccupy ourselves with the symptoms, whereas if we went to the root cause of the problems, we would be able to overcome the problems once and for all.

Wangari Maathai

#25. And that might just be the root of the problem: we're all afraid of each other, wings or no wings.

Leslye Walton

#26. We got a problem. We had a worse problem yesterday but lucky for you, since then, I've had her, she's moaned sweet for me three times so I'm feelin' in a better mood.

Kristen Ashley

#27. The greatest pollution problem we face today is negativity. Eliminate the negative attitude and believe you can do anything. Replace 'if I can, I hope, maybe' with 'I can, I will, I must.

Mary Kay Ash

#28. On-base percentage is great if you can score runs and do something with that on-base percentage. Clogging up the bases isn't that great to me. The problem we have to address more than anything is the home run problem.

Dusty Baker

#29. In our country, the problem we have in our public school system across the country is that music and arts are on the bottom of the pole, if it's there at all. So the kids aren't exposed to music. I must speak to the music they hear at home too.

Ramsey Lewis

#30. The American people will eventually get hurt by this accumulated deficit. That's the problem. We have too much deficit. We have to find a solution.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#31. Climate change is a serious problem. We all need to do what we can. Unless that means I've got to change stuff. Then I'm not doing it.

Craig Ferguson

#32. When we are not engaged in thinking about some definite problem, we usually spend about 95 percent of our time thinking about ourselves.

Dale Carnegie

#33. The problem we have in America is the systematic erosion of our religious values in an attempt by certain liberal groups to expunge our Christian heritage from the public square.

Pat Robertson

#34. We acknowledge-now with President Obama-that we have made mistakes in the United States, and we along with other developed countries have contributed most significantly to the problem we face with climate change.

Hillary Clinton

#35. The problem we have is not Democrats versus Republicans. It is a Washington cartel. I've said many times the biggest divide we have politically is not between Republicans and Democrats. It's between career politicians in both parties and the American people.

Ted Cruz

#36. The jazz rhythm won't be understood by the bulk of my audience. That's the problem. We can get away with maybe one tune a night. It depends on where we place it. A song like 'Beyond the Sea,' the fans love that. It's fresh.

George Benson

#37. 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

#38. We [United States] are the only military superpower. We have no idea how long this is going to last, so we ought to get every bad guy we can and fix every problem we can.

William J. Clinton

#39. If you want to do something to destroy consumer spending, just eat away at the middle class because the other problem we have is the structural problem of middle class America.

Wilbur Ross

#40. Having been in Congress, you know that's part of our responsibility the constituent has a problem, We're supposed to write back and say, 'Well I can't do anything' That's not what they elect you for.

Bob Dole

#41. By looking at climate change as a clean energy generation problem, we're setting ourselves up not to solve it.

Alex Steffen

#42. To focus on discipline is to ignore the real problem: We will never be able to get students (or anyone else) to be in good order if, day after day, we try to force them to do what they do not find satisfying.

William Glasser

#43. The and Love of God (Yahweh) ... Is Greater than any majestic sunset, star and planet he has created & any problem we can ever have!

Timothy Pina

#44. Obligations have no meaning without conscience, and the problem we face is the extension of the social conscience from people to the land

Aldo Leopold

#45. The problem we were struggling with within the closed market was what the incentive would be. You probably wouldn't use dollars. But those are all questions that need to be explored.

John Poindexter

#46. When faced with a problem, we have two options: solve it or wish for it to go away. If you don't solve it, it will never go away.

Vinita Kinra

#47. Addiction should never be treated as a crime. It has to be treated as a health problem. We do not send alcoholics to jail in this country. Over 500,000 people are in our jails who are nonviolent drug users.

Ralph Nader

#48. The problem we are faced with is that the meteorological establishment and the global warming lobby research bodies which receive large funding are now apparently so corrupted by the largesse they receive that the scientists in them have sold their integrity.

Piers Corbyn

#49. Never allow the cross to lose it's centrality to the ministry of your church. I believe we ought to connect ancient truth to contemporary questions, but the ultimate source of hope for every problem we face in our lives is the cross where Jesus died.

Brandon Cox

#50. When I was a small boy, if we had a problem, we would fight about it with our fists. We wouldn't shoot somebody, killing them or wounding them. That's not hard to do. I would like people to put down the guns. If you have a problem, talk about it or fight about it.

Snoop Dogg

#51. Often in life, the most important question we can ask ourselves is: do we really have the problem we think we have?

Sheri Fink

#52. I think it's really important that people can look at this show and be offended by it. Hopefully, then people will understand that this is still very much a problem we need to solve in other parts of the world. At least we have antibiotics.

Eve Hewson

#53. Not our problem. We don't have a dead blue hooker in our apartment.

Christopher Moore

#54. In German science, we have a special problem. We lose talented women at the time they get pregnant. Some of it occurs because they are encouraged - by their husbands, bosses and the government - to take long maternity leaves.

Christiane Nusslein-Volhard

#55. Clearly, a large number of African-Americans don't have faith that the laws are being executed fairly in Ferguson, and that's a problem ... We need to ensure Africans-Americans feel confident in the rule of law.

Claire McCaskill

#56. You're Catholic."
"And you're not. No problem. We're not going to fight about how to raise the kids. Stay on the road here, Tom.

Jez Morrow

#57. Well", Holden said, his voice grim, "we have a major problem. We're out of coffee."
"We still got beer," Amos said.
"Yes," Holden said. "But beer is not coffee.

James S.A. Corey

#58. In the long run, with profits from piracy greater than international finance mobilised to solve the problem, we can expect piracy to increase geographically and in sophistication.

Peter Middlebrook

#59. We don't have a gun problem; we have a math problem: ZERO GUNS = ZERO GUN-RELATED DEATHS.

Quentin R. Bufogle

#60. One of the reasons to pick the cancer effort is to demonstrate to people that there's not much beyond our capacity. It will take time, but if we focus, if we narrow down where the bottle necks are and we move, there's never been a problem we can't solve.

Joe Biden

#61. The problem we are dealing with at the border is not a Democratic problem. It is not a Republican problem. It is an American problem.

J. D. Hayworth

#62. This nation is notorious for its ability to make or fake anything cheaply. 'Made-in-China' goods now fill homes around the world. But our giant country has a small problem. We can't manufacture the happiness of our people.

Ai Weiwei

#63. We have, as human beings, a storytelling problem. We're a bit too quick to come up with explanations for things we don't really have an explanation for.

Malcolm Gladwell

#64. Stealing things is everybody's problem. We [Apple Inc.] own a lot of intellectual property, and we don't like when people steal it. So people are stealing stuff and we're optimists. We believe that 80 percent of the people stealing stuff don't want to be; there's just no legal alternative.

Steve Jobs

#65. We had a branding problem. We have allowed ourselves to be branded by our tragedies. If you said 'Oklahoma City,' chances are the next word out of your mouth was 'bombing.'

Mick Cornett

#66. That's the problem. We let people say stuff, and they say it so much that it becomes okay to them and normal for us. What's the point of having a voice if you're gonna be silent in those moments you shouldn't be? "Maya?

Angie Thomas

#67. We are not dealing with a scientific problem. We are dealing with a political issue.

Samuel Epstein

#68. That's the problem, we do get used to things.

Paulo Coelho

#69. It takes a lot of weapons to do good works (as Richard the Lionhearted could have told us). And this is not just a Somali problem. We have poverty and deprivation in our own country. Try standing unarmed on a street corner in Compton handing out twenty-dollar bills and see how long you last.

P. J. O'Rourke

#70. As long as you don't criticise individual players in public, admonishing the team is fine, not a problem. We can all share in the blame: the manager, his staff, the players. Expressed properly, criticism can be an acceptance of collective responsibility. Under

Alex Ferguson

#71. To solve the drug problem, we have to start at the root - first grade. If a boy has all the toys in his head that reading can give him, and you hook him into science fiction, then you've got the future secured.

Ray Bradbury

#72. One problem we discovered, for example, was that our "create a new account" button was in the wrong place ... By simply moving it to the left side, mirroring the way people read, we saw a huge improvement in the way people used the site.

Marc Benioff

#73. Any kind of expectation creates a problem. We should accept, but not expect. Whatever comes, accept it. Whatever goes, accept it. The immediate benefit is that your mind is always peaceful.

Swami Satchidananda

#74. The most critical problem we face, not only in the barrios, but in Nicaragua and Central America, is that of the threat of an invasion by the United States.

Jackie Jackson

#75. The only problem we really have is we think we're not supposed to have problems! Problems call us to higher level- - face & solve them now!

Tony Robbins

#76. We cannot solve a problem by saying, "It's not my problem." We cannot solve a problem by hoping that someone else will solve it for us. I can solve a problem only when I say, "This is my problem and it's up to me to solve it."

M. Scott Peck

#77. Every 'problem' we face is only a problem because of the way our mind (ego) perceives it. It is, in fact, not a problem at all but rather a lesson we are providing to ourselves in order to evolve.

Caroline A. Shearer

#78. Surely the biggest problem we have in the world is that we all die. But we don't have a technology to solve that, right? So the point is not to prioritize problems; the point is to prioritize solutions to problems.

Bjorn Lomborg

#79. 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

#80. Niggers are killing niggers, and penitentiaries are full of niggers and Mexicans. Why don't y'all give us some money to help us stop this problem? We want to go to college instead of going to the pen. Give us a future.

Snoop Dogg

#81. The problem we have right now in Washington is we don't have the face of a leader.

Rob Reiner

#82. Diana and I had a very good relationship with no personal problems. The only problem we did have was with the media, and the only place we could have any real privacy was at Kensington Palace, as they could not get to us there.

Hasnat Khan

#83. 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

#84. We should get rid of the SAT as fast as we can. Look, there are bigger problems in society. This is not the biggest problem we have. But it's so easy to get rid of it. Right? Just pull the plug.

John Katzman

#85. We need to stop, and admit it: we have a prediction problem. We love to predict things - and we aren't very good at it.

Nate Silver

#86. I think one problem we've had is that people who are smart and creative and innovative as engineers went into financial engineering.

Walter Isaacson

#87. The most important thing is to change what children see from the beginning. To not create a problem we have to fix later.

Geena Davis

#88. Washington doesn't have just a spending problem, or just an entitlement problem, or just a taxing problem. We have a leadership problem. Fix that, and the first three problems are solved.

Mark McKinnon

#89. Practically every environmental problem we have can be traced to our addiction to fossil fuels, primarily oil.

Dennis Weaver

#90. When solutions are offered us by the people who originally brought us the problem, we do well to be suspicious.

Robin Morgan

#91. I'm a futurist. Technology is our way out of almost every problem we have. Technology can create a new sense of community.

Hal Sparks

#92. Today, communication itself is the problem. We have become the world's first overcommunicated society. Each year we send more and receive less.

Al Ries

#93. Mental illnesses are so strange. A physical problem we can understand. But when the mind works irrationally, well, by its very definition, the rational mind cannot truly relate.

Harlan Coben

#94. Whether you are from Minnesota, Wisconsin or any other Northern tier state, you are not going to like the reimbursement formula. The problem we face is that we wouldn't have that formula if a majority of the states didn't like it, and they have the majority of the votes.

Dave Obey

#95. Maybe these cards aren't such a great idea. Can you imagine if everyone had the power to mess with everyone else's lives? Chaos.'
But of course, this IS the problem. We already have that power over each other.

Nicola Yoon

#96. The problem we've got now in Washington is that the goals are completely the opposite from each other.

Jim DeMint

#97. Do you know what is our problem? We know everything about our weapons, but we know nothing about how to use a telephone.

Asne Seierstad

#98. 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

#99. Even the invisible are insecure. It's the most universal problem we have. It's so universal, it might not even count as a problem.

Chuck Klosterman

#100. 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