Real Problems Quotes

#1. I'm focused on solving the problem that would make it plausible for gov't to get back to solving real problems.

Lawrence Lessig

#2. Real problems sooner or later are resolved; on the contrary, pseudoproblems are not.

Primo Levi

#3. The idea of 10 dimensions might sound exciting, but they would cause real problems if you forget where you parked your car.

Stephen Hawking

#4. The real process of education should be the process of learning to think through the application of real problems.

John Dewey

#5. Really, Mexico City has always been this big, complex monster of a city that has always had real problems and needs, and I've always found my way through it in different ways.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

#6. What is the point of magic if we can't fix real problems?

Lev Grossman

#7. I can't think of any more important value to instill in our children than the desire to help others. I feel strongly about setting an example for them. Real problems can be solved by the next generation if we instill in them the right values.

Matt Damon

#8. If you're in government, the right thing to do is be focused on solving real problems and asking what's the best solution to a particular problem.

Julius Genachowski

#9. There are few women in America that don't want to lose 5 pounds, but I refuse to let that thought dominate my life. And there are too many other real problems in the world - real obesity problems and real hunger problems - to worry that much about a few pounds that I'd like to lose.

Gail Simmons

#10. Communication, that's what I do. Advertising is the best way to communicate because you reach a lot of people. I still cant understand though, why people are shocked by something that obviously exists. Its like a family that avoids talking about its real problems.

Oliviero Toscani

#11. The point, as I emphasize in the book, is not for players to become professionals, but rather to have innovative and creative ways of thinking about real problems as part of their intellectual toolkit.

David Williamson Shaffer

#12. The two real problems in life are boredom and death.

Saul Bellow

#13. If you want to be useful, you can always start now. It will be a humble prototype of your grand vision, but you'll be in the game. Start by teaching someone this week. Starting small puts 100% of your energy into solving real problems for real people.

Derek Sivers

#14. Polite strangers often tell soothing lies about our physical appearance that prevent many of us from facing, discussing and solving our real problems.

Martha Beck

#15. Fear can supplant our real problems only to the extent -unwilling either to assimilate or to exhaust it -we perpetuate it within ourselves like a temptation and enthrone it at the very heart of our solitude.

Emile M. Cioran

#16. Suppression of expression conceals the real problems confronting a society and diverts public attention from the critical issues. It is likely to result in neglect of the grievances which are the actual basis of the unrest, and thus prevent their correction.

Thomas I. Emerson

#17. Peace in its real sense can never be achieved by military measures or technical fixes ... It is high time for us to focus our attention on the real problems which are threatening all of us - in fact, life on this planet.

Hans-Peter Durr

#18. When you look at where the real problems are among minorities in our society, particularly blacks, it's at the bottom. It's the people who are in school systems that don't educate, neighborhoods where there is a lot of crime, drugs, the whole bit.

Clarence Thomas

#19. Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems

Epictetus

#20. If your product solves real problems, has a simple, intuitive interaction and an appealing, easy-to-read visual design, yet people aren't using it, chances are your product is failing to communicate at a human level.

Everett N. McKay

#21. The ideology and philosophy of neo-Darwinism which is sold by its adepts as a scientific theoretical foundation of biology seriously hampers the development of science and hides from students the field's real problems.

Vladimir L. Voeikov

#22. You dread that there will be real problems during filming.

Ralph Fiennes

#23. Because', she said, 'your problems are not real problems. You're dating two beautiful girls at once. Think about it. That's like ... having rock-star problems.'
'Having rock-star problems may be the closest I ever get to being an actual rock star.

Cassandra Clare

#24. There's an old Southern saying that if you're worried about your weight, clothes, or getting old, then you don't have any real problems.

Amy Hill Hearth

#25. We live in a world where we have friends, neighbors, brothers, sisters, aunts, uncles, people we journey with for years who are gay. And we need to love, affirm and all of us together work on the real problems that we have in the world.

Rob Bell

#26. Action learning particularly obliges subjects to become aware of their own value systems, by demanding that the real problems tackled carry some risk of personal failure.

Reg Revans

#27. There are nuclear weapons in China, Iran, Korea and Pakistan. It wouldn't take much to send a couple of warheads off on this planet somewhere that would cause a lot of environmental damage, then if you have got someone who wants to retaliate you have real problems.

Edward James Olmos

#28. The ... irrational fear of communism is being deliberately used in many quarters to blind us to our real problems.

Helen Gahagan Douglas

#29. America does not need another political campaign based on denial and avoidance of some of our real problems. It needs a crusade to reform and renew our country, its institutions and political system.

Richard Lamm

#30. I am drawn to Christ but I have real problems with the Catholic Church.

Andres Serrano

#31. Football coaches don't have real problems.

Lou Holtz

#32. [Facebook and Twitter] aren't the real problems in the office. The real problems are what I like to call the M&Ms, the Managers and the Meetings.

Jason Fried

#33. It may not be irrelevant to note that even very modest forms of life, like earthworms, dung beetles and fiddler crabs, have no trouble identifying the real problems they must deal with if they are to survive.

Edward Goldsmith

#34. I like real problems, the human condition - twisted, darker stuff.

Drea De Matteo

#35. I think that it's easy to target a heavy metal band for inciting violence or making kids turn to a cult than it is to actually look at real problems in the real world.

Sam Dunn

#36. I don't want to talk about my trials and tribulations. Once you reveal even part of what your real problems might be in life, they come back in a deformed way.

W.G. Sebald

#37. Some soap opera, you know, real people pretending to be fake people with made-up problems being watched by real people to forget their real problems.

Chuck Palahniuk

#38. With WesTrac, you have real people doing real jobs with real problems and real opportunities, and you touch the metal, and it's like being grounded.

Kerry Stokes

#39. We do not simply get showered with Hollywood money because we happened to write a little story about wizards one day. It's not winning the lottery. It's a real job, which real people do, and they have the same real problems as other real people.

Joanne Harris

#40. What a paradox it is, the sane causes more problems than the insane! It is! The real problems of the world do not come from the insane but, the sane!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#41. The resistance of policy-makers to intelligence is not just founded on an ideological presupposition. They distrust intelligence sources and intelligence officials because they don't understand what the real problems are.

Aldrich Ames

#42. The emergence of a hardware product from an African company marks a phase-change point for tech invention. The BRCK shows that great ideas can come from anywhere, that innovation comes from solving real problems with constrained resources.

Erik Hersman

#43. Unbridled capitalism will lead to some very real problems.

Kenneth Rogoff

#44. Christians always seemed like bad thinkers to me. It seemed that they could maintain their worldview only because they were sheltered from the world's real problems, like the material structures of poverty and violence and racism.

Rosaria Champagne Butterfield

#45. The state of our civilization manifests itself both in the non-problems that terrify us beyond all reason - rising sea levels - and in the real problems we pay no heed to [population decline] ... In reality, much of the planet will be uninhabited long before it's uninhabitable

Mark Steyn

#46. Once the troops move into Cambodia, the colleges and universities of this country were on the verge of civil war. Many closed down. The students were up in arms. And it looked very much like there were going to be real problems in this country.

William Kunstler

#47. I like movies that are about real people in real time with real problems.

Josh Radnor

#48. With all the chaos, pain and suffering in the world, the fact that my adoption of a child from who was living in an orphanage, you know, was the number one story for a week in the world. To me, that says more about our inability to focus on the real problems.

Madonna Ciccone

#49. Real problems can't be fixed with a motivational poster, a cute quote or a pat on the back.

Bryant McGill

#50. Entrepreneurs go through real problems and come up with real solutions. It's not fake. You can do all the right things and still lose. You can do all the wrong things and still will.

Ben Huh

#51. If a guy is intimidated by a woman in leadership, he has real problems with his own concepts of masculinity. That's a harsh statement, but I believe it to be true.

Tony Campolo

#52. There's no longer a superpower standoff. But there are real problems that divide countries around the world. And the UN is still the place where we can get together and try and discuss them

Shashi Tharoor

#53. The best learning happens in real life with real problems and real people and not in classrooms.

Charles Handy

#54. Politicians are terrified of losing touch with folks back home but content to be clueless about government's failure to fix real problems.

Jim Cooper

#55. I was never the smartest guy in the room. From the first person I hired, I was never the smartest guy in the room. And that's a big deal. And if you're going to be a leader - if you're a leader and you're the smartest guy in the world - in the room, you've got real problems.

Jack Welch

#56. In my view, Africa's real problems are cultural.

Hugh Masekela

#57. Real problems in life are those related to your wellbeing and the wellbeing of your loved ones ... Everything else is NOT a problem!

Samer Chidiac

#58. Prayer is how we isolate the real problems. And prayer is how we get up behind those problems and attack them at the roots. It's how we isolate the real enemy. It's how we keep him on his heels and off our man.

Priscilla Shirer

#59. When I was a kid, the great debate was about how to defeat the Soviet Union. And we won. Now we are told that the great debate is about who gets to use which bathroom. This is a distraction from our real problems. Who cares?

Peter Thiel

#60. Bodies are strange. Some people have real problems with the stuff that goes on inside them. You find out that inside someone you know there's just mucus and meat and slime and bone. They menstruate, salivate, defecate and cry. You know? Sometimes it can just kill the romance. You know that?

Neil Gaiman

#61. After 9/11, we realized that all these silly culture wars, and arguing about rock lyrics ... who cares? You know, we, for some reason, remembered what our real problems are.

Frank Rich

#62. The hostility between India and Pakistan has become a habit to which both the elites have become addicted. Any attempt towards a rational solution to real problems is denounced by chauvinists on both sides.

Tariq Ali

#63. The real problems are cultural. The problems of the people who take drugs as a cultural trap - I think there's a real problem there, the crack stuff, the hopelessness of the junkie. The urban angst.

Jerry Garcia

#64. Leading is not hypothetical debating; it's about solving real problems.

John Yarmuth

#65. 'Watchmen' is a politically charged story, and it explores exactly what a hero is, how the world would treat them and how they would react. It was the first time I read a superhero story that explored that situation. These are very real people with very real problems.

Gerard Way

#66. In the West, people don't have any real problems. It's all based on bad conscience, a very Christian notion. I don't have any bad conscience. If there's a God that created us, if I am bad, it's his fault.

Marjane Satrapi

#67. Over the years I've received thousands of e-mails looking for guidance. Some have real problems; some talk about monkeys and poo
though those people may also have real problems.

Eugene Mirman

#68. Values are shaped and refined by rubbing against real problems, and people interpret their problems according to the values they hold.

Ronald A. Heifetz

#69. Businesses that run well are almost like marriages. Everything has to be up for discussion, or there will be real problems.

Nobu Matsuhisa

#70. Heroin was a coping mechanism that I had used to deal with my underlying fears. They were the real problems; heroin wasn't the culprit, my fears were.

Pax Prentiss

#71. We're a very close family and we're a very real family, and I think every real family has real problems.

Emilio Estevez

#72. If you freak out over trivial everyday grievances, how are you going to handle *real* problems?

Rob Sheffield

#73. Managers who are skilled communicators may also be good at covering up real problems.

Chris Argyris

#74. It has become much more difficult to smuggle dangerous substances across our borders over the past three years, and this is creating real problems for drug traffickers.

John Walters

#75. There's no substitute for rolling up your sleeves and working with the people who can make a difference. They get the benefit of your participation and you gain a direct understanding of the real problems and potential solutions, which makes you a more informed giver.

Michael Milken

#76. Drug abuse and addiction are very real problems, the remedy for which is education and medical treatment, not incarceration. In fact, the most abused drugs in the United States now appear to be oxycodone and other prescription painkillers. Should

Sam Harris

#77. Do not mix temporary difficulties with real problems.

Valentina

#78. something is malignantly addictive if (1) it causes real problems for the addict, and (2) it offers itself as a relief from the very problems it causes.

David Foster Wallace

#79. The last point that I'd make. I had a hearing. I had all of the veterans groups in front of me. And I said to them, tell me when a veteran gets in to the V.A., understanding there are waiting lines and real problems, when a veteran gets into the system, is the quality of care good?

Bernie Sanders

#80. It seems ridiculous that you can be in one state with your driver's license and buy a firearm, and then in the next state it is totally illegal. There are real problems to that, but as soon as you bring up the subject and say 'gun control,' it sets a red flag.

Joe Perry

#81. The day is not far off when the economic problem will take the back seat where it belongs, and the arena of the heart and the head will be occupied or reoccupied, by our real problems - the problems of life and of human relations, of creation and behavior and religion.

John Maynard Keynes

#82. Life's pretty friggin' mean most of the time. People got real problems and real shit to cry about, but this isn't it. This is the good stuff, and I've been kicked by life one too many times to just ignore it when something sweet falls in my lap.

Kele Moon

#83. The dichotomy is delicious. Inside the fantasy genre, I try to present women who need to solve real problems like having no voice in community, or no right to work; no access to capital to start a business. No reinforcement for talent.

Stella Atrium

#84. I return to problems i can't solve, not because i am an idiot, but because the real problems can't be solved. The universe is expanding. The more we see, the more we discover there is to see. Always a new beginning, a different end.

Jeanette Winterson

#85. I have six brothers and sisters. My mother has six kids from two different marriages. And we would just sit around making fun of each other's dad, and all our dads had real problems.

Michael Che

#86. The real problems of our planet are not economic or technical, they are philosophical. The philosophy of unbridled materialism is being challenged by events.

E.F. Schumacher

#87. In real life, when emotions and sentiments are involved and the very continuity of life is at stake, there are no quantitative theories, linear programming, and applied mechanics available to solve those problems.

Girdhar Joshi

#88. I like tackling problems that I can see making an impact on real people and real businesses immediately.

Seth Priebatsch

#89. You can also make explicit certain social problems which, again, would be prejudged or not encountered at all in real life, because people have set up defenses against it. Fantasy allows you to get past defenses.

Elizabeth Moon

#90. I like solving problems, and science provides a logical way of solving real-life problems.

David J. Anderson

#91. Real leadership means tackling tough problems ourselves and not leaving them to our children.

Jon Kyl

#92. New Yorkers have real issues, and they deserve to have a mayor that is prepared to work with them to solve the challenges they have, reduce the problems that they have, and they deserve to have a mayor's race that is focused on them.

Christine Quinn

#93. The real opportunity is to harness the inventive power of the world to locally design and produce solutions to local problems.

Neil Gershenfeld

#94. In the university, professors make up artificial problems. In the real world, the problems do not come in nice, neat packages. They have to be discovered.

Donald A. Norman

#95. But think about it -what if there were a deus ex machina in real life? Everything would be so easy! If you felt stuck or trapped, some god would swing down from up there and solve all your problems. What could be easier than that?

Haruki Murakami

#96. Then the war became a real problem and along with other shortages, they started to have paper problems.

Gil Kane

#97. We experience problem-solving sessions as war zones, we view competing ideas as enemies, and we use problems as weapons to blame and defeat opposition forces. No wonder we can't come up with real lasting solutions!

Margaret J. Wheatley

#98. I'd say that any character or setting can be given a bit of an otherworldly sheen and be the better for it. The one thing I insist on with my own writing is that I won't let magic solve my characters' real world problems. The solutions have to come from the characters themselves.

Charles De Lint

#99. Anger, jealousy, impatience, and hatred are the real troublemakers, with them problems cannot be solved.

Dalai Lama

#100. Because I am afraid of commitment. This movie certainly has some bearing and is some reflection of my real feeling about relationships, because I do have commitment issues. My friends tell me I have intimacy problems, but they don't know me, so who cares what they think?

Garry Shandling