Major Problems Quotes

• It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.

  Douglas Adams

  Mistake, Food, Thinking

  Douglas Adams (2012). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five”, p.422, Pan Macmillan

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• The major problem of life is learning how to handle the costly interruptions.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Problem, Life Is, Interruptions

  "Quick Guide & Transcript: Review the week's headlines, Reflect on the last days of MLK". "CNN Student News", www.cnn.com. January 18, 2007.

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• Here's the major problem with going on strike for more money: You cannot get rich by demand!

  Jim Rohn

  Demand, Problem, Rich

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from May 10, 2017

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• While your character flaws may have created mild problems for other people, they will create major problems for your spouse and your marriage.

  Timothy Keller

  Character, People, May

  Timothy Keller (2011). “The Meaning of Marriage: Facing the Complexities of Commitment with the Wisdom of God”, p.90, Penguin

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• Never ever depend on governments or institutions to solve any major problems. All social change comes from the passion of individuals.

  Margaret Mead

  Passion, Government, Problem

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• Often men believe women are the same, and once they figure what works for one woman they apply that same method to all the other women they are intimate with, and that's one of the major problems.

  Gail Saltz

  Believe, Men, Problem

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• There was nothing the matter with me that was not also the matter with everyone else. I was not as interesting as I thought I was. My major problem, inadequate or inappropriate love from my parents, was as common as dirt. And one rainy day, all the boring poignancy of these realizations detonated in me like an atom bomb, burning the dead shadow of each former torment or preoccupation onto solid rock. Those silhouettes, that record would remain: the museum where I used to be.

  J. D. Daniels

  Rainy Day, Rocks, Museums

  J. D. Daniels (2017). “The Correspondence”, p.25, Random House

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• All chronic and degenerative diseases are caused by two and only two major problems, toxicity and deficiency.

  Charlotte Gerson

  Two, Disease, Problem

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• One of the major problems is what we do to the soil, the air, the water and everything, we take in our food.

  Charlotte Gerson

  Air, Water, Soil

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• What we're trying to do is address something I saw in Congress that was a major problem, which is to say that energy is arguably the most fundamental issue confronting our country.

  Brad Carson

  Country, Issues, Trying

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• The major problems facing the development of products that are safer, less prone to error, and easier to use and understand are not technological: they are social and organizational.

  Donald A. Norman

  Errors, Use, Development

  "The Invisible Computer". Book by Don Norman, ch. 10, 1998.

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• The U.S. healthcare system is probably the most interesting large group of companies that are heading for major problems that we've seen in a long, long time.

  James Chanos

  Long, Interesting, Groups

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• I'm going bald. I'm having a major problem with it.

  Gedde Watanabe

  Problem, Majors

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• I think the major problem in growing up is to become sophisticated without becoming cynical.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Growing Up, Thinking, Cynical

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “I Will Fear No Evil”, p.358, Penguin

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• If everyone practiced cherishing others, many of the major problems of the world would be solved in a few years.

  Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

  Years, Would Be, World

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• When it comes to fertility, there are so may things that have to go right. In any one individual, there might be one major problem and two minor ones or no major ones and seven minor ones. Throw in another person's physiology, and it's complicated. I try to give people the knowledge that they can make as many changes as they want.

  Robert Greene

  Two, People, Giving

  Source: www.blisstree.com

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• The best mental effort in the game of business is concentrated on the major problem of securing the consumer's dollar before the other fellow gets it.

  Stuart Chase

  Business, Games, Effort

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• We already know enough to begin to cope with all the major problems that are now threatening human life and much of the rest of life on earth. Our crisis is not a crisis of information; it is a crisis of decision of policy and action.

  George Wald

  Rest Of Life, Decision, Earth

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• Think of it as the Doorway of No Return. The feeling must be that your lead character, once she passes through, cannot go home again until the major problem of the plot is solved.

  James Scott Bell

  Home, Character, Thinking

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• All our anxieties relate to time. The major problems of psychiatry revolve around an analysis of the despair, pessimism, melancholy, and complexes that are the inheritances of what has been or with the fears, anxieties, worries, that are the imaginings of what will be.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Worry, Anxiety, Despair

  "Lift Up Your Heart". Book by Fulton J. Sheen. Chapter: "Sanctifying the Moment", 1950.

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• You "have a date," you "go out with a date," you "groan because there isn't a decent date in town." A situation defined as containing a girl - or boy - of the right social background, the right degree of popularity, a little higher than your own.

  Margaret Mead

  Girl, Boys, Men

  "Male and Female". Study by Margaret Mead, 1949.

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• We don't have a major problem right now in our country, and life is normal. Things like unemployment, which the youth are suffering from, and the rate of inflation - these are chronic conditions and we have to solve them.

  Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

  Country, Suffering, Unemployment

  "Iran's ex-president: U.S should show goodwill". Interview with Barbara Slavin, usatoday30.usatoday.com. February 6, 2005.

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• Illegal immigration continues to be a major problem in the United States. We have people waiting to come here legally. And we should not be rewarding people who have come here illegally.

  John Barrasso

  People, Waiting, Immigration

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• Meth is a major problem not only in our urban areas, but in most of the rural areas of Colorado. No region has been immune from this scourge and it is getting larger.

  Ken Salazar

  Rural Areas, Colorado, Urban

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• Clinton's major problem, and the two aren't separable really because there is hope in the country, the hope - - optimism has slipped dramatically, make no mistake about every measurement shows that. But the hope is still there. Hope is with him. People want change. They see him as the best chance for change.

  Mark Shields

  Country, Mistake, Two

  "David Gergen and Mark Shields on Bill Clinton's 100 Days". "PBS Newshour" with Jim Lehrer, www.pbs.org. April 29, 1993.

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