Problem Quotes - Page 29

• One of the great problems of the world today is undoubtedly this problem of not being able to talk to scientists, because we don't understand science; they can't talk to us because they don't understand anything else, poor dears.

  Michael Flanders

  World, Able, Today

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• My problem is that I always find jeans that are either high-waisted or low-rise, but nothing in between, like they used to be in the eighties and early nineties. That's actually the most flattering cut.

  Georgia May Jagger

  Cutting, Jeans, Used

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• The problem with Bush is that yes, he's religious in a fundamentalist sort of way, they read the Old Testament as a sort of charter for the chosen people to do what they like.

  Bruce Kent

  Religious, People, Way

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• My effectiveness is best placed in solving problems through federal solutions.

  George Nethercutt

  Effectiveness, Problem Solving, Solutions

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• Alcohol is the cause of all my problems.

  Jayson Williams

  Alcohol, Causes

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• The fact that 'A Dirty Job' has comedy and supernatural horror in it, that both are woven in and out of it with a whimsical tone, despite the fact that it's about death, makes it hard to characterize with standard genre labels - but I have no problem with that. I'd call it a funny story about death, and leave it at that.

  Christopher Moore

  Jobs, Dirty, Woven

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• There is only so much energy available to us in life. Spending it on solving problems is one possible way of living your life, but this may leave you empty - hearted; spending it on what excites you is a lot more fulfilling and fun - and effortless; and usually, the previously experienced problems vanish on their own. We don't have to battle against the darkness when all we need to do is turn on the light.

  Andreas Moritz

  Life, Fun, Light

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• The search for some ultimate significance in the universe, and in our little transient role in it, the compulsion to learn, to know, to find the truth, to answer questions and solve problems - these constitute the essence of an aware existence, the central core of intelligent life.

  Dale Rex Coman

  Life, Intelligent, Essence

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• Finding relief in your problem is fine, but it will not cure the problem.

  Henry R Brandt

  Life, Relief, Cures

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• You dont have a marriage problem, you have a sin problem.

  Henry R Brandt

  Life, Sin, Marriage Problems

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• Worry is when you choose from millions of possible thoughts, only the few which deal with a potential misfortune or problem. Once you accept your worrying as the act of choosing specific thoughts, you can consciously make an effort to avoid those thoughts that cause you needless pain and choose more constructive, positive thoughts.

  Zelig Pliskin

  Pain, Worry, Effort

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• If your primary focus is to get over your health problems or get past a relationship crisis so that you can return to your former life and old patterns- that is, get back to business as usual-you are not really living. The distinction is paradoxical and sometimes subtle. It's the difference between walking through your life on your way to somewhere, and walking as your life. Even if you believe that where you want to get is extremely important, that destination is secondary. Your immediate experience is what really matters. It is your life.

  Richard Moss

  Life, Believe, Past

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• Prescription for Life-long Happiness: Purpose enough for satisfaction; Work enough for sustenance; Sanity enough to know when to play and rest; Wealth enough for basic needs; Affection enough to like many and love a few; Self-respect enough to love yourself; Charity enough to give to others in need; Courage enough to face difficulties; Creativity enough to solve problems; Humor enough to laugh at will; Hope enough to expect an interesting tomorrow; Gratitude enough to appreciate what you have; Health enough to enjoy life for all its worth.

  Ernie J Zelinski

  Inspirational, Gratitude, Love You

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• There is no counting the unsolved problems of Natural History.

  J. Arthur Thomson

  Science, Natural, Counting

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• Establishing and maintaining clarity for yourself and what you want is the starting point for success. Thus, maintaining extraordinary clarity is necessary to achieve extraordinary success. The problem is that most people maintain a mediocre level of clarity, which inevitably leads to a mediocre level of success.

  Hal Elrod

  Thinking, People, Levels

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• Problems tend to be put into their proper perspective the moment we get off SELF, and on PURPOSE. By choosing your purpose in life - a purpose that serves the greater good - and devoting the majority of your time, energy, and attention everyday toward living it, you discover the secret to a life of fulfillment.

  Hal Elrod

  Thinking, Self, Perspective

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• Darwin's book, On the Origin of Species, was published in 1859. It is perhaps the most influential book that has ever been published, because it was read by scientist and non- scientist alike, and it aroused violent controversy. Religious people disliked it because it appeared to dispense with God; scientists liked it because it seemed to solve the most important problem in the universe-the existence of living matter. In fact, evolution became in a sense a scientific religion; almost all scientists have accepted it and many are prepared to 'bend' their observations to fit in with it.

  Henry Lipson

  Religious, Book, People

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• Underneath the visible problems with reading and writing lies the deeper problem of 'illearnacy': an acquired disabling of learning courage and learning initiative.

  Guy Claxton

  Lying, Teaching, Reading

  Guy Claxton (2001). “Wise Up”, p.275, A&C Black

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• Think as you work, for in the final analysis, your worth to your company comes not only in solving problems, but also in anticipating them.

  Harold Ross

  Mistake, Thinking, Decision

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• However destructive may be the policies of the government and the methods and products of the corporations, the root of the problem is always found to be found in private life. We must learn to see that every problem that concerns us as conservationists always leads straight to the question of how we live. The world is being destroyed, no doubt about it, by the greed of the rich and powerful. It is also being destroyed by popular demand.

  Wendell Berry

  Powerful, Government, Roots

  Wendell Berry (1993). “Sex, Economy, Freedom & Community: Eight Essays”, Pantheon

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• To the ideal of high consumption and the downgrading of spiritual values corresponds a conception of injustice that centers exclusively on the problem of consumption; and equality in consumption cannot be achieved except by violence.

  Jacques Ellul

  Spiritual, Downgrading, Violence

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• Overconsumption is the mother of all environmental problems. For the first time in the history of capitalism, consumption itself has become controversial.

  Kalle Lasn

  Mother, Environmental, Firsts

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• Overpopulation is the problem of the third and fourth World; over-consumption is the problem of the West. The average American child this year will consume as much of the world's resources as twenty children born in India. Deliberate and calculated waste is the central aspect of the American economy. We over-eat, over-buy, and over-built, spewing out our toxic wastes upon the earth and into the air.

  Richard J. Foster

  Children, Air, Average

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• There will be no feeding problems because you can either eat for pleasure, or you don't have to eat at all!

  David Berg

  Pleasure, Feeding, Heavenly

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• Today the world faces a single man armed with weapons of mass destruction, manifesting an aggressive, bullying attitude, who may well plunge the world into chaos and bloodshed if he miscalculates. This person, belligerent, arrogant, and sure of himself, truly is the most dangerous person on Earth. The problem is that his name is George W. Bush, and he is our president.

  Jack Balkin

  Bullying, Attitude, Men

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