Real Problems Quotes

• To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.

  Albert Einstein

  Real, Creativity, Science

  Albert Einstein, Leopold Infeld (1966). “Evolution of Physics”, p.92, Simon and Schuster

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• The mere formulation of a problem is far more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skills. To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle requires creative imagination and marks real advances in science.

  Albert Einstein

  Education, Real, Creativity

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• 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

  Leadership, Real, Guy

  "Piers Morgan Tonight", edition.cnn.com. June 11, 2011.

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• I've never personally criticized anyone else's music, but I know that the public's real problem is not the music I make but the perception that I play simple music for money only and for the notoriety and to increase my popularity.

  Kenny G

  Real, Simple, Play

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I have a real problem with stillness. With just stopping and being quiet.

  Gillian Anderson

  Real, Stopping, Quiet

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• The government is huge, stupid, greedy and makes nosy, officious and dangerous intrusions into the smallest corners of life - this much we can stand. But the real problem is that government is boring. We could cure or mitigate the other ills Washington visits on us if we could only bring ourselves to pay attention to Washington itself. But we cannot.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Real, Stupid, Government

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Parliament of Whores: A Lone Humorist Attempts to Explain the Entire U.S. Government”, p.4, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• 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

  Inspirational, Fear, Real

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• I was never an ingenue. I've always just been a character actor. When I was younger, it was a real problem, because I was never pretty enough. It was hard, not just for the lack of work, but because you have to face up to how people are looking at you.

  Kathy Bates

  Real, Character, People

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The real problem is what to do with problem solvers after the problem is solved.

  Gay Talese

  Inspirational, Real, Team

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• 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

  Real, Order, Discipline

  William Glasser, M.D. (2010). “Choice Theory in the Classroom”, p.13, Harper Collins

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• Listen, global warming is a real problem, but it's not the end of the world. A 30-centimetre sea level rise is just not going to bring the world to a standstill, just like it didn't over the last 150 years.

  Bjorn Lomborg

  Real, Years, Sea

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• 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

  Real, Work, Differences

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• The real problem of leisure time is how to keep others from using yours.

  Arthur Lacey

  Time, Real, Leisure

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• Big Linux deployments have reached the point where it's become a real problem for administrators that they don't have nice tools to manage their servers and desktops.

  Nat Friedman

  Nice, Real, Deployment

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• I think the real problem is that nobody buys albums anymore, so you don't get the depth of the artists that are out today. What you get is whatever they felt is politically correct to get on there and actually make some impact. I think that's where you're losing your depth. You're only getting the very top of everything. It really bothers me.

  Gary Allan

  Real, Thinking, Artist

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• 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

  Brother, Uncles, Real

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• If your religion is better than mine and your opinion, you have a real problem.

  Michael Berryman

  Real, Opinion, Problem

  Interview with Vyeto Malesh, marsdust.net. January 22, 2017.

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• I think the oddest thing about the advanced people is that, while they are always talking about things as problems, they have hardly any notion of what a real problem is.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Real, Thinking, Talking

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• After I played him for the first time, I said 'Let's see. He's four or five inches taller. He's 40 or 50 pounds heavier. His vertical leap is at least as good as mine. He can get up and down the floor as well as I can. And he's smart. The real problem with all this is I have to show up.

  Bill Russell

  Basketball, Real, Smart

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• The only real problem in your life is how you're using your mind.

  Ken Keyes Jr.

  Real, Mind, Life Is

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• We must ask whether our machine technology makes us proof against all those destructive forces which plagued Roman society and ultimately wrecked Roman civilization. Our reliance - an almost religious reliance - upon the power of science and technology to forever ensure the progress of our society, might blind us to some very real problems which cannot be solved by science and technology.

  Robert Strausz-Hupe

  Religious, Real, Technology

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• The real problem is that we use too much oil. It's that simple and that difficult. If we truly want to reduce our vulnerability to high prices, the best way to do so is to reduce consumption.

  Richard Heinberg

  Real, Simple, Oil

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• I was a street kid, basically. But 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

  Real, Kids, Cities

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• On domestic policy, Donald Trump agreed with Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton on the Wall Street bailout, the TARP bailout of big bank. I think the government ought to be standing with mainstream, with working men and women. And then you put on top of that the ethical issues, whether it is refusing to release his taxes. And that's a real problem.

  Ted Cruz

  Wall, Real, Men

  "Face the Nation" with John Dickerson, www.cbsnews.com. February 28, 2016.

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• I would pay to have those adjudications enrolled into the federal background system so we could detect people who are mentally ill before they buy a gun. That is a real problem.

  Rand Paul

  Real, Gun, People

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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