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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• You have a very precisely defined goal and you build a machine that's superhuman in its capabilities for achieving goals. If it turns out that the subsequent behavior of the robot in achieving that goal was not what you want, you have a real problem.

  Stuart J. Russell

  Real, Goal, Robots

  "Intelligent robots don't need to be conscious to turn against us". Interview with Guia Marie Del Prado, uk.businessinsider.com. August 5, 2015.

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• Real problem is not population explosion, but what the population is doing.

  Radhanath Swami

  Real, Population, Problem

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• Am I a fruitcake? I don't know. Perception is reality, so if I sit here and say, "I'm not a fruitcake, I'm a lemon cake," it doesn't matter. What you see me as in your world is what I am; it doesn't matter what I am - do you know what I mean? To me, I know what my real problems are - and they're certainly not about cake. And that's just the way it is.

  Macy Gray

  Real, Mean, Cake

  "It's a Macy, Macy world" by Tim Cooper, www.theguardian.com. November 17, 2001.

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• I think there's a real problem if you're making a film - some people have done whether it be about Jackson Pollock or about Picasso - it's difficult for actors, because they have to impersonate a person whose image is very strong in our memories or in our consciousness. It's something that's very tricky, I think.

  Peter Webber

  Strong, Memories, Real

  Source: www.aboutfilm.com

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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 real problem is Barack Obama has had six years to advocate a position to fix this and he's done nothing. The congress has funded these programs of building more fencing and doing all this and he hasn't done it.

  Jeb Bush

  Real, Years, Having Fun

  "5th Republican debate transcript, annotated: Who said what and what it meant". 2016 presidential debate in Las Vegas, Nevada, www.washingtonpost.com. December 15, 2015.

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• Considering that future generations will be far better off than current generations even after accounting for climate change, it would be more equitable for today's industrialized world to help solve the real problems facing today's poorer developing world than to mitigate climate change now to help reduce the burden on future populations that would not only be wealthier but also technologically superior.

  Indur M. Goklany

  Real, World, Today

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• People who know Clinton knew the guy has a real problem keeping his hands off women.

  Monica Lewinsky

  Real, Hands, People

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• The problem with working with a coach isn't that we don't know what to do. The real problem is that we don't want to change our mind.

  Seth Godin

  Real, Marketing, Mind

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• The real problem of humanity is the following: we have paleolithic emotions; medieval institutions; and god-like technology. And it is terrifically dangerous, and it is now approaching a point of crisis overall.

  E. O. Wilson

  Real, Technology, Humanity

  "An Intellectual Entente". harvardmagazine.com. September 10, 2009.

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

  Arthur Lacey

  Time, Real, Leisure

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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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• 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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• As for the not-black black president issue - white people can imagine blacks worse off than them, no problem. And now they can imagine blacks better off, no problem. But they still can't imagine black people who are just like them. That's the real problem. That's racism. Not being able to believe that those others are actually just like you.

  Darryl Pinckney

  Real, Believe, White

  Source: www.guernicamag.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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