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 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

  Children, Real, Thinking

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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 can't advise any of the young ones, because I don't know what their background was, but I would suggest that anyone who wants to be famous more than anything - there's a problem.

  Shirley MacLaine

  Real, Want, Problem

  "Shirley MacLaine: the new dame in Downton". Interview with Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. August 24, 2012.

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• '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

  Real, Hero, People

  "How Watchmen changed my life" by Gerard Way, www.theguardian.com. January 29, 2009.

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• We can either continue to collectively stand on the sidelines and debate what is causing autism and if it is an epidemic or we can get on the field and start addressing the real problem - a generation of children with autism. We are not focusing enough on prevention, treatments and support services.

  Jenny McCarthy

  Children, Real, Epidemics

  "Preventing Another Generation of Children With Autism" by Jenny McCarthy, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 2, 2012.

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• I used to have a real problem with self-pity. Every time the devil would throw a pity party, I would attend.

  Joyce Meyer

  Real, Party, Self

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• You can always make a film somehow. You can beg, borrow, steal the equipment, use credit cards, use your friends' goodwill, wheedle your way into this or that situation. The real problem is, how do you get people to see it once it is made?

  Walter Murch

  Real, People, Cards

  Interview with Michael Wohl, www.peachpit.com. November 1, 2001.

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• I've had trouble being in relationships and writing. This has been a real problem for me. I don't know if it's because I'm not free to fantasize or create these fantasy things about other people

  Lucinda Williams

  Real, Writing, People

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• All the well-meaning advice in the world won't amount to a hill of beans if we're not even addressing the real problem.

  Stephen Covey

  Real, Effectiveness, Advice

  Stephen R. Covey (2013). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change”, p.262, Simon and Schuster

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• It does not matter that we cannot fathom this mystery. The only real problem comes when we think that we have.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Real, Thinking, Doe

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “Two-Part Invention: The Story of a Marriage”, p.133, Open Road Media

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• The real problem with stories - if you keep them going long enough, they always end in death.

  Neil Gaiman

  Real, Long, Stories

  "The Sandman" by Neil Gaiman, (Sandman #6: "24 Hours"), January 1989 - November 2015.

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• When you first have a baby your life doesn't change. I mean, you have a little less sleep and you drag these cuddly things around you and it's just amazing. But you still get to be you. Once they get to, like, five, six and school and it starts to get, like, 'Wow, they got real problems. They're my responsibility.' Oh my God. That is overwhelming.

  Gwen Stefani

  Baby, Real, School

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• For all the criticism about warlords, it is now likely that Afghanistan will never again be turned over to al Qaeda to train thousands to conduct the type of murder we saw on September 11. For all real problems with ambushes and sabotage, there will be no more gassings, mass murdering, invading neighbors, sending guided missiles across borders or no-fly zones in Iraq, but rather the hard work of consensual government - a difficult process easily caricatured, but when completed universally admired.

  Victor Davis Hanson

  Real, Hard Work, Iraq

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• I mean if you put all of your eggs in one basket, boy, and that thing blows up you've got a real problem.

  Jerry Bruckheimer

  Real, Mean, Blow

  Interview with Steve Head, www.ign.com. Ocotber 15, 2003.

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• The real problem you get with humour is that you only have so many kinds of jokes within you, and you mine that vein a lot. This isn't just common to me; it's anybody who's funny.

  Bill Bryson

  Real, Veins, Common

  "'You have only so many jokes'". Interview with Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. November 22, 2002.

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• I just have a real problem with people who seek to portray fatness or thinness as moral concepts.

  Julie Burchill

  Real, People, Moral

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• The real problem is clean up the bureaucracy that people have to deal with to become a citizen the right way. And we must truly secure the border. We can't leave it porous.

  Herman Cain

  Real, People, Borders

  "Herman Cain: Transcript of ABC/Yahoo News Exclusive Interview". Interview with Jonathan Karl, abcnews.go.com. November 8, 2011.

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• 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

  Leadership, Real, Believe

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• Lots of people have criticized my movies, but nobody has ever identified the real problem: I'm a sloppy filmmaker.

  Francis Ford Coppola

  Real, People, Problem

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• In a head-on collision with Fanatics, the real problem is always the same: how can we possibly behave decently toward people so arrogantly ignorant that they believe, first, that they possess Christ's power to bestow salvation, second, that forcing us to memorize and regurgitate a few of their favorite Bible phrases and attend their church is that salvation, and third, that any discomfort, frustration, anger or disagreement we express in the face of their moronic barrages is due not to their astounding effrontery but to our sinfulness?

  David James Duncan

  Real, Believe, Frustration

  David James Duncan (2010). “The Brothers K”, p.227, Dial Press

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• People said that video games were bad because they made you numb to death, made you register entrails splattering across a screen as a sign of success. In that moment, Val thought that the real problem with games was that the player was suppossed to try everything. If there was a cave, you went in it. If there was a mysterious stranger, you talked to him. If there was a map, you followed it. But in games, you had a hundred million billion lives and Val only had this one.

  Holly Black

  Real, Player, Games

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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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• Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems

  Epictetus

  Real, Men, Anxiety

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