Quotes About Problems

There's only one thing more boring than listening to other people's dreams, and that's listening to their problems.

I try to do films that touch upon social issues or problems that the country or the world is facing.

To me poverty, mental health, and addictions don't sound like criminal justice problems. They sound to me like a social justice problem.

Hearing aids didn't cause any problem with my social life, my career, no problem at all, and I've been wearing them for a long time. As a matter of fact, once I became an entertainer and started working on television, I was probably the first performer to talk about hearing problems on the air.

Of all the public services, education is the one I'm most interested in. You get a more dynamic economy, you deal with most social problems, and it's morally right.

In college, I was always disappointed by lectures that covered social problems but failed to identify what I could do to change them. Part of the problem was that many professors simply didn't believe they had a role in converting awareness to action.

My inspiration is always what I think my fans want to listen to. I often write about social problems. If I'm not going through it or I haven't gone through it, I want to make sure it touches someone. That's what I base my music on.

The answers to today's most important scientific, business, and social problems lie in data.

You can also make explicit certain social problems which, again, would be prejudged or not encountered at all in real life, because people have set up defenses against it. Fantasy allows you to get past defenses.

We have a lot of societal problems that we have to fix in the 1990s.

Capitalism is a wonderful economic engine, but it assigns little value to long-term projects or societal problems.

Many societal problems concern science, such as the energy crisis, genetic alterations of foods.

Inequality causes problems by creating fissures in societies, leaving those at the bottom feeling marginalized or disenfranchised.

One of the enduring problems with certain societies in the world - and this is certainly true of a lot of places in the Middle East - is that the capacity for self-governance and self-organizing just isn't there. It has to do with history.

I think human societies tend to be problematic.

Societies that depend on natural resources tend to have certain inherent problems. The limited concentration of wealth - whether from oil, coal, diamonds, or bauxite - often leads to corruption and authoritarianism.

I give off rather mixed messages about the law. On the one hand, I can honestly say I don't miss working in a law office. On the other hand I do enjoy watching the law and while the profession may have its problems, I have sold zillions of books out of magnifying them.

Too often, ill-informed rhetoric has led to emotional hysteria that obfuscates solid evidence regarding the real problems faced by poor people and, in overwhelmingly great proportions, by black people.

We want to be a country with a competitive edge in the world. And a country with a solid democracy. To do that, we need to attack the social problems, and extreme poverty is probably the worst of those.

I think isolation is one of the greatest problems, an ever-growing obstacle to political solidarity.

Empirical interest will be in the facts so far as they are relevant to the solution of these problems.

I certainly don't like a label that suggests I believe that the military is the solution to most of the world's problems.

The world is complicated. But does every problem require a complicated solution?

Perhaps lessons learned from space can be applied to other areas particularly to the solution of social problems.