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Quotes About Problems

The more assumptions we can invalidate, the faster we can find and fix problems, increases our resilience, agility, and ability to learn and innovate.
~ Gene Kim
we typically segment the customer base, so we know what set of problems each faces.
~ Gene Kim
There were always problems in dealing with the Fae. Despite their human appearance, they were soul-destroying entities from beyond space and time who introduced chaos into alternate worlds.
~ Genevieve Cogman
And on the few occasions when it simply hadn't been invented and you had indeed introduced the alternate to a whole new concept, you could end up with problems like cold fusion.
~ Genevieve Cogman
Random search can be more efficient than nonrandom search—something that Good and Turing had discovered at Bletchley Park. A random network, whether of neurons, computers, words, or ideas, contains solutions, waiting to be discovered, to problems that need not be explicitly defined.
~ George B. Dyson
When problems arise, you will usually find two types of people: whiners and winners. Whiners obstruct progress; they spend hours complaining about this point or that, without offering positive solutions. Winners acknowledge the existence of the problem, but they try to offer practical ideas that can help resolve the matter in a manner that is satisfactory to both parties.
~ George Foreman
the American people must mature. We are an adolescent lot, expecting solutions to insoluble problems and perfection in our leaders.
~ George Friedman
The very concept of history implies the scholar and the reader. Without a generation of civilized people to study history, to preserve its records, to absorb its lessons and relate them to its own problems, history, too, would lose its meaning.
~ George Frost Kennan
Julie has developed some issues." Julie was an issue riding on an issue and using a third issue for a whip.
~ Ilona Andrews
You don't cause problems. An unpiloted vampire causes problems. You cause catastrophes.
~ Ilona Andrews
Despite the hour, customers already flooded the market, men, women, and children of every color and race looking for the magic cure to their problems. They were what allowed the poachers to exist. They'd stop poaching if people stopped buying.
~ Ilona Andrews
The problems were too evident, they sat together eyeing them in silence. The stage now belonged to the young people, there would be happenings. Yet nothing happened; and Clement felt as if a magic spell had paralysed them all.
~ Iris Murdoch
Habrá otras crisis en el porvenir, cuando el poder del dinero se haya convertido en una fuerza muerta como es ahora la religión. Que mis sucesores resuelvan esos nuevos problemas, como yo he resuelto el del presente.
~ Isaac Asimov
There will be other crises in the time to come when money power has become as dead a force as religion is now. Let my successors solve those new problems, as I have solved the one of today.
~ Isaac Asimov
más vale tener planteados problemas sin solucionar que no plantearse problemas.
~ Isaac Asimov
Gustavo Solivellas dice: Si el conocimiento puede crear problemas, no es con la ignorancia con lo que podremos resolverlo (Isaac Asimov)
~ Isaac Asimov
Our own civilization has a dubious future, and if we can express the reason in brief it is that we find it difficult (perhaps impossible) to cooperate in solving our problems. We are too contentious a species and apparently find our local quarrels to be more important than our overall survival.
~ Isaac Asimov
Happiness is slippery, it slithers away between your fingers, but problems are something you can hold on to, they've got handles, they're rough and hard.
~ Isabel Allende
For years I put up with Julián Bravo's mistreatment without calling it domestic violence, making excuses: It was an accident; he went too far because he'd had too much to drink; I provoked him; he had problems and he took them out on me, it won't happen again, he promised, he apologized. I
~ Isabel Allende
La felicidad es jabonosa, se escurre entre los dedos, pero a los problemas uno puede aferrarse, tienen asidero, son ásperos, duros.
~ Isabel Allende
You must see a psychiatrist, son, she often suggested, and get help with your problems; you can overcome the flaws in your character; but Timothy's response was that without the flaws he would not have any character left.
~ Isabel Allende
No creía en la oración como método eficaz para resolver problemas de orden práctico.
~ Isabel Allende
Deseaba ser como Alma y vivir en una realidad manejable, donde los problemas tenían causa, efecto y solución, donde no existían seres terroríficos agazapados en los sueños ni enemigos lujuriosos espiando en cada esquina.
~ Isabel Allende
I believe psychology has done very well in working out how to understand and treat disease. But I think that is literally half-baked. If all you do is work to fix problems, to alleviate suffering, then by definition you are working to get people to zero, to neutral.
~ Martin Seligman