Quotes About Problem

In attacking the problem of erosion control, one great handicap lies in the scarcity of people left to do the essential work. On a recent drive to our county seat thirty miles away, we could count only sixteen occupied homes, including those within half a mile on either side of the federal highway.

When I'm nervous, I get nasty. It's a problem.

In my opinion, a problem derails your life and an inconvenience is not being able to get a nice seat on the un-derailed train.

it's important to be able to distinguish the difference between a problem and an inconvenience.

no matter what the dictionary says, in my opinion, a problem derails your life and an inconvenience is not being able to get a nice seat on the un-derailed train.

But no matter what the dictionary says, in my opinion, a problem derails your life and an inconvenience is not being able to get a nice seat on the un-derailed train. Given that, I've had three and a half problems. A dead guy in my bed, substance abuse, and manic-depression.

With this lesson in mind, Mullainathan and Shafir insist that certain characteristics that we attribute to individual personality (lack of motivation, inability to focus) may actually be a problem of limited bandwidth. The problem is scarcity, not the person.

If everyone who had a gun just shot themselves, there wouldn't be a problem.

There was a real fear that a euro-zone bank might fail, that we'd have a sovereign debt problem in one of the larger European economies. That's dissipated, thanks largely to the action of the European Central Bank.

Sphinx is the riddle, not the riddler.

hatred and prejudice always go over big. These people have been raised on the Negro problem, they're used to it,

The way we define a social problem will affect the way we conceive of its solution. If we have an incomplete definition of a problem, then we will envision a limited solution. If the real problem is larger than our restricted definition, then our solution will be insufficient.

While a weak man or an imposter is always more complicated than the problem he is trying to solve, and thinking to encompass his adversary, merely keeps prowling interminably around himself, the heroic nature will throw itself into the heart of the danger to turn it to its own use, just as captured artillery is turned about and aimed at the backs of the fleeing enemy.

Spiro, we have a problem,' he confessed. It was like saying 'walkies' to a bull mastiff.

PREFACE PROBLEM: Nobody reads prefaces. SOLUTION: Call the preface Chapter 1. NEW PROBLEM CREATED BY SOLUTION: Chapter 1 is boring. RESOLUTION: Throw away Chapter 1 and call Chapter 2 Chapter 1.

Once you eliminate your number one problem, number two gets a promotion.

By making the time tradeoff explicit and by indicating a willingness to contribute time now, I make it clear that it is a problem of limited time, not a problem of limited respect for the other person.

Humor is the healthy way of feeling "distance" between one's self and the problem, a way of standing off and looking at one's problems with perspective.

Don't throw a monkey-wrench into the machinery.

It isn't that they can't see the solution, it's that they can't see the problem.

A good problem statement often includes: (a) what is known, (b) what is unknown, and (c) what is sought.

There is a master key to success with which no man can fail. Its name is simplicity ... reducing to the simplest possible terms every problem.

Television has a real problem. They have no page two.

Another fine mess you've got us in, Stanley.