Quotes About Problem

the first surprise about change: What looks like a people problem is often a situation problem.

What looks like a people problem is often a situation problem. And no matter what your role is, you've got some control over the situation.

In this chapter, we've seen that what looks like a "character problem" is often correctible when you change the environment.

relatively small changes—cooking with sweet-potato greens, greeting Bobby at the door—had a big impact on a big problem. There is a clear asymmetry between the scale of the problem and the scale of the solution. Big problem, small solution.

What looks like a people problem is often a situation problem.

themselves. In turn, that discovery makes the need for action obvious. Guthrie doesn't share his findings from his customer meetings; he creates a situation where they can replicate his discovery. It becomes their own insight, and as a result, they're motivated to act. Similarly, CLTS facilitators see the problem vividly, but they don't share their concerns directly. They let the villagers see for themselves. The

If Palmer wants to persuade the professors, he needs them to trip over the truth. And that starts with a focus on the problem, not the solution.

And that's the first surprise about change: What looks like a people problem is often a situation problem.

I would approach the problem aslant. No matter what my father's intention, I could still make Arjun's heart beat faster. I could still influence how he thought. Perhaps Time was the master player. But within the limits allowed to humans in this world the sages called unreal, I would be a player, too.

Masalah hanya menjadi masalah kalau kau percaya itu masalah. Dan sering orang melihatmu seperti kau melihat dirimu sendiri. -Krishna

You know what worries me about the enemy? It's the violence. It is almost as if he thinks he can solve every problem this way.

was trilling out of his phone again. Another female. Another problem.

did we crash Ellie?

I thought its problem was the same problem many Jews have in wanting to "place" the Holocaust, to find some meaning or redemption. An end to rootless cosmopolitanism.

Run faster" was an elegant strategy with only a single problem: by some key metrics, the U.S. wasn't running faster, it was losing ground. Hardly anyone in government bothered to do the analysis

Every problem comes along with it's solution; the bigger the problem, the bigger the testimony. Cheer up!

People who are dependent are merely using alcohol as a crutch to get through the day. Yet doctors and scientists are still treating "alcoholism" as if it is the problem, when it has nothing to do with the problem. They might as well be studying "scratchism" for people who have a chronic itch.

From the isolated, individualistic perspective of most white evangelicals and many other Americans, there really is no race problem other than bad interpersonal relationships.

Complexity is one of the great problems in environmental design.

The traffic system needs a complete rethink," mused Bryant as the unit's only allocated vehicle, a powder-blue Vauxhall with a thoroughly thrashed engine, accelerated through Belsize Park. "Look at these road signs. Ministerial graffiti." "It's no use lecturing on the problem, Arthur. That's why your driving examiner failed you thirty-seven times." "What makes you such a great driver?' "I don't hit things.

Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, on her visit to Beijing back in September 1982, had encountered a similar problem: the interpreter was heard to call her 'The Quite Honourable Margaret Thatcher'. On the other hand, she took some persuading to stop using the word 'Chinamen'.

People accuse therapists of seeing abuse where there isn't any; of fabricating memories for their patients. Maybe this is true. But if so, it's because neurosis without a perceptible cause is very hard to accept. How does one fix a problem that arose from nothing?

We have a saying in Tibet: If a problem can be solved there is no use worrying about it. If it can't be solved, worrying will do no good.

No man can instruct more than half-a-dozen students at once. The whole problem of education is one of its cost in money.