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Quotes About Problem

We are buying stuff we know we don't need, and that is a problem we should face in design. It starts with creating an object that transports through time a valuable idea: that it can live forever.
~ Marcel Wanders
If I'm in my position at a company, I may not have the knowledge of the C.E.O., I may not know what's possible, or I may not have the creativity, but if I can identify a problem, that's a valuable thing.
~ Ben Horowitz
I think it's a very valuable thing for a doctor to learn how to do research, to learn how to approach research, something there isn't time to teach them in medical school. They don't really learn how to approach a problem, and yet diagnosis is a problem; and I think that year spent in research is extremely valuable to them.
~ Gertrude B. Elion
If the cryptocurrency market overall or a digital asset is solving a problem, it's going to drive some value.
~ Brad Garlinghouse
We have got this tailspin of culture, in our inner cities in particular, of men not working and just generations of men not even thinking about working or learning the value and the culture of work, and so there is a real culture problem here that has to be dealt with.
~ Paul Ryan
Words are all very well," I replied coolly, suddenly enjoying the SO-5 woman-of-mystery stuff, "but a nine-millimeter really gets to the root of the problem.
~ Jasper Fforde
I don't care what problem you face; it has no power to defeat the cross of Christ.
~ Jay E. Adams
She doubted that he had ever uttered the words Have a good day in his entire life. Even if he got the right words out, the chill in his hazel eyes would completely nullify the warmth of the sentiment. In his opinion, your failure to have a good day was your problem, not his.
~ Jayne Ann Krentz
For someone who constantly comes across this problem in the course of his professional activities, the question whether philosophy has the status of a "wisdom" or of a form of "knowledge" peculiar to itself is no longer an unnecessary or simply a theoretical problem; it is a vital question, since it affects the success or failure of thousands of scholars.
~ Jean Piaget
I have written about love obsessively, forensically, and I know/knew it as the highest value. I loved God of course, in the early days, and God loved me. That was something. And I loved animals and nature. And poetry. People were the problem. How do you love another person? How do you trust another person to love you?
~ Jeanette Winterson
People have never had a problem disposing of the past when it gets too difficult. Flesh will burn, photos will burn, and memory, what is that?
~ Jeanette Winterson
What constitutes a problem is not the thing, or the environment where we find the thing, but the conjunction of the two; something unexpected in a usual place (our favourite aunt in our favourite poker parlour) or something usual in an unexpected place (our favourite poker in our favourite aunt).
~ Jeanette Winterson
Putting the law above man is a problem in politics which I liken to that of squaring the circle in geometry.
~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Existentialism is not atheist in the sense that it would exhaust itself in demonstrations of the non-existence of God. It declares, rather, that even if God existed that would make no difference from its point of view. Not that we believe God does exist, but we think that the real problem is not that of His existence; what man needs is to find himself again and to understand that nothing can save him from himself, not even a valid proof of the existence of God.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
A search for justification and the impossibility of justification are recurrent motifs in the philosophy of Sartre. His philosophy is one of the incarnations of problematism and of the ambiguity of contemporary thought (for Man does seem, to the contemporary mind, to be ambiguous).
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
It is very rewarding to serve the country by helping President Bush work to reduce the drug problem.
~ John Walters
There are a lot of things going on with my life right now that don't just have to do with career. So I have a hard time making decisions about work. That's really a luxury problem.
~ Philip Seymour Hoffman
Sexual harassment at work... is it a problem for the self-employed?
~ Victoria Wood
When I really have to push and grope and scratch and claw to make a story work, that's a telltale sign that maybe something conceptually isn't right.
~ David E. Kelley
I locate that special problem in a character and then try to understand it. That's the genesis of all my work.
~ Manuel Puig
You are right in demanding that an artist should take an intelligent attitude to his work, but you confuse two things: solving a problem and stating a problem correctly.
~ Anton Chekhov
The first step to problem solving is figuring out who's got the problem.
~ Gordon Bethune
My favorite puzzle is trying to work out the parts myself, after all it is a solo effort.
~ Adrian Belew
In all the creative work that I have done, what has come first is a problem, a puzzle involving discomfort.
~ Bertrand Russell