Quotes About Problem

Ford can't sell trucks currently, and GM is not selling as many cars as it would like to. That is a problem of product and pricing, not a systemic problem of abandonment by consumers.

WE HAVE HAD OUR LAST CHANCE. THE PROBLEM NOW IS BASICALLY THEOLOGICAL, AND INVOLVES SPIRITUALITY AND IMPROVEMENT OF human CHARACTER. IT MUST BE OF THE SPIRIT IF WE ARE TO SAVE THE FLESH.

It is more productive to convert an opportunity into results than to solve a problem - which only restores the equilibrium of yesterday.

problem solving, however necessary, does not produce results. It prevents damage. Exploiting opportunities produces results.

It was as though, by concealing woman behind the veils of her enigmatic nature, men could evade the unpalatable truth that their mother was a sexual being. Proclaiming woman to be a dark problem, men were happily dispensed from searching for a solution.

For the wise men of old, the cardinal problem of human life was how to conform the soul to objective reality, and the solution was wisdom, self-discipline, and virtue. For the modern mind, the cardinal problem is how to subdue reality to the wishes of man, and the solution is a technique.

people "shift the burden" of their problem to other solutions—well-intentioned, easy fixes which seem extremely efficient.

Lastly, vision is not a solution to a problem. If it is seen in that light, when the "problem" of low morale or unclear strategic direction goes away, the energy behind the vision will go away also. Building shared vision must be seen as a central element of the daily work of leaders.

If one member of a team sees a problem more systemically than others, that person's insight will get reliably discounted—if for no other reason than the intrinsic biases toward linear views in our normal everyday language.

That is not how you do it; you do not solve one problem with another, greater problem.

Rachael said, "Do you know what the lifespan of a humanoid robot such as myself is? I've been in existence two years. How long do you calculate I have?" After a hesitation he said, "About two more years." "They never could solve that problem. I mean cell replacement. Perpetual or anyhow semi-perpetual renewal. Well, so it goes.

Replicants are like any other machine - they're either a benefit or a hazard. If they're a benefit, it's not my problem.

The thing that strikes me is that I've cut myself off a really different version of this, then, because I thought I had ended this problem. And it just came around from behind much worse, Because the way I was always phrasing it was in terms of a posteriori knowledge - that is, empirical knowledge, which is all sophisticated versions of, you kno, 'Is this chair real?' It's that sort of simplistic philosophical thing, it's sort of a kind of solipsism.

The other side's got an energy that our side en't got. Comes from their certainty about being right. If you got that certainty, you'll be willing to do anything to bring about the end you want. It's the oldest human problem, Lyra, an' it's the difference between good and evil. Evil has nothing to stop it doing what it wants, while good has one hand tied behind its back. To do the things it needs to do to win, it'd have to become evil to do 'em.

he who seeks for methods without having a definite problem in mind seeks for the most part in vain.

We hear within us the perpetual call: There is the problem. Seek its solution.

Trite but true: If you can pay for the solution, you haven't got a problem.

I put my hand in my pocket and feel the edges of Noah's note. I can't believe you kissed him. It would be so easy to obsess about how he found out. But that's only a speculative digression. The real problem is that it's the truth.

it's a truth of life that some things are not built so well and they become complicated and they need to be figured out and they're hard to figure out.

The problem play is a melodrama cleansed of invention.

The power of the dramatist, and of the political flack therefore, resides in the ability to state the problem.

The beginning of a solution to a problem is never far away. All you have to do is ask. That's not weakness. That's the strength of knowing that you have to face your problems.

Nobody likes having a problem, but having a convoluted, bureaucratic one is even more galling.

Douglass wrote, "Not a Negro Problem, not a race problem, but a national problem; whether the American people will ultimately administer equal justice to all the varieties of the human race in this Republic.