Quotes of: Environmental-problems Keyword

During conversation, I have no problem making eye contact—with myself in the mirror. Or with my clone, if he’s not rolling his eyes because he knows what I’m going to say.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

I asked her out on a date, and she said, “Sorry, I can’t see you.” “That’s no problem,” I replied, “I won’t wear my invisible cloak.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

the only drinking problem I've ever had, is figuring out why I'm still stuck in this salad spinner

And That’s Why I’m Single

The best time to complain is right after you’ve come up with a solution to the problem. Pose the questions, present the answers, and then pose nude while the people make statues out of you in veneration.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

By identifying that which is disrupting our current moment of bliss, so too can we then take the logical and practical steps to amend the problem.

The Twelve Messages of the Spiritual Heart: A Novel of Transformation

Annual planning cycles doom you to short term fixes for long term problems

Talent Economics: The Fine Line Between Winning and Losing the Global War for Talent

The problem that we have with a victim mentality is that we forget to see the blessings of the day. Because of this, our spirit is poisoned instead of nourished.

Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

And maybe if I can find a way to stop being scared, I'll actually figure out how to make friends. To be strong. To stop wallowing in my own problems.

Unravel Me

Public ‘career feminists’ have been more concerned with getting more women into ‘boardrooms’, when the problem is that there are altogether too many boardrooms, and none of them are on fire.

Unspeakable Things: Sex, Lies and Revolution

Stop thinking all the time that you're in the way, that you're bothering the person next to you. If people don't like it, they can complain. And if they don't have courage to complain, that's their problem.

Veronika Decides to Die

She can go places we cannot, associate with people we cannot, understand things about society types and women that we never can. (Why Mr. Burke hires Violet Strange.)

Violet's Problem

Racism was not a problem on the DIscworld, because - what with trolls and dwarfs and so on - speciesism was more interesting. Black and white lived in perfect harmony and ganged up on green.

Witches Abroad

I'd say I never considered myself a great architect. I'm more of a creative problem solver with good taste and a soft spot for logistical nightmares.

Where'd You Go, Bernadette

The problem with keeping money in a bank is that in the blink of a tiger's eye it will turn on you: what's yours becomes theirs, what was your sweat and labour and sold off portions of a lifetime becomes a stranger's.

The Windup Girl

She wants another spin on the wheel of fortune? This was always my problem with her: I could never tell the difference between the feeling of love and the feeling of danger.

A Working Theory of Love

And that’s the problem. When you’re alive, people can hurt you. It’s easier to crawl into a bone cage or a snowdrift of confusion. It’s easier to lock everybody out. But it’s a lie.

Wintergirls

It is highly probable that we choose our posture, not our problems.

From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph Over Death and Conscious Encounters with "The Divine Presence"

It's the problem with fairy tales. From far away, they seem so perfect. But up close, they're just as complicated as real life.

A World Without Princes

(On getting married at 19) We told ourselves we had forever and we never looked back. The problem was that we never really looked ahead.

Write like no one is reading

Whatever problems we encountered, we put there. If we trace the line back, every struggle derived from some decision we made. It is not chance, it is how we teach ourselves.

We Shadows

I had problems a therapist couldn't solve; grief that no man in a room could ameliorate.

Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail