Quotes of: Philosophical-problem Keyword

It seemed to me that the real philosophical breakthroughs of the 20th century were in terms of the understanding of language. What is language? Where does it come from, how does it work, what does it do?

Hanif Kureishi

We're in a post-conceptual era where it's really the artist's idea and vision that are prized rather than the ability to master the crafts that support the work. Today, our understanding of an artist is closer to a philosopher than to a craftsman.

Jeffrey Deitch

The philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche once wrote that when you look into the darkness of the abyss the abyss looks into you. Probably no other line or thought more inspires or informs my work.

Michael Connelly

When Uncle W. G. held out his hand to take my money, I dropped the dead mouse in his hand.

Cold Turkey at Nine: The Memoir of a Problem Child

Evangelicals come from all ethnic and racial backgrounds, but nearly 90 percent of Americans who call themselves evangelicals are white.

Divided by Faith: Evangelical Religion and the Problem of Race in America

THE PRESOCRATIC PROBLEM [all snap flags] Parmenides named his gun The Hot Power of the Stars. His gun was one, uncreated, imperishable, timeless, changeless, perfect, spherical. Spherical was the problem.

Decreation

It’s not the people you fire who make your life miserable. It’s the people you don’t.

Discipline Without Punishment: The Proven Strategy That Turns Problem Employees Into Superior Performers

problem-solving leaders have one thing in common: a faith that there's always a better way.

Becoming a Technical Leader: An Organic Problem-Solving Approach

It's not a problem. There are people out there with much worse problems than mine."-Cynthia "Doesn't make yours any more fun to bear."-Liza "No. But it does help with the self-pity."- Cynthia

Bet Me

If people tell you it's impossible, it's an even better reason to want to do it. People have a tendency to see the problem rather than the final result. If you treat the problems as possibilities, life will start to dance with you in the most amazing...

Martin Villeneuve

Your nature is not the problem. The problem is that you have become alienated from your nature -- from your power source.

Introvert Power: Why Your Inner Life Is Your Hidden Strength

I remember in treatment, Mr. Shaw told me that the alcohol and drugs never were my problem. He said the alcohol and drugs were my solution and that was my problem. And he was right.

South of Bixby Bridge

From human problems come human solutions, which in turn spawn inspiration, creativity, insight and enlightenment. Without life's problems, life would become stagnant, dull and boring.

Thoughts From The Inside

A growing body of research suggests that many of the health problems associated with eating beef are really problems with corn-fed beef.

The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals

Now the proper good of a creature is to surrender itself to its Creator - to enact intellectually, volitionally and emotionally, that relationship which is given in the mere fact of its being a creature when it does so, it is good and happy.

The Problem of Pain

…but his problem was infinity; his problem was time running along the x-axis versus stress running along the y-axis, and there never seemed to be time without stress. Stress was a constant.

The Third Rule - The Complete Story

Eventually you will see that the real cause of problem is not life itself. It's the commotion the mind makes about life that really causes the problems.

The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself

Most problems are best solved privately, not through government. There's a problem of discourtesy in the world, which is best handled through social norms, which are indispensable. But you wouldn't want the government to be mandating courtesy.

Cass Sunstein

Early on, in discussions of financial oversight, people would say, 'Well, this is a very complicated problem, therefore it requires a complicated solution.' And at that step, I would say, 'Well, wait a minute. Just because it's a complicated problem ...

Lars Peter Hansen

My authoritarian and quick manner of making decisions led me to have serious problems and to be accused of being ultraconservative. I have never been a right-winger. It was my authoritarian way of making decisions that created problems.

Pope Francis

Facts and data, rather than opinion, are the two cornerstones of problem solving, and yet they are consistently withheld from the people by American media. We must have facts and data in order to recognize where there is a problem!

Roseanne Barr