Quotes of: Problem-solving Keyword

Today’s problem is that people are quickly falling in love and falling out of it just as quickly.

How I Kissed Heartbreak Goodbye

And so the problem remained; lots of people were mean, and most were miserable, even the ones with digital watches.

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

No thanks…Dodo, was it? I don’t know if I can watch you have performance problems twice in ten days.

Alice in Wonderland

I’m almost afraid to tell you. Let’s put it this way: clean toilets are the least of your problems in this country.

Alice in Wonderland

My biggest problem with modernity may lie in the growing separation of the ethical and the legal

The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

A blanket isn’t the solution, a blanket is the problem. I say we burn all the blankets, along with the bodies of the unbelievers. 

A brick and a blanket walk into a bar

Controlling unwanted thoughts is not the problem. Believing, thrusting, and taking direction from them is.

Brain Drain The Breakthrough That Will Change Your Life

And things don't change in a marriage until the spouse who is taking responsibility for a problem that is not hers decides to say or do something about it.

Boundaries in Marriage

The life most of us live are lives we are forced to live by immediate needs, influences, and pressures.

Black Genius: African-American Solutions to African-American Problems

Having rock-star problems may be the closest I ever get to being an actual rock star.

City of Fallen Angels

The problem with certainty is that it is static; it can do little but endlessly reassert itself. Uncertainty, by contrast, is full of unknowns, possibilities, and risks. (65)

Confession of a Buddhist Atheist

The amount of time you spend pondering over your problems, can be best spent resolving them.

Cybersex: A Nightmare of the 21st Century: The Rebirth of Armageddon

Although as a sailor I despised politics - for I loved my sailor's life and still love it today - conditions forced me to take up a definite attitude towards political problems.

Fritz Sauckel

Kids are naturally gifted at art from a very young age. The problem is when they get older and become self-conscious. The process should always be fun, though.

Damien Hirst

My career plan at this point is 'Ice Age 5' through '10,' and even '12,' and 'Spider Man' - you know, basically I'd be Emma Stone's dad for the rest of my career. I really don't have any problem doing that.

Denis Leary

All research in the cultural sciences in an age of specialization, once it is oriented towards a given subject matter through particular settings of problems and has established its methodological principles, will consider the analysis of the data as...

Max Weber

At my age the only problem is with remembering names. When I call everyone darling, it has damn all to do with passionately adoring them, but I know I'm safe calling them that. Although, of course, I adore them too.

Richard Attenborough

Woman must have her freedom, the fundamental freedom of choosing whether or not she will be a mother and how many children she will have. Regardless of what man's attitude may be, that problem is hers - and before it can be his, it is hers alone.

Margaret Sanger

Innovation is this amazing intersection between someone's imagination and the reality in which they live. The problem is, many companies don't have great imagination, but their view of reality tells them that it's impossible to do what they imagine.

Ron Johnson

The problem with fine art is that in most cases people have to make a special excursion to go and look at it: they can't afford to own it. So it isn't really part of their life in the way that music can be.

Brian Eno

A work of art can start you thinking about some aesthetic or philosophical problem; it can suggest some new method, some fresh approach to fiction.

Francine Prose