Quotes of: Problem-solving Keyword

The real problem is that there's a tendency to associate ageing with loss and decline and things that aren't desirable. But experiencing all that there is to experience in life - whether that's at the age of ten or thirty or fifty or eighty - is what...

S. Jay Olshansky

I have no problem with bands using participant financing schemes like Kickstarter and such. I've said many times that I think they're part of the new way bands and their audience interact and they can be a fantastic resource, enabling bands to do thi...

Steve Albini

People who are prone to anxiety are nearly always people-pleasers who fear conflict and negative feelings like anger. When you feel upset, you sweep your problems under the rug because you don't want to upset anyone. You do this so quickly and automa...

David D. Burns

I was drawn to biology and history and, of course, art. And I loved languages. The biggest problem I had is that I wasn't taught about the connections between all these things. I think that would have given life a lot more meaning and it would be a l...

Hussein Chalayan

Artistic qualities that once seemed undeniable don't seem so now. Sometimes these fluctuations are only fickleness of taste, momentary glitches in an artist's work, or an artist getting ahead of his audience (it took me ten years to catch up to Alber...

Jerry Saltz

Now, the language that had grown up and formed itself on those principles is what one is dealing with, and the problem is to bring a work of art in that medium into another medium formed on different principles and heard and understood in a different...

Robert Fitzgerald

I am only limited by the amount of life I have left to capture the ideas I am already working on. Another problem is that I am not sure if I would rather create or collect art. Collecting art is another passion of mine.

Richard MacDonald

Think outside the square. Think for yourself don't just follow the herd. Think multidisciplinary! Problems by definition, cross many academic disciplines.

The A-Z of 13 Habits: Inspired by Warren Buffett

Each one of us has a comfort zone. The problem comes when we are unwilling to leave it.

Against the Grain: A Coach's Wisdom on Character, Faith, Family, and Love

Personal hatreds and rivalry loomed larger in most senator's minds than the good of the Republic. [A big problem then and now]

Augustus: First Emperor of Rome

It was then, there in the darkness, with only those little pin-points of light to see by, light from a world away where other people with their own problems and their own secrets lived their own lives, that everything in our world changed for good.

Harmless

The whole problem of life is this: how to break out of one's own solitude, how to communicate with others.

Il mestiere di vivere: Diario 1935-1950

Wow,” says Peter, “when your guidance counselor tells you to die, you really have problems.

I Kissed a Zombie, and I Liked It

The problem with having so many people call me by nicknames was that when someone called me by my actual name, it usually meant something serious was happening.

The Indigo Spell

One problem with the work of the New Critics was that their close readings, no matter how brilliant, could not deliver all they seemed to promise.

Reading the Waste Land: Modernism and the Limits of Interpretation

I don’t know if you have had the same experience, but the snag I always come up against when I’m telling a story is this dashed difficult problem of where to begin it.

Right Ho, Jeeves

You wanted to belong. The problem was, no matter how well you kept your secret, the very fact of having one was enough to separate you from everyone else.

Rainshadow Road

Still others worry that news organizations may pull their punches when reporting about the activities of their corporate parents or partners. Will ABC News go easy on problems at Disney, for example, which owns ABC?

The Struggle for Democracy

But the Butlerians turn fear into violence and panic into a weapon. By creating imaginary problems and raising the specter of nonexistent enemies, they transform common people into a wild herd that destroys everything they do not understand.

Sisterhood of Dune

On a cooler sun on a primordial earth: "I later learned that biologists, when they are feeling jocose, refer to this as the 'Chinese Resaturant Problem'--because we has a dim sun.

A Short History of Nearly Everything

That’s the problem with you nearly immortal types,” I said. “You couldn’t spot a pop culture reference if it skittered up and implanted an embryo down your esophagus.

Small Favor