Problem Quotes

Violence and cruelty were just a stupid person's way of making himself felt, because it was easier to use your hands to strike a blow than use your brain to find a logical and just solution to a problem.

~ Anne Holm

Violence and cruelty were just a stupid person's way of making himself felt, because it was easier to use your hands to strike a blow then to use your brain to find a logical and just solution to a problem.

~ Anne Holm

If someone corrects you, and you feel offended, then you have an ego problem.

~ Nouman Ali Khan

Beaming into the thick of a tree without becoming a lifelong tree hugger was a tricky business. A precision job. Scrooby’s job at the Time Saving Agency was a tough one. Billions of lives depended on him not screwing up. Literally billions and billions. Once, he’d screwed up in only a very small way and people wore those little yellow smiley faces on t-shirts for decades afterwards – and that was just a small screw up. He sighed. Here he sat, in the branches of an apple tree in an apple tree orchard – and without a single apple in sight. Below him, Isaac was waiting to get bonked on the noggin with an apple so that he could fulfill history by toddling off to invent gravity and shape scientific and mathematical principles for generations to come. Only one problem – no apples.

~ Christina Engela

Once employed, the employed's friends are reduced to creatures that he only sees when he has a new problem, or, something new to show off.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

A great discovery solves a great problem, but there is a grain of discovery in the solution of any problem. Your problem may be modest, but if it challenges your curiosity and brings into play your inventive faculties, and if you solve it by your own means, you may experience the tension and enjoy the triumph of discovery.

~ George Pólya

The problem with car insurance is that you never know how bad your policy is until you are involved in a car crash. At that point enlightenment begins.

~ Steven Magee

Personal Responsibility is when a person sees a problem and refuses to be indifferent, but decides to rather look for ways and means of resolving the problem

~ Sunday Adelaja

Now he sat alone; on a disabled starship about fifty years from anywhere on conversion drive – assuming he still had that. Insurance was a good thing – a very good thing - but it wasn’t going to help him much out here. The highlight of his afternoon was going to be staring at the blinking bridge instrumentation – which just happened to be running on the emergency batteries and actually blinking, like for real. Moreover, since his mutinous crew had made off with the Short Shit, the ships only shuttle, he was facing quite a problem

~ Christina Engela

Maybe I could use a little metal on the inside, I thought. If I'd kept my heart better armored, where would I be now?Easy—I’d be at home, medicating myself into a monotone. Drowning my sorrows in video games. Working shifts at Smart Aid. Dying inside, day by day, from regret.

~ Ransom Riggs

To solve a problem, you need to remove the cause, not the symptom.

~ Liezi

The biggest problem comes when you start adding to your problems more and more + having your own. This is the time when chaos takes a place in your life.

~ Deyth Banger

The problem with books is that they end. They seduce you.[…]You turn the page and there is nothing.

~ Caroline Kepnes

The fatal problem with poetry: poems.

~ Ben Lerner

The problem is that our ideas are sticky: once we produce a theory, we are not likely to change our minds....

~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb

You can't solve a problem: but problems will dissolve in you.

~ Debasish Mridha

I guess we all feel we're in control and we are, until we're not. The problem is that seldom can we tell when it is that we step over the precipice of no return - and then for most of us it is to late.

~ Braam Malherbe

The first step to solving your problem is admitting that you have one.

~ J.e.b. Spredemann

You may have numerous answers to your problems, but none can really solve them. Answers are not solutions.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

I could do a lot of stuff's but the problem is not here it's the place where I am, the crowd which has surrounded and many other factors.

~ Deyth Banger

I just looked you in TedX, I just check out... you had a problem in one of the eyes... probably and in the both eyes... also you were woried. I'm sure as conclusion I can say that you weren't sure what to say.

~ Deyth Banger

Many a times a huge problem gets solved with a trivial move.

~ Pawan Mishra

It is easy to say, but there is no way I could personally address every single problem in my nation, they are too many. Oh yea, you cannot fix all problems, but you can fix some problems, more importantly you could bring enlightenment to all others around you

~ Sunday Adelaja

One of the problems with climate change, global warming and global air pollution is that it may change the frequency and intensity of electrical storm activity. Too much lightning activity may cause excessive mating, aggression, fatigue, illness and disease to occur. Too little may turn off the animal and plant breeding cycles.

~ Steven Magee

I would be quite wise to realize that I will never craft a solution that will be the ‘end-all,’ and that God’s ability to craft perfect solutions never ends ‘at-all.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

When you think you have a big problem, step back. Envision yourself as a small dot on this blue marble we call Earth, that's orbiting the Sun at the centre of our Solar System, that also becomes a tiny dot our Milky Way galaxy, that is all but invisible in our vast Universe. How big is that problem really?

~ M. James Airey

It’s a pity that virgins can’t be issued with some kind of barcode. Think of the problems that would have saved you.

~ Sara Craven

There isn't any doubt I make strange combinations, but what to do on that problem?

~ Deyth Banger

Humanity stands ... before a great problem of finding new raw materials and new sources of energy that shall never become exhausted. In the meantime we must not waste what we have, but must leave as much as possible for coming generations.

~ Svante Arrhenius

The Beetle’s body, whether it be a ’49 split or a ’73 Jeans Bug, or an ‘03 Mexican, was originally conceived in the mid 1930’s. This is evident in it’s body styling which aside from it’s rear engine layout and absence of front radiator (or radiator!) grille, is very similar to other cars of the same period. Believe it or not, in those days streamlining was a hot new concept, kind of like how wireless networking is today with computing.The only problem was, in the beginning they didn’t seem to realize that streamlining ought to be applied sideways as well as longitudinally!

~ Christina Engela

The problem is that we always look for the missing piece of the puzzle instead of finding a place for the one in our hand...

~ Alina Radoi

The solution you seek, can be found nowhere else but within you.

~ Abhijit Naskar

What he found impossible was to shut off his brain, to detach himself from the intriguing problems with which (he) was involved, or to leave alone the major problems of war and peace, race and poverty, man's inhumanity to man and the persistence of stupidity.

~ Zelda Popkin

The problem with radio frequency (RF) exposure is not the small amount of brain tumors, is it the large amount of subtle alterations in the brain that lead to attention, confusion, insomnia and fatigue problems.

~ Steven Magee

The problem is not in what the devil is doing, but in what we are doing about it

~ Sunday Adelaja

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

~ Bill Courtney

Loving money is more of a problem for those who do not have it.

~ Sunday Adelaja

If the problem can be solved why worry? If the problem cannot be solved worrying will do you no good.

~ Śāntideva

In the same way that the stewards on the Titanic were more concerned about the unemptied ashtrays on the bar than the enormous hole in the side of the ship which was letting in zillions of gallons of water, I too was worrying about the unimportant and ignoring the vital. Sometimes it's easier that way. Because although there was little I could do about the huge hole, it was within my power to empty an asthray.

~ Marian Keyes

The bigger your problems, the bigger the blessings God is about to pour out upon you

~ Sunday Adelaja