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Problems Quotes


"I really try to say things as they basically are and it so happens that it is a good message that things are getting better, but there are still problems."


"The external world is committed to helping Georgia settle its problems."


"We must break problems down into small, digestible bits. We must define the concepts that we use and explain what components they consist of. We must tackle small problems."


"There are some common problems in the Balkans in the settlement of which Bulgaria should also participate."



"We have problems which will be addressed by Haitians."


"Running the test suite like this allows us to catch problems when they are just introduced."


"We have the means and the capacity to deal with our problems, if only we can find the political will."


"Problems are not the problem; coping is the problem."


"Do you have any problems, other than that you're unemployed, a moron, and a dork?"


"We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems."


"When solving problems, dig at the roots instead of just hacking at the leaves."


"My view is that while you do occasionally have differences you ought to have a process where you can sit down and talk about things. How else do you solve problems?"


"I needed to explain that Louisiana's coast accepts the drainage from two-thirds of the United States and, while the necessary levees constructed upstream have prevented floods, they have also contributed to problems downstream."


"There are very few personal problems that cannot be solved through a suitable application of high explosives."


"The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem."


"We are all faced with a series of great opportunities - brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems."


"There is no point trying to figure out who is guilty or not at un-balancing the planet. I think we need to figure out and solve the problems together and not isolate from each other."


"Every movie is wildly different. So many of the problems are the same, but they take on different guises."


"It is only because of problems that we grow mentally and spiritually."


"Unlike presidential administrations, problems rarely have terminal dates."


"Warmaking doesn't stop warmaking. If it did, our problems would have stopped millennia ago."


"Traveling these days has a lot of problems and also it wears you out more."


"We have already seen evidence that, notwithstanding the addition of substantial resources, we are experiencing great stress in recruiting and not inconsequential retention problems."


"If human beings are perceived as potentials rather than problems, as possessing strengths instead of weaknesses, as unlimited rather that dull and unresponsive, then they thrive and grow to their capabilities."


"Engineers like to solve problems. If there are no problems handily available, they will create their own problems."


"I have been dealing with back problems since 1995 when I was with the Blackhawks, and I've only missed part of one season because of it. That was last season in Toronto."


"I must be out of it, but I don't know any good journalists who have excused Clinton's problems."


"Each problem that I solved became a rule, which served afterwards to solve other problems."


"I believe in supporting African solutions to African problems."


"I think that witnessing ecological problems visible from space is one of the new and essential roles of astronauts."


"I think there are problems with compact disc copy protection that can't be resolved."


"One of the problems of writing is that anyone who commits themselves to that process has to believe that they're good."


"You will only be remembered for two things: the problems you solve or the ones you create."


"Don't get involved in partial problems, but always take flight to where there is a free view over the whole single great problem, even if this view is still not a clear one."


"The problems seem so easy out there on the stump. Deficits shrink with a rhetorical flourish."


"Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don't have any problems, you don't get any seeds."


"A lot of the problems teenagers go through, it's better for them to go through them on their own. If you always have a crutch, you don't learn anything."


"There are no problems we cannot solve together, and very few that we can solve by ourselves."
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