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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."


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


"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."


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


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


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


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


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


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


"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."


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


"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?"


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


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


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


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


"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."


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


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


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


"Every cinematographer I worked with had his own way of solving problems."


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


"I think it's one of the Times' problems that they haven't made it clear to readers what various formats mean."


"When you have to cope with a lot of problems, you're either going to sink or you're going to swim."


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


"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."


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


"So I think that is one of the reasons we can face some regional problems, which are very difficult, very dramatic and is necessary to have instruments to solve these problems. NATO is such instrument."


"The real problem is what to do with the problem-solvers after the problems are solved."


"It must be able to assist in devising the method of solution of problems and not merely solve them."


"You have problems, you think drink helps, then you have two problems."


"Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines."


"You don't realize how useful a therapist is until you see yourself on e and discover you have more problems than you ever dreamed of."


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


"Wars generally do not resolve the problems for which they are fought and therefore... prove ultimately futile."
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