Problem Quotes - Page 154

That's the problem with having a moral code. We want to destroy the jerkish part of the jerks, but we want to save the human being underneath.

They're saying President Obama doesn't have any friends. The problem is that he can't get Congress to approve one.

We are facing a flood tide of factors into our daily lives and the lives of our children that conspire against weight control, and for that matter, health, any single policy or program we use to turn the tide is like a single sandbag. You put down the sandbag on the banks of the river. You could ask the question: Have we held back the flood? A sandbag isn't designed to hold back the flood. A sandbag is designed to be part of a levy to hold back the flood. It doesn't matter if it's a good sandbag, maybe a perfectly good sandbag. By itself it can't fix the problem.

There is one thing that very reliably try to trumps the food supply and that is food demand. At the end of the day, the business of business is business and they are just trying to keep the customers satisfied, it depends what we want. The problem in our current mess is we want all the wrong stuff. Why do we want the wrong stuff? Because taste buds are very malleable little fellows. They learn to like what they know. We're bathing our taste buds in too much sugar, too much salt, too much processed food all day long. That's what they know and crave.

I like solving problems, and science provides a logical way of solving real-life problems.

Retrospective analysis is not a useful guide to current problems.

The problem is, photographic dyes and printing inks aren't as good as paint, actually.

It is not hard to change when your biggest problem is whether the weeds prosper in a vegetable patch.

It is a merchant's nature to quibble over coins. It is how we become rich and buy satin shirts. The problems of who governs this area is one for another day.

One of the great drivers of the alienation that has made Donald Trump possible is that the growth in the American economy has been weak. In the decade from 2005 to 2015, there was not one year when the US hit three per cent growth. And to the extent there's been growth, virtually all of it has been collected by the top 10 per cent of the population. Obviously, if we knew how to make growth faster, we would. We don't. And it's very difficult to make growth more broadly shared. Because it's not just the US that has this problem.

As we develop better technologies for probing the brain, we detect more problems.

I slowly continued to compensate for the physical problems I was having and ended up completely destroying my swing, my set-up, my posture. Everything was gone.

The use of force is always an answer to problems. Force isn't an attractive answer, though.

The problem of criticism is not judgment but evocation - conveying the particular emotional and visual feel that the movie has.

My biggest problem is retaining the exact information.

There will be no transportation problems in Heaven-you can either glide along, float along or fly!

There will be no feeding problems because you can either eat for pleasure, or you don't have to eat at all!

To the artist, all problems of art appear uniquely personal. Well, that's understandable enough, given that not many other activities routinely call one's basic self-worth into question.

Terrorism is an immediate problem that people are very concerned about, and I am as concerned about that as anyone else. But it isn't an either or situation.

Change - even change meant to improve our lives - creates stress. We can get comfortable with our problems.

Virtually every problem that would show up in your business can be traced back to communications; somebody didn't talk to somebody about something.

A successful executive is one that solves bigger problems than he/she creates.

I’m I really working on the right thing, or once I put the solution in place I’m I going to get the benefit out of it, or is this masking some other underlying thing, whether it’s personal or what have you. I mean, I always get to that too because that’s the subtlety of problem selection.

I think there's been a big problem between religion, or organized religion, and spirituality.

The debate on how to shrink the federal government is at the core of our problem of government not doing its job.