Problem Quotes - Page 31

• There's a generation of people I think without a strong connection to family, to religion, to civic duty. They have a real disassociation from the problems of the world.

  Tim Heidecker

  Strong, Real, Thinking

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• The next time you encounter a difficult obstacle or problem, you should smile and say, 'Here's my chance to grow.'

  Zig Ziglar

  Encounters, Next, Chance

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• The problem with incompetence is its inability to recognize itself.

  Orrin Woodward

  Inability, Incompetence

  Twitter post from May 11, 2016

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• Earth magic can help to sort out, work through and solve many of the minor crises and problems facing us as individuals today. True, it is not a simple solution to the world's problems, but it can bring order into our lives, and that's a good start.

  Scott Cunningham

  Simple, Order, Magic

  Scott Cunningham (1983). “Earth Power: Techniques of Natural Magic”, p.14, Llewellyn Worldwide

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• It is a misuse of our power to take responsibility for solving problems that belong to others.

  Peter Block

  Responsibility, Misuse, Problem Solving

  Peter Block (1996). “Stewardship: Choosing Service Over Self Interest”, p.72, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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• From the industry's point of view, the problem is not that coal companies blast the top off mountains, turning the area into a moonscape and polluting the air and releasing toxic chemical into what's left of the local streams and aquifers. It's that the people who live near the mines are too cozy with their cousins.

  Jeff Goodell

  Cousin, Aquifers, Air

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• Maybe more climate activists will think about the climate change not as an international problem to be resolved in an air-conditioned meeting hall, but as a guerilla war to be fought in the streets.

  Jeff Goodell

  War, Thinking, Air

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• People must be aware of their problems in a realistic way. They must be able to analyse their problems and to work out common solutions. In other words a community is easily divided when their perception of the same thing is different

  Steven Biko

  Work Out, People, Community

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• We are experiencing new problems every day and whatever we do adds to the richness of our cultural heritage as long as it has man as its centre

  Steven Biko

  Men, Long, Add

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• Marijuana addiction is a serious problem

  Chris Christie

  Marijuana, Addiction, Serious

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• I will not talk to God about how big my problems are. I will talk to my problems about how big my God is. This is my declaration.

  Joel Osteen

  Bigs, Declaration

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• You must learn to define the problem before you attempt to cure it.

  Carroll Smith

  Cures

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• The relative ease of most driving lures us into thinking we can get away with doing other things. Indeed, those other things, like listening to the radio, can help when driving itself is threatening to cause fatigue. But we buy into the myth of multitasking with little actual knowledge of how much we can really add in or, as with the television news, how much we are missing. As the inner life of the driver begins to come into focus, it is becoming clear not only that distraction is the single biggest problem on the road but that we have little concept of just how distracted we are.

  Tom Vanderbilt

  Thinking, Focus, Missing

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• The shadow is not a problem to be solved or an enemy to be conquered, but a fertile field to be cultivated. When we dig our hands into its rich soil we will discover the potent seeds of the people we most desire to be.

  Debbie Ford

  Hands, People, Enemy

  Deepak Chopra, Marianne Williamson, Debbie Ford (2010). “The Shadow Effect: Illuminating the Hidden Power of Your True Self”, p.5, Harper Collins

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• If wells are constructed right and operated right, hydraulic fracturing will not cause a problem. … Our natural gas supplies would plummet precipitously without hydraulic fracturing.

  Scott Anderson

  Hydraulic Fracturing, Causes, Natural

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• Whatever anybody says or does, assume positive intent. You will be amazed at how your whole approach to a person or problem becomes very different.

  Indra Nooyi

  Doe, Different, Assuming

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• That’s the problem with fiction — or the charm, if you want. Even mediocre plots have a way of sinking their hooks into you, until you find yourself concerned for the fates of characters who aren’t even fully convincing.

  Charles McGrath

  Character, Fate, Finding Yourself

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• Fear is one thing that can ruin everything. It's the greatest problem.

  Boman Irani

  Ruins, One Thing

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• The real problem is, people think life is a ladder, and it's really a wheel.

  Charles de Lint

  Life, Real, Thinking

  "The Ivory and the Horn". Book by Charles de Lint, 1995.

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• I'd say that any character or setting can be given a bit of an otherworldly sheen and be the better for it. The one thing I insist on with my own writing is that I won't let magic solve my characters' real world problems. The solutions have to come from the characters themselves.

  Charles de Lint

  Real, Writing, Character

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• Labels don't mean much to me one way or another -- except when they close the minds of potential readers. I'd much rather we do away with genres and simply file everything under fiction. I know it can work -- one of my favourite record stores (Waterloo Music in Austin) simply files everything alphabetically and no one seems to have much problem finding what they're looking for.

  Charles de Lint

  Mean, Mind, Austin

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• Ethics occupies a central place in philosophy because it is concerned with sin, with the origin of good and evil and with moral valuations. And since these problems have a universal significance, the sphere of ethics is wider than is generally supposed. It deals with meaning and value and its province is the world in which the distinction between good and evil is drawn, evaluations are made and meaning is sought.

  Nikolai Berdyaev

  Philosophy, Evil, World

  "The Destiny of Man". Book by Nikolai Berdyaev, 1931.

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• People dwell so much on the little things, but why should they hold you back when you have the big things to look forward to? By exuding positive energy when dealing with your problems, you will exude it in your being in general. Treat yourself with love and you will exude love to others.

  Hayley Hasselhoff

  People, Positive Energy, Looks

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• Isn't it sad, that in a time when we face so many devastating problems - poverty, HIV/AIDS, war and conflict - that in our Communion we should be investing so much time and energy on disagreement about sexual orientation? [The Communion, which] used to be known for embodying the attribute of comprehensiveness, of inclusiveness, where we were meant to accommodate all and diverse views, saying we may differ in our theology but we belong together as sisters and brothers [now seems] hell-bent on excommunicating one another. God must look on and God must weep.

  Desmond Tutu

  Brother, War, Views

  "In the Eye of the Storm: Swept to the Center by God". spectrummagazine.org. May 11, 2008.

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• I do not mistrust the future; I do not fear what is ahead. For our problems are large, but our heart is larger.

  George H. W. Bush

  Heart, Mistrust, Do Not Fear

  Presidential Inaugural Address, delivered 20 January 1989

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