Problem Quotes - Page 36

• I think my worst problem is actually living in the moment and understanding everything that's going on. I feel like I'm in my own bubble.

  Kendrick Lamar

  Thinking, Understanding, Live In The Moment

  Interview with Erykah Badu, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 23, 2013.

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• Laughter is very infectious, and why it should be so is a most interesting neurological problem. But it also has other, more physiological, benefits. Apparently it boosts the immune system, reduces stress hormones, massages the heart and diaphragm and engenders a 'feel good' factor.

  Semir Zeki

  Laughter, Stress, Heart

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• Most important... develop your technical ability. You are handicapped if you do not develop well enough to hold the subconscious process so as not to have problems of inexperienced painters.

  Sergei Bongart

  Important, Enough, Process

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• The arts teach children that in complex forms of problem-solving, purposes are seldom fixed, but change with circumstance and opportunity.

  Elliot W. Eisner

  Art, Children, Opportunity

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• I have a confidence in my understanding of formal aesthetics and I don't want to be aware of it or make that my problem.

  Eva Hesse

  Confidence, Understanding, Want

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• What to paint was a problem for the war artist... the old heroics, the death and glory stuff, were gone forever... the impressionistic technique I had developed was now ineffective, for visual impressions were not enough.

  A. Y. Jackson

  War, Artist, Forever

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• Design may be the logical solution to a problem, but it's never a formula. Design grows out of clarity of purpose.

  Millard Sheets

  Clarity Of Purpose, Design, May

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• What kinds of problems, and what kinds of meanings, happen in the paint? Or as one historian puts it, 'What is thinking in painting, as opposed to thinking about painting?' These are important questions, and they are very hard to answer using the language of art history.

  James Elkins

  Art, Thinking, Important

  James Elkins (2004). “What Painting Is”, p.3, Routledge

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• I accept that all photography is voyeuristic and exploitative, and obviously I live with my own guilt and conscience. It's part of the test and I don't have a problem with it.

  Martin Parr

  Photography, Guilt, Tests

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• There are a lot of tricks you have to keep playing on yourself to keep at it because every time you hit a problem you want to walk away.

  Janet Fish

  Perseverance, Want, Tricks

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• People are the least creative when fighting the clock... Time pressure stifles creativity because people can't deeply engage with the problem.

  Teresa Amabile

  Time, Creativity, Fighting

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• The problem with our art form: it's so ephemeral, and catching performances can be so difficult... the important thing is what happens at the moment of performance, for the people who made the effort to be there: it lives with them.

  Judith Weir

  Art, People, Effort

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• My problem is to bring together in a painting two seemingly conflicting, impossibly unmixable ideas. One is that the finished work shall evoke a sense of recognition, of the mysteriously familiar... the other is that in order to do the first I must deeply know my subject.

  Keith Crown

  Order, Ideas, Two

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• Something I tell my students is to read once; then if you still have problems with it, read it a second time. If you still have problems, get drunk and read it a third time... and you might get something out of it.

  Felix Gonzalez-Torres

  Education, Drunk, Might

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• It is not advantageous for Russia in its present state to fight against Chechnya. The army is a mess. It must be made combat ready. That will take time. Russia has a lot of economic, social and political problems much more important than Chechnya.

  Aslan Maskhadov

  Army, Fighting, Russia

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• If a business has to be told that it needs more focus, accountability and decisiveness, there is a bigger problem at hand.

  Brad Garlinghouse

  Hands, Accountability, Focus

  "What I Got Wrong In The Peanut Butter Manifesto" by Brad Garlinghouse, www.businessinsider.com. January 4, 2013.

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• If you were ever dumped after knitting a guy a sweater, consider the possibility that the problem was with the sweater, not you. The recipient probably took one look at the thing, imagined a lifetime of having to pretend to like (and wear) this sweater and others of its like, and saw no choice but to flee into the night

  Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

  Night, Knitting, Sweaters

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• That's the problem with living in New York. You've got no New York to run away to.

  Amor Towles

  Running, New York, Running Away

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• If you want to solve hard problems, have hard problems.

  Brewster Kahle

  Want, Solve, Hard

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• Exercise is the single most powerful tool you have to optimize your brain function…exercise has a profound impact on cognitive abilities and mental health. It is simply one of the best treatments we have for most psychiatric problems.

  John Ratey

  Powerful, Exercise, Impact

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• The main problem with pacifism is that it doesn’t work in all situations. The main problem with pacifists is that they’re convinced it does.

  Burt Prelutsky

  Doe, Pacifism, Situation

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• I'm a guy who has problems with moderation. All or nothing. Binge and purge. Kill or be killed. Gray is not a color I wear well. I should be dead. I know that. I should not be successful. I know that too. My daily existence is a toss of the coin - one side, fear, the other side, gratitude.

  Kurt Sutter

  Gratitude, Successful, Color

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• Problems aren’t out there, whatever is missing is what you are not giving, and whatever crisis you are hitting is a call for more of you to come out, for more of you to emerge.

  Derek Rydall

  Giving, Missing, Hitting

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• Remember this. We are always looking for problems to solve, and to solve problems we need to be ready for clues. And you will never be in the receiving frame of mind if you – never – shut - up!

  Chris Murray

  Mind, Receiving, Needs

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• Young man, your problem and the reason so many like you fail, is simply because you allow yourself to give up far too early.

  Chris Murray

  Giving Up, Men, Failing

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