If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them. —Isaac Asimov More about this quote Tags: ignorance knowledge problems Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems. —Rene Descartes More about this quote Tags: learning knowledge problems Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Two paradoxes are better than one; they may even suggest a solution. —Edward Teller More about this quote Tags: wonder problems problem solving paradoxes Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
When I'm working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong. —R. Buckminster Fuller More about this quote Tags: beauty logic problems problem solving Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
My problem lies in reconciling my gross habits with my net income. —Errol Flynn More about this quote Tags: money wealth habit problems income habits Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Will is the means by which we overcome the problems that life or genes have handed us. Without it, there is no true character. —Jacob Needleman More about this quote Tags: life character will problems overcoming Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
All that remains to the mother in modern consumer society is the role of scapegoat; psychoanalysis uses huge amounts of money and time to persuade analysands to foist their problems onto the absent mother, who has no opportunity to utter a word in her own defense. Hostility to the mother in our societies is an index of mental health. —Germaine Greer More about this quote Tags: society money problems mother motherhood psychoanalysis Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Indecision may or may not be my problem. —Jimmy Buffett More about this quote Tags: humor problems indecision decisiveness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Writer's block is what you get if you're too full of yourself and trying to be García Márquez. You sit and stare at the wall and nothing happens for you. It's like imagining you're a tree and trying to sprout leaves. Once you come to your senses and accept who you are, then there's no problem. I'm not García Márquez. I'm a late-middle-aged midlist fair-to-middling writer with a comfortable midriff, and it gives me quite a bit of pleasure. —Garrison Keillor More about this quote Tags: imagination writing pleasure problems Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add up. —James Magary More about this quote Tags: problems computers the world Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny. —Albert Ellis More about this quote Tags: life problems blame control destiny Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one. —Albert Einstein More about this quote Tags: war weapons necessity problems energy Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Relationships always started with that heady, swoonish period, where the other person is like some new invention that suddenly solves all life's worst problems, like losing socks in the dryer or toasting bagels without burning the edges. At this phase, which usually lasts about six weeks max, the other person is perfect. But at six weeks and two days, the cracks begin to show; not real structural damage yet, but little things that niggle and nag. Like the way they always assume you'll pay for your own movie, just because you did once, or how they use the dashboard of their car as an imaginary keyboard at long stoplights. Once, you might have thought this was cute, or endearing. Now, it annoys you, but not enough to change anything. Come week eight, though, the strain is starting to show. This person is, in fact, human, and here's where most relationships splinter and die. Because either you can stick around and deal with these problems, or ease out gracefully, knowing that at some point in the not-too-distant future, there will emerge another perfect person, who will fix everything, at least for six weeks. —Sarah Dessen in This Lullaby More about this quote Tags: love relationships perfection problems Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I hate to admit this, but some days hearing about other people's problems actually cheers me up. —Susan Elizabeth Phillips in The Great Escape More about this quote Tags: problems schadenfreude Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I know of no woman — virgin, mother, lesbian, married, celibate, whether she earns her keep as a housewife, a cocktail waitress, or a scanner of brain waves — for whom the body is not a fundamental problem: its clouded meanings, its fertility, its desire, its so-called frigidity, its bloody speech, its silences, its changes and mutilations, its rapes and ripenings. —Adrienne Rich More about this quote Tags: women self-image body problems Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email