"People are simply not willing to look at their problems honestly and admit that they have problems."
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"Pessimists see a problem behind every opportunity. Optimists see an opportunity behind every problem."
"Highly motivated achievers are looking not to receive but to contribute. They are looking for problems that are personally satisfying to solve."
"It's a sin problem, not a skin problem."
"We have the same problem as everyone else: It's very hard to predict the future."
"I guess I'm larger than life. That's my problem."
"Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness."
"A client is to me a mere unit, a factor in a problem."
"Biggest problem? Well, I'd say it's been my biggest problem all my life. MONEY. It takes a lot of money to make these dreams come true. From the very start it was a problem. Getting the money to open Disneyland. About seventeen million it took. And we had everything mortgaged including my personal insurance."
"One’s objective should be to get it right, get it quick, get it out and get it over. Your problem won’t improve with age."
"Conflict is a violation of harmony. If you participate in it, you're part of the problem, not the solution."
"Real problem is not population explosion, but what the population is doing."
"In the end the problem isn't that you have the wrong sort of government for the People, but that you have the wrong sort of People."
"It was a hard lesson to learn, but eventually I had to come to grips with the fact that I cannot solve everyone's problems and lead them to a happy, fulfilled life. They have to figure that out on their own."
"There are very few personal problems that cannot be solved through a suitable application of high explosives."
"All problems exist in the absence of a good conversation."
"Society had a crime problem. It hired cops to attack crime. Now society has a cop problem."
"Why? What is so wonderful about mass murder that nobody in the history of the world has ever fond any smarter solution to problems than killing everybody who doesn’t agree? Is that the limit of human intelligence?"
"You seek problems because you need their gifts."
"The real problem in speech is not precise language. The problem is clear language."