"when faced with a problem you do not understand, do any part of it you do understand, then look at it again."
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"I think the problem starts with the general appreciation of the music in the larger society."
"My problem is I don't see and hear that well, so when I go to the movies, I can make out what's going on, but I can't hear what they're saying. And after the movie, I have to ask whoever I'm with "now, what was that all about?""
"As long as you blame someone or something else - something outside you that's bigger than you are - as the source of your problems, the problems won't get solved."
"Without a commitment to science and rationality in its proper domain, there can be no solution to the problems that engulf us. Still, the Yahoos never rest."
"I own the restaurant. There are a lot of cooks, waiters and waitresses in this restaurant. They worry about their problems. I worry about all the problems."
"and it was always without pretensions of loving or being loved although always in the hope of finding something that resembled love but without the problems of love."
"It's hard to face the problem when the problem's your face."
"Life is a crisis - so what!"
"The problems with success, frankly, are infinitely preferable to the problems of failure."
"If you you think there is a solution, you're part of the problem."
"We are generalists. You can't draw neat lines around planet-wide problems. Planetology is a cut-and-fit science."
"I've had a tremendous problem with depression in my life. I'd rather not talk about it, because it's over. But depression is real."
"From the standpoint of any sane person, the present problem of capitalist concentration is not only a question of law, but of criminal law, not to mention criminal lunacy."
"Climate change is the Everest of all problems, the thorniest challenge facing humankind."
"I'm not a professional politician. I'm a professional problem solver."
"It's a morbid observation, but if every one on earth just stopped breathing for an hour, the greenhouse effect would no longer be a problem."
"So it's one of those things where we have to - our problem is pacing ourselves and still reaching a large enough number of our audience. Because we don't want to burn the audience. And we don't want to be excluding anybody."
"We had problems like all families but we had a lot of love. I was extremely loved. We always felt we had each other."
"Writing as a woman presents enormous problems but I have attempted it several times and haven't had many complaints."