"I find that writing is a constant battle with exactly the same problems you've always had."
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"The big problem in making the hard decisions has much to do with the personal and professional well-being of the person making the call."
"So money is not the answer to problems; wealth mentality is."
"Billionaires should never be responsible for solving problems, because they're not the government."
"Actually oddly enough, I think my work, the activism, will be forgotten. And I hope it will. Because I hope those problems will have gone away."
"Your current situations or problems have been sent to you to teach you valuable lessons for success and happiness. What are they?"
"Manager solves problems, leader prevents them."
"The same thinking and actions that created our problems cannot be used to solve them."
"The Russian proposal over Iran's uranium enrichment program is considerable, but it has some problems and ambiguities to be clarified in future talks."
"Alternative models are neither right nor wrong, just more or less useful in allowing us to operate in the world and discover more and better options for solving problems."
"If there's ever a problem, I film it and it's no longer a problem. It's a film."
"I thought that young people had more problems than old people...Then I looked around and saw that everybody who looked young had young problems and that everybody who looked old had old problems."
"You confuse two things: solving a problem and stating a problem correctly. It is only the second that is obligatory for an artist."
"Before turning to those moral and mental aspects of the matter which present the greatest difficulties, let the inquirer begin by mastering more elementary problems."
"I do trust you, is what I want to say. But it isn't true -- I didn't trust him to love me despite the terrible things I had done. I don't trust anyone to do that, but that isn't his problem; it's mine."
"My problem with the search for the badge of real is that it trades your goals and your happiness for someone else's."
"In spite of the problems he was having he was going on with his life. There are thousands who don’t or won’t or can’t and plenty of them aren’t in prison either."
"Become part of the solution rather than part of the problem"
"A problem only becomes a problem when we choose to see it as a problem"
"A 'problem' is nothing more than a gorgeous opportunity to discover an even better solution."