"Problems are good, as long as you solve them quickly."
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"You can't solve a problem as complex as inequality in one legal clause."
"I've really enjoyed my work in television, but the problem for me is the turnover of directors every week."
"The greatest problem in the world today is intolerance. Everyone is so intolerant of each other."
"By running away from the world no one can get peace. Anywhere you go the problems will go with you, because the problems are inside you and not outside. Outside is simply a projection of inside."
"Each person deserves a day away in which no problems are confronted, no solutions searched for."
"The Problem is never the problem! It is only a symptom of something much deeper."
"Most people see the problem of love primarily as that of being loved, rather than that of loving, of one's capacity to love. Hence the problem to them is how to be loved, how to be lovable."
"Additional problems are the offspring of poor solutions."
"Never attack a problem without also presenting a solution."
"In life, never spend more than 10 percent of your time on the problem, and spend at least 90 percent of your time on the solution."
"Congress seems drugged and inert most of the time... its idea of meeting a problem is to hold hearings or, in extreme cases, to appoint a commission."
"If you're that depressed, reach out to someone. And remember, suicide is a permanent solution, to a temporary problem."
"Solving a problem simply means representing it so as to make the solution transparent."
"Problems are not the problem; coping is the problem."
"When ever I have a Problem, I just sing. Then I know my voice is a lot worse then my Problem."
"The solution to your problem is to see who has it."
"You'll never find the solution if you don't see the problem."
"When you struggle with a problem, that's when you understand it."
"You can't have an up without a down. You can't have a left without a right. This is duality. If you have a problem, you must already have the solution. The question is, do you really want the solution, or do you want to perpetuate the problem?"