problem quotes

“All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.”

— Pablo Picasso

“Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don't have any problems, you don't get any seeds.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

“When every physical and mental resources is focused, one's power to solve a problem multiplies tremendously.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

“The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them.”

— Antoine de Saint Exupery

“The great corrupter of public man is the ego. Looking at the mirror distracts one's attention from the problem.”

— Dean Acheson

“Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.”

— Henry John Kaiser

“There's a new medical crisis. Doctors are reporting that many men are having allergic reactions to latex condoms. They say they cause severe swelling. So what's the problem? ”

— Phyllis Diller

“It is no good getting furious if you get stuck. What I do is keep thinking about the problem but work on something else. Sometimes it is years before I see the way forward. In the case of information loss and black holes, it was 29 years.”

— Stephen Hawking

“Fashion is always of the time in which you live. It is not something standing alone. But the grand problem, the most important problem, is to rejeuvenate women. To make women look young. Then their outlook changes. They feel more joyous. ”

— Coco Chanel

“It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one's life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than 'try to be a little kinder.'”

— Aldous Huxley

“The biggest problem that we have is that California is being run now by special interests. All of the politicians are not anymore making the moves for the people, but for special interests and we have to stop that. ”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

“My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation. ”

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“A client is to me a mere unit, a factor in a problem. ”

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“The three great problems of this century; the degradation of man in the proletariat, the subjection of women through hunger, the atrophy of the child by darkness.”

— Victor Hugo

“Socialism is... not only a way of life, but a certain scientific approach to social and economic problems. ”

— Jawaharlal Nehru

“There are children playing in the streets who could solve some of my top problems in physics, because they have modes of sensory perception that I lost long ago. ”

— Julius Robert Oppenheimer

“You create superheroes to take care of problems that can't really be solved another way.”

— Robert Rodriguez

“The problems of puzzles are very near the problems of life.”

— Erno Rubik

“I've always had a problem with the average macho man - they've always been a threat to me. ”

— Kurt Cobain

“That's the trouble with being me. At this point, nobody gives a damn what my problem is. I could literally have a tumor on the side of my head and they'd be like, 'Yeah, big deal. I'd eat a tumor every morning for the kinda money you're pulling down.' ”

— Jim Carrey

“We had problems like all families but we had a lot of love. I was extremely loved. We always felt we had each other. ”

— Jim Carrey

“I mean, I'm a big believer in talking to people when you can and trying to solve problems when you can. ”

— Hillary Clinton

“It's true that America can't solve every problem, but I don't know of any major problem in the world that can be solved without us. ”

— Hillary Clinton

“The United States strongly condemns the illegal disclosure of classified information. It puts people's lives in danger, threatens our national security, and undermines our efforts to work with other countries to solve shared problems. ”

— Hillary Clinton

“I am doing things that are true to me. The only thing I have a problem with is being labeled. ”

— Johnny Depp

“I guess I'm attracted to these off beat roles because my life has been a bit abnormal. The only thing I have a problem with is being labeled. ”

— Johnny Depp

“No weapon has ever settled a moral problem. It can impose a solution but it cannot guarantee it to be a just one.”

— Ernest Hemingway

“I'm not a big fan of psychoanalysis: I think if you have mental problems what you need are good pills. But I do think that if you have thinks that bother you, things that are unresolved, the more that you talk about them, write about them, the less serious they become.”

— Stephen King

“The problems of the world cannot possibly be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need men who can dream of things that never were.”

— John Fitzgerald Kennedy

“Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. And man can be as big as he wants. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.”

— John Fitzgerald Kennedy