Problem Quotes

“A true friend makes your problem their problem.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Murder isn't the most logical way to escape a difficult situation. It only leads to a different difficult situation.”
― Keigo Higashino, The Devotion of Suspect X

“Remember what you always say: no problem has ever been solved by panicking.”
― Alexandra Monir, The Final Six

“At General Dexterity, I was contributing to an effort to make repetitive labor obsolete. After a trainer in the Task Acquisition Center taught an arm how to do something, all the arms did it perfectly, forever,

In other words, you solved a problem once, and then you moved on to other more interesting things.

Baking, by contrast, was solving the same problem over and over again, because every time, the solution was consumed. I mean, really: chewed and digested.

Thus, the problem was ongoing.

Thus, the problem was perhaps the point.”
― Robin Sloan, Sourdough

“The fact that our minds are problem-solving machines says a lot about the nature of life.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“It is usually impossible to be bored while you have a serious problem.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“There can be conceptual skeletons on several different levels of abstraction. For instance, the "isomorphism" between Bongard problems 70 and 71, already pointed out, involves higher-level conceptual skeleton than that needed to solve either problem in isolation.”
― Douglas R. Hofstadter, Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid

“The problem is not the problem, the problem is the way we see the problem”
― Saji Ijiyemi, Don't Die Sitting

“There's no such thing as being problem-free. You can really only hope for someone who's able to share your problems with you.”
― Alisha Rai, Wrong to Need You

“The more we solve our problems by ourselves, the more we become invincible!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Convenient ignorance is a common problem in the modern workplace.”
― Steven Magee

“Change your thinking to solve the problems created by your old way of thinking.”
― Jeffrey G. Duarte

“The problem of porn is that it makes us fill some kinda connection, it makes us to feel better for ourselfs but for a moment.”
― Deyth Banger, Brain on Porn

“Happiness comes from solving problems. The keyword here is "solving." If you're avoiding your problems or feel like you don't have any problems, they you're going to make yourself miserable. If you feel like you have problems that you can't solve, you will likewise make yourself miserable. The secret sauce is in the solving of the problems, not in not having problems in the first place. (p.31)”
― Mark Manson, The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life

“No matter what your deconstructionist professors told you, there is such a thing as human nature. People know how people are. Human nature dictates that most of us will tend to follow the same steps and missteps when solving a large problem. Therefore, stories will feel more natural if heroes tend to follow those same steps and missteps.”
― Matt Bird, The Secrets of Story: Innovative Tools for Perfecting Your Fiction and Captivating Readers

“So we sent a few folk to find out more. And do something about it if we didn't like it. They didn't come back. That was a problem. Another problem was getting in after them.”
― Alwyn Hamilton, Traitor to the Throne

“If the problem affects you. You must solve it.
Complaining is not Productive.”
― Vineet Raj Kapoor

“Begin to set a Rule. Stop complaining. Start Praying.”
― secretbouquetpen

“Anyone who cannot solve a problem in this world is not worthy of living in this world.”
― Olawale Daniel

“You are not worthy of living if you cannot solve a solve a problem in this world.”
― Olawale Daniel

“The size of your problem is in your mind.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“We have a leadership crisis in our world today. It is based on the reality that we have developed leaders who care more about what people think about them, or how they are seen than they care about those that follow them.”
― Ford Taylor, Relactional Leadership: When Relationships Collide with Transactions

“I looked down at the loaves on the baking stone, which, just as before, carried in their crusts the overwhelming illusion of dark eyes, upturned noses, fissured mouths.

Upon closer inspection, these faces were different from the last loaf's. They were disturbing. Their eyes squinted merrily and their mouths curled into ragged, jack-o'-lantern grins.

The bread knife was the solution to all my problems. I sawed and sawed and sawed until the faces were no more.”
― Robin Sloan, Sourdough

“Sweets or the beats was a bullying problem when I went to school.”
― Steven Magee

“Imaginary problems are the root of most problems.”
― Richie Norton

“Every math problem is hard if you don't know how to solve it.”
― Debasish Mridha

“Sorunlarımızı daha çok kendi kendimize çözdüğümüzde, daha çok yenilmez oluruz!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“I sometimes wonder what people were thinking when they thought about a big problem and tackled it with little to no planning.”
― Jeffrey G. Duarte

“It's going to be okay, you know," she said in much the same way everyone had been saying to her all week, and as inane as she knew it was, she suddenly understood why they had been saying it. Not because it was true, but because it let people know that you wanted it to be true.”
― Amanda Ashby, Fairy Bad Day

“He isn't a codebase; he is a human being, and bugs are harder to spot and fix in humans. You can't just deploy a fix immediately. It takes time to identify the problem and foster and grow a change.”
― Jono Bacon