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People often ask, "What is the single most important environmental population problem facing the world today?" A flip answer would be, "The single most important problem is our misguided focus on identifying the single most important problem!

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Jared Diamond
American - Author
Born: September 10, 1937

The single most important problem is our misguided focus on identifying the single most important problem!

Jared Diamond

The five most important words a leader can speak are - 'I am proud of you' The four most important are - 'What is your opinion?' The three most important are - 'If you please' The two most important are - 'Thank You' And the most important single word of all is - 'You'

Denis Waitley

Illegitimacy is the single most important social problem of our time - more important than crime, drugs, poverty, illiteracy, welfare or homelessness because it drives everything else.

Charles A. Murray

The linear-programming was - and is - perhaps the single most important real-life problem.

Keith Devlin

Providing great schooling is the single most important thing we can do to help any child from a disadvantaged background succeed. It's also the single most important thing we can do to boost the long-term productivity of our economy.

George Osborne

To ask the 'right' question is far more important than to receive the answer. The solution of a problem lies in the understanding of the problem; the answer is not outside the problem, it is in the problem.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Deficits. Most people of knowledge say it's the biggest single problem facing the economic free world.

David Hartman

The single greatest issue for me as an environmentalist is climate change. I'd have to say that climate change is the single most important issue facing the environmental community and communities as a whole.

Jerome Ringo

Talent is important. But the single most important ingredient after you get the talent is internal leadership. It's not the coaches as much as one single person or people on the team who set higher standards than that team would normally set for itself. I really believe that that's been ultimately important for us.

Mike Krzyzewski

Often in life, the most important question we can ask ourselves is: do we really have the problem we think we have?

Sheri Fink

Cooking might be the most important factor in fixing our public health crisis. It's the single most important thing you can do for your health.

Michael Pollan

The most important single thing is to focus obsessively on the customer. Our goal is to be earth's most customer-centric company.

Jeff Bezos

Harvey Milk was a friend of mine, an important gay leader in San Francisco in the '70s, and he carried a really important message about how important it was to be visible, how important it was to come out, and that was the single most important thing we had to do.

Gilbert Baker

Perhaps the single most important point for parents to follow is the importance of giving goals to a child. And the most important goal is that of growing up to be an adult.

L. Ron Hubbard

The idea that global warming is the most important problem facing the world is total nonsense and is doing a lot of harm.

Freeman Dyson

I believe that bringing a life into this world is the single most important thing a person can undertake, and it can also be the most challenging. I think as mothers we are all just trying our best.

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