Top 1200 Other People's Problems Quotes & Sayings - Page 14

The human spirit is extraordinary. If we give the 3 billion people who live in poverty the opportunity to change their lives, they will. For too long, we've looked at needing to "save" these people - with an emphasis on "these people" - rather than removing the constraints keeping them from solving their own problems.

Law Number XXXII: Hiring consultants to conduct studies can be an excellent means of turning problems into gold, your problems into their gold.

My mum's advice is never to whine to my friends, so they never see the other side of me. I save all my problems for my mother.

A certain number of people seek power over other people in a desperate attempt to find themselves. They fail, for self-discovery is spiritual in nature, not social or political. Authoritatively telling other people what to do is their distraction from an inner emptiness they can never fill.

We are at a critical point where rapid change is forcing us to look not just to new ways of solving problems but to new problems to solve.

It seems to me that a Christian like myself is presented with major problems, but they're nothing like the problems of the atheist.

I don't make a lot of distinctions between things like landscape or figure painting, because to me the problems are inherently the same - lighting, color, structure, and so on - certainly traditional and ordinary problems.

I wish I'd said it first, and I don't even know who did: The only problems that money can solve are money problems.

Problems are not problems at all, but results that are dissatisfying.

All problems are finally scientific problems.

Most zombie stories, the problems they solve are not the actual zombies. The problems they solve are the human interactions.

Everybody's got problems, and if you're gonna leave somebody because they have problems, you're gonna be alone for a long time.

Your problems are not just your problems. Ultimately, they belong to the church body that God has placed you in.

Unless we can join forces and recognize each other's humanity, how can we do business together, let alone make progress on the increasingly complex and difficult problems in society?

3% of the problems have figures, 97% of the problems do not.

We’re taught to do things the right way. But if you want to discover something that other people haven’t, you need to do things the wrong way. Initiate a failure by doing something that’s very silly, unthinkable, naughty, dangerous. Watching why that fails can take you on a completely different path. It’s exciting, actually. To me, solving problems is a bit like a drug. You’re on it, and you can’t get off.

If you can't learn to enjoy your life when you have problems, you may never enjoy it because we'll always have problems.

Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems

I feel like the people from Iceland have a different relationship with their country than other places. Most Icelandic people are really proud to be from there, and we don’t have embarrassments like World War II where we were cruel to other people.

There are so many problems with feminism, as women spend a lot of time telling other women what to do, and that distracts from the actual problem.

Why are solutions not just as newsworthy as problems? The notion that hostility is necessary all the time to create interest and news is not going to help us [humanity] come to agreements and solve the huge problems we have.

Inequality saps the will to conceive of ambitious solutions to large collective problems, because those problems no longer seem very collective.

[Facebook and Twitter] aren't the real problems in the office. The real problems are what I like to call the M&Ms, the Managers and the Meetings.

We believe we have no territorial problems at all. It is only Japan that believes it has territorial problems with Russia. We are ready to talk about this.

I had some physical problems with my back that caused me just some really bad problems.

The victims of problems of the family are the children. The children. Even of problems that neither husband nor wife have a say in.

If a blending of individualism and of cooperative participation is a prerequisite to a democratic solution of the problems of a society of free men, it must also be noted that an atmosphere of freedom is required if these problems are to be met constructively and as they arise.

Making people laugh is giving, and it's healing, too, when people can go up to the movies and forget about their problems. It's a good thing. That's why I want to work.

Every other word out of every other Chinese mouth is "development, development, development, development." And that's what they're talking about it - because they believe it, A, enables them, with development, to have the kind of status they want in the world, and B, it enables them to deal with their internal problems, having to do with poverty, urban-rural as well as the environment.

We are always centered in the middle of chaos. It never goes away. It's important to find your inner peace. For me, it's literally looking at the bigger picture. When I think about the size of the universe, I feel like any problems I'm surrounded by are so small. I just do my best to react to chaos with love, and hopefully, other people will catch on and do things out of love too.

One percent of the equity, 1 percent of the profits, and 1 percent of the people go into Google.org. The most important asset isn’t money, it’s people. One percent of the people means 60 or 70 of the smartest people in the world trying to solve some of the biggest problems in the world.

As long as a branch of science offers an abundance of problems, so long it is alive; a lack of problems foreshadows extinction or the cessation of independent development.

The mark of a successful organization isn't whether or not it has problems, its whether it has the same problems it had last year.

There are many people who know nothing of a world in which we take the reality of the 'other' seriously. I'm running on that platform: other people in other countries are really, really real, and there has to be a way of presenting their reality that is not condescending to them or about our psycho-social needs.

A growing body of research suggests that many of the health problems associated with eating beef are really problems with corn-fed beef.

I feel like the people from Iceland have a different relationship with their country than other places. Most Icelandic people are really proud to be from there, and we don't have embarrassments like World War II where we were cruel to other people.

I like solving problems, and science provides a logical way of solving real-life problems.

As architects we're trained to solve problems, but I don't really believe in architectural problems. I only believe in opportunities.

Fights problems with bigger problems.

The reality is that we are going to have problems with water in this century. And the fact that we are going to have problems with fossil fuel is a given.

Worrying about bills, food, or other problems leaves less capacity to think ahead or to exert self-discipline. So, poverty imposes a mental tax.

Whether we agree with them or not, politicians aren't for trusting. They are for getting done what can be done to make really horrible problems into plain old lousy problems.

I believe the only way we'll be able to solve infant mortality - and other huge social problems - is by designing solutions for those with the greatest intent to carry it out.

Unsolved problems on the inside of a person stop success more often than problems on the outside of a person.

Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country.

When we avoid the legitimate suffering that results from dealing with problems, we also avoid the growth that problems demand from us.

Unreflective self-deception leads people into hypocrisy and all sorts of moral failings. When you look at these people who are busy pontificating like I was a moment ago - Saint Clancy - those are the people that get into the most egregious kinds of moral problems.

If we don't have historical consciousness we can't really understand problems in all their dimensions, and if we can't understand problems than we can't find solutions.

When people think of the South Side of Chicago, they don't think about where I'm from. It was sort of a pocket: this idyllic community of black people who took care of each other, knew each other, spent time with each other.

Be not dishearten'd -- Affection shall solve the problems of Freedom yet; Those who love each other shall become invincible.

You know we're constantly taking. We don't make most of the food we eat, we don't grow it, anyway. We wear clothes other people make, we speak a language other people developed, we use a mathematics other people evolved and spent their lives building. I mean we're constantly taking things. It's a wonderful ecstatic feeling to create something and put it into the pool of human experience and knowledge.

Because everyone has love or wants love there are always problems. And if you don't have problems, you're probably leading a boring life.

The Chancellor [Angela Merkel] and the European partners would be well-advised to address the problems in eastern Ukraine more thoroughly. Maybe they have too many domestic problems of their own at the moment.

If we want to raise young adults who know how to solve problems, we must let them have problems to solve while they are still adolescents.

An author who sets about to depict events of the past that have run their course is suspected of wishing to avoid the problems of the present day, of being, in other words, a reactionary.

Instead of fixing all your problems, God may be wanting to use your problems to teach you to trust and obey Him.

Non-alignment will continue to be the fundamental basis of our approach to world problems and our relations with other countries.

I see no way out of the problems that organized religion and tribalism create other than humans just becoming more honest and fully aware of themselves.

As long as you blame someone or something else - something outside you that's bigger than you are - as the source of your problems, the problems won't get solved.

We don't have any problems, apart from the problems we have.