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We must remember that the shortest distance between our problems and their solutions is the distance between our knees and the floor.
Charles StanleyRead
The primary problem is not to provide the public with the knowledge of how far it is to the nearest star and what genes are made of .. Rather, the problem is to get them to reject irrational and supernatural explanations of the world, the demons that exist only in their imaginations, and to accept a social and intellectual apparatus, Science, as the only begetter of truth.
Richard LewontinRead
The difficult problems in life always start off being simple. Great affairs always start off being small.
LaoziRead
To be an enduring, great company, you have to build a mechanism for preventing or solving problems that will long outlast any one individual leader.
Howard SchultzRead
The problems of all of humanity can only be solved by all of humanity
Friedrich DurrenmattRead
You are priests, not social or political leaders. Let us not be under the illusion that we are serving the Gospel through an exaggerated interest in the wide field of temporal problems.
Pope John Paul IiRead
Violence and arms can never resolve the problems of men.
Pope John Paul IiRead
I never doubted that equal rights was the right direction. Most reforms, most problems are complicated. But to me there is nothing complicated about ordinary equality.
Alice PaulRead
Far more interesting than problem solving is problem creation.
Chuck CloseRead
Always try the problem that matters most to you.
Andrew WilesRead
The single most important problem is our misguided focus on identifying the single most important problem!
Jared DiamondRead
If there is a problem you can't solve, then there is an easier problem you can't solve: find it.
George PolyaRead
In a startup, both the problem and solution are unknown.
Eric RiesRead
The problem for most artists isn't piracy, it's obscurity.
Tim O'ReillyRead
All happy companies are different: each one earns a monopoly by solving a unique problem. All failed companies are the same: they failed to escape competition.
Peter ThielRead
There's certainly nothing original about the observation that conscious experience poses a hard problem.
David ChalmersRead
America has but one main problem -- the character of the men and women it shall produce.
Calvin CoolidgeRead
Failure is information-we label it failure, but it's more like, 'This didn't work, I'm a problem solver, and I'll try something else.'
Carol S. DweckRead
The biographer's problem is that he never knows enough. The autobiographer's problem is that he knows too much.
Russell BakerRead
Until society can be reclaimed by an undivided humanity that will use its collective wisdom, cultural achievements, technological innovations, scientific knowledge, and innate creativity for its own benefit and for that of the natural world, all ecological problems will have their roots in social problems.
Murray BookchinRead
Nowadays, 'invisibility' was supposed to be the big problem, but the way I saw it was, all that mattered was to be visible to yourself.
Emma DonoghueRead

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