We must remember that the shortest distance between our problems and their solutions is the distance between our knees and the floor.
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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.
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.
The difficult problems in life always start off being simple. Great affairs always start off being small.
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.
The problems of all of humanity can only be solved by all of humanity
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.
Violence and arms can never resolve the problems of men.
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.
Far more interesting than problem solving is problem creation.
Always try the problem that matters most to you.
The single most important problem is our misguided focus on identifying the single most important problem!
If there is a problem you can't solve, then there is an easier problem you can't solve: find it.
In a startup, both the problem and solution are unknown.
The problem for most artists isn't piracy, it's obscurity.
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.
There's certainly nothing original about the observation that conscious experience poses a hard problem.
America has but one main problem -- the character of the men and women it shall produce.
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.'
The biographer's problem is that he never knows enough. The autobiographer's problem is that he knows too much.
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.
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.
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