“There is only so much energy available to us in life. Spending it on solving problems is one possible way of living your life, but this may leave you empty - hearted; spending it on what excites you is a lot more fulfilling and fun - and effortless; and usually, the previously experienced problems vanish on their own. We don't have to battle against the darkness when all we need to do is turn on the light.” WayLifeNeedsMayProblemLightTurnsEnergyFunDarknessBattleEmptyAvailableSpendingHappy LifeProblem SolvingFulfillingLive Your LifeHeartedTurn-onEffortless Author:Andreas Moritz
“I can't quite define my aversion to asking questions of strangers. From snatches of family battles which I have heard drifting up from railway stations and street corners, I gather that there are a great many men who share my dislike for it, as well as an equal number of women who ... believe it to be the solution to most of this world's problems.” MenWorldBelieveWellsI CanProblemNumbersHeardShareStreetsThis WorldBattleEqualSolutionsAskingCornersStrangerGreat MenStationsDislikeDriftingAsking QuestionsAversionRailwayStreet CornersRailway Station Book:The Benchley Roundup Source: The Benchley Roundup
“While there may not be spiritual oppression involved in your battle [against lust], there'll always be opposition. The enemy is constantly near your ear. He doesn't want you to win this fight, and he knows the lies that so often break a man's confidence and his will to win. Expect to hear lies and plenty of them. satan's lie: 'You're the only one dealing with this problem. If anyone ever finds out, you'll be the laughingstock of the church!' The truth: Most men deal with this problem, so no one will laugh.” IfsKnowsMenWantMayProblemSpiritualLyingFightingWinningChurchDealsEnemyBreakLaughingInvolvedBattleEarsLustOppressionPlentySatanOppositionWill To Win Author:Steve Arterburn
“Every time I got drunk, this girl named Nikki would show up. When I got drunk, I was just a different person. This is a totally different person than Lisa. When these two started to battle it out, I had to create a third person to come in and straighten the two of them out. Nina, my evil twin who came from within, who I blame my sins on. (satanic alter) All the problems I did have stemmed from what I was doing - I was creating all these different personalities.” PersonsTwoDifferentShowsProblemGirlEvilSinPersonalityBattleCreatingThirdsBlameDrunkTwinsSatanicThis GirlNinaThird Person Author:Lisa Lopes
“The problem is simply this: no one can feel like CEO of his or her life in the presence of the people who toilet trained her and spanked him when he was naughty. We may have become Masters of the Universe, accustomed to giving life and taking it away, casually ordering people into battle or out of their jobs . . . and yet we may still dirty our diapers at the sound of our mommy's whimper or our daddy's growl.” PeopleGivingFeelsMayStillsProblemJobsUniverseSoundMastersBattleDirtyCeoDaddyAccustomedToiletsNaughtyDiapers Author:Frank Pittman
“A scientist's life, the author says, is indeed conflictual, formed by battles, defeats, and victories: but the adversary is always and only the unknown, the problem to be solved, the mystery to be clarified. It is never a matter of civil war; even though of different opinions, or of different political leanings, scientists dispute each other, they compete, but they do not battle: they are bound together by a strong alliance, by the common faith "in the validity of Maxwell's or Boltzmann's equations," and by the common acceptance of Darwinism and the molecular structure of DNA.” DifferentWarMatterProblemTogetherPoliticalStrongCommonOpinionMysteryAcceptanceVictoryBattleScientistStructureBoundsDefeatCivil WarDnaEquationsDisputesAdversariesAlliancesValidityDarwinismDifferent OpinionsMaxwell Author:Primo Levi
“Part of the problem that we have currently in the Middle East is that[Bashar] Assad has hung on to power with the very strong support of Russia and Iran and with the proxy of Hezbollah being there basically fighting his battles.” ProblemFightingStrongSupportMiddleBattleEastRussiaIranVery StrongMiddle EastHungBeing ThereAssadProxyHezbollah Author:Hillary Clinton
“I'm actually the chairman of the historical foundation [in Franklin] called the Heritage Foundation in Franklin. We've got a pretty good group of folks, very influential folks, who are really striving to protect those lands and so far we're not having a lot of problems. We're growing too fast. Everybody wants to put up some sort of neighborhood but that's our biggest battle. Nobody's really trying to go on any of the historical land.” WantTryingProblemGrowingGroupsLandGoes OnBattleProtectFoundationHistoricalStriveFolksNeighborhoodHeritageInfluentialChairmanFranklin Author:Michael W. Smith
“I can honestly say, after talking about my mom passing away, I got the biggest weight off of my chest. Comedy is my therapy. That's how I deal with my problems, my personal battles. I talk about it. I give it to my fans. When they laugh at it, it's a release, for lack of a better word.” GivingI CanProblemDealsTalkingLaughingComedyFansMomBattleWeightMy MomHonestlyPassingPassingsReleaseTherapyChestsPassing Away Author:Kevin Hart
“Any issue and any problem, no matter what height you look at it from, no matter how much you extend past the first fractal, it's still a fractal of something that emanates from within your consciousness - from within the human consciousness. And it'll move on and manifest itself externally, and then those are what we pick up as societal ills. But all these battles we're fighting are internal. For me, it's reconciling hope with dread and trying to cut out some place in my mind where my heart can be protected a little bit.” TryingMindFirstsHumansLooksHeartLittlesStillsMatterProblemPastMovingFightingBitsConsciousnessIssuesCuttingMy HeartBattleLittle BitPicksNo Matter WhatHeightInternalsManifestDreadProtectedHuman ConsciousnessEmanateFractals Author:El-P
“Look, if you have a problem with distilling the Battle of Thermopylae down to freedom versus tyranny, you need to read Herodotus because he's the one. It's his fault, not modern culture's fault. He did it.' [Victor Davis Hanson] references a lot of things like that because he feels like the spirit of the book and of the movie ["300"] are very close to the Spartan aesthetic. That's really kind of what he feels."” IfsNeedsFeelsLooksKindBookProblemSpiritCultureModernBattleFaultsTyrannyAestheticVersusModern CultureThermopylae Author:Zack Snyder
“This is our problem, our dilemma, yes? We cannot celebrate and declare ourselves to belong to the victorious nations because our brothers and our fathers and grandfathers died in this battle [in Normandy], yes. I understand that the Americans and the British and French celebrate one of the greatest and most important military victories in history. And I understand this. I don't see a reasonable place for the Germans. We watch everything on the television with compassion and sympathy.” ImportantProblemFatherNationsCompassionWatchesMilitaryTelevisionBrotherVictoryBattleDiedBritishCelebrateReasonableGrandfatherOur FatherDilemmaFather DiedNormandyFathers And GrandfathersGrandfather Died Author:Manfred Rommel
“I think that's why they're so really - here's the disconnect. It's sort of this odd and I've always had this problem with the rationality of it. That the President [George W.Bush] says, "We are in the fight for a way of life. This is the greatest battle of our generation, and of the generations to come. "And, so what I'm going to do is you know, Iraq has to be won, or our way of life ends, and our children and our children's children all suffer. So, what I'm gonna do is send 10,000 more troops to Baghdad."” ThinkingKnowsWayChildrenEndsProblemSufferingFightingPresidentGenerationsBattleOur ChildrenIraqOddTroopsRationalityOur GenerationBaghdadPresident George W Bush Author:Jon Stewart
“The problem with an economic meltdown is that the responsibility and the challenges to deal with the environment are squandered. That's an age-old battle in terms of the major conflicts in places like Afghanistan, etc. So there are age-old battles that'll keep going on. Unfortunately, man is a very slow learner, and we tend to repeat mistakes, as opposed to learning from mistakes.” MenProblemTermChallengesMistakeResponsibilityEnvironmentEconomicBattleConflictKeep GoingAfghanistanLearning From Mistakes Author:John Hillcoat
“What you see around the world is that poverty is not destiny. In other countries, much more systemically, student after student, school after school, year after year, educate poor and disadvantaged young people. And, so, anyone who says that you can't overcome these battles is a huge part of the problem.” PeopleWorldCountryProblemSchoolPoorPovertyDestinyStudentsBattleOvercomingEducateAfter School Author:Arne Duncan
“I love to have battles of the wits with people that can dish fast and dirty - and it leads to problems occasionally, 'cause I can sound mean without attempting to be mean.” PeopleMeanI CanProblemCausesSoundBattleWitDirtyDishesAttemptingNaughtyMean PeopleBattle Of Wits Author:Alton Brown
“It's the problem with age. You have all these rusty arguments, and no quarrel to use them in. My brain is a museum, but alas, I'm the only visitor, and even I am not terribly interested in the displays.” LoveMindSaidUseProblemAgeFightingBrainBattleArgumentAffectionMuseumsLaughedDisplayTemptedAlasQuarrelsVisitors Book:Heartfire: The Tales of Alvin Maker Source: Heartfire: The Tales of Alvin Maker
“Now, as far as I knew, he (Luke) was still sailing around on his demon-infested cruise ship while the chopped-up Lord Kronos re-formed, bit by bit, in a golden sarcophagus, biding his time until he had enough power to challenge the Olympian gods. In demigod-speak, we call this a “problem.” - Percy, 'The Battle of the Labyrinth” StillsEnoughProblemSpeakBitsChallengesLordBattleShipsGoldenDemonSailingHad EnoughLukeLabyrinthCruiseOlympianDemigodsCruise ShipsOlympian Gods Author:Rick Riordan
“I take criticism so seriously as to believe that, even in the midst of a battle in which one is unmistakably on one side against another, there should be criticism, because there must be critical consciousness if there are to be issues, problems, values, even lives to be fought for... Criticism must think of itself as life-enhancing and constitutively opposed to every form of tyranny, domination, and abuse; its social goals are noncoercive knowledge produced in the interests of human freedom.” IfsThinkingShouldBelieveHumansProblemFormValuesSocialSidesGoalInterestConsciousnessIssuesBattleCriticismAbuseCriticalTyrannyMidstDominationHuman Freedom Author:Edward Said