“The Citizen's Petition reflects Vermont's spirit of pragmatism and across-the-board cooperation. I applaud the 'Campaign to Fix the Debt' for calling attention to one of the country's most pressing problems, our ballooning national debt, and for urging policymakers to find practical solutions.” CountryProblemSpiritAttentionCitizensCallingSolutionsDebtCampaignsPracticalsBoardsCooperationPragmatismPetitionsNational DebtVermont Author:Peter Welch
“There’s only one Earth, and it’s tiny, but evil human leaders avoid problems they don’t want to resolve by giving them names which make the problems sound like they’re taking place in a different world: they make people not care about other people dying of starvation by calling the place the dying live “the third world.” PeopleWorldWantGivingHumansDifferentProblemCareEarthEvilNamesSoundLeaderDyingCallingThirdsTinyResolveStarvationThird WorldDifferent WorldsPeople Dying Author:Craig Stone
“The problem with at-home IQ tests is that too many people wouldn't understand the results. Calling customer service is a bad sign.” PeopleProblemHomeResultsCallingTestsCustomers Author:Iimani David
“The system is that there is no system. That doesn't mean we don't have process. Apple is a very disciplined company, and we have great processes. But that's not what it's about. Process makes you more efficient ... But innovation comes from people meeting up in the hallways or calling each other at 10:30 at night with a new idea, or because they realized something that shoots holes in how we've been thinking about a problem. It's ad hoc meetings of six people called by someone who thinks he has figured out the coolest new thing ever and who wants to know what other people think of his idea.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWantMeanIdeasProblemNightProcessCompanyCallingSixInnovationMeetingsHolesApplesAdsEfficientNew ThingsNew IdeasBest JobHallwaysInnovation And BusinessReal Jobs Author:Steve Jobs
“A calling is you feel - you look out and see the need - maybe it's the need for the poor, to help poor people. Maybe it's the need to get involved in the race problem, as Martin Luther King was - felt called.” PeopleNeedsFeelsLooksHelpingProblemFeltPoorRaceKingsInvolvedCallingPoor PeopleLutherGet InvolvedHelp The PoorHelp Poor People Author:Billy Graham
“Most people don't form a self and then lead a life. They are called by a problem, and the self is constructed gradually by their calling.” PeopleSelfProblemFormCalling Author:David Brooks
“Inspiration is not the exclusive privilege of poets or artists. There is, there has been, there will always be a certain group of people whom inspiration visits. It's made up of all those who've consciously chosen their calling and do their job with love and imagination. Difficulties and setbacks never quell their curiosity. A swarm of new questions emerges from every problem that they solve. Whatever inspiration is, it's born from a continuous 'I don't know.'” PeopleKnowsHas BeensMadeProblemInspirationJobsArtistCertainBornImaginationGroupsPoetCallingDifficultyCuriosityPrivilegeSolveChosenExclusiveSetbackSwarms Author:Wislawa Szymborska
“The Spanish press started calling me El Nino' when I was very small. Now, I have grown a little. The problem is, when I'm 30 years old, we'll have to come up with another one.” YearsLittlesProblemCallingPressesCome Up Author:Sergio Garcia
“It really does seem that the Democrat's problem isn't that they're calling for timetables - it's that they're calling them 'timetables'. You're up against Bush and the Republicans - you've got to bring some zing. Don't call them timetables - call them 'Patriot Dates', 'Freedom Deadlines'... 'Glory Goals'.” DoeProblemSeemsGoalCallingRepublicanGloryDemocratPatriotDeadlineTimetablesZing Author:Jon Stewart
“But innovation comes from people meeting up in the hallways or calling each other at 10:30 at night with a new idea, or because they realized something that shoots holes in how we've been thinking about a problem.” PeopleThinkingInspirationalIdeasProblemInspirationNightCallingInnovationMeetingsHolesSomething NewNew ThingsNew IdeasMaking ChangesBest JobCreativity And InnovationHallwaysBusiness InnovationInnovation And BusinessReal JobsMeeting New PeopleDifferent JobsIdeas And InnovationInnovation And LeadershipSelf Inspirational Author:Steve Jobs
“Eleanor Roosevelt had both her admirers and her detractors. And they admired her and detracted from her for many of the same reasons. People who liked her social activism, who thought that she was calling attention to problems that needed solving, were all for her.” PeopleReasonProblemSocialAttentionNeededCallingActivismEleanorAdmirerSocial Activism Author:William A. Rusher
“You've got problems in Central Asia. And you've got problems within our own communities back home. So if we end up saying, look, this has nothing to do with Islam or it's got no connection with that broader question, then we look, frankly, as if we're in denial about the problem. And the interesting thing in the Middle East is that they have absolutely no problem there in identifying that as Islamist extremism and calling it that.” IfsLooksEndsProblemHomeCommunityInterestingMiddleCallingConnectionsIslamEastDenialMiddle EastAsiaNo ProblemExtremismInteresting ThingsBack HomeIdentifyingIslamistsCentral Asia Author:Tony Blair
“I don't think I ever would have had a problem being vulnerable or introspective but the problem with drinking is it's very hard to zero in on one part. You're not dealing with anything in real time, you're constantly moving and constantly going. You're drinking to get away from things, things your dealing with. My wife might be calling me trying to argue and I don't wanna deal with it so I just go drink and by the time we talk again I'm so drunk I just don't care. I'll just deal with it however.” ThinkingTryingRealHardProblemMightCareMovingDealsWifeDrinkCallingDrinkingDon't CareMy WifeArguingDrunkVulnerableGet AwayZeroIntrospectiveConstantly Moving Author:Ryan Montgomery
“If you've heard Hillary Clinton's recent remarks on Ritalin and other drug use on children, you'll find the usual nauseating demagoguery. She appears to be urging Ritalin caution; but, if you listen carefully, she's calling it a miracle drug: "A Godsend for emotional and behavioral problems, for both children and their parents." She insists her efforts are not an attack on the medical treatment of children's emotional well-being because the drugs are very, very "useful."” IfsWellsChildrenUseProblemParentEffortHeardEmotionalCallingDrugMiracleClintonMedicalWell BeingTreatmentUsualCautionRemarksDrug UseDemagogueryMedical TreatmentEmotional Well BeingRitalin Author:Peter Breggin
“I have become the poster child for calling all the Trump people racists, when, in fact, I don't think they're all racists, but they tolerated racism. And that's a problem.” PeopleThinkingChildrenFactsProblemTrumpCallingRacismRacistPosters Author:Van Jones
“I was encouraged, though, because I saw feminist writers - male and female - calling out the bias. I feel like more and more writers are cognizant of the problems and are willing to try to challenge them.” FeelsTryingProblemChallengesSawsWillingCallingFemaleMalesFeministBiasCognizantWilling To Try Author:Paula Broadwell
“I'm not calling for a boycott on voting. But I think it should be very clear that just voting is not going to solve our problems.” ThinkingShouldProblemClearCallingSolveVotingBoycott Author:Grace Lee Boggs
“There's certain things that we do work with Russia on and then there's certain things when they do something wrong, I have no problem calling them out on it.” ProblemCertainCallingRussiaNo Problem Author:Nikki Haley
“I've a problem with the word charity because I think that NGOs, as I prefer calling them, really do take the work of moral and social responsibilities that ought to be taken on by governments.” ThinkingProblemGovernmentSocialResponsibilityMoralTakenOughtCallingCharitySocial Responsibility Author:Emma Thompson
“Conversations are efforts toward good relations. They are an elementary form of reciprocity. They are the exercise of our love for each other. They are the enemies of our loneliness, our doubt, our anxiety, our tendencies to abdicate. To continue to be in good conversation over our enormous and terrifying problems is to be calling out to each other in the night. If we attend with imagination and devotion to our conversations, we will find what we need; and someone among us will act—it does not matter whom—and we will survive.” IfsNeedsDoeMatterProblemFormNightImaginationEffortEnemyDoubtLonelinessExerciseCallingConversationAnxietyRelationEnormousDevotionTendenciesOur LoveReciprocityGood Conversation Author:Barry Lopez
“We all have our convictions formed by different things and mine are informed by my faith.... They're formed by the word of God, and I found that to be an anchor for me, a compass, and a guide for me. When people start bullying one another and calling each other names for those different convictions, then I think you get into problems.” PeopleThinkingDifferentProblemFoundNamesMinesCallingConvictionGuidesDifferent ThingsBullyingWord Of GodCompassAnchors Author:Kirk Cameron
“As I’ve said, I’ve never believed in God, which technically makes me an atheist (since the prefix “a” means “not” or “without”). But I have problems with the word “atheism.” It defines what someone is not rather than what someone is. It would be like calling me an a-instrumentalist for Bad Religion rather than the band’s singer. Defining yourself as against something says very little about what you are for.” MeanLittlesSaidProblemWould BeAtheismCallingBandAtheistSingersDefiningDefine YourselfInstrumentalists Author:Greg Graffin
“In Britain, because I live here, I can also run into problems of envy and competition. But all this is just in a day's work for a writer. You can't put stuff out there without someone calling you a complete fool. Oh, well.” WritingWellsI CanProblemRunningStuffFoolCallingCompetitionEnvyBritainOh Well Author:Alain de Botton
“At my age the only problem is with remembering names. When I call everyone darling, it has damn all to do with passionately adoring them, but I know I'm safe calling them that. Although, of course, I adore them too.” KnowsProblemAgeRememberCoursesNamesCallingSafeDamnAdoreDarling Author:Richard Attenborough
“Even if the flag burning amendment does become law, the larger problem will remain of how to respectfully dispose of older, tattered flags. Well, fortunately the U.S. official Flag Code has a suggestion about this. "The flag, when it is in such a condition that it is no longer a fitting emblem of display, should be destroyed in a dignified way, preferably by burning." Owwwwcchh. In response, the House Republicans are calling for tattered flags to be kept alive via a feeding tube.” IfsWayShouldWellsDoeProblemLawHouseAliveConditionsCallingRepublicanResponseDestroyedBurningCodeOfficialsFlagsDisplayAmendmentsSuggestionsFeedingFittingTubesEmblemsFlag Burning Author:Jon Stewart
“It's great, but there is one problem. She doesn't sleep. At night she seems to turn into a vampire. She wakes up every night five or 10 times, asking for things, singing, calling out.” ProblemSeemsNightTurnsSleepFiveCallingSingingWake UpAskingVampireEvery Night Author:Goran Ivanisevic
“My first agent dissuaded me from calling myself 'Cumberbatch.' I had six months of not very productive time with her, so I changed agents. The new one said, 'Why aren't you using your family name? It's a real attention-grabber.' I worried, 'How much is it going to cost to put my name in lights?' But then I decided that's not my problem.” FirstsSaidRealProblemLightNamesAttentionChangedMonthsCallingCostSixDecidedAgentsWorriedProductiveSix MonthsFamily Name Author:Benedict Cumberbatch
“The church is only the church when it exists for others. To make a start, it should give away all its property to those in need. The clergy must live solely on the free-will offerings of their congregations, or possibly engage in some secular calling. The church must share in the secular problems of ordinary human life, not dominating, but helping and serving. It must tell men of every calling what it means to live in Christ, to exist for others.” MenNeedsGivingShouldHumansMeanHelpingProblemChristChurchShareCallingOrdinaryPropertyHuman LifeFree WillServingOfferingSecularCongregationClergyDominatingThose In Need Book:Bonhoeffer for a New Generation Source: Bonhoeffer for a New Generation
“The church is in trouble-that's what they say anyways. The problem is most of what they call the church is not the church, and the church is not quite as in trouble as everybody thinks. As a matter of fact, the church today is absolutely beautiful-she's glorious, she's humble, she's broken, and she's confessing her sin. The problem is what everybody's calling the church today isn't the church. Basically, by and large, what's called the church today is nothing more than a bunch of unconverted church people with unconverted pastors.” PeopleThinkingMatterFactsProblemTodayBeautifulChurchSinTroubleBrokenCallingHumbleBunchGloriousPastorMatter Of FactConfessingChurch Today Author:Paul Washer
“If you have a problem and you can't find a solution, you meet again tomorrow and you keep talking until you find a solution. You can disagree with behavior or a particular position, but you do not resort to calling an opponent worthless.” IfsProblemTalkingPositionParticularTomorrowCallingBehaviorSolutionsOpponentsDisagreeWorthlessResortsKeep Talking Book:Interventions: A Life in War and Peace Source: Interventions: A Life in War and Peace
“I don’t have a problem with someone using their talents to become successful, I just don’t think the highest calling is success. Things like freedom and the expansion of knowledge are beyond success, beyond the personal. Personal success is not wrong, but it is limited in importance, and once you have enough of it it is a shame to keep striving for that, instead of for truth, beauty, or justice.” ThinkingEnoughProblemJusticeSuccessfulTalentCallingTruth IsHighestImportanceShameStriveExpansionBecoming SuccessfulPersonal Success Author:Richard Stallman
“I have no patience with people who want to tell me what's wrong. I only want to hear from the person who first tells me the solution and then fills me in on the problem. I don't want to hear that your basement is flooded. I want to hear that you've found the number to the cleanup company. Then tell me why you're calling them.” PeopleWantFirstsPersonsProblemFoundLeadershipNumbersCompanyCallingSolutionsBasementsNo PatienceI Have No Patience Author:Earl G. Graves, Sr.
“Calling gender violence a women's issue is part of the problem. It gives a lot of men an excuse not to pay attention.” MenGivingProblemPayAttentionIssuesViolenceCallingExcuseGenderPay Attention Author:Jackson Katz
“Philanthropy is not about giving money but about solving problems. While well-meaning, the idea of writing a check and calling it 'philanthropy' is extremely short-sighted and, unfortunately, extremely pervasive.” GivingWritingWellsIdeasProblemCallingChecksProblem SolvingPhilanthropyShort SightedGiving Money Author:Naveen Jain