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“If I have a problem, stuff's going through my head, I feel like using, I usually go and talk to my dad... I decided to get sober a lot younger than he did. He first tried to get sober when he was like 32, I believe.”

Ifs Feels Firsts Believe Problem I Believe Stuff Dad Decided My Dad Sober

Author:Jack Osbourne

“First of all, you have to meet God with light! I do not believe that any man, that any man can solve the problems of life without Jesus Christ.”

Men Firsts Believe God Problem Light Jesus Christ Jesus Christ Solve

Author:Billy Graham

“I am not (yet) facing the problem of emigration. I want my music to be acknowledged here first of all, in this country: after that, we shall see - perhaps the question will then become urgent.”

Want Firsts Country Problem Urgent Emigration

Author:Alfred Schnittke

“Don't be pretentious is my first advice to young writers. This is the big problem - just because you're getting an MFA doesn't mean you have to write for the Academy. Be true to your personality. Don't temper your personality down with words. Don't build defensive fortresses around yourself with words - words are your friends.”

Writing Firsts Mean Problem Bigs Young Advice Personality Being True Temper Academy Pretentious Big Problems Fortresses Young Writers

Author:Gary Shteyngart

“The first thing to make clear is that scientists, freely making their own choice of problems and pursuing them in the light of their own personal judgment, are in fact co-operating as members of a closely knit organization.”

Firsts Facts Problem Light Choices Clear Members Judgment Organization Scientist

Book:The Republic of Science, Its Political and Economic Theory: A Lecture Delivered at Roosevelt University, January 11, 1962

Source: The Republic of Science, Its Political and Economic Theory: A Lecture Delivered at Roosevelt University, January 11, 1962

“It appeared that after first contemplating a book on some subject, and after giving serious preliminary attention to it, I needed a period of subconscious incubation which could not be hurried and was if anything impeded by deliberate thinking.... Having, by a time of very intense concentration, planted the problem in my subconsciousness, it would germinate underground until, suddenly, the solution emerged with a blinding clarity, so that it only remained to write down what happened as if in a revelation.”

“When I first started out, I thought it was enough to make an angry song that pointed out the problems of the world.”

World Firsts Enough Problem Song Angry

Author:Michael Franti

“That first responsibility as a school board member - meals for latch-key children - was absolutely critical in my understanding of the extraordinary problems of poverty.”

Firsts Children Problem School Understanding Responsibility Poverty Keys Members Extraordinary Critical Boards Meals Latches School Board Board Members

Author:Richard Lugar

“Consumerism is, quite precisely, the consuming of life by the things consumed. It is living in a manner that is measured by having rather than being... and consumerism is hardly the sin of the rich. The poor, driven by discontent and envy, may be as consumed by what they do not have as the rich are consumed by what they do have. The question is not, certainly not most importantly, a question about economics. It is first and foremost a cultural and moral problem requiring a cultural and moral remedy.”

Firsts May Problem Sin Simple Poor Moral Rich Economics Envy Driven Remedy Consumerism Consumed Consuming Discontent Simple Living

Author:Richard John Neuhaus

“Overconsumption is the mother of all environmental problems. For the first time in the history of capitalism, consumption itself has become controversial.”

Firsts Problem Mother Capitalism First Time Environmental Consumption Consumerism Controversial Overconsumption Environmental Problems

Author:Kalle Lasn

“Intelligence is important in psychology for two reasons. First, it is one of the most scientifically developed corners of the subject, giving the student as complete a view as is possible anywhere of the way scientific method can be applied to psychological problems. Secondly, it is of immense practical importance, educationally, socially, and in regard to physiology and genetics.”

“But here is the heart of the moral issue for many of us. Simply put, those around the world who have contributed least to global warming and climate change will be the most and first to be impacted by the consequences of it all. Sadly, it's an old story. We, the affluent, create the problem, and the poor pay the price for our sins. It is wrong, and it is a sin-ours.”

World Firsts Heart Stories Problem Sin Poor Pay Moral Issues Consequence Climate Climate Change Around The World Global Warming Pay The Price Affluent Moral Issues

Author:Jim Wallis

“Yes, when you see for the first time, a great laughter arises in you - the laughter about the whole ridiculousness of your misery, the laughter about the whole foolishness of your problems, the laughter about the whole absurdity of your suffering.”

Inspirational Firsts Whole Problem Suffering Laughter First Time Misery Arise Foolishness Absurdity

Author:Rajneesh

“It is well known that "problem avoidance" is an important part of problem solving. Instead of solving the problem you go upstream and alter the system so that the problem does not occur in the first place.”

Firsts Wells Doe Important Problem Known Problem Solving Well Known Avoidance

Book:Serious Creativity: Using the Power of Lateral Thinking to Create New Ideas

Source: Serious Creativity: Using the Power of Lateral Thinking to Create New Ideas

“I was terrified the first time that I had a big problem in my business. I was obviously terrified when they diagnosed me with cancer in 1994. I was terrified when my son used to drive too fast. But I do believe in the fact that fear is not an option, so I always try to face it and not be afraid.”

Trying Firsts Believe Facts Problem Bigs Faces Used Son First Time Cancer My Son Terrified Big Problems

Author:Diane von Furstenberg

“I have a huge political problem with the role. It was essentially accepting a form of racial profiling. I think it's repulsive. But it was the first time I had a chance to blow stuff up and take a family hostage.”

Thinking Firsts Problem Form Political Accepting Roles Huge First Time Racial Profiling

Author:Kal Penn

“Management: First fix the blame. Then fix the problem.”

Firsts Problem Ability Management Blame

Author:Randall Dale Adams

“When you first start off trying to solve a problem, the first solutions you come up with are very complex, and most people stop there. But if you keep going, and live with the problem and peel more layers of the onion off, you can often times arrive at some very elegant and simple solutions.”

“Postpartum depression is a very real and very serious problem for many mothers. It can happen to a first time mom or a veteran mother. It can occur a few days... or a few months after childbirth.”

Firsts Real Problem Happens Mother Inspiring Serious Mom Months First Time Mental Health Veteran Mothers Day Childbirth Postpartum Postpartum Depression

Author:Richard Codey

“Way back last summer I asked some of the most outstanding educational minds in this Nation to tackle this problem. I gave them a single instruction: find out how we can best invest each education dollar so that it will do the most good. Your support and the support of every leading education group proves that they did their job better than I had hoped, because for the first time we have succeeded in finding goals which unite us rather than divide us.”

Way Mind Firsts Problem Jobs Lasts Nations Goal Education Support Groups Prove Findings Summer First Time Dollars Educational Divides Instruction Outstanding Last Summer

Author:Lyndon B. Johnson

“Older boys often asked me to teach them “some bad words in your language”. At first I politely refused. My refusal merely increased their determination, so I solved the problem by teaching them phrases like 'man kharam' which means “I'm an idiot”. I told them that what I was teaching them was so nasty that they would have to promise never to repeat it to anyone. They would then spend all of recess running around yelling “I'm an idiot! I'm an idiot!”. I never told them the truth. I figured someday, somebody would”

Source: Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America

“In fact, a person always finds when he begins to practice meditation that all sorts of problems are brought out. Any hidden aspects of your personality are brought out into the open, for the simple reason that for the first time you are allowing yourself to see your state of mind as it is.”

Mind Firsts Persons States Reason Facts Problem Simple Practice Meditation Personality First Time Aspect Allowing State Of Mind

Book:The Collected Works of Chogyam Trungpa: Volume Three: Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism; The Myth of Freedom; The Heart of the Bud dha; Selected Writings

Source: The Collected Works of Chogyam Trungpa: Volume Three: Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism; The Myth of Freedom; The Heart of the Bud dha; Selected Writings

“Courage is not a quality one normally associates with mathematicians. Yet it should apply to people who work in their attics in secret for seven years without cease on a problem that has eluded the greatest mathematical minds since first proposed in 1637.”

People Should Years Mind Firsts Problem Secret Quality Seven Cease Mathematical Mathematician Associates Seven Years Attics

Author:Charles Krauthammer

“We have looked first at man with his vanities and greed and his problems of a day or a year; and then only, and from this biased point of view, we have looked outward at the earth he has inhabited so briefly and at the universe in which our earth is so minute a part. Yet these are the great realities, and against them we see our human problems in a different perspective. Perhaps if we reversed the telescope and looked at man down these long vistas, we should find less time and inclination to plan for our own destruction.”