“In any problem where an opposing force exists and cannot be regulated, one must foresee and provide for alternative courses. Adaptability is the law which governs survival in war as in life ... To be practical, any plan must take account of the enemy's power to frustrate it; the best chance of overcoming such obstruction is to have a plan that can be easily varied to fit the circumstances met.” WarProblemLawCoursesForceChanceEnemyPlansMilitaryFitCircumstancesMetsSurvivalOvercomingAccountsPracticalsAlternativesOpposingAdaptabilityObstruction Author:B. H. Liddell Hart
“The change began with John Stuart Mill and the Utopians . When Mill pointed out that economics had no ultimate solution to the problem of distribution , that society might do with the fruits of its toil as it saw fit, he introduced into the mechanical calculus of the market a conflicting calculus of moral judgment.” ProblemMightMoralSawsFitJudgmentSolutionsEconomicsUltimateFruitToilDistributionMillsCalculusMoral Judgment Author:Robert Heilbroner
“This is an era of specialists, each of whom sees his own problem and is unaware of or intolerant of the larger frame into which it fits.” ProblemFitErasSpecialistsSilent Spring Book:Silent Spring Source: Silent Spring
“Well, the problem I've had with all the interviews I've had in America - I had meetings with about nine labels - and they all say to me "Will your new songs fit in with what is popular and what is in the chart?" And I say "Good God, I hope not!"” WellsProblemAmericaSongFitMeetingsNineLabelsInterviewsGood GodNew Songs Author:Steven Morrissey
“You have everything in you that Buddha has, that Christ has. You've got it all. But only when you start to acknowledge it is it going to get interesting. Your problem is you're afraid to acknowledge your own beauty. You're too busy holding on to your own unworthiness. You'd rather be a schnook sitting before some great man. That fits in more with who you think you are. Well, enough already. I sit before you and I look and I see your beauty, even if you don't.” IfsThinkingMenWellsLooksSelfEnoughProblemChristInterestingFitSittingBusyAcknowledgeGreat MenHolding OnToo BusyEnough Already Author:Ram Dass
“I've never fit in in any music world. I've always been an outsider. I mean, the fact that I live in Indiana - I live in a fly-over state... I'm not running away from anything, that's the problem. Most people go to cities because they don't like where they come from.” PeopleWorldMeanStatesFactsProblemRunningCitiesFitRunning AwayOutsidersIndiana Author:John Mellencamp
“I wish people were more like animals. Animals don't try to change you or make you fit in. They just enjoy the pleasure of your company. Animals aren't conditional about friendships. Animals like you just the way you are. They listen to your problems, they comfort you when you're sad, and all they ask in return is a little kindness.” PeopleWayTryingLittlesProblemAsksWishEnjoyPleasureAnimalCompanyKindnessLike YouReturnFitComfortAbout FriendshipConditional Author:Bill Watterson
“One of the problems we've had is that the ICT curriculum in the past has been written for a subject that is changing all the time. I think that what we should have is computer science in the future - and how it fits in to the curriculum is something we need to be talking to scientists, to experts in coding and to young people about.” PeopleThinkingNeedsShouldHas BeensProblemPastYoungTalkingWrittenSubjectsFitComputerShould HaveScientistExpertsComputer ScienceCurriculumIct Author:Michael Gove
“One of the obstacles to recognizing chronic mistreatment in relationships is that most abusive men simply don't seem like abusers. They have many good qualities, including times of kindness, warmth, and humor, especially in the early period of a relationship. An abuser's friends may think the world of him. He may have a successful work life and have no problems with drugs or alcohol. He may simply not fit anyone's image of a cruel or intimidating person. So when a woman feels her relationship spinning out of control, it is unlikely to occur to her that her partner is an abuser.” ThinkingMenWorldFeelsMayPersonsProblemSeemsQualityKindnessSuccessfulPeriodsFitDrugIncludingObstaclesAlcoholPartnersWarmthRecognizingNo ProblemUnlikelySpinningIntimidatingAbusiveGood QualityAbusersMistreatmentSuccessful WorkSpinning Out Of Control Author:Lundy Bancroft
“We started Ashoka here in India with a simple idea: that you needed social entrepreneurs to deal with problems that don't fit the business paradigm.” IdeasProblemSocialSimpleDealsNeededFitIndiaEntrepreneurParadigmSimple Ideas Author:Bill Drayton
“Every utopia - let's just stick with the literary ones - faces the same problem: What do you do with the people who don't fit in?” PeopleProblemFacesFitSticksUtopia Author:Margaret Atwood
“I never had a problem with genre because a genre actually is like a uniform - you put yourself into a certain uniform. But if you dress up in a police officer's uniform, it doesn't mean that you are an officer; it can mean something else. But this is the starting point, and the best way is to not to fit into this uniform but to make this uniform a part of yourself.” IfsWayMeanProblemCertainFitPoliceDressesStartingBest WayGenreOfficersUniformsPolice OfficerStarting Point Author:Wong Kar-wai
“A man walks into doctor's office. "What seems to be the problem?" asks the doc. "It's ... um ... well ... I have five penises." replies the man. "Blimey!" says the doctor, "How do your trousers fit?" "Like a glove."” MenWellsProblemHumorSeemsFunnyAsksWalksFiveHe ManFitOfficeDoctorsGlovesTrousers Author:Tommy Cooper
“'ve had notebooks, but they are nondescript. All I care about is that they fit in my hand. I scribble down ideas. The problem is my best ideas come while I'm driving or showering.” IdeasProblemHandsCareFitDrivingI CareNotebookScribbles Author:Sefi Atta
“I didn't really fit with other kids. I had problems in school all my life and problems with authority. But my parents never did drugs or anything. They just believed in freedom in the best sense of the word.” ProblemKidsSchoolParentFitDrugAuthorityJust BelieveProblems In School Author:Julie Delpy
“White people don't have that problem, they get to go through life never having to fit into a box, and it's really more so true for white men because even just being a woman, you sort of have to walk around other people's assumptions of you and it's so exhausting and there's a sense, especially among young people of wanting to just live your life, not having to wear the weight of that pressure - pressure that people of color feel, that gay people of color feel, that women of color feel.” PeopleMenFeelsProblemYoungWhiteWalksColorFitGayWeightPressureBoxesAssumptionJust BeingLive Your LifeWhite ManBeing A WomanExhaustingGay PeopleJust LiveJust Live Your Life Author:Justin Simien
“I like the authentic object, and I have no problem paying sixty dollars for a T-shirt if it fits me really well and it's really well made. I like unassuming clothes.” IfsWellsMadeProblemObjectsFitClothesDollarsShirtsSixtyNo ProblemT ShirtUnassuming Author:Micah Lexier
“We are generalists. You can't draw neat lines around planet-wide problems. Planetology is a cut-and-fit science.” ProblemLinesCuttingPlanetsFitDrawsWideNeatGeneralists Author:Frank Herbert
“I love solving problems. It makes me happy to juggle all the jobs I do-figuring out which team is supposed to win on Fox NFL Sunday; reacting off the cuff to Kelly [Ripa, on Live]; and now Good Morning America, trying to fit into that group. The great thing coming from sports is you understand the concept of a team. It leaves no room for being selfish.” TryingProblemJobsAmericaWinningSportsRoomsMorningGroupsTeamFitConceptsSelfishGreat ThingsNflSundayProblem SolvingFoxesMake Me HappyReactingBeing SelfishCuffsTrying To Fit InGood Morning America Author:Michael Strahan
“Children used to get bullied at school. Now they go home and that's where the problem starts - because they sit on their phones all night, thinking about who's 'liked' a photo of them, who hates them, who loves them. They don't know what's real and what's not, editing their lives constantly to fit other people's views.” PeopleThinkingKnowsChildrenRealProblemHomeSchoolUsedNightHateViewsFitPhonesEditingAll NightBulliedNight Thinking Author:Jessie J
“The only problem was I needed to use my own group, and things didn't happen until I did. It wasn't a real country sound, what I did. I've listened to it, and I think it was more a west coast rock thing, you know? But it fit. It was country, but it was my own interpretation of country.” ThinkingKnowsRealCountryUseProblemHappensSoundMy OwnGroupsRocksNeededFitWestInterpretationCoastWest Coast Author:Waylon Jennings
“I have physical problems with listening to reggae. It's weird, I don't know why. It doesn't fit the way my heart pounds, and I feel very bad when I hear it. I have a neighbor--she's a waitress who comes home every night at four in the morning and she plays reggae very loud. I hate that. I can't sleep and I can't wake up either to that music.” KnowsWayFeelsHeartI CanPlayProblemHomeNightHateSleepMorningFourListeningMy HeartFitI HateWake UpNeighborLoudPoundsComing HomeEvery NightWaitressReggaeCan't SleepI Can't Sleep Author:Nina Persson
“Every novel deals with social problems. It can't help it because the protagonist must come in conflict with his group. So the author has to offer an analysis of how the group and the protagonist fit. Otherwise, the reader will just say, "This makes no sense," and will put it away.” HelpingProblemSocialDealsNovelGroupsReaderFitOffersConflictAnalysisProtagonistsSocial Problems Author:Jane Smiley
“The reason I could fit in with so many different kinds of people was that I had no self. And then the problem is, if you don't have a self, how can you be with other people? Who the hell are you with them?” PeopleIfsKindDifferentSelfReasonProblemHellFitDifferent Kinds Author:Leigh Newman
“I was quite eager to work, anytime somebody was offering me a job, if I liked the role. Because I was always very discriminating from the very beginning, in the sense that I had absolutely no problem saying no to jobs when they came along if somehow they didn't fit into my universe - whatever that was.” IfsProblemJobsUniverseRolesFitOfferingNo ProblemSaying No Author:Karen Allen
“At the age of 50, I did "Celebrity Fit Club" and I had to get on a scale and be weighed in front of everyone. I felt like I was naked and for the first time, there was nowhere to hide. I felt like I could finally be myself. It was really cathartic, and I realized I could share my mistakes. I could tell my story and not be ashamed, and show others with these same problems that they aren't alone.” FirstsStoriesShowsProblemAgeFeltMistakeShareFrontsFitFirst TimeClubsI RealizedScalesNakedAshamedMy MistakesCathartic Author:Maureen McCormick
“Like the guy I was dating. White, liberal, educated. I went to meet his family and I think that they probably didn't know they had a problem with it until he walked in with me. And they definitely had issues. Mom had issues with it. Could not, didn't want to see her son. And I don't think she had anything against me. But it was about her son bringing me home. And I felt that for the first time. I was like, 'Wow, that's deep.' It's really simple: I don't fit their picture.” ThinkingKnowsWantFirstsProblemHomeGuyFeltSimpleWhiteIssuesSonMomFitFirst TimeDatingEducatedWow Author:Sanaa Lathan
“If the problem of free will is to see how freedom fits into the order of nature, then Kant's basic view about the free will problem is that it is insoluble.” IfsProblemOrderViewsFitFree Will Author:Allen W. Wood
“On the other hand, the way in which that car fit into this whole very roundabout way of attempting to solve the problem of what - the problem that [Buckminster Fuller] perceived as being the cause of his daughter's death and meningitis. I mean how you get from your daughter dying from meningitis to making a car with three wheels and saying that it's like a bird and a fish. That really is amazing.” WayMeanWholeProblemHandsThreeCausesDyingCarFitBirdDaughterFishesSolveWheelsAttemptingOur DaughterYour DaughterBuckminster FullerMeningitis Author:Jonathon Keats
“Worldviews have four elements that help us understand how a person's story fits together: creation, fall, redemption, and restoration. "Creation" tells us how things began, where everything came from (including us), the reason for our origins, and what ultimate reality is like. "Fall" describes the problem (since we all know something has gone wrong with the world). "Redemption" gives us the solution, the way to fix what went wrong. "Restoration" describes what the world would look like once the repair begins to take place.” KnowsWorldWayGivingLooksPersonsReasonHelpingStoriesProblemRealityTogetherFallGoneFourCreationFitElementsSolutionsUltimateIncludingRedemptionWorldviewRestorationUltimate RealityFour Elements Author:Greg Koukl
“Most Christians who've been around for a while have their Story in bits and pieces, but have never seen how powerful it really is when assembled as a whole. I want them to see how well it fits together and how it offers tremendous explanatory power regarding the world as we actually find it. I want them to see how it resolves the problem of evil, and why God's solution - the God/man Jesus - is the only solution.” MenWorldWantWellsWholeStoriesProblemChristianTogetherEvilJesusBitsPowerfulPiecesFitOffersSolutionsResolveBits And PiecesProblem Of Evil Author:Greg Koukl
“All children in the '50s were taught manners, they were taught to say please and thank you, they were taught not to be rude. And I'm seeing some problems today where somebody's losing a job because they made fun of a fat lady that couldn't fit in the elevator. I mean that was the sort of thing that, when I was eight years old, my mother made it very clear to me that that was not okay to say that kind of stuff.” YearsKindMeanChildrenMadeProblemTodayJobsMotherFunStuffClearSeeingTaughtFitPleaseLosingOkayEightFatsMade ItMannersRudeElevatorsNot OkayPlease And Thank You Author:Temple Grandin
“When media "narratives" about [Pope] Francis get set in concrete, and act as filters bending or distorting (or ignoring) aspects of his vision and his teaching that don't fit the established story line, the Church has a problem.” StoriesProblemChurchLinesVisionTeachingMediaFitAspectNarrativeConcretePopeFiltersBending Author:George Weigel
“The goal of a private company is, first, zero to one. Get past the product market fit, figure out whether people actually care about what you're trying to build and someone will pay you money for that. That's the zero to one problem. So scaling, one through N, is figuring out can you do that at scale and how big is the scale. And when people pay you more than what it costs for you to make it, does that equation end up leaving you with money left over, i.e. profits.” PeopleTryingProblemCarePastGoalFitLeaving Author:Chamath Palihapitiya
“Peace happens when people pray. "Cast all your anxiety on him because he cares for you" Casting is an intentional act to relocate an object. Let this "throwing" be your first response to bad news. As you sense anxiety welling up inside you, cast it in the direction of Christ. Do so specifically and immediately. Find a promise of God that fits your problem, and build your prayer around it. These prayers of faith touch the heart of God and activate the angels of heaven. Miracles are set into motion. Your answer may not come overnight, but it will come. And you will overcome.” PeopleHeartProblemCareHeavenChristPrayerPrayingFitPromiseAnxietyAngelOvercomingMiracleResponseOur PrayersCare For You Author:Max Lucado
“When you're researching things that have happened, the clear narrative arc is not there already. This is the problem of writing nonfiction for me - writing nonfiction which is about serious subjects and has serious political and social points to make, yet which is meant to be popular to a degree - what happens when the facts don't fit a convenient narrative arc? I guess that for a lot of nonfiction writers that is a central challenge.” WritingProblemPoliticalChallengesSeriousFitMeant To Be Author:Misha Glenny
“Common sense tells us that the government's attempts to solve large problems more often create new ones. Common sense also tells us that a top-down, one-size-fits-all plan will not improve the workings of a nationwide health-care system that accounts for one-sixth of our economy.” ProblemGovernmentCareCommonEconomyPlansFitAccountsSizeSolveCommon SenseHealth CareHealth Care SystemTop DownOne Size Fits All Author:Sarah Palin
“We're living in a whole new social and economic order with a whole new set of problems and challenges. Old assumptions and old programs don't work in this new society and the more we try to stretch them to make them fit, the more we will be seen as running away from what is reality.” TryingWholeProblemRealityRunningOrderSocialChallengesEconomicFitProgramAssumptionRunning AwayEconomic OrderProblems And Challenges Author:Ann Richards
“Sometimes we know the best thing to do, but fail to do it. New year's resolutions are often like that. We make resolutions because we know it would be better for us to lose weight, or get fit, or spend more time with our children. The problem is that a resolution is generally easier to break than it is to keep.” KnowsYearsChildrenSometimesProblemWould BeLosesBreakFailingFitEasierWeightOur ChildrenBest ThingsThings To DoResolutionMore TimeNew YearLose WeightNew Year's ResolutionsGet Fit Author:Peter Singer