“I love solving the problems of having groups work together and removing barriers. But to actually turn around and be in the center of that is an awkward place to be.” ProblemTogetherTurnsGroupsBarriersWorking TogetherAwkwardGroup Work Author:Edwin Catmull
“One group of scholars or persons, most of them politically motivated, say the Holocaust occurred. Then there is the group of scholars who represent the opposite position and have therefore been imprisoned for the most part. Hence, an impartial group has to come together to investigate and to render an opinion on this very important subject, because the clarification of this issue will contribute to the solution of global problems.” PersonsImportantProblemTogetherOpinionIssuesGroupsSubjectsPositionSolutionsOppositesMotivatedHolocaustScholarClarification Author:Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
“Hamas murders not only Israelis, but also Palestinians whose political stance is different from that which its group promotes; that is, its radical religious outlook in which Islam is the solution to the world's problems.” WorldDifferentProblemPoliticalReligiousGroupsSolutionsMurderIslamRadicalPalestinianOutlookStanceHamasRadical Islam Author:Mosab Hassan Yousef
“Modern problems proliferate and remain unsolved because we spend so much time trying to deal with societal and world problems without first dealing with family and community problems. If we organized for normal families and communities - if these two groups provided the functions they are designed for - world problems would diminish and fade out in two or three generations.” IfsWorldTryingFirstsTwoProblemThreeCommunityDealsGenerationsGroupsModernNormalFunctionOrganizedFadesDiminishWorld ProblemsThree GenerationsNormal Family Author:Ralph Borsodi
“Our country today is at a cross-point of several crises that were triggered by three groups of causes: the effects of the 2008 world crisis, the external political and economic pressure, and the internal problems and constraints that have built up in our economy” WorldCountryProblemTodayPoliticalThreeCausesEconomyGroupsEconomicEffectsBuiltCrossesPressureCrisisOur CountryInternalsConstraints Author:Dmitry Medvedev
“Growing up, I was in and out of trouble in group homes and other institutions, and when I was 14, I was locked up in a psychiatric hospital for a number of months for behavioral problems.” ProblemHomeNumbersGrowing UpGrowingTroubleGroupsMonthsInstitutionsHospitalsLockedLocked UpPsychiatricPsychiatric Hospitals Author:Gbenga Akinnagbe
“We have to separate here the church in its broad sense. We have Catholics, Protestants, Eastern Orthodox churches. The Catholic church is a corporation like a chief executive. A fairly homogenous operation. Today its attitude toward anti-Semitism is much more severe than it's ever been. The Catholic Church today is much less the problem than the other groups.” ProblemTodayChurchAttitudeGroupsCatholicChiefsCorporationsOperationsExecutivesOrthodoxBroadsSevereEasternCatholic ChurchProtestantsAnti SemitismChurch TodayChief ExecutivesOrthodox Church Author:Manfred Gerstenfeld
“Protestants are the more segmented group. Mainline churches - you have problems in the U.S., Europe, the Scottish Church, the Dutch Protestant Church, the state church in Norway. The evangelicals have been pro Israel, but a major effort is to bring them in on the Palestinian side. A huge problem and the problems are rising.” Has BeensStatesProblemSidesChurchEffortGroupsHugeMajorsEuropeIsraelRisingPalestinianProtestantsScottishDutchNorway Author:Manfred Gerstenfeld
“I think there are contractual problems with me doing more than a couple, but I would love to go back. I just have a lot of fondness for that show, and for the people. When you get something off the ground, it's fantastic and you feel really close to that group of people. Wherever Selfie goes, the fact that we birthed it, we'll always be tied together that way.” PeopleThinkingWayFeelsFactsShowsProblemTogetherGroupsCoupleFantasticTiedFondness Author:John Cho
“The Earth faces environmental problems right now that threaten the imminent destruction of civilization and the end of the planet as a livable world. Humanity cannot afford to waste its financial and emotional resources on endless, meaningless quarrels between each group and all others. there must be a sense of globalism in which the world unites to solve the real problems that face all groups alike.” WorldRealEndsProblemEarthFacesHumanityGroupsEmotionalPlanetsCivilizationRight NowWasteResourcesDestructionEnvironmentalFinancialSolveEndlessMeaninglessQuarrelsReal ProblemsGlobalismEnvironmental Problems Book:I, Asimov: A Memoir Source: I, Asimov: A Memoir
“We don't properly discriminate. We never discriminate properly when we're dealing with another group and one of the big problems about religion is that religious people don't know that they are probably as flagrant in these misjudgments as irreligious people.” PeopleKnowsProblemBigsReligiousGroupsBig Problems Author:Reinhold Niebuhr
“The problem is that groups are only smart when the people in them are as independent as possible. This is the paradox of the wisdom of crowds.” PeopleProblemGroupsSmartIndependentCrowdsParadox Author:James Surowiecki
“With problems and issues groups face- there is an enormous disconnect between understanding and doing.” ProblemFacesUnderstandingIssuesGroupsEnormous Author:Marshall Goldsmith
“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
“"[Lawyers who file class-action securities suits] is not a group you would want to marry into your family. "That said, more than half the time the people being sued by the Lerach firm are guilty of outrageous conduct. The problem is, they don't mind (suing) the other half. They are an equal opportunity litigator."” PeopleWantMindSaidProblemActionOpportunityHalfClassGroupsSecurityEqualLawyerGuiltySuitsFirmOur FamilyFilesOutrageousOther HalfEqual OpportunitySuingLitigators Author:Charlie Munger
“The problem is sitting in the birthplace of Islam, in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, where this interpretation of Islam has gone out into the world over the last four decades, creating militancy groups from Indonesia, to now, San Bernardino, California, vicious attack. We have to take back the faith. And we have to take it back with the principles of peace, social justice, and human rights, women's rights, and secularize governance.” WorldHumansProblemLastsSocialJusticePrinciplesGoneFourRightsGroupsCreatingSittingSocial JusticeIslamHuman RightsDecadesCaliforniaInterpretationWomens RightsViciousGovernanceIndonesiaArabiaSaudi ArabiaSaudisMeccaBirthplaceMilitancy Author:Chuck Todd
“After the revolution you have the problem of keeping things going, of sorting out all the different views. It's quite natural that revolutionaries should have different solutions, that they should split into different groups and then reform, that's the dialectic, isn't it - but at the same time they need to be united against the enemy, to solidify a new order.” NeedsShouldDifferentProblemOrderNaturalUnitedViewsEnemyGroupsRevolutionSolutionsShould HaveReformRevolutionarySplitsDialecticsDifferent ViewsSortingSorting Out Author:John Lennon
“Gays seem to be at the bottom of the pecking order: no matter how far down the pecking order another group is, its members still feel superior to and have no problem picking on gays.” FeelsStillsMatterProblemSeemsOrderGroupsGayMembersBottomSuperiorsNo ProblemPecking Order Book:Ain't Nobody's Business If You Do: The Absurdity of Consensual Crimes in Our Free Country Source: Ain't Nobody's Business If You Do: The Absurdity of Consensual Crimes in Our Free Country
“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'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
“Not surprisingly, thinkers from groups for whom whiteness was and is a problem have taken the lead in studying whiteness in this way. Such study began with slave folktales and American Indian stories of contact with whites.” WayStoriesProblemStudyTakenGroupsSlaveContactIndianThinkerAmerican IndianWhitenessLead InFolktales Author:David Roediger
“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