“My concern about Barack Obama is he ran a campaign in 2008 where he said we're going to bring people together and solve big problems. And he specifically talked about the need to reach across the aisle and deal with issues like the economy, which was obviously the top issue in 2008. It has not happened.” PeopleNeedsSaidProblemBigsTogetherDealsEconomyIssuesHappenedConcernSolveCampaignsBarackRanBig ProblemsAisle Author:Rob Portman
“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.” IfsThinkingGivingWritingFirstsBookProblemAttentionHappenedSubjectsSeriousNeededPeriodsSolutionsIntenseClarityRevelationsConcentrationContemplatingSubconsciousDeliberateIncubation Author:Bertrand Russell
“I’d say that Berkshire Hathaway’s system is adapting to the nature of the investment problem as it really is. We’ve really made the money out of high quality businesses. In some cases, we bought the whole business. And in some cases, we just bought a big block of stock. But when you analyze what happened, the big money’s been made in the high quality businesses. And most of the other people who’ve made a lot of money have done so in high quality businesses.” PeopleMadeDoneWholeProblemBigsQualityCasesHappenedInvestmentBlockLots Of MoneyHigh QualityAdapting Author:Charlie Munger
“They came up with a civil rights bill in 1964, supposedly to solve our problem, and after the bill was signed, three civil rights workers were murdered in cold blood. And the FBI head, Hoover, admits that they know who did it, they've known ever since it happened, and they've done nothing about it. Civil rights bill down the drain.” KnowsDoneProblemThreeKnownRightsHappenedBloodColdBillsWorkersSolveCivil RightsFbiDrainsHoover Author:Malcolm X
“Internal differences within the Nation of Islam forced me out of it. I did not leave of my own free will. But now that it has happened, I intend to make the most of it. Now that I have more independence of action, I intend to use a more flexible approach toward working with others to get a solution to this problem.” UseProblemActionNationsDifferencesMy OwnHappenedApproachSolutionsIndependenceIslamInternalsFree WillFlexibleWorking With OthersNation Of Islam Author:Malcolm X
“Sven-Göran Eriksson, confronted with arguably Europe's weakest qualifying group, has a problem; it is the same one that afflicted Jacques Santini, the France coach at the time, before Euro 2004. Not that there are no easy matches at international level; rather, there are no hard ones. In qualifying for the 2004 European Championship finals, France faced a group not of death, but of sun-block, comprising Slovenia, Israel, Cyprus and Malta, which they duly won by ten points, averaging 3.6 goals per game. We all know what happened next.” KnowsHardProblemNextGamesEasyGoalLevelsSunHappenedGroupsFootballTenEuropeFinalsInternationalIsraelCoachesBlockFranceSoccerRanAnalysisChampionshipEuroQualifyingCyprusMalta Author:Martin Samuel
“The voice in your head also creates a huge amount of problems that aren't really problems. They're just things that haven't happened yet, things that could happen tomorrow or next week. Listening to unreal problems has another name: worrying. That's what the voice in your head does. It what-ifs. It frets. It agonizes, and you can no longer sense the joy of life.” IfsLifeDoeProblemHappensJoyNextNamesVoiceWorryHappenedWeekHavensHugeListeningAmountTomorrowUnrealJoy Of LifeNext Week Author:Eckhart Tolle
“I've had sex before with the belt on. That was back in the Ricco Rodriguez days. The night I won the belt I had a sexual experience with the belt on. But hey, I was 25 years old and it was the biggest thing that ever had happened to me in my life. The girl was like hey, are you going to take that thing off. And I said no, I'm not...I'm wearing it and if you have a problem with it, then I'm leaving. And I hate to say it, but if I do win the belt again, then this time it's never coming off. I'm going to wear it a lot more.” IfsYearsSaidProblemNightHateGirlWinningSexHappenedI HateLeavingHeyBelts Author:Tim Sylvia
“Here and there it happened in my practice that a patient grew beyond himself because of unknown potentialities, and this became an experience of prime importance to me. I had learned in the meanwhile that the greatest and most important problems of life are all in a certain sense insoluble. They must be so because they express the necessary polarity inherent in every self-regulating system. They can never be solved, but only outgrown.” ImportantSelfProblemCertainPracticeHappenedGrewImportancePatientPrimeInherentHere And TherePolarity Author:Carl Jung
“I was haunted by a bear attack that happened in Algonquin Park in 1991. The problem was that I dont believe in ghosts, so that ruled out an exorcism. My other choice was to start writing.” WritingBelieveProblemChoicesHappenedBearsGhostParksExorcismAlgonquins Author:Claire Cameron
“...we do not simply get showered with Hollywood money because we happened to write a little story about wizards one day. It's not winning the lottery. It's a real job, which real people do, and they have the same real problems as other real people.” PeopleWritingLittlesRealStoriesProblemRealityJobsWinningCommunityWorkMoneyHappenedOne DayHollywoodIdeologyWizardsLotteryReal ProblemsReal JobsWinning The Lottery Author:Joanne Harris
“When Turkey began approaching the EU, I wasn't the only one who worried that the dark stain in Turkey's history - or rather the history of the Ottoman Empire - could become a problem one day. In other words, what happened to the Armenians in World War I. That's why I couldn't leave the issue untouched.” WorldWarProblemDarkIssuesHappenedOne DayWorriedWar Of The WorldsEmpiresWorld War ITurkeysStainsArmeniansOttomansOttoman Empire Author:Orhan Pamuk
“When you sleep your eyes move left and right and physical movement takes trauma and moves it from your frontal lobe to the back of your brain or to another part of the brain where you can store it that memory but when you think about those things that happened, you don't associate the feeling that normally comes with it. So the problem is if you have something traumatic happen and you are not getting a good amount of rest, it will stay in your frontal lobe.” IfsThinkingFeelingsProblemHappensEyeMovingLeftMemoriesSleepBrainHappenedMovementAmountTraumaStoresAssociatesLeft And Right Author:Matty Mullins
“One of the problems with episodic television of any color is that everything has got to be okay at the end of the episode so it can start again next week. So the events that occur are rarely life-changing. But with film, you can say that this thing only happened once; this is a major thing that happened to these people.” PeopleEndsProblemFilmNextHappenedWeekEventsTelevisionColorMajorsOkayLife ChangingEpisodesNext Week Author:Peter Capaldi
“The problem the cable channels have is they have to fill 24 hours. That's a terrible thing. We only do that on the biggest stories. The thing is there has happened to be a lot o” StoriesProblemHoursHappenedTerribleTerrible ThingsCables Author:Scott Pelley
“What happened was I began to eventually lose everything because cocaine had such a hold on me. I wouldn't show up to do things I had been hired to do - whether it was film for a video or do an ad for a magazine or something. I'd be out partying with cocaine. Eventually, I began to lose everything. So, I left California and went back to Alabama in an attempt to try to get my life together - but geographical location didn't necessarily help me because the real problem was in me.” TryingRealHelpingShowsProblemTogetherFilmLeftLosesPartyHappenedVideoMagazinesCaliforniaHelp MeAdsLocationCocaineReal ProblemsAlabamaLife Together Author:Jay Haizlip
“I have said the invasion of Iraq was a mistake. But I think if we're ever going to really tackle the problems posed by jihadi extreme terrorism, we need to understand it and realize that it has antecedents to what happened in Iraq and we have to continue to be vigilant about it.” IfsThinkingNeedsSaidProblemRealizingMistakeHappenedIraqExtremesTerrorismInvasionVigilant Author:Hillary Clinton
“When I sat down to write I just felt like a geek writing about myself. And then it dawned on me, just because of the way I am, I can't stop talking, and part of the problem is that anything that gets said reminds me of something that happened to me one time, and invariably I cut people off and talk about myself.” PeopleWayWritingSaidI CanProblemFeltTalkingCuttingHappenedSatOne TimeGeek Author:Paula Poundstone
“When you think of all the things that have happened, since that problem with computers in 2000 and everybody was afraid and they were buying water, imagine what Millennium would do with all the things that are going on in the world right now. It has the capacity to be a movie. But, anyway, I loved doing it. It changed my life because the guy that I was playing was so much more educated and smarter than I was, so I had to live up to it.” ThinkingWorldProblemGuyWaterImagineHappenedChangedRight NowComputerCapacityEducatedBuyingSmarterChanged My LifeMillennium Author:Lance Henriksen
“Humor is not about problems with airline luggage handlers. It's about our lives in America and it's about the ends of our lives and it's about everything that happens after that and everything that happened before.” EndsProblemHappensAmericaOur LivesHappenedAirlineLuggage Author:Garrison Keillor
“London was not designed for cars. Come to that, it wasn't designed for people. It just sort of happened. This created problems, and the solutions that were implemented became the next problems, five or ten or a hundred years down the line.” PeopleYearsProblemNextLinesFiveHappenedCarTenSolutionsHundredLondon Author:Terry Pratchett
“There you go again. When I opposed Medicare, there was another piece of legislation meeting the same problem before the Congress. I happened to favor the other piece of legislation and thought that it would be better for the senior citizens to provide better care than the one that was finally passed.” ProblemWould BeCarePiecesHappenedCitizensMeetingsCongressFavorsLegislationSeniorMedicareSenior Citizen Author:Ronald Reagan
“Now, part of the problem with the climate debate is that so much gas board language like that [the IPCC's language] has been used and there's been too little plain, scientific, and economic thinking. And so, the entire political class has been captured by an idea, which as always with the best bad ideas has a grain of truth in it, which is then exaggerated beyond all reason. This has happened before - one thinks of the Dreyfus case, for instance.” ThinkingLittlesHas BeensIdeasReasonProblemPoliticalUsedLanguageClassCasesHappenedEconomicClimateDebateInstanceBoardsGasGrainCapturedExaggeratedBad Ideas Author:Christopher Monckton, 3rd Viscount Monckton of Brenchley
“We recriminalized black life. Incarceration rates since the 1908s have gone through the roof, overwhelmingly black males, women and Hispanics to some extent. Essentially re-doing what happened under Reconstruction. That's the history of African Americans - so how can any one say there's no problem. Sure, racism is serious, but it's worse than that.” ProblemBlackGoneHappenedSeriousRacismMalesRateAfrican AmericanRoofNo ProblemReconstructionIncarcerationBlack LivesBlack Males Author:Noam Chomsky
“We have a lot of argument about laws but none of it solves the problem. Let's examine what happened, why did we miss the Tsarnaev brothers, why did we miss the San Bernardino couple? It wasn't because we had stopped collected metadata it was because, I think, as someone who comes from the technology world, we were using the wrong algorithms.” ThinkingWorldProblemLawTechnologyHappenedMissingBrotherCoupleArgumentSolveAlgorithmsMetadata Author:Carly Fiorina
“Through the process of specifically writing this memoir, there was so much reckoning that I had to do. It was very difficult. It doesn't erase anything that happened, but I think that it was healthy for me to do it. The teenage self-loathing that I suffered from all of a sudden found itself turned into rapids with my grief after my brother died. I turned it inwards. In the same way that my mom processes her grief and her problems. This project, as a memoir, has helped me funnel it outwards.” ThinkingWayWritingSelfProblemFoundProcessDifficultGriefHappenedBrotherMomHealthyProjectsDiedMy MomMemoirMy BrotherTeenageRapidsEraseLoathingSelf LoathingReckoningBrother DiedMy Brother Died Author:Jesmyn Ward
“Few knew in 2000 that Bush was going to end up with neoconservatives all over the place. And once 9/11 happened, I think it's fair to say that eight or nine neocons have had an enormous influence. The whole solution to every problem was to go after Iraq. This had been a neoconservative mantra for ten years. There was no secret about it.” ThinkingYearsEndsWholeProblemSecretHappenedInfluenceTenSolutionsFairsIraqEightNineEnormousMantras Author:Seymour Hersh
“Look at South Africa, the former Soviet Union, and the Middle East. They still have many problems, setbacks as well as breakthroughs, but basically changes have happened that were considered unthinkable a decade ago.” WellsLooksStillsProblemHappenedMiddleUnionsSouthEastDecadesFormerSovietMiddle EastSouth AfricaSoviet UnionBreakthroughSetbackUnthinkable Author:Dalai Lama