“Let me just say that to imagine racism does not exist is imagination. And to imagine that it does not create its own set of problems is true imagination. So let's not imagine that racism is gone, extinguished, because it's not. We are seeing this in the top levels of the political arena, and we are seeing it very, very plainly.” DoeProblemPoliticalImaginationLevelsGoneImagineSeeingRacismLet MeImagine ThatArena Author:Phylicia Rashad
“The rate of change and innovation occurring across the entire spectrum of society demands that a company like XL utilize the highest level of analytics and information to solve problems for our clients.” ProblemLevelsCompanyInformationDemandHighestInnovationRateSolveClientsSpectrumAnalyticsRate Of Change Author:Mike McGavick
“Establishing and maintaining clarity for yourself and what you want is the starting point for success. Thus, maintaining extraordinary clarity is necessary to achieve extraordinary success. The problem is that most people maintain a mediocre level of clarity, which inevitably leads to a mediocre level of success.” PeopleThinkingWantProblemLevelsAchieveExtraordinaryStartingWhat You WantClarityMediocreMaintainingStarting PointThinking Differently Author:Hal Elrod
“The 21st century looks different. It's been very disruptive. It has created a lot of insecurity. We have to adjust to that, because the 21st century has real promise. Now, the higher-paying jobs of this new century are fantastic. The problem is, you have to have some level of higher education, maybe not a four-year degree, but some level of higher education, to get those jobs.” YearsLooksDifferentRealProblemJobsLevelsFourCenturyHigherPromiseDegreesFantasticInsecurityFour Years21st CenturyHigher EducationDisruptive Author:Marco Rubio
“Ego is one of the biggest weapons that is used to take us down. It's self-destructive. It's a problem on all levels - even regular people can have big ego problems.” PeopleSelfProblemBigsUsedLevelsEgoWeaponsDestructiveSelf DestructiveBig EgoEgo Problem Author:Yehuda Berg
“We have reached the end of problem solving as a mode of inquiry capable of inspiring, mobilizing, and sustaining human system change. The future of Organization Development belongs to methods that affirm, compel, and accelerate anticipatory learning involving larger and larger levels of collectivity.” HumansEndsProblemLevelsDevelopmentCapableOrganizationMethodProblem SolvingInquiryInvolvingSustainingAccelerateCollectivitySystems Change Author:David Cooperrider
“The problems of today can only be solved at a higher level of thinking than that which created them” ThinkingProblemTodayLevelsHigherHigher Level Author:Albert Einstein
“How do we get democracy at the international level? That's our problem. and it's essentially the same problem people faced in the 18th Century when they tried to get democracy nationally. Now we need it internationally.” PeopleNeedsProblemLevelsDemocracyCenturyInternational18th Century Author:Susan George
“I can't be as confident about computer science as I can about biology. Biology easily has 500 years of exciting problems to work on. It's at that level.” YearsI CanProblemLevelsComputerExcitingBiologyComputer Science Author:Donald Knuth
“I take on a philosophical and postmodernist approach to the art-making process, investigating problems on a personal and intuitive level. This process is what fuels my mind and informs me, raises new questions, and gives my work resonance.” GivingMindArtProblemProcessLevelsApproachPhilosophicalRaisesFuelIntuitiveResonanceInvestigatingArt Making Author:Michael Bell
“Acceptance is approval, a word with a bad name in some psychologies. Yet it is perfectly normal to seek approval in childhood and throughout life. We require approval from those we respect. The kinship it creates lifts us to their level, a process referred to in self-psychology as transmuting internalization. Approval is a necessary component of self-esteem. It becomes a problem only when we give up our true self to find it. Then approval-seeking works against us.” GivingSelfProblemNamesProcessLevelsPsychologyChildhoodSelf EsteemAcceptanceGiving UpNormalSeekingEsteemLiftsApprovalTrue SelfComponentsKinshipPerfectly Normal Author:David Richo
“Just for the record, I'm in favor of drug testing EVERY year just as long as it's a level playing field. The problem arises that a lot of these substances are hard to detect. So, it's very difficult to have true, drug-free bodybuilding competition, especially on the professional level.” YearsLongHardProblemDifficultLevelsRecordsFieldsDrugCompetitionFavorsAriseSubstanceTestingBodybuildingPlaying FieldsLevel Playing FieldDrug FreeDrug Testing Author:Lee Labrada
“Many Europeans, while admiring the strength and power of the American economy, undoubtedly feel that the system of social values which prevails in the United States, manifested in the acute problems evident in the inner cities and the level of violent crime, for example, leaves much to be desired.” FeelsStatesProblemValuesSocialLevelsUnitedCitiesUnited StatesEconomyCrimeExampleViolentEvidentAdmiringInner CityAmerican EconomyViolent CrimesSocial Values Author:Paul Ormerod
“Suppose that the organism is given the problem of determining the analysis of a stimulus at a certain level of representation - e.g., the problem of determining which sequence of words a given utterance encodes. Since, in the general case, transducer outputs underdetermine perceptual analyses, we can think of the solution of such problems as involving processes of nondemonstrative inference. In particular, we can think of each input system as a computational mechanism which projects and confirms a certain class of hyputheses on the basis of a certain body of data.” ThinkingProblemBodyCertainGivenProcessLevelsClassCasesParticularProjectsSolutionsBasesDataAnalysisMechanismRepresentationOrganismsSequenceStimulusInvolvingInputUtteranceOutputInference Author:Jerry Fodor
“Everyone wants to be happy; happiness is a right. And while on a secondary level differences exist of nationality, faith, family background, social status and so on, more important is that on a human level we are the same. None of us wants to face problems, and yet we create them by stressing our differences. If we see each other just as fellow human beings, there'll be no basis for fighting or conflict between us.” IfsWantHumansImportantProblemFacesFightingSocialDifferencesHuman BeingsLevelsConflictBasesStressFellowsHappyBackgroundsNationalityBeing ThereSamenessWant To Be HappySocial StatusFamily Background Author:Dalai Lama
“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
“I will work on myself, since the work on myself is going to be the highest thing I can do for it all, since I understand that as man up-levels his own consciousness, he sees more creative solutions to the problems that he's confronting.” MenI CanProblemCan DoWorkLevelsConsciousnessCreativityCreativeHighestSolutionsConfrontingCreative Solutions Author:Ram Dass
“When you reach a certain level of fame or success or income all these magical things are going to happen to you. All of the sudden you're very popular. You're very pretty. Everyone loves you and that's going to fix all your problems.” ProblemHappensCertainLevelsLove YouFameIncomeOne LoveVery Popular Author:Jessica Origliasso
“Getting what you want doesn't make you happy, growth makes you happy, raising your level of consciousness. The problem with most people, they don't know what they want because they start at a very early age being programmed to think that they can't have what they want.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWantProblemAgeGrowthLevelsConsciousnessWhat You WantMake You HappyGetting What You Want Author:Bob Proctor
“There is a single theme behind all our work-we must reduce population levels. Either governments do it our way, through nice clean methods, or they will get the kinds of mess that we have in El Salvador, or in Iran or in Beirut. Population is a political problem. Once population is out of control, it requires authoritarian government, even fascism, to reduce it.” WayKindProblemGovernmentPoliticalLevelsBehindsNiceMethodCleanPopulationMessThemeIranFascismElitesReducingPopulation ControlBeirutEl SalvadorDepopulationAgenda 21Controlling GovernmentAuthoritarian GovernmentPopulation Problem Author:Thomas Ferguson
“We're facing growing climate change, more floods, more droughts, more crisis on a planetary level, and the systems we put in place in the twentieth century are just not going to work. We've run out of stuff. Our big problems are going to be energy supplies and food supplies. This is not a right-left issue. It's a people issue, and it cuts across all our categories.” PeopleProblemBigsRunningEnergyLeftStuffLevelsIssuesCuttingGrowingCenturyCrisisClimateClimate ChangeCategoriesFloodGoing To WorkTwentieth CenturySuppliesBig ProblemsDroughtFood Supply Author:Margaret Atwood
“I have a problem with players who don't take the loss personally. At a professional level you should - it's our job, it's our livelihood, it's who we are at this level. Every loss should be taken that personal.” ShouldProblemJobsLossLevelsTakenPlayerWho We AreLivelihood Author:Hope Solo
“The oldest problem in economic education is how to exclude the incompetent. A certain glib mastery of verbiage-the ability to speak portentously and sententiously about the relation of money supply to the price level-is easy for the unlearned and may even be aided by a mildly enfeebled intellect. The requirement that there be ability to master difficult models, including ones for which mathematical competence is required, is a highly useful screening device.” MayProblemCertainSpeakEasyDifficultAbilityLevelsEconomicMastersModelsRelationIncludingIntellectMathematicalDevicesMasteryRequirementsCompetenceIncompetentScreeningAbility To Speak Author:John Kenneth Galbraith
“Disease and ill health are caused largely by damage at the molecular and cellular level, yet todays surgical tools are too large to deal with that kind of problem.” KindProblemTodayLevelsDealsDiseaseToolsIllDamageIll HealthCellular Author:Ralph Merkle
“When people come to me, they come usually for spiritual blessings, they come for the heart to be opened, because if it's not, we're not going to be able to channel our way through the course, and I think that most people know that there is that understanding that something has to open within us before we begin to resolve our problems, and so it is at all levels that they come.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsWayHeartProblemAbleSpiritualCoursesUnderstandingLevelsBlessingResolveSpiritual Blessings Author:Maya Tiwari
“In The 3rd Alternative, Stephen Covey urges us to chart a course beyond the suboptimal solutions to all our crises - beyond left and right, and beyond the many false choices in front of us. The 3rdAlternative is a wise and welcome echo of Einstein's warning that the problems we're facing today cannot be solved by the same level of thinking that created them.” ThinkingProblemTodayChoicesCoursesLeftLevelsWiseFrontsSolutionsCrisisWelcomeAlternativesUrgesWarningEchoesLeft And Right Author:Arianna Huffington
“Today we face many problems. Some are created essentially by ourselves based on divisions due to ideology, religion, race, economic status, or other factors. Therefore, the time has come for us to think on a deeper level, on the human level, and from that level we should appreciate and respect the sameness of others as human beings.” ThinkingShouldHumansProblemTodayFacesHuman BeingsLevelsRaceEconomicAppreciateDeeperDuesFactorsIdeologyDivisionSamenessEconomic Status Author:Dalai Lama
“Engineers, medical people, scientific people, have an obsession with solving the problems of reality, when actually ... once you reach a basic level of wealth in society, most problems are actually problems of perception.” PeopleProblemRealityInspirationMotivationWealthLevelsPerceptionMedicalObsessionEngineers Author:Rory Sutherland
“There are two roadblocks in the way of transforming India into an economic giant and one of them was education. I believe that if education is privatised at primary and secondary level, lot of our problems will be answered to” IfsWayBelieveTwoProblemI BelieveLevelsEducationEconomicIndiaPrimariesGiantsTransformingRoadblockTwo Roads Author:Kumar Mangalam Birla
“The essence of the problem is about consumption, recognizing that a society that consumes one-third of the world's resources is unsustainable. This level of consumption requires constant intervention into other people's lands. That's what's going on.” PeopleWorldProblemLevelsLandResourcesEssenceThirdsConstantEnvironmentalSustainabilityConsumptionRecognizingIntervention Author:Winona LaDuke
“When you look at obesity in the United States, clearly it is not a bunch of stupid people. It has nothing to do with intelligence. Sometimes people who are dealing with issues of obesity and compulsive eating know more than I will ever know about nutrition, metabolism, and exercise, because they have studied it. But clearly the real problem, and therefore the real solution, is on another level of consciousness, and that is where the spiritual work comes in.” PeopleKnowsLooksRealSometimesStatesProblemSpiritualLevelsUnitedConsciousnessUnited StatesIssuesStupidExerciseEatingSolutionsBunchNutritionStupid PeopleObesityReal ProblemsMetabolismSpiritual Work Author:Marianne Williamson
“When you try to portray people's lives, you try to make sure you don't portray them as clowns and that you give them a level of dignity. You don't try to change their persona, but you try to understand that they had unique problems, set in a century that you don't live.” PeopleGivingTryingProblemLevelsCenturyUniqueDignityClownPersona Author:Kevin Costner
“Problem is that my athletic abilities in my mind are greater than what my body can accomplish. And my level of fear and anxiety of getting injured is greater than my courage.” MindProblemBodyAbilityLevelsGreaterAnxietyAccomplishAthleticInjuredAthletic Ability Author:Jake M. Johnson
“I've always said as a political scientist that "culture" is what we use when we can't explain things. I think it's more about accessibility. Part of the problem is that this is an expensive game [golf]. I know in a couple of places where there are black members, and they come from pretty much the same socioeconomic level that the white members come from.” ThinkingKnowsSaidUseProblemPoliticalCultureGamesBlackWhiteLevelsCoupleMembersScientistGolfExpensiveAccessibility Author:Condoleezza Rice
“One of the problems with watching TV is that you've got a fairly low level of language operating all the time. Quite a small vocabulary and really no conceptual or abstract thinking. That's an issue. If you've got a wide vocabulary, you can learn. The complexities of grammar, in themselves, force you to think about time in a particular way. Force you to widen your outlook on the world.” IfsThinkingWorldWayProblemLanguageForceLevelsIssuesParticularTvsLowsWideAbstractComplexityVocabularyOutlookGrammarWatching TvLow LevelAbstract Thinking Author:Jeanette Winterson
“I am a character, so that's the problem. There are many, many levels to how I behave. Some people might associate being Marilyn Manson as having lipstick on, but I don't really have some sort of other lifestyle.” PeopleCharacterProblemMightLevelsLifestyleBehaveAssociatesLipstickManson Author:Marilyn Manson
“Biology is a way of approaching the truth about the mind. In biology most people don't tackle problems at the level of complexity that psychoanalysis does. But psychoanalysis has a degree of uncertainty about it. A psychoanalyst may have some deep insights, but cannot, at the moment, run experiments to establish whether it's really the truth.” PeopleWayMindMayDoeMomentsProblemRunningLevelsDegreesInsightExperimentsUncertaintyComplexityBiologyPsychoanalysis Author:Eric Kandel
“Much of the attention on oceans has portrayed oceans as a villain. Warm water strengthened Hurricane Katrina that pounded Louisiana. Rising sea level will flood islands and coastal areas. Or, we're talking about new opportunities like a new shipping lane in the Arctic because of melting sea ice. These may be the obvious problems, but they're probably not the biggest ones.” MayProblemOpportunityWaterLevelsAttentionTalkingSeaOceanAreasObviousWarmIceIslandsRisingVillainFloodHurricanesMeltingLanesLouisianaArcticKatrinaNew OpportunityShippingHurricane KatrinaCoastal Author:Mark Powell
“The problem is that every time people have deviated from the Disney playbook in hand-drawn animation, they've done so with staff that are nowhere near Disney-level talent or Disney-level budgets.” PeopleDoneProblemHandsLevelsTalentBudgetsStaffAnimationPlaybooks Author:Brad Bird
“But as Van casually directed the searchlight of backthought into that maze of the past where the mirror-lined narrow paths not only took different turns, but used different levels (as a mule-drawn cart passes under the arch of a viaduct along which a motor skims by), he found himself tackling, in still vague and idle fashion, the science that was to obsess his mature years - problems of space and time, space versus time, time-twisted space, space as time, time as space - and space breaking away from time, in the final tragic triumph of human cogitation: I am because I die.” YearsHumansStillsDifferentProblemPastUsedDiesTurnsFoundSpaceLevelsPathFashionMirrorsFinalsTriumphTragicMatureIdleVagueVersusTime And SpaceVansTwistedMotorCartsMazesArchesDifferent LevelsMulesTacklingNarrow PathBreaking Away Author:Vladimir Nabokov
“Umpires, like players, are expected to show constant improvement each season and at each level. Inconsistent plate work and the inability to handle situations are probably the two biggest problems that minor league umpires face.” TwoShowsProblemFacesLevelsSituationPlayerSeasonsConstantExpectedImprovementHandleLeaguePlatesMinorsInabilityUmpiresInconsistentConstant Improvement Author:Jim Evans
“The crisis is a concrete threatening reality today. It stands to get catastrophically worse unless we take action before the accumulation [of] this global warming pollution reaches such toxic levels that the problem becomes bigger than we can solve.” ProblemRealityTodayActionLevelsBiggerCrisisSolveGlobal WarmingToxicConcretePollutionThreateningAccumulation Author:Al Gore
“We can solve any problem by introducing an extra level of indirection.” ProblemLevelsSolveExtrasIntroducing Author:Butler Lampson