“There is no larger collective-action problem than the environment. The three biggest lies of the environmental movement is that every little bit helps, you can do your part, and together we can do it.” LittlesHelpingProblemActionTogetherLyingThreeBitsCan DoEnvironmentMovementLittle BitEnvironmentalCollectivesTogether We CanCollective Action Author:Clay Shirky
“Well, English is no problem for me because I am actually English. My whole family are English; I was brought up listening to various forms of the English accent. Obviously there are more specific ones that get a little bit tricky. Same with American stuff. But because in Australia we're so inundated with American culture, television, this that and the other, everyone in Australia can do an American accent. It's just second nature.” WellsLittlesWholeProblemFormCultureStuffBitsCan DoTelevisionListeningLittle BitVariousAustraliaAccentsNo ProblemAmerican CultureTrickyWhole Family Author:Guy Pearce
“My father was a writer, so I grew up writing and reading and I was really encouraged by him. I had some sort of gift and when it came time to try to find a publisher I had a little bit of an "in" because I had his agent I could turn to, to at least read my initial offerings when I was about 20. But the only problem was that they were just awful, they were just terrible stories and my agent, who ended up being my agent, was very, very sweet about it, but it took about four years until I actually had something worth trying to sell.” WritingTryingYearsLittlesStoriesProblemTurnsReadingFatherBitsFourSweetGrewTerribleLittle BitGrew UpSellsAwfulAgentsFour YearsOfferingPublishersInitialsWriting And ReadingVery Sweet Author:Anne Lamott
“When you're a very career-oriented woman, sometimes you don't have as much time to go meet all kinds of guys. You're a little bit limited to the guys that work in your office. I think a lot of girls can relate to that problem.” ThinkingKindLittlesSometimesProblemGuyGirlBitsCareersOfficeLittle BitAll KindsRelate Author:Piper Perabo
“I always tried not to be too mean, but my problem is that the people I tend to find hilarious don't usually have senses of humor. So interacting with them is a little bit of an awkward engagement, because I can't really make them laugh, on top of which I've been doing an impression of them.” PeopleMeanLittlesI CanProblemBitsLaughingLittle BitSensesImpressionSense Of HumorEngagementAwkwardBecause I CanInteracting Author:Ana Gasteyer
“The brand is lying about something, or at least misrepresenting it. When I read a bottle of shampoo or moisturizer or other beauty product, I always perceive a dark subtext. The words haunt me. It comes across as humorous to the reader/audience, but in fact the words really do make me a little bit queasy. Nothing is as easy or natural as consumer brands want us to think - no problem is as resolvable. Your hair will fall out, eventually. Yet we do have these brands, and we line our shelves with them. There's an inherent irony.” ThinkingWantLittlesFactsProblemLyingFallEasyBitsNaturalLinesDarkAudienceProductsHairReaderLittle BitHumorousBrandsConsumersPerceiveIronyBottlesInherentShelvesNo ProblemWant UShampooSubtextBeauty Products Author:Aaron Belz
“Stories ought not to be just little bits of fantasy that are used to wile away an idle hour; from the beginning of the human race stories have been used - by priests, by bards, by medicine men - as magic instruments of healing, of teaching, as a means of helping people come to terms with the fact that they continually have to face insoluble problems and unbearable realities.” PeopleMenHumansMeanLittlesHas BeensFactsHelpingStoriesProblemRealityFacesUsedBitsTermHoursRaceHealingFantasyMagicTeachingOughtLittle BitInstrumentsMedicineHuman RacePriestsIdleHelping PeopleUnbearableBards Author:Joan Aiken
“Reagan "has conducted an arms race on earth," boomed Mondale. A race generally implies two parties. The Soviets contributed a little bit to this problem, if Mondale had not noticed.” IfsLittlesTwoProblemEarthBitsPartyRaceArmsLittle BitAmerican PoliticsArms Race Author:Hugh Sidey
“The real problem with Donald Trump is, if you engage him, it will only make things worse. It's like - it's a little bit what you were taught as a kid to not engage the bully, because they will continue to pick on you.” IfsLittlesRealProblemKidsBitsTaughtTrumpLittle BitPicksBullyReal Problems Author:Amy Walter
“Trying to do what your competitors are doing but basically a little bit better is probably not going to be the winning strategy. The problem is finding what your competitors wouldnt even consider doing.” TryingLittlesProblemWinningBitsFindingsLittle BitStrategyCompetitors Author:Jamais Cascio
“That's not an easy message to deliver whether it's in war and peace or in the economic arena, people don't want to be told that all their problems have been solved and everything good so it's a little bit tricky.” PeopleWantLittlesHas BeensWarProblemEasyBitsPeaceEconomicLittle BitMessagesArenaTricky Author:Vin Weber
“There is a real problem with the lack of diversity, specifically in genre films and the superheroes our kids grow up watching and emulating, they can't really identify with. When you see the same thing, over and over again, and it seems not to speak of you and your heritage and your culture, it leaves you out of this world, a little bit. It gives a certain social distance with your world.” WorldGivingLittlesRealProblemSeemsKidsFilmCertainCultureSpeakSocialGrowsBitsGrowing UpThis WorldDiversityLittle BitDistanceGenreHeritageSuperheroReal Problems Author:Djimon Hounsou
“In the culture of America, in a free culture, you get what you celebrate. And in this culture, we have two obsessions, become a group that becomes a group that celebrates sports heroes and entertainment heroes. There's no room left for kids to see even a little bit of the opportunities to really, really get excited about becoming an inventor, an engineer, or a scientist, a problem solver.” LittlesTwoProblemKidsAmericaCultureOpportunityLeftBitsSportsRoomsGroupsBecomingHeroLittle BitScientistEntertainmentExcitedObsessionCelebrateEngineersInventorProblem SolversSports Hero Author:Dean Kamen
“If I could give advice to anyone, it would be that sometimes the best way you can fight a problem - and this is going to be a little bit controversial - is to not address it.” IfsWayGivingLittlesSometimesProblemWould BeFightingBitsAdviceLittle BitBest WayIf I CouldAddressesControversial Author:Lilly Singh
“In the media universe we're in, where there are people screaming on one end, there is no problem at all with having a little bit of extra politeness.” PeopleLittlesEndsProblemUniverseBitsMediaLittle BitExtrasNo ProblemPoliteness Author:Gwen Ifill
“Asking the question whether the mainstream media has a liberal or conservative bias is like asking whether al Qaeda uses too much oil in their hummus. I might think they use a little bit too much oil; some people might think it's a little dry. But the problem with al Qaeda is they want to kill us. And the problem with the mainstream media is that it has these other biases that are much more important.” PeopleThinkingWantLittlesImportantUseProblemMightBitsToo MuchMediaLittle BitAskingConservativeOilDryAlsMainstreamBiasAl QaedaMainstream MediaHummus Author:Al Franken
“The South Vietnamese were perhaps a little bit slow in doing things, they jump on, on the problem and they try to do themselves everything. Or, they try to have some short cuts with the, those people they were dealing with.” PeopleTryingLittlesProblemBitsCuttingLittle BitSouthVietnameseShort Cuts Author:Bui Diem
“I understand why political leaders in the beginning want to be cheerleaders to generate optimism. But to admit that they didn't understand the depths of the problem afterwards, I found a little bit surprising.” WantLittlesProblemPoliticalFoundBitsLeaderLittle BitOptimismDepthSurprisingPolitical LeadersCheerleader Author:Joseph Stiglitz
“I think we have tremendous media covering the sport of boxing, even if boxing is a little bit lost in popularity with MMA sports. And I think that with the show 'Lights Out' it's going to get more attention to the sport, and it's going to put more attention to the problems that athletes in general have.” IfsThinkingLittlesShowsProblemLightLostBitsSportsAttentionMediaLittle BitAthleteBoxingMmaPopularityCovering Author:Wladimir Klitschko
“A lot of patients you know if you haven't seen them for 6 months or a year, you won't remember what medicines they're on or what kind of problems they have. And you know I'd feel much better if I know a little bit about the patient before I walk in the room, so I won't be too surprised.” IfsKnowsFeelsYearsKindLittlesProblemRememberBitsWalksRoomsHavensMonthsLittle BitMedicinePatient Author:William Davis
“When you have an authority figure tell you something that distinguishes you, there's a little bit of a badge of courage or pride point that comes with it, and also some relief that the grownups actually have an answer for the problem. But, at the same time, there's suspicion and defensiveness, like, Why is the way I do things a problem? Maybe the way you do things is the problem. All of these things come with the very notion that you've been described.” WayLittlesProblemBitsAnswersFiguresPrideAuthorityLittle BitNotionReliefSuspicionBadgesGrownupsDefensivenessAuthority Figures Author:Lucy Corin
“Any issue and any problem, no matter what height you look at it from, no matter how much you extend past the first fractal, it's still a fractal of something that emanates from within your consciousness - from within the human consciousness. And it'll move on and manifest itself externally, and then those are what we pick up as societal ills. But all these battles we're fighting are internal. For me, it's reconciling hope with dread and trying to cut out some place in my mind where my heart can be protected a little bit.” TryingMindFirstsHumansLooksHeartLittlesStillsMatterProblemPastMovingFightingBitsConsciousnessIssuesCuttingMy HeartBattleLittle BitPicksNo Matter WhatHeightInternalsManifestDreadProtectedHuman ConsciousnessEmanateFractals Author:El-P
“Basically when it comes to autistic kids and animals there's kind of three ways that they work, some of them are instant best buddies, they understand a cat, they understand a dog - they're best studies with it, they just know how to communicate with it. Then there's other kids that begin with a little bit of fear of the cat or the dog, but then they begin to like it and then there are other kids where you have a sensory problem - the cat meows and it hurts their ears, so they want to stay away from the cat because you never know when he might meow.” KnowsWayWantKindLittlesProblemMightKidsThreeBitsHurtAnimalKnow HowStudyDogLittle BitCatEarsCommunicateInstantIt HurtsBuddySensoryAutisticThree WaysBest Buddies Author:Temple Grandin
“I don't think every person is going to have the same twelve, but I think out of the twelve I have, nine of them every person will have. Three of them are a little bit of an option, but I say go get your own three, it's no problem.” ThinkingLittlesPersonsProblemThreeBitsLittle BitNineTwelveNo Problem Author:John C. Maxwell
“The problem with being on the road - especially in a hot place like Florida - is that you can begin to think you're on holiday. You can partake of the buffet a little bit more than you should, so you have to have a routine.” ThinkingShouldLittlesProblemBitsLittle BitHotHolidayRoutineFloridaBuffets Author:Boy George
“If we got there and we looked up and we said, "You know what? Black folks are still doing a little bit worse off than whites, but it's not like it was 20 years ago," then we can have a discussion about how do we get that last little bit. But that's a high-class problem to have.” IfsKnowsYearsLittlesSaidStillsProblemLastsBitsBlackClassLittle BitYears AgoFolksDiscussionHigh Class Author:Barack Obama
“I say that is because those are the times where sometimes you feel actually a little bit hurt. Because you feel like saying to these folks, "[Don't] you think if I could do it, I [would] have just done it. Do you think that the only problem is that I don't care enough about the plight of poor people, or gay people, or immigrants, or ...?"” PeopleIfsThinkingFeelsLittlesSometimesDoneEnoughProblemCareBitsHurtPoorGayLittle BitFolksDon't CareI Don't CareIf I CouldImmigrantsIt HurtsPoor PeopleGay PeoplePlight Author:Barack Obama
“Actually, as cancers develop in an individual patient, an individual cancer cell might be different - a little bit different - from the cell that's sitting right next to it. And so there's heterogeneity, we call it. It makes the problem that much harder.” LittlesDifferentProblemMightNextIndividualBitsLittle BitSittingHarderPatientCancerCells Author:Tyler Jacks
“The kind of problem that America faces in Iraq is a little bit the kind of problem that Israel faced in dealing with Hezbollah. If the conflict, the theater of conflict enlarges, it's going to become more and more absorbing and more and more costly.” IfsKindLittlesProblemAmericaFacesBitsConflictLittle BitTheaterIraqIsraelAbsorbingHezbollah Author:Zbigniew Brzezinski
“Part of our identity is the idea that racism is still there and that we are vulnerable to it. So, the question is, 'How vulnerable?' In other words, is it really a problem for us, or is it just a small thing. How do you evaluate racism in America on a scale of 1 to 10? My suspicion is that most blacks overrate it a bit. Not to say it's not there, but we overrate it because this masking is part of our relationship to the larger society. This is a way we keep whites on the hook. We keep them obligated, and we keep ourselves entitled. There's an incentive, you see, to inflate it a little bit.” WayLittlesStillsIdeasProblemAmericaBitsIdentityLittle BitRacismScalesVulnerableOur RelationshipSuspicionEntitledHookIncentivesSmall ThingsEvaluateRacism In America Author:Shelby Steele
“In a way, art has always been my way of problem-solving, of getting through situations, of finding my response to things, so to imagine doing something else makes me panic a little bit.” WayLittlesArtProblemBitsSituationImagineFindingsLittle BitResponseMy WayPanicProblem Solving Author:Tom Burr