“Learning about all those different things psychologically - about grief and my own addictions and problems and stuff like that, and really getting an education on it, I think it was part of the process of it, learning about it and trying to lick it.” ThinkingTryingDifferentProblemStuffProcessMy OwnGriefAddictionDifferent Things Author:Richie Sambora
“My own diagnosis of my problem is a simpler one. It's that I share 50 per cent of my genome with a banana and 98 per cent with a chimpanzee. Banana's don't do psychological consistency. And the tiny part of us that's different - the special Homo sapiens bit - is faulty. It doesn't work. Sorry about that.” DifferentProblemBitsMy OwnShareSpecialSorryTinyPsychologicalCentsConsistencyDiagnosisHomo SapiensBananasChimpanzeesGenome Book:Engleby: A Novel Source: Engleby: A Novel
“You have to realize: OK, I don't know how to solve a political problem, I don't know how to solve the pollution problem... all I know is in my own life, I need to figure out some sense of purpose, I need to figure out how to be happy... and I'm willing.” KnowsNeedsProblemPoliticalPurposeRealizingMy OwnKnow HowFiguresWillingSolvePollutionMy Own LifeFigure SkatingHow To Be Happy Author:Jewel
“I'd say that any character or setting can be given a bit of an otherworldly sheen and be the better for it. The one thing I insist on with my own writing is that I won't let magic solve my characters' real world problems. The solutions have to come from the characters themselves.” WorldWritingRealCharacterProblemGivenBitsMy OwnMagicOne ThingSolutionsSolveSettingSettingsReal WorldWorld Problems Author:Charles de Lint
“I very easily decide in certain situations that I'm an outsider. That's just my own craziness. I think that I have sympathy for those characters who are like that, but I love it when the humor comes from a character who is serious about his situation - only the way he's thinking about it is all wrong, or the ways he's solving his problems are never going to work.” ThinkingWayCharacterProblemCertainMy OwnSituationSeriousOutsidersGoing To WorkCraziness Author:Jonathan Coulton
“I've been on a quest for spiritual answers for a long time. The things I've learned about interconnectedness and non-duality and the feeling of tapping into your soul that goes beyond the edge of your skin is important to me. Once I learned that, I'm far less often trapped in my own little man problems. Me against the universe problems.” MenLittlesLongImportantSoulFeelingsProblemSpiritualUniverseMy OwnAnswersLong TimeSkinsEdgesYour SoulI've LearnedQuestsTrappedDualityInterconnectednessLittle ManTappingThings I've Learned Author:Jim Carrey
“I think my worst problem is actually living in the moment and understanding everything that's going on. I feel like I'm in my own bubble.” ThinkingFeelsMomentsProblemUnderstandingMy OwnWorstBubblesLive In The MomentActually LivingUnderstanding Everything Author:Kendrick Lamar
“I accept that all photography is voyeuristic and exploitative, and obviously I live with my own guilt and conscience. It's part of the test and I don't have a problem with it.” ProblemMy OwnAcceptingPhotographyConscienceTestsGuilt Author:Martin Parr
“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
“I contend that the continued racial classification of Homo sapiens represents an outmoded approach to the general problem of differentiation within a species. In other words, I reject a racial classification of humans for the same reasons that I prefer not to divide into subspecies the prodigiously variable West Indian land snails that form the subject of my own research.” HumansReasonProblemFormMy OwnLandSubjectsApproachResearchWestSpeciesIndianRejectsDividesHomo SapiensVariablesClassificationSnailDifferentiation Author:Stephen Jay Gould
“It may sound surprising when I say, on the basis of my own clinical practice as well as that of my psychological and psychiatric colleagues, that the chief problem of people in the middle decade of the twentieth century is emptiness.” PeopleWellsMayProblemSoundMy OwnPracticeMiddleCenturyBasesDecadesPsychologicalChiefsEmptinessSurprisingColleaguesTwentieth CenturyClinicalsPsychiatric Book:Man's Search for Himself Source: Man's Search for Himself
“My voice likes rock music. My problem is, I can do a lot of things, but I have to find my own voice.” I CanProblemVoiceCan DoMy OwnRocksLikesRock Music Author:Lucy Lawless
“If anyone ever wonders why there's nothing coming from me, it's not my fault. I'm doing the work. No, I haven't deteriorated or gone insane. Suddenly, I just can't get anything into print. And apparently I'm not alone in this. There are people of very high standing, authors who are having problems. So I have been told. In my own case, the more disturbing element is the editor-in-chief who said to me, "I think this book is terrific. It ought to be in print. I can't publish it -- I've been told I mustn't." The indication is that I'm not writing what people want to read, but I never did.” PeopleIfsThinkingWantWritingHas BeensSaidI CanBookProblemMy OwnWonderCasesGoneHavensOughtElementsStandingFaultsInsaneChiefsPrintEditorsPublishTerrificDisturbingNot AloneIndication Author:Tanith Lee
“My own approach to literary problems is very like the one Dr. Johnson's blind housekeeper used when she poured tea-she put her finger inside the cup.” ProblemUsedMy OwnApproachBlindFingersCupsTeaDrsJohnsonHousekeepersDr Johnson Book:Mystery and Manners Source: Mystery and Manners
“They are that same group, but I've got my own rivalristic problems. Is that a word, rivalristic? I've got my own rivalristic problems in the Eastern Conference.” ProblemMy OwnGroupsBasketballNbaEasternConferences Author:Shaquille O'Neal
“The only genre I have any problem with is musicals, but that's just my own tastes it's nothing to do with the films.” ProblemFilmMy OwnTasteGenre Author:Ben Wheatley
“When I was eleven I stopped dreaming the dreams that didn't come true, I stopped talking to people who didn't listen, I lost hope and I retreated. I assumed that the root of the problem was that I was too strange for the real world. That being the case, I created a charming and dynamic personality to make the necessary forays into the Outside, and I kept my strangeness for myself; my own peculiar jewels under lock and key.” PeopleWorldRealSelfProblemDreamLostMy OwnTalkingCasesStrangeKeysPersonalityRootsReal WorldPeculiarLocksCharmingJewelsElevenStrangenessLost HopeLock And KeyDynamic Personality Author:Rosanne Cash
“The problem I've always discovered in my own work when this kind of thing happens when you hit the wall is there's almost always a reason. You've almost always made a mistake in the initial conception of the project. You misapprehended something or you thought something would work and now you're three quarters on the way through and you see that it doesn't work.” WayKindMadeReasonProblemHappensThreeMy OwnMistakeWallProjectsThings HappenConceptionQuartersInitialsMade A Mistake Author:Steven Pressfield
“I do have a huge problem, a huge problem. In fact, worse than watching is hearing. I cannot stand to hear my own voice. When it's coming out of my mouth right now it sounds fantastically interesting to me. It's rich in light and shade, it goes up and down. But when I hear it either on TV or even on someone's answering machine, I just sound like I've had half my brain removed.” FactsProblemLightSoundVoiceMy OwnInterestingBrainHalfRichTvsHugeRight NowMouthsMachinesHearingShadeComing OutUp And DownAnswering Machines Author:Hugh Laurie
“I love efficiencies and I love solving big problems, and I love working with people who create efficiencies. I love creating efficiencies in my own life on a day-to-day basis.” PeopleProblemBigsMy OwnCreatingBasesEfficiencyDay To DayMy Own LifeBig Problems Author:Ashton Kutcher
“My own opinion is that just as fundamentally man and woman are one, their problems must be one in essence.” MenProblemMy OwnOpinionMankindMen And WomenEssence Book:The Penguin Gandhi Reader Source: The Penguin Gandhi Reader
“If I don't think about anything and just sing sincerely, it could be the best, but at the same time of singing sincerely, I must also add my own thinking and measure in, to be able to maintain and sing this way is my dream, and it is also the biggest problem.” IfsThinkingWayProblemDreamAbleMy OwnSingingAddBeing The BestSincerely Author:Daesung
“I'd learned how to lie and manipulate from an early age so a combination of that, desperation, having to have my own fridge and my umbilical cord back... I had to go out into the world. Then some angel somewhere said: "Have you considered going to drama school?" And this sounded like the solution to all of my problems.” WorldSaidProblemAgeSchoolLyingMy OwnDramaSolutionsAngelCombinationDesperationManipulateCordsFridgesUmbilical Cord Author:Tom Hardy