“I've been talking about income inequality in America for twenty years, and when I was president, people didn't pay much attention to it, probably because wages were going up. But I don't think I've given a single solitary speech since I left office that I hadn't talked about it. It's a problem around the world and within the United States. So these people have put that on the agenda.” PeopleThinkingWorldYearsStatesProblemAmericaLeftGivenPresidentUnitedPayAttentionTalkingUnited StatesSpeechOfficeTwentiesIncomeInequalityAround The WorldAgendasSolitaryWagesIncome Inequality Author:William J. Clinton
“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
“There's no doubt that I'm a better president now than when I first took office. This is not a job where there's a manual, and over time you get a better sense of what's important, what's not, how to see around corners and anticipate problems, as opposed to just managing problems once they've arrived.” FirstsImportantProblemJobsPresidentDoubtOfficeCornersNo DoubtAnticipateWhat's ImportantManualsAround The Corner Author:Barack Obama
“If you have the door to your office closed, you get more work done today and tomorrow, and you are more productive than most. But ten years later somehow, you dont quite know what problems are worth working on.” IfsKnowsYearsDoneProblemTodayDoorsTomorrowTenOfficeProductiveWork DoneToday And Tomorrow Author:Richard Hamming
“While I do not think it was so intended I have always been of the opinion that this turned out to be much the best for me. I had no national experience. What I have ever been able to do has been the result of first learning how to do it. I am not gifted with intuition. I need not only hard work but experience to be ready to solve problems. The Presidents who have gone to Washington without first having held some national office have been at great disadvantage.” ThinkingNeedsFirstsHas BeensHardProblemAblePoliticsPresidentResultsOpinionGoneReadyHard WorkOfficeIntuitionSolveGiftedDisadvantages Author:Calvin Coolidge
“Leadership from the Oval Office - and sustained, effective use of the bully pulpit - is essential to getting the American people off their too-pampered butts and into meeting successfully the long-haul challenges of fixing major problems in the very fabric of our republic's life, both domestically and in our international relations.” PeopleLongUseProblemChallengesEssentialsOfficeMajorsRelationMeetingsInternationalRepublicFabricBullyInternational RelationsFixingPulpitHaulOvalMajor ProblemsLong HaulPampered Author:Lawrence Wilkerson
“A man walks into doctor's office. "What seems to be the problem?" asks the doc. "It's ... um ... well ... I have five penises." replies the man. "Blimey!" says the doctor, "How do your trousers fit?" "Like a glove."” MenWellsProblemHumorSeemsFunnyAsksWalksFiveHe ManFitOfficeDoctorsGlovesTrousers Author:Tommy Cooper
“I would like to be an FBI profiler. I'm fascinated with psychology, but I wouldn't want to deal with people and their problems in my office. I like to figure them out from afar, narrow a case down, figure it out, but it sounds like a lot of science.” PeopleWantProblemSoundDealsCasesPsychologyFiguresOfficeFascinatedFbiAfar Author:Kathleen Madigan
“P. G. Wodehouse... used, when in town, to solve the problem of the long walk to the post-office by the simple expedient of tossing his letters out of his window: his belief that the average human, finding a stamped and addressed envelope on the pavement, would naturally pop it into the nearest pillar-box was never once, in decades, shown to be unfounded.” HumansLongProblemUsedBeliefSimpleWalksOfficeFindingsWindowLettersTownsAverageBoxesPopsSolveDecadesPostsPillarsEnvelopesPavementPost OfficeLong Walks Author:Stephen Fry
“Being a venture capitalist to me is like being more of a psychologist. So if you come to my office we have two chairs with a table in the middle. And we sit down and it's like, Tell me your problems.” IfsTwoProblemMiddleOfficeDown AndTablesChairsCapitalistVenturePsychologistVenture Capitalists Author:Keith Rabois
“The truth is not that the problem is the newsroom does not understand capitalism. The problem is that the front office does not understand journalism. The problem is not that the average reporter does not understand what it is that's necessary to make the payroll, to make the good edifice, to make the thing that he wants. It is that in fact those who control too many of the edifices have actually come to believe that Wall Street has wisdom, and that that wisdom should instruct our business.” WantShouldBelieveDoeFactsProblemStreetsFrontsWallTruth IsOfficeCapitalismAverageJournalismReportersEdificePayrollFront Office Author:Hodding Carter III
“Everybody complains about pork, but members of Congress keep spending because voters do not throw them out of office for doing so. The rotten system in Congress will change only when the American people change their beliefs about the proper role of government in our society. Too many members of Congress believe they can solve all economic problems, cure all social ills, and bring about worldwide peace and prosperity simply by creating new federal programs. We must reject unlimited government and reassert the constitutional rule of law if we hope to halt the spending orgy.” PeopleIfsBelieveProblemGovernmentLawBeliefSocialRolesEconomicMembersOfficeCreatingProgramCongressProsperitySolveSpendingComplainingCuresOur SocietyRejectsVotersUnlimitedRottenRule Of LawHaltLimited GovernmentPorkEconomic ProblemsRole Of Government Author:Ron Paul
“Whatever job I had, I was always writing like crazy. All I ever liked about offices was being able to type up stories on the computer when no one was looking. I was never paying much attention in meetings because I was usually scribbling bits of my latest stories in the margins of the pad or thinking up names for my characters. This is a problem when you're supposed to be taking minutes of the meeting.” ThinkingWritingCharacterStoriesProblemAbleJobsNamesBitsAttentionCrazyMinutesTypeOfficeComputerMeetingsSupposed To BeMarginsPads Author:J. K. Rowling
“I think it's a fallacy that only people in elected office can come up with solutions that solve our problems. I just think maybe there's a different paradigm.” PeopleThinkingDifferentProblemOfficeSolutionsCome UpSolveParadigmFallacy Author:Benjamin Carson
“[Facebook and Twitter] aren't the real problems in the office. The real problems are what I like to call the M&Ms, the Managers and the Meetings.” RealProblemInspirationMotivationOfficeMeetingsManagersReal Problems Author:Jason Fried
“I think we have muddled the terms of marriage, civil partnership, registry office, church etc. I would have liked that to have been clarified. I didn't really like the legislation that was the problem but I absolutely support gay marriage.” ThinkingHas BeensProblemTermChurchSupportGayOfficeEtcPartnershipLegislationGay MarriageSupport Gay Marriage Author:Andrea Leadsom
“I call God ECCO (Earth Coincidence Control Office) . It's much more satisfying to call it that. A lot of people accept this and they don't know that they're just talking about God. I finally found a God that was big enough. As the astronomer said to the Minister, My God's astronomical. The Minister said, How can you relate to something so big? The astronomer said, Well, that isn't the problem, your God's too small!” PeopleKnowsWellsSaidEnoughProblemBigsEarthReligionFoundTalkingAcceptingOfficeRelateMinistersSatisfyingCoincidenceAstronomers Author:John C. Lilly
“Sometimes I'm a psychiatrist and I tell people in my office that my door is open, and if they have a problem to come and talk to me. Sometimes I say, "I have to close the door because I don't want to hear it!"” PeopleIfsWantSometimesProblemDoorsOfficePsychiatristTalk To Me Author:Carolina Herrera
“Of course, Sam [Fuller] was like, "No problem," because he treated it like a newspaper deadline. We worked long hours, often very late into the night, in his garage, which had been converted into an office. It was freezing cold outside and there was no heat in the garage, so he had a little space heater over by his side and I had a blanket that he graciously gave me to drape around my shoulders like a Navajo Indian. And he gave me cigars, too, of course.” LittlesLongProblemNightCoursesSidesHoursSpaceColdOfficeLateNewspapersShouldersTreatedIndianHeatNo ProblemBlanketDeadlineGarageCigarFreezingLong HoursDrapesCold Outside Author:Curtis Hanson
“I don't have any problem with the right candidate [for presidency]. And so whoever I believe is going to be the best for that office - and the most qualified - is the reason that we put them in that position.” BelieveReasonProblemI BelievePositionOfficeCandidatesBeing The BestPresidencyQualified Author:Paula White
“If you look at the polling data, long before anyone had thought about Iraq, it was the [George W.] Bush Administration's decision in the first few weeks in its tenure in office to abnegate the Kyoto treaties that set our international perception into a nose-dive. People around the world looked on in amazement as the biggest part of the problem decided it wasn't going to make any effort to help with the solution.” PeopleIfsWorldFirstsLooksLongHelpingProblemDecisionEffortWeekOfficePerceptionSolutionsDecidedInternationalIraqAround The WorldAdministrationDataNosesTreatiesAmazementTenureKyotoPolling Author:Bill McKibben
“I'm the worst in The Office. It's a problem. They've had to shut down the set for like 30 minutes because of me.” ProblemMinutesWorstOffice Author:Ed Helms
“I think guilt is the biggest problem in America, people are always feeling guilty about being themselves. You can't say what you want because it's not politically correct. You can't look like you want because you, the people at the office aren't going to like you and so on.” PeopleThinkingFeelingsProblemLike YouOfficeGuiltGuiltyPolitically CorrectFeeling Guilty Author:Marilyn Manson
“The problems facing the world and the United States today of lawlessness and terrorism can directly be laid to the policies that have come out of the White House and out of the secretary of state's office when Clinton was president.” WorldProblemTodayHousePresidentPolicyOfficeClintonTerrorismSecretary Author:Paul J. Manafort
“I think the Republicans starting more and more to ignore President Trump. I think they have realized - it's taken a while, but I think a lot of them have realized there isn't going to be a change, he is who he is, there's not going to be some pivot or some growing in office, and they have to deal with that. I don't think they have come together to figure out how exactly they move forward, but I think they are at least beginning to get a grip on the problem.” ThinkingProblemTogetherMovingPresidentTakenRepublicanOfficeMoving Forward Author:Ramesh Ponnuru
“The quality of health care in Germany is not as good as people sometimes believe it to be. We have problems with chronic diseases. The German system allows too many hospitals and specialists to treat chronic diseases. We do not have enough volume in many institutions to deliver good quality, and we do have fairly strict separations ... between primary physicians, office specialists and hospital specialists. But I think the quality problems can be solved in the next couple of years, and we have made major progress in diabetes, coronary artery disease and pulmonary disease care.” PeopleThinkingBelieveSometimesEnoughProblemCareQualityProgressCoupleOfficeSeparationHealth CareDiabetes Author:Karl Lauterbach
“You look worldwide for the great leaders, and they're pretty thin on the ground, and of course the problem is unless you're squeaky, squeaky clean, something is going to come out of the cupboard. Most people aren't squeaky clean. Most people have fallen by the wayside once or twice in their lives, and because the world is so transparent now, I think they're very fearful of running for office. It's a huge shame, because often people who have really lived and are amazing people can be brought down by a past indiscretion.” PeopleThinkingWorldProblemRunningPastLeaderOfficeShameFallenFearfulGreat LeaderAmazing People Author:Jeremy Irons
“You could be in the United Nations office all night every night and still feel like you were not making a sufficient dent in the world's problems. I think the key is prioritization. But every job presents the tyranny of the inbox, of allowing the urgent to crowd out the important. So we have to have our lodestars.” ThinkingImportantProblemNightLike YouOfficeTyrannyUnited Nations Author:Samantha Power
“I would never join the Tea Partiers, because I don't have a problem with the color of Obama's skin. I don't have a problem with immigrants. You know what I mean? I do have genuine problems with policy and government corruption. Sure I do. And I speak very candidly about that, regardless of who's in office. But since the Tea Partiers are ridiculous, why would I urge anyone to participate with them?” MeanProblemSpeakPolicyOfficeSkinsCorruptionRidiculousTea Author:Janeane Garofalo
“The lesson of the last year is this: foreign policy can't be managed through the politics of personality, and our President would do well to take note of an observation John F. Kennedy made once he was in office - that all of the world's problems aren't his predecessor's fault.” WorldYearsWellsMadeProblemLastsPresidentPolicyPersonalityLessonsOfficeFaultsNotesObservationForeign PolicyLast YearPredecessors Author:Sarah Palin