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“These days kids get paid enough that they probably don't need to work too much. The problem is when the person is old enough that they need to work to make a living, and the only thing that they know how to do is what they are already washed up in.”

Knows Needs Persons Enough Problem Kids Know How Too Much Paid These Days

Author:Susan Olsen

“If you define evolution as merely meaning change over time, then I don't see any problem with a person being a Christian and believing in evolution. But that's not how textbooks define evolution. They define evolution as being random and undirected without plan or purpose.”

Ifs Believe Persons Problem Christian Purpose Plans Evolution Textbooks Changes Over Time

Author:Lee Strobel

“I paraphrase Aristotle: If you want to be comical, write about people to whom the audience can feel superior; if you want to be tragical, write about at least one person to whom the audience is bound to feel inferior, and no fair having human problems solved by dumb luck or heavenly intervention.”

People Ifs Want Feels Writing Humans Persons Problem Audience Fairs Luck Bounds Superiors Dumb Heavenly Inferiors Intervention Comical Paraphrase Human Problems Dumb Luck

Author:Kurt Vonnegut

“While this is good and it stores up knowledge and power, at the same time there's a problem with it because it means that a person becomes more fixed.”

Mean Persons Problem Buddhism Stores Fixed Knowledge And Power

Author:Frederick Lenz

“You'll see the most perfect person, and you are like, 'God, she's, like, perfect.' And then she'll tell you everything that's not perfect. Everyone has their own special set of problems - in their own minds.”

Mind Persons Problem Perfect Special Not Perfect Perfect Person

Author:L'Wren Scott

“Unsolved problems on the inside of a person stop success more often than problems on the outside of a person.”

Persons Problem Unsolved Problems

Author:Orrin Woodward

“Today the world faces a single man armed with weapons of mass destruction, manifesting an aggressive, bullying attitude, who may well plunge the world into chaos and bloodshed if he miscalculates. This person, belligerent, arrogant, and sure of himself, truly is the most dangerous person on Earth. The problem is that his name is George W. Bush, and he is our president.”

“Unconscious insights or answers to problems that come in reverie do not come hit or miss... they pertain to those areas in which the person consciously has worked laboriously and with dedication.”

Persons Problem Answers Missing Areas Insight Unconscious Dedication Reverie

Author:Rollo May

“One problem with ideas, however valid, is that they are static and impersonal, whereas a person is active and dynamic.”

Persons Ideas Problem Active Static

Author:William Hull

“... not mere achievement, but rather the more difficult feat of handling your life efficiently. It means to be a success as a person; controlled, organized, not part of the world's problems, but part of its cure. ... of being creative individuals.”

World Mean Persons Problem Individual Difficult Creative Achievement Mere Cures Uplifting Organized Controlled Be Creative Feats

Book:The amazing results of positive thinking

Source: The amazing results of positive thinking

“If I could kick the person in the tail that causes me the most problems I could not sit down for a week”

Ifs Persons Problem Inspiration Causes Week Kicks If I Could Tails

Author:Will Rogers

“One person gets to decide if something is a problem in a relationship.”

Ifs Persons Problem Women

Author:Amy Dickinson

“The problem ... is that we have run out of dinosaurs to form oil with. Scientists working for the Department of Energy have tried to form oil using other animals; they've piled thousands of tons of sand and Middle Eastern countries on top of cows, raccoons, haddock, laboratory rats, etc., but so far all they have managed to do is run up an enormous bulldozer-rental bill and anger a lot of Middle Eastern persons. None of the animals turned into oil, although most of the laboratory rats developed cancer.”

Persons Country Problem Running Form Energy Animal Middle Humorous Scientist Bills Cancer Oil Enormous Department Sand Etc Cows Rats Eastern Laboratory Dinosaurs Raccoons Bulldozers

Author:Dave Barry

“People that pick up hitchhikers I believe are basically good people that believe in other people and understand problems and don't judge people. That's always the kind of person I'm looking for.”

People Believe Kind Persons Problem I Believe Judging Picks Good People

Author:John Waters

“There's so much benevolence on helping your fellow person. And the morality that helped build our country is based on the values that are found in the Bible. And as we look at problems, maybe we're getting away from those values. And in my little small way, I want to encourage people to get back into those values.”

People Way Want Looks Littles Persons Country Helping Problem Values Found Morality Fellows Our Country Get Away Get Back Benevolence

Author:Tom Hayden

“In fact, a person always finds when he begins to practice meditation that all sorts of problems are brought out. Any hidden aspects of your personality are brought out into the open, for the simple reason that for the first time you are allowing yourself to see your state of mind as it is.”

Mind Firsts Persons States Reason Facts Problem Simple Practice Meditation Personality First Time Aspect Allowing State Of Mind

Book:The Collected Works of Chogyam Trungpa: Volume Three: Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism; The Myth of Freedom; The Heart of the Bud dha; Selected Writings

Source: The Collected Works of Chogyam Trungpa: Volume Three: Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism; The Myth of Freedom; The Heart of the Bud dha; Selected Writings

“GPs are almost the only doctors these days who understand all problems, can see the whole person…spend time with the dying…see things through to the end.”

Persons Ends Whole Problem Dying Doctors These Days End Times Spend Time Whole Person Gps

Book:A Glimpse of Eternal Snows: A Journey of Love and Loss in the Himalayas

Source: A Glimpse of Eternal Snows: A Journey of Love and Loss in the Himalayas

“Whatever anybody says or does, assume positive intent. You will be amazed at how your whole approach to a person or problem becomes very different.”

Persons Doe Different Whole Problem Approach Assuming Amazed

Author:Indra Nooyi

“Quests are a huge inconvenience. Don't let anyone tell you differently, even if that person has experience. The problem is that people forget the pain and aggravation as soon as the quest ends successfully, and then they remember only the glorious parts. In this way quests are a bit like childbirth, even to the point of saying that quests often give birth to glory. Maybe.”

Source: The Orphanage of Miracles: The Kingdom Wars: Book One

“It's good for my fans to be able to connect with me as a person because I am a very normal 15-, 16-year-old girl. I still get in trouble. I still have boy problems and friend problems so it's just very good for my fans to see that.”

Years Persons Stills Problem Able Girl Boys Trouble Fans Normal Very Good

Author:Cheyenne Kimball

“I believe that each young person is different from any other who has ever lived, as different as his fingerprints: that he could bring to the world a wonderful and special way of solving unsolved problems, that in his special way, he can be great.”

World Way Believe Persons Different Problem Young I Believe Wonderful Special Fingerprints Unsolved Problems

Author:Edwin Land

“Humor gives presidents the chance to be seen as warm, relaxed persons. Humor reaches out and puts its arm around the listener and says, 'I am one of you, I understand,' and implicitly it promises, 'I will do something about your problems.'”

Giving Persons Problem President Chance Arms Promise Warm Reach Out Listeners Relaxed

Author:Robert Orben