“Artistic qualities that once seemed undeniable don't seem so now. Sometimes these fluctuations are only fickleness of taste, momentary glitches in an artist's work, or an artist getting ahead of his audience (it took me ten years to catch up to Albert Oehlen). Other times, however, these problems mean there's something wrong with the art.” YearsMeanArtSometimesProblemSeemsArtistQualityAudienceTasteTenArtisticMomentaryFluctuationGlitches Author:Jerry Saltz
“Ronald Reagan was one of our great foreign policy Presidents. He did not come from the Senate. He did not come from the foreign policy world. He was a governor, but his resolve, his clarity of purpose, his intelligence, his capacity to deal with complex issues and solve tough problems served him extremely well, and if I were elected President, I hope I could rely upon those same qualities.” IfsWorldWellsProblemPurposePresidentDealsQualityIssuesPolicyToughCapacityComplexesSolveClarityRelyResolveSenateForeign PolicyGovernorsRely UponClarity Of PurposeTough Problems Author:Mitt Romney
“I’d say that Berkshire Hathaway’s system is adapting to the nature of the investment problem as it really is. We’ve really made the money out of high quality businesses. In some cases, we bought the whole business. And in some cases, we just bought a big block of stock. But when you analyze what happened, the big money’s been made in the high quality businesses. And most of the other people who’ve made a lot of money have done so in high quality businesses.” PeopleMadeDoneWholeProblemBigsQualityCasesHappenedInvestmentBlockLots Of MoneyHigh QualityAdapting Author:Charlie Munger
“Courage is not a quality one normally associates with mathematicians. Yet it should apply to people who work in their attics in secret for seven years without cease on a problem that has eluded the greatest mathematical minds since first proposed in 1637.” PeopleShouldYearsMindFirstsProblemSecretQualitySevenCeaseMathematicalMathematicianAssociatesSeven YearsAttics Author:Charles Krauthammer
“Obviously, it's a big problem how do we provide quality care to the maximum number of people. And it's not an easy problem to solve.” PeopleProblemBigsCareEasyNumbersQualitySolveMaximumBig ProblemsQuality CareMaximum Number Author:Dick Cheney
“As economists have often pointed out, we pay doctors for quantity, not quality. As they point out less often, we also pay them as individuals, rather than as members of a team working together for their patients. Both practices have made for serious problems.” MadeProblemTogetherIndividualPayQualityPracticeTeamSeriousMembersDoctorsPatientWorking TogetherQuantityEconomistTeam Working Author:Atul Gawande
“Anxiety and fear produce energy. Where we focus that energy noticeably affects the quality of our lives: focus on the solution, not the problem.” ProblemEnergyQualityFocusOur LivesProduceAnxietySolutionsAnxiety And Fear Author:Walter Inglis Anderson
“We have more than two options. A critique of reason does not have to be a call for the return of superstition and arbitrary power. Our problems do not lie with reason itself but with our obsessive treatment of reason as an absolute value. Certainly it is one of our qualities, but it functions positively only when balanced and limited by the others.” DoeTwoReasonProblemLyingValuesQualityReturnFunctionAbsolutesTreatmentSuperstitionsBalancedArbitraryPositivelyCritiqueObsessiveTwo Options Author:John Ralston Saul
“The American Dream can no more remain static than can the American nation.... We cannot any longer take an old approach to world problems. They aren't the same problems. It isn't the same world. We must not adopt the methods of our ancestors; instead, we must emulate that pioneer quality in our ancestors that made them attempt new methods for a New World.” WorldMadeProblemDreamAmericaNationsQualityApproachMethodNew WorldAncestorAmerican DreamPioneersStaticEmulateWorld Problems Author:Eleanor Roosevelt
“The answers to our problems don't lie beyond our reach. They exist in our laboratories and universities; in our fields and our factories; in the imaginations of our entrepreneurs and the pride of the hardest-working people on Earth. Those qualities that have made America the greatest force of progress and prosperity in human history we still possess in ample measure.” PeopleHumansMadeStillsProblemEarthAmericaLyingForceImaginationAnswersQualityProgressFieldsPrideEntrepreneurUniversityProsperityHardestFactoriesHuman HistoryLaboratoryDon't Lie Author:Barack Obama
“Making an art out of your technological life is the way to solve the problem of technology...Art is anything that you can do well. Anything that you can do with Quality.” WayWellsArtProblemLife IsCan DoQualityCreativityTechnologyArt IsSolveTechnological Author:Robert M. Pirsig
“Peace or harmony between the sexes and individuals does not necessarily depend on a superficial equalization of human beings; nor does it call for the elimination of individual traits and peculiarities. The problem that confronts us today, and which the nearest future is to solve, is how to be one's self and yet in oneness with others, to feel deeply with all human beings and still retain one's own characteristic qualities.” FeelsHumansDoeStillsSelfProblemTodayIndividualSexHuman BeingsQualityDependsHarmonySolveOnenessCharacteristicsTraitsSuperficialElimination Book:Anarchism and Other Essays Source: Anarchism and Other Essays
“One of the obstacles to recognizing chronic mistreatment in relationships is that most abusive men simply don't seem like abusers. They have many good qualities, including times of kindness, warmth, and humor, especially in the early period of a relationship. An abuser's friends may think the world of him. He may have a successful work life and have no problems with drugs or alcohol. He may simply not fit anyone's image of a cruel or intimidating person. So when a woman feels her relationship spinning out of control, it is unlikely to occur to her that her partner is an abuser.” ThinkingMenWorldFeelsMayPersonsProblemSeemsQualityKindnessSuccessfulPeriodsFitDrugIncludingObstaclesAlcoholPartnersWarmthRecognizingNo ProblemUnlikelySpinningIntimidatingAbusiveGood QualityAbusersMistreatmentSuccessful WorkSpinning Out Of Control Author:Lundy Bancroft
“The consumer is getting fed up with shoddy material, poor quality, unsafe products, bad service, weak warranties, lack of adequate information -- the whole gamut of such problems.” WholeProblemPoorQualityInformationMaterialsProductsWeakConsumersFedsAdequateFed UpUnsafePoor QualityWarrantyBad Service Author:Virginia Knauer
“As companies move to web-based computing they get a lot more servers, which are difficult to manage and control. All kinds of problems can arise - security, quality and worms.” KindProblemMovingDifficultQualityCompanySecurityAriseAll KindsManageWormsComputingServer Author:Ben Horowitz
“The problem with most children's hospitals is that they are passive. They are high quality. They are filled with the best doctors. But their function is to wait until kids get sick and get referred in.” ChildrenProblemKidsWaitingQualityDoctorsSickFunctionFilledHospitalsPassiveHigh Quality Author:Irwin Redlener
“When the back-to-the-cities trend started taking root, albeit very unevenly, cities were so glad to finally land deals that they routinely overpaid, not having a solid grasp of the demographic and market forces they should have been channeling instead of subsidizing. It’s especially true for retail and entertainment projects, which generate very poor-quality jobs. I have yet to find a city that has figured out how to ‘take the foot off the pedal’ and stop over-subsidizing, even when gentrification becomes a problem.” ShouldHas BeensProblemJobsForcePoorDealsCitiesQualityFeetLandProjectsRootsShould HaveEntertainmentGladTrendsShould Have BeenDemographicsChannelingRetailPedalsGentrificationPoor Quality Author:Sandy Smith
“It is commonplace that a problem stated is well on its way to solution, for statement of the nature of a problem signifies that the underlying quality is being transformed into determinate distinctions of terms and relations or has become an object of articulate thought.” WayWellsProblemTermQualityObjectsSolutionsRelationStatementsDistinctionTransformedCommonplace Book:The Later Works, 1925-1953: 1929-1930 Source: The Later Works, 1925-1953: 1929-1930
“Curitiba is not a paradise. We have all the problems that most Latin American cities have. We have slums. We have the same difficulties, but the big difference is the respect given by people due to the quality of the services which are provided.” PeopleProblemBigsGivenDifferencesCitiesQualityDifficultyDuesParadiseLatinLatin AmericaSlumsAmerican CitiesLatin American Author:Jaime Lerner
“Most people believe that schools were good enough when they were children and that they are good enough now. But the dynamic growth of our system of education has spawned serious problems of educational quality.” PeopleBelieveChildrenEnoughProblemSchoolGrowthQualitySeriousEducationalGood Enough Author:Diane Ravitch
“In a sense, every tool is a machine--the hammer, the ax, and the chisel. And every machine is a tool. The real distinction is between one man using a tool with his hands and producing an object that shows at every stage the direction of his will and the impression of his personality; and a machine which is producing, without the intervention of a particular man, objects of a uniformity and precision that show no individual variation and have no personal charm. The problem is to decide whether the objects of machine production can possess the essential qualities of art.” MenArtRealShowsProblemHandsIndividualQualityStageObjectsParticularPersonalityEssentialsToolsMachinesProductionsImpressionCharmDistinctionOne ManInterventionHammersVariationPrecisionUniformityChisels Author:Herbert Read
“The problem now is (that) the foods of poor quality are the ones coming in from home from teachers and staff, used for birthday parties and for things like booster sales.” ProblemHomeUsedPoorPartyQualityTeacherBirthdayStaffBirthday PartyPoor Quality Author:Robert E. Murray
“I think a big problem with art school is that it makes people feel like they have to be interested in everything that's of high quality.” PeopleThinkingFeelsArtProblemBigsSchoolQualityBig ProblemsHigh QualityArt School Author:John Currin
“One of the main problems of our time is that men are deprived of their human qualities that are wrongly called feminine, and women are deprived of their human qualities that are wrongly called masculine.” MenHumansProblemQualityOur TimeFeminineMasculineDeprivedHuman Qualities Author:Gloria Steinem
“Very few people realize the damage even one mercury vapor light can inflict on birds, air quality and human sleep patterns. It a serious problem that is rapidly growing and it will take all of us to take action before we see results.” PeopleHumansProblemLightActionRealizingSleepResultsQualityGrowingAirSeriousBirdPatternsDamageMercuryVaporAir Quality Author:Will Young
“You can have lots of feelings and have the same feelings over and over again. It isn't the recognizable feelings that make so much difference. It is sensing the edge, the unclear, what you don't recognize, but it is there, the bodily discomfort that the problem makes, which has meaning; it has its own peculiar quality, implicity, it is complex, it has in it everything that relates to that problem, but not in a way you can say.” WayFeelingsProblemBodyDifferencesQualityComplexesEdgesRelateRelatedMaking A DifferencePeculiarRecognizingDiscomfortImplicationsUnclearSensing Author:Eugene Gendlin
“There is something frightful in the way in which not only characteristic qualities, but particular manifestations of them, are repeated from generation to generation.” WayProblemQualityFamilyGenerationsParticularManifestationCharacteristics Author:Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
“Almost any problem, whether it's telling a family story, or telling a network-quality story, or answering a network note, becomes essentially instantly solvable, because you have a bunch of brains sitting in a room.” StoriesProblemRoomsBrainQualitySittingNotesBunch Author:Loren Bouchard
“The arts shows that you're civilized, and it makes life sweet. So you can exist and you can buy more things and you can be more - we're dealing with a form of commercialism that obscures a prior relationship to quality, and it's a national problem.” ArtShowsProblemFormQualitySweetCivilizedCommercialism Author:Wynton Marsalis
“You're a bore, I said to me. You're puny. You're lacking in quality, like a pair of factory-rejected Fruit of the Loom shorts. And this was without considering any sexual problems, since I've never had sex with anyone except myself.” SaidProblemSexQualityFruitPairsFactoriesBoresRejectedConsideringLackingShorts Author:Paul Zindel
“The problem was with construction and retail, you have to be able to shut things off at night and spend quality time with yourself and family. I couldn't do it. I knew that I wasn't going to be able to give 100% to my passion if I held on to them.” IfsGivingProblemAbleNightPassionQualityConstructionMy PassionRetailQuality Time Author:Drew Waters