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“It appeared that after first contemplating a book on some subject, and after giving serious preliminary attention to it, I needed a period of subconscious incubation which could not be hurried and was if anything impeded by deliberate thinking.... Having, by a time of very intense concentration, planted the problem in my subconsciousness, it would germinate underground until, suddenly, the solution emerged with a blinding clarity, so that it only remained to write down what happened as if in a revelation.”

“My authoritarian and quick manner of making decisions led me to have serious problems and to be accused of being ultraconservative. I have never been a right-winger. It was my authoritarian way of making decisions that created problems.”

Way Problem Decision Serious Accused Making Decisions

Book:My Door Is Always Open: A Conversation on Faith, Hope and the Church in a Time of Change

Source: My Door Is Always Open: A Conversation on Faith, Hope and the Church in a Time of Change

“I think the producers, for the most part, don't want to see prices skyrocket because that will only create problems for them down the road and would also be a, you know, would be a very serious shock for a world economy that can't afford serious shocks right now.”

Thinking Knows World Want Problem Would Be Economy Serious Right Now Producers Shock Down The Road World Economy

Author:Daniel Yergin

“The aging and decreasing population is a serious problem in many developed countries today. In Japan's case, these demographic changes are taking place at a more rapid pace than any other country has ever experienced.”

Country Problem Today Cases Serious Aging Population Japan Pace Other Countries Rapids Demographics Developed Country

Author:Toshihiko Fukui

“Modern society will find no solution to the ecological problem unless it takes a serious look at its lifestyle. In many parts of the world society is given to instant gratification and consumerism while remaining indifferent to the damage which these attitudes cause. Simplicity, moderation and discipline, as well as a spirit of sacrifice, must become part of everyday life, lest all suffer the negative consequences of the careless habits of a few.”

“More than 35 percent of the children exposed to a single traumatic event will develop serious mental health problems .. The real crisis of Katrina is the hundreds of thousands of ravaged, displaced and traumatized children.”

Children Real Problem Events Serious Percent Crisis Mental Health Exposed Katrina Health Problems Traumatic Events

Author:Bruce D. Perry

“Civil marriage is a very serious problem. I think that even the religious understands that we must look for some kind of a solution because we have some contradictions. . I'm sure there are many solutions.”

Thinking Looks Kind Problem Religious Serious Solutions Contradiction

Author:Avigdor Lieberman

“We have a serious structural deficit problem. And it needs to be addressed. The president is trying to address it through reforms of Social Security, but the problem is there with other entitlement programs like Medicare and Medicaid.”

Needs Trying Problem Social President Security Serious Program Reform Addresses Social Security Deficit Entitlement Medicare Medicaid Entitlement Programs Medicare And Medicaid

Author:John W. Snow

“Postpartum depression is a very real and very serious problem for many mothers. It can happen to a first time mom or a veteran mother. It can occur a few days... or a few months after childbirth.”

Firsts Real Problem Happens Mother Inspiring Serious Mom Months First Time Mental Health Veteran Mothers Day Childbirth Postpartum Postpartum Depression

Author:Richard Codey

“The farmer and the farm, like "the environment," are looked upon, for example, as means to offset trade deficits. The farm is a place where we can externalize costs. The cost of pesticides to the farmer and the cost of the pesticides to the soil and groundwater are regarded similarly by the public: "a serious problem that something ought to be done about." But the problem is more fundamental than this glib statement would indicate, for soil pollution is an expense of production. So are pesticides and nitrates in our farm wells. So is the loss of farmers from the land.”

Wells Mean Done Problem Loss Environment Land Example Serious Ought Cost Fundamentals Trade Productions Statements Soil Expenses Farms Farmers Pollution Deficit Pesticides Groundwater

Author:Wes Jackson

“Marijuana addiction is a serious problem”

Problem Serious Addiction Marijuana

Author:Chris Christie

“We have a serious problem with incarceration in this country. It's destroying families, it's destroying communities and we're the most incarcerated country in the world, and when you look deeper and look at the reasons we got to this place, we as a society made some choices politically and legislatively, culturally to deal with poverty, deal with mental illness in a certain way and that way usually involves using incarceration.”

World Way Looks Made Country Reason Problem Certain Choices Community Deals Poverty Serious Illness Deeper Mental Illness Destroying Incarceration

Author:John Legend

“You can't have a healthy economy without sound money, which is why we're on the verge of very serious economic problem.”

Problem Sound Economy Economic Serious Healthy Verge Economic Problems

Author:Ron Paul

“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.”

Thinking Way Character Problem Certain My Own Situation Serious Outsiders Going To Work Craziness

Author:Jonathan Coulton

“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.”

Made Problem Together Individual Pay Quality Practice Team Serious Members Doctors Patient Working Together Quantity Economist Team Working

Author:Atul Gawande

“The oceans are in trouble. There are some serious problems out there that I believe are not clear to many people. My hope is to continually find new ways of creating images and stories that both celebrate the sea yet also highlight environmental problems. Photography can be a powerful instrument for change.”

People Way Believe Stories Problem I Believe Powerful Clear Trouble Sea Serious Ocean Creating Photography Instruments Environmental Celebrate New Ways Highlights Environmental Problems

Author:Brian Skerry

“And no matter how serious an environmental problem the automobile poses in today's big city, the horse was dirtier, smelled worse, killed and maimed more people, and congested the streets just as much.”

People Matter Problem Bigs Today Cities Streets Serious Horse Environmental Automobile Big Cities Environmental Problems

Book:People and Performance

Source: People and Performance

“When you have 8,000 veterans a year committing suicide, then you have a serious problem.”

Years Problem Serious Suicide Veteran Committing Suicide

Author:Johnny Isakson

“Thank goodness we don't have only serious problems, but ridiculous ones as well.”

Wells Problem Serious Goodness Ridiculous

Book:Selected Writings on Computing: A personal Perspective

Source: Selected Writings on Computing: A personal Perspective

“There will be no room, here, for the smug myopia which views American civilization as the final solution to all world problems; which recommends our institutions for universal adoption and turns away with contempt from the serious study of the institutions of peoples whose civilizations may seem to us to be materially less advanced.”

World May Problem Seems Turns Rooms Views Study Serious Civilization Solutions Universal Institutions Finals Contempt Adoption World Problems Myopia

Author:George F. Kennan

“There are serious problems that have to do with the environment, that have to do with the way in which we live and consume.”

Way Problem Environment Serious

Author:Donald Wuerl

“Serious accidents are frequently blamed on "human error." Yet careful analysis of such situations shows that the design or installation of the equipment has contributed significantly to the problems. The design team or installers did not pay sufficient attention to the needs of those who would be using the equipment, so confusion or error was almost unavoidable.”

Needs Humans Shows Problem Would Be Pay Attention Situation Team Design Serious Errors Careful Accidents Confusion Analysis Sufficient Equipment Installation Human Error

Author:Donald A. Norman

“The United States needs serious change in its fiscal, entitlement, infrastructure, immigration, and education policies, among others. And yet a polarized and often paralyzed Washington has pushed dealing with these problems off into the future, which will only make them more difficult and expensive to solve.”

Needs States Problem Difficult United United States Policy Serious Solve Immigration Expensive Infrastructure Entitlement Paralyzed

Author:Fareed Zakaria

“Obstruction of mobility, where it occurs, is one of the most serious and intractable problems of industrial society.”

Problem Serious Mobility Obstruction

Book:Nations and Nationalism

Source: Nations and Nationalism

“Our problem isn't that the universe isn't on our side; the problem is that too many of us numb these days, not awake to the game, or to the power of the universe that flows through our psychic veins. Some of us need to stop whining. It's not like we're the first generation who faced serious challenges. But others rose to the occasion, and we need to too.”

Needs Firsts Problem Universe Games Sides Challenges Generations Serious Flow Rose Occasions These Days Awake Psychics Veins Numb Whining Stop Whining

Author:Marianne Williamson

“You become a serious programmer by going through a stage where you are fully aware of the degree to which you know the specification, meaning both the explicit and the tacit specification of your language and of your problem. "Hey, it works most of the time" is the very antithesis of a serious programmer, and certain languages can only support code like that.”

Knows Problem Certain Language Support Stage Serious Degrees Hey Code Where You Are Programmers Explicit Antithesis Tacit Specifications

Author:Erik Naggum

“There is no perception among the American people, nor their elected representatives, that there is a serious problem that needs fixing.”

People Needs Problem Serious Perception Representatives Fixing

Author:Robert Reischauer

“As a great socialist power the Soviet Union is fully aware of its responsibility to the peoples for preserving and strengthening peace. We are open to peaceful, mutually beneficial cooperation with states on all continents. We are for the peaceful settlement of all disputable international problems through serious, equal, and constructive talks.”

States Problem Responsibility Serious Equal Unions International Peaceful Cooperation Soviet Continents Socialist Soviet Union Beneficial Constructive Settlement Strengthening

Book:Soviet-U.S. relations: the selected writings and speeches of Konstantin U. Chernenko

Source: Soviet-U.S. relations: the selected writings and speeches of Konstantin U. Chernenko

“We must recognise that in an integrated world, trade cannot be divorced from other concerns. We need to promote free trade and serious global efforts with respect to common problems even as we support every nation's right to chart its own course.”

World Needs Problem Courses Nations Common Effort Support Serious Concern Trade Divorced Recognise Integrated Free Trade World Trade

Author:Lawrence Summers

“The belief that value judgments are not subject, in the last analysis, to rational control, encourages the inclination to make irresponsible assertions regarding right and wrong or good and bad. One evades discussion of serious issues by the simple device of passing them off as value problems, whereas, to say the least, many of these conflicts arose out of man's very agreement regarding values.”

Source: What is Political Philosophy? And Other Studies

“The most serious problems lie in the financial sphere, where the economy's debt overhead has grown more rapidly than the 'real' economy's ability to carry this debt. [...] The essence of the global financial bubble is that savings are diverted to inflate the stock market, bond market and real estate prices rather than to build new factories and employ more labor.”

Real Problem Lying Ability Economy Serious Labor Essence Financial Debt Saving Spheres Factories Bubbles Estates Savings Overhead Bond Market

Author:Michael Hudson

“Messi does not need his right foot, though. He only uses the left and he's still the best in the world! Imagine if he also used his right foot... Then we would have serious problems!”

Ifs World Needs Doe Stills Use Problem Used Left Imagine Feet Serious Messi

Author:Zlatan Ibrahimovic

“For me pressure is bird flu. I'm serious. I'm feeling a lot of pressure with the problem in Scotland. It's not fun and I'm more scared of it than football. Football is nothing compared with life. For me bird flu is the drama of the last few days. I'll have to buy a mask.”

Feelings Problem Lasts Fun Football Serious Drama Bird Pressure Scared Managers Soccer Mask Scotland Chairman Flu Bird Flu

Author:Jose Mourinho

“My dad drank pretty heavily, and he never missed a day of work in his life. So I never looked at drinking as a serious problem, but drugs to me are a serious problem. I think it's a generational thing. I think older people don't feel as uncomfortable around drinkers as they do around dopers.”

People Thinking Feels Problem Serious Dad Drug Drinking My Dad Uncomfortable Drank Drinkers Older People

Author:Alex Trebek

“The age of the book is not over. No way... But maybe the age of some books is over. People say to me sometimes 'Steve, are you ever going to write a straight novel, a serious novel' and by that they mean a novel about college professors who are having impotence problems or something like that. And I have to say those things just don't interest me. Why? I don't know. But it took me about twenty years to get over that question, and not be kind of ashamed about what I do, of the books I write.”

People Knows Way Writing Years Kind Mean Book Sometimes Problem Age Interest Novel College Serious Twenties Ashamed Be Kind Professors Get Over Impotence College Professors

Author:Stephen King

“When you are so obsessed with identity politics it's not healthy because you're constantly worried about how you're perceived as opposed to your achievements. Once your identity becomes your achievement then you run into serious problems.”

Problem Running Identity Serious Healthy Achievement Worried Obsessed Identity Politics

Author:Greg Gutfeld

“The problems raised by a conscious direction of economic affairs on a national scale inevitably assume even greater dimensions when the same is attempted internationally. The conflict between planning and freedom cannot but become more serious as the similarity of standards and values among those submitted to a unitary plan diminishes.”

Problem Values Greater Plans Economic Serious Conflict Standards Conscious Assuming Raised Affair Scales Planning Dimensions Diminish Similarity Standards And Values

Author:Friedrich August von Hayek

“There may be few instances in which the superstition that only measurable magnitudes can be important has done positive harm in the economic field: but the present inflation and employment problems are a very serious one.”

May Important Done Problem Economic Fields Serious Harm Instance Employment Superstitions Inflation Magnitude

Author:Friedrich August von Hayek

“I am hopeful that others who have suffered sexual harassment will not become discouraged by my experience, but instead will find the strength to speak out about this serious problem.”

Problem Speak Serious Hopeful Discouraged Speaks Out Harassment

Author:Anita Hill

“Those who hope for purity and righteousness always try and destroy that which disturbs them. They think the disturbance comes from outside themselves. This is a serious problem. Wars, suicide bombings, and all sorts of other nasty things start from the premise that we can destroy 'evil' outside ourselves without dealing with the evil within.”

Thinking Trying War Problem Evil Hope Serious Suicide Purity Righteousness Nasty Premises Bombing Disturbance Evil Within

Book:Zen Wrapped in Karma Dipped in Chocolate: A Trip through Death, Sex, Divorce, and Spiritual Celebrity in Search of the True Dharma

Source: Zen Wrapped in Karma Dipped in Chocolate: A Trip through Death, Sex, Divorce, and Spiritual Celebrity in Search of the True Dharma

“One of the most serious problems that our country has inherited an unwillingness to talk to anyone who disagrees with us or who won't accept, before a discussion, all the premises that we demand.”

Country Problem Accepting Serious Demand Our Country Discussion Disagree Premises

Author:Jimmy Carter

“It is important to note that research has shown that men who have abusive mothers do not tend to develop especially negative attitudes toward females, but men who have abusive fathers do; the disrespect that abusive men show their female partners and their daughters is often absorbed by their sons. So while a small number of abusive men do hate women, the great majority exhibit a more subtle-though often quite pervasive-sense of superiority or contempt toward females, and some don't show any obvious signs of problems with women at all until they are in a serious relationship.”

“The serious problems facing the world today will never be solved until women are able to use their full potential on behalf of themselves, their families, and their global and local communities, as the World Bank and others have discovered”

World Use Problem Today Able Community Serious Locals Behalf World Today Full Potential Local Community World Bank

Author:Jenny Shipley

“The most serious problem facing humankind is climate change. All of these people breathing and burning our atmosphere has led to an extraordinarily dangerous situation. I hope next generation will emerge and produce technology, regulations, and a worldview that enable as many of us as possible to live happy healthy lives.”

“In American Romances, her new book of essays, Rebecca Brown has a voice that is full of pop references, family stories, and the fruits of a lifetime of -- in her perfect phrase - extreme reading. The voice is a hoot, and it is dead serious. This is writing with exquisite control, fully up to the task Brown takes on of playing a fierce game of beach ball with deep problems of American (and personal) history and identity.”

“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.”

People Believe Children Enough Problem School Growth Quality Serious Educational Good Enough

Author:Diane Ravitch

“Now, here's a good question: should serious people focus on global political instability - terrorism, failing states, nuclear weapons - or should we focus on global climate instability - droughts, floods, extreme weather? Here's the correct answer: yes, both, because climate disruption will make every other national security problem worse.”

“Most human beings have enough sense to know that if they work in a city that has a serious smog problem, it's wise to either stay indoors or at least wear a mask that will filter out the poison. But cigarette smokers have their own little concentrated toxic smog pack that they don't avoid.”

Ifs Knows Humans Littles Enough Problem Human Beings Cities Wise Serious Poison Mask Toxic Cigarette Packs Filters Smokers Smog

Author:Ray Comfort

“To televisionize any serious problem, the program directors face the task of making the message 'go down smooth' until the audience is delivered to the commercial.”

Problem Faces Audience Serious Directors Messages Program Tasks Smooth

Author:Arlie Russell Hochschild

“[T]he enshrinement of constitutional rights necessarily takes certain policy choices off the table.... Undoubtedly some think that the Second Amendment is outmoded in a society where our standing army is the pride of our Nation, where well-trained police forces provide personal security, and where gun violence is a serious problem. That is perhaps debatable, but what is not debatable is that it is not the role of this Court to pronounce the Second Amendment extinct.”

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