“I'll say that I don't think you can throw a stone and not come in contact with someone who knows someone or has problems with substance abuse.” ThinkingKnowsProblemStonesAbuseContactSubstanceSubstance Abuse Author:Octavia Spencer
“How scientists go about their job: and it's a process, it's a question of asking questions, respecting observation, respecting experiment, having tentative explanations and then testing them.... There is a problem sometimes with how we teach science at schools. Because we sometimes teach it as if it has been chiseled in stone.” IfsHas BeensSometimesProblemSchoolJobsProcessTeachStonesScientistAskingExperimentsObservationExplanationTestingAsking Questions Author:Paul Nurse
“The problem that first demands solution is to discover the disruptive agent which would be potent enough to rip the Cloghvorra Stone from its parent bed, to bear it down the valley for miles, and to cast it on the mountain side.” FirstsEnoughProblemWould BeParentSidesBearsBedDemandMountainSolutionsStonesCastsMilesAgentsValleysRipDisruptive Book:The Cause of an Ice Age Source: The Cause of an Ice Age
“Any high school boy or girl knows how to calculate the force with which a stone he or she throws will hit someone in the face, but nothing in those equations they use will tell them whether or not to throw it...To solve the problem of values we must know what is valuable. Consciousness is the most valuable commodity...To bring values into science, we need to connect science with what is valuable consciousness.” KnowsNeedsUseProblemSchoolFacesValuesGirlForceConsciousnessBoysKnow HowHigh SchoolStonesValuableSolveCommodityEquations Author:Ravi Gomatam
“Think that you are part of a big construction called science and you are not just a chemist but you are scientist. Be modest but proud. Modest because you know you will not be able to solve other problems because your life is too short. But be proud because you are contributing to it. Some people will bring a small stone to the building and some people will bring a big one but nevertheless no one can take that stone away from you.” PeopleThinkingKnowsProblemBigsAbleLife IsBuildingProudStonesScientistSolveConstructionNeverthelessModestBe ProudToo ShortLife Is Too ShortContributingAway From YouChemist Author:Jean-Marie Lehn
“We do what we want to do. We write songs. We try not to repeat ourselves too much. We have our own sound and our own way of doing things. Up until now it has always been enjoyable. None of the members have ever got to the point where they don't want to be involved in it ... It's not entirely possible for me to stand back and look at the Rolling Stones because being a part of it you can't. I wish that I could just sit in the audience for one night and see the show. Everyone in the band has said that at some point. But then you wouldn't be seeing the whole band. And that's the problem with that.” WayWantWritingTryingLooksSaidWholeShowsProblemNightSongWishSoundAudienceToo MuchSeeingInvolvedBandMembersStonesRepeatsRollingEnjoyableOne NightRolling Stones Author:Keith Richards
“I would say I was a philosophical boy. Thoughts about 'identical stones' are the earliest philosophical thoughts I remember. But when I was a teenager I also thought about the more typical philosophical problems teenagers think about: the existence of god, the objectivity of morality, whether one can know that the external world exists.” ThinkingKnowsWorldProblemRememberExistenceBoysMoralityStonesPhilosophicalTeenagerTypicalIdenticalObjectivityExistence Of God Author:Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra
“The only time we can fail is if we quit. Most perceived failures are only stepping stones being small problems encountered along the path to a goal. Obstacles are opportunities for growth, therefore, encourage and embrace them.” IfsProblemOpportunityGoalGrowthPathFailingStonesEmbraceObstaclesQuittingOnly TimeStepping StonesSmall Problems Author:Arthur Frederick Saunders
“We shouldn't forget that in the case of Georgia, a problem was done away with that bothered [Vladimir] Putin personally - that is, the security during the Winter Olympics in Sochi in 2014. Security not in the sense of a guaranteed absence of a terror attack, but in pursuing the aim of moving hot spots of possible conflict farther from the site of the Olympic Games, which are to be held a stone's throw from Abkhazia - that is, in de jure Georgia.” DoneProblemMovingGamesForgetCasesSecurityConflictStonesHotAimWinterTerrorAbsenceSpotsOlympicsSiteBotheredPutinGeorgiaOlympic GamesTerror AttacksWinter OlympicsSochi Author:Garry Kasparov
“My career plan at this point is 'Ice Age 5' through '10,' and even '12,' and 'Spider Man' - you know, basically I'd be Emma Stone's dad for the rest of my career. I really don't have any problem doing that.” KnowsMenProblemAgeCareersPlansDadStonesIceSpidersEmmaSpider ManIce Age Author:Denis Leary
“What is remembered is not a deed in stone but a metaphor. Meta = above. Pheren = to carry. That which is carried above the literalness of life. A way of thinking that avoids the problems of gravity. The word won't let me down. The single word that can release me from all that unuttered weight.” ThinkingWayProblemStonesWeightLet MeMetaphorDeedsReleaseRememberedGravityWay Of ThinkingSingle WordLet Me Down Author:Jeanette Winterson
“You'll come to my grave? To tell me your problems?" My problems? "Yes.' And you'll give me answers? "I'll give you what I can. Don't I always?" I picture his grave, on the hill, overlooking the pond, some little nine foot piece of earth where they will place him, cover him with dirt, put a stone on top. Maybe in a few weeks? Maybe in a few days? I see myself sitting there alone, arms across my knees, staring into space. It won't be the same, I say, not being able to hear you talk. "Ah, talk . . . " He closes his eyes and smiles. "Tell you what. After I'm dead, you talk. And I'll listen.” GivingLittlesI CanProblemEyeAbleEarthSpaceAnswersPiecesWeekFeetArmsSittingStonesGive MeGravesNineHillsStaringKneesHis EyesDirtPondsOverlookingStaring Into Space Author:Mitch Albom
“Question four: What book would you give to every child? Answer: I wouldn't give them a book. Books are part of the problem: this strange belief that a tree has nothing to say until it is murdered, its flesh pulped, and then (human) people stain this flesh with words. I would take children outside and put them face to face with chipmunks, dragonflies, tadpoles, hummingbirds, stones, rivers, trees, crawdads. That said, if you're going to force me to give them a book, it would be The Wind In The Willows, which I hope would remind them to go outside.” PeopleIfsGivingHumansChildrenSaidBookProblemWould BeFacesBeliefForceAnswersFourTreeStrangeWindBirdRiversStonesFleshFace To FaceStainsHummingbirdsDragonfliesWind In The WillowsTadpolesChipmunks Author:Derrick Jensen
“We all build internal sea walls to keep at bay the sadnesses of life and the often overwhelming forces within our minds. In whatever way we do this—through love, work, family, faith, friends, denial, alcohol, drugs, or medication—we build these walls, stone by stone, over a lifetime. One of the most difficult problems is to construct these barriers of such a height and strength that one has a true harbor, a sanctuary away from crippling turmoil and pain, but yet low enough, and permeable enough, to let in fresh seawater that will fend off the inevitable inclination toward brackishness.” WayMindEnoughProblemPainForceDifficultSeaSadnessWallDrugLowsStonesLifetimeAlcoholInevitableDenialHeightInternalsBarriersOverwhelmingConstructsInclinationHarborsSanctuaryTurmoilMedicationSadness Of LifeDifficult ProblemsWork FamilyOverwhelming Force Author:Kay Redfield Jamison
“Why did the achievers overcome problems while thousands are overwhelmed by theirs? They refused to hold on to the common excuses for failure. They turned their stumbling blocks into stepping stones. They realized that they couldn't determine every circumstance in life but they could determine their choice of attitude towards every circumstance.” ProblemChoicesCommonAttitudeCircumstancesNegativeStonesOvercomingDetermineExcuseBlockOverwhelmedStumblingStepping StonesAchieverStumbling Blocks Book:Maxwell 2in1 (Developing the Leader w/in You/Developing Leaders Around You) Source: Maxwell 2in1 (Developing the Leader w/in You/Developing Leaders Around You)
“Mistakes are the stepping stones to wisdom, we learn from trial & error, we become wise by understanding problems.” LifeProblemWisdomUnderstandingMistakeLearningWiseBecomingStonesBaseballErrorsTrialsAfrican AmericanHappy LifeLearning From MistakesStepping StonesTrial And ErrorOutfielders Author:Leon Brown