The world is beset by many problems, but in my opinion, this hijacking of our brain's reward centers by electronic media is potentially one of the most destructive.
We have the means and the capacity to deal with our problems, if only we can find the political will.
The art of research [is] the art of making difficult problems soluble by devising means of getting at them.
If everyone sincerely practices the path of compassion and wisdom, all their problems will be solved. I guarantee this.
So given that reality, let us not cast that all of the problems and ills of our society are somehow upon the immigrants who have come to this country.
We have a tendency to obscure the forest of simple joys with the trees of problems.
Instead of fixing all your problems, God may be wanting to use your problems to teach you to trust and obey Him.
I'm always presenting myself with problems to solve as a writer.
I felt like I had to be conscious of myself as a girl for the first time. I had to be more feminine. I had to look a certain way. And it's something that you want to suffer in silence, but I would go onto movie sets and they would bring out bras that were basically binders, because there were continuity problems between months.
Problems reconciling mom and the wife are difficult in the best of times.
How is it possible for people in the modern world to go on killing each other for religion? The problems we should be concerned with nowadays are quite different!
When you look at the possibilities instead of the problems, the future is filled with endless opportunities
It is a whole lot easier to see our problems in others than it is to see them in ourselves.
Besides problems of traditional societies, the Caucasus has to cope with quite a few unsettled territorial conflicts that also nurture authoritarian governmental structures.
Instead of confronting its real and difficult problems and grappling honestly with a dark past, Hungary embraced a reactionary government and a self-pitying image of itself as the victimized nation, and went looking for scapegoats in the Roma, Jews, and, most recently, Syrian migrants.
Human beings share the same common problems. A film can only be understood if it depicts these properly.
Policy makers still think that if we just hand out more money the world's problems will be solved.
The source of their motivation ranges from what you might expect - from the seeking of money and publicity, to those who genuinely suffer from chronic personal problems and have fixated on me as the cause of their frustrations and failures.
As the world of science has grown in size and in power, its deepest problems have changed from the epistemological to the social.
I think that we are in a position to continue to make progress, but it's gonna require us to both recognize what the problems are, also recognize the progress we've made. Last point I'd make on this, since we're on criminal justice: During the course of my presidency crime has been the lowest it's been probably since the '60s.