Invert, always invert: Turn a situation or problem upside down. Look at it backward.

The hardest part of solving a problem is accurately defining it.

I don’t have problems. I am a writer. I am the problem.

So if the players trust the coach, it’s not a problem. If the players don’t trust the coach, it is a problem, and vice versa.

The idea that a robot will become more aware of its environment, that telling it to ‘go to the kitchen’ means something – navigation and understanding of the environment is a robot problem. Those are the technological frontiers of the robotics industry.

Military is a great place for a jock. That’s the first thing they test you, they test you physically. If you can run, if you can do the pushups, it’s not as hard a transition. If you can’t do that, you’re going to have a problem because they’re going to really work it out of...

The best time to complain is right after you’ve come up with a solution to the problem. Pose the questions, present the answers, and then pose nude while the people make statues out of you in veneration.

What are problems to a man who strongly believes there are effective solutions to all problems?

A light on my car’s dashboard came on, and instead of fixing the problem, I waited for the bulb to burn out. Crisis solved.

The NFL, sadly, has a fatal environmental problem: It kills its workers.

If we don’t somehow stem the tide of childhood obesity, we’re going to have a huge problem.

Race in America is not a problem you can go over, or around or under. You’ve got to go through it.

When I trade, I don’t have an agency problem; I have my neck on the line. When a bank or banker trades, it’s not his neck on the line.

Oddly, I do have a problem with authority. I find it very difficult to knuckle down and follow rules. Which are the classic symptoms of someone who has a troubled relationship with their father. And yet, I never had a problem with my father.

The problem is never the problem. The problem is your attitude about the problem. Think before you rush into action.

If you are a professional, the speed with which you react to a potential problem separates the men from the boys.

Many people pray to be kept out of unexpected problems. Some people pray to be able to confront and overcome them.

My problem happens to be near-sightedness – inability to see distance. And this is pretty tough on a golfer.

Two people don’t see same event as opportunity. When one see it a problem; other look to capitalize it for optimum benefit

Money is a never-ending problem.

There are more people at Obama’s table offering ideas than there were five years ago, but when it came to facing up to the Republicans’ threat to force a double-dip recession if they didn’t get their millionaires’ tax cut, they still amounted to nothing. And therein lies our fundamental problem.

The genre of science fiction is a fun house, an amusement park ride, but it’s also a problem. The question that’s always being indirectly asked is this: ‘Just who do we think we are and, further, who do we want to be?’

It’s only a problem until you ignore it. Come on, that’s Politics 101.

All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities.

Indians have a big problem with alcohol and drugs. I grew up with an admiration for their culture and was sensitive to their problems.

Again and again our Lord allows the world to crumble to the breaking point, so that people may feel the pain and learn to understand their place in the universe under a sovereign and loving Creator.

I love being Jewish; I have no problem with it at all. But it did become like a scar, with all these people saying you don’t look it.

Sometimes the weekend gets hijacked by work, but as my mother would say, this is the right problem.

The whole point about historians is that we are really communing with the dead. It’s very restful – because you read. There’s some sociopathic problem that makes me prefer it to human interaction.

I believe that the biggest problem that humanity faces is an ego sensitivity to finding out whether one is right or wrong and identifying what one’s strengths and weaknesses are.

I always got on well with Roberto Mancini and never had a problem with him. Every manager has their own way of working, tactics, and style of play. As a player, you do what the manager says. There are misunderstandings, but generally, everything was fine under Mancini.

In fact a favourite problem of [John Tyndall] is—Given the molecular forces in a mutton chop, deduce Hamlet or Faust therefrom. He is confident that the Physics of the Future will solve this easily.

The problem with me is, I guess, the way I express myself, you have to be with me 50 years before you can get a sense of what I’m talking about.

Problem can get bigger or smaller it all depends on how we view it individually

Never blame someone else for your problem. You are your problem.

I think the Smart Car is awesome. The only problem is I’ve been on the freeway and felt like I was going to be blown away like a Tim Hortons coffee cup, so I may have to upgrade to a Mini Cooper – something a little stronger.

If these d’Herelle bodies were really genes, fundamentally like our chromosome genes, they would give us an utterly new angle from which to attack the gene problem. They are filterable, to some extent isolable, can be handled in test-tubes, and their properties, as shown by their effects on the bacteria, can then be studied after...

Focus on your problem zones, your strength, your energy, your flexibility and all the rest. Maybe your chest is flabby or your hips or waist need toning. Also, you should change your program every thirty days. That’s the key.

The big problem that is holding back Linux is games. People don’t realize how critical games are in driving consumer purchasing behavior. We want to make it as easy as possible for the 2,500 games on Steam to run on Linux as well.

The problem with beauty is you will always be in trouble, when you don’t know what beauty is.

It’s really easy to create a $1 billion company – you just have to solve a $10 billion problem.

To the wise, life is a problem; to the fool, a solution.

It urges policy makers and the Supreme Court to make the mistake of curing what could prove to be an isolated problem by disarming the government of its principal weapon to stop future terrorist attacks.

We in Tunisia have no problem with respecting other people’s religion, and we have a long tradition of that.

Facing problems? Good. Even cocoon does. It makes the wings stronger you know.

I have no problem with nudity. I can look at myself. I like walking around nude. It doesn’t bother me. I see all the people walking around nude; it doesn’t bother me.

It didn’t make you noble to step away from something that wasn’t working, even if you thought you were the reason for the malfunction. Especially then. It just made you a quitter. Because if you were the problem, chances were you could also be the solution. The only way to find out was to take...

Consistency simplifies the problem more than hard work of one time because no problem cannot possibly beat you everyday.

I don’t look at a problem and put variables in there that don’t affect it.

The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they’re going to have some pretty annoying virtues.