Judy Smith Quotes

The easiest way to solve a problem is to deny it exists.

Competing pressures tempt one to believe that an issue deferred is a problem avoided. More often it is a crisis invited.

Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.

If people can't deal with their problems, they numb themselves a little bit.

We spend more time developing means of escaping our troubles than we do solving the troubles we're trying to escape from.

Lets not push it under the rug, or push it to the side because, no matter what, it's going to keep coming up. You know, if you never deal with that dirt up under the carpet, it's going to get larger and larger, and it's going to keep coming up.

If you don't think about or deal with an issue, it gets bigger.

Human nature being what it is, people don't want to acknowledge that a problem exists when they know they have 35 other problems to deal with.

Not facing a fire doesn't put it out.

Oftentimes in tech, people think, 'I'm the only one that has this.' I call them the Atlas People. They're like, 'The weight of the world is on the shoulders. I'm the only person who can solve this problem.' But you can't do that.

It's impossible to exorcise the darkness out of you. We can pretend it's not there until something bursts.

My biggest worry is that sometimes you know the problem, but you don't do anything about it until it gets too big to be fixed.

Don't ignore big problems, and don't try to pretend that problems are smaller than they are.

I think if something's wrong with me, I just kind of work through it. That's my mentality.

I think we have a cultural difficulty with looking at our problems.

'Sons of the Prophet' is a dark comedy about human suffering. The play explores the particularly messy portions of life - the times where you find yourself coping with multiple life issues, and before any of them can be resolved, two more show up on your plate. We've all been there, I'd wager.

I think I rely on my talent more than my brain sometimes.

The formula of the argument is simple and familiar: to dispose of a problem all that is necessary is to deny that it exists.

Ours is a society of denial that conditions us to protect ourselves from any direct difficulty and discomfort. We expend enormous energy denying our insecurity, fighting pain, death and loss and hiding from the basic truths of the natural world and of our own nature.

That's maybe the reason he does so many things so that he will not have to think .

If you run away from trouble, it always follows.

As a man handles his troubles during the day, so he goes to bed at night a General, Captain, or Private.

An uncomfortable feeling is not an enemy. It's a gift that says, "Get honest; inquire." We reach out for alcohol, or television, or credit cards, so we can focus out there and not have to look at the feeling. And that's as it should be, because in our innocence we haven't known how. So now what we can do is reach out for a paper and a pencil, write thought down, and investigate.

I doubted myself for a long time... I'm comfortable not using my vision. I weave around my problems.

The only practical way yet discovered by the world for curing its ills is to forget about them.