Isaac Asimov Quotes

I think, sometimes when we face problems and issues in our life, we have a tendency to really deny that a problem exists. Or sometimes we say, oh, it'll go away, or we can handle it. It's - you know, don't worry. I've got it covered. And a lot of times, that's not the case.

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

No problem is so big or so complicated that it can't be run away from!

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

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

The more we run from a problem, the more we're actually running into it.

I'd chosen instead to just change my route, go miles out of the way, as if avoiding it would make it go away once and for all.

Your Englishman, confronted by something abnormal will always pretend that it isn't there. If, however, you force him to look into it, he'll at once pretend that he sees the object not for what it is but for something that he would like it to be.

Not facing a fire doesn't put it out.

Pretend hard enough and maybe it will go away.

Success hides problems...you don't need to address problems.

It is much easier to bury a problem than to solve it.

You can run from some problems, but then you get caught up in others.

It doesn't matter if the truth is right there out in front of your eyes. You will find a way, a mechanism, in order to keep your own system of denial. So as I always say it, denial is a river that runs in the - in Egypt. So we became very good in that.

The only the way that you can live and function without seeing the facts in front of you is to put yourself in a constant state of denial.

Bind up their wounds - but look the other way.

In China, we are considering ways of resolving our problems by improving our institutions.

I am always amazed by people who know something is wrong but still insist on ignoring it, as if that will somehow make it go away. They spare themselves the confrontation, but end up boiling in resentment anyway.

I consider myself to be a relatively helpful person, and there's an interesting line when hope starts to become the way you actually mask or hide from what's really happening.

You have to get away from them. You have to get as far away as you can otherwise they'll kill you with their lives. They don't know what they do. They are careless with themselves and they take too much for granted. They make their shortcomings your problem. The only way to keep your head above it and heal your wounds is to crawl away.

Get through the moment. Avoid confrontation. Run away. That's pretty much how we get through our own lives, watching television. Smoking crap. Self-medicating. Redirecting our own attention. Jacking off. Denial.

Always prepare secondary ways of dealing with problems.

There are two ways in which a science develops; in response to problems which is itself creates, and in response to problems that are forced on it from the outside.

I actually believe in denial.

Come to close?No one wants to come to close.If it's done for them,they accept it,even while they condemn it.Why not?But no one wants to know what it's like.Turn a blind eye.Maybe it will go away.