Ignoring Problems Quotes

Closing your eyes isn't going to change anything. Nothing's going to disappear just because you can't see what's going on. In fact, things will even be worse the next time you open your eyes. That's the kind of world we live in. Keep your eyes wide open. Only a coward closes his eyes. Closing your eyes and plugging up your ears won't make time stand still.

The key is to never recognize these imbalances. To not let the dauntingness daunt us.

Racism is a disease. Go to your doctor with an ailment, and let the doctor tell you, 'Well, look, I'm not going to treat you; we're just not going to talk about it. It's going to go away.' You would look at him like he's crazy. By not talking about racism, it's not going to go away.

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

Indifference creates an artificial peace.

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

If everyone simply ignores the caste system, it will go away overnight.

Not facing a fire doesn't put it out.

When we postpone the harvest, the fruit rots, but when we postpone our problems, they keep on growing.

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

Excluding certain problems from the political debate by making it a crime to discuss them won't lead to the disappearance of these concerns, let alone contribute to a solution.

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.

I certainly have been guilty of trying to sweep things under the carpet.

There is the natural tendency that all of us are vulnerable to, to deny unpleasant realities and to look for any excuse to push them away and resolve to think about them another day long in the future.

The trick to forgetting the big picture is to look at everything close-up. The shortcut to closing a door is to bury yourself in the details. This is how we must look to God. As if everything's fine.

Today is already the tomorrow which the bad economist yesterday urged us to ignore.

It is easier to look the other way. But if you do, terrible things can happen.

At first, the new owner pretends he never looked at the living room floor.

Things don't go away just because you choose to forget them.

No movie can change society, but there are things that can be achieved by a film. For example, we are sitting in a room that has a lizard in it but we don't mention it because it is not bothering us. But if I stand up and say there is a lizard in the room, then we will try to deal with it - in whatever way.

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

The longer you delay, the more your sin gets strength and rooting. If you cannot bend a twig, how will you be able to bend it when it is a tree?

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 we turn our heads and look away and hope that it will all disappear then they will - all of them, an entire generation of people. And we will have only history left to judge us.

Neglect mending a small fault and 'twill soon be a great one.