problem perception Quotes

A lot of people are focused on climate change as a defining challenge of our time. A lot of people think it is a non-problem, at least in the United States.

The resistance of policy-makers to intelligence is not just founded on an ideological presupposition. They distrust intelligence sources and intelligence officials because they don't understand what the real problems are.

Rich people are bigger than their problems. Poor people are smaller than their problems.

It's not the problem that causes our suffering; it's our thinking about the problem.

When you perceive that problems serve a purpose in your life, you will recognize that problems are opportunities in disguise.

You American people worry too much about the China economy. Every time you think China is a problem, we get better, but when you have a high expectation for China, China is always a problem.

What if the way we perceive a problem is already part of the problem?

There is no way to help a learner to be disciplined, active, and thoroughly engaged unless he perceives a problem to be a problem or whatever is to-be-learned as worth learning, and unless he plays an active role in determining the process of solution.

When things go wrong in our life and we encounter difficult situations, we tend to regard the situation itself as our problem, but in reality whatever problems we experience come from the side of the mind. If we were to respond to difficult situations with a positive or peaceful mind they would not be problems for us; indeed, we may even come to regard them as challenges or opportunities for growth and development. Problems arise only if we respond to difficulties with a negative state of mind. Therefore, if we want to be free from problems, we must transform our mind.

You are a great problem-creator. Just understand this and suddenly problems disappear.

The world is not a problem; the problem is your unawareness.

If we threw our problems in a pile and saw everyone else's, we'd grab ours back.

The future will present insurmountable problems- only when we consider them insurmountable.

My wife deals with real problems. My problems aren't problems - they're inconveniences.

Understand that a problem is only a problem if you choose to view it as a problem (vs. an opportunity).

As my manager says, 'These are wonderful problems.'

The only problem we really have is we think we're not supposed to have problems! Problems call us to higher level- - face & solve them now!

The problem is not the problem. The problem is your attitude about the problem. Got that? -Coach Brevin

Pessimists see problems as stemming from stable and universal causes, thus making them less susceptible to corrective action. Optimists, in contrast, view problems as temporary and resulting from specific factors that will either change or be changed.

Problems are rarely as bad as we think-or rather, they are precisely as bad as we think.

One of the extraordinary things about awakening is that it carries with it the realization that there is only Spirit. Even the things of the world that we look at as problems are simply part of the way the world manifests, because it does so in terms of opposites.

If people don't think they have the power to solve their problems, they won't even think about how to solve them.

One way of pointing to this realization is, when you think you have big problems, ask yourself, "What problem do I have at this moment?" Usually, you will find that you don't have a problem at this moment because you're sitting here and you're breathing, you're looking out the window, and it's fine.

I, personally, have a lot of energy, so I don't see it as an immediate problem.