#problems

An activist is someone who makes an effort to see problems that are not being addressed and then makes an effort to make their voice heard. Sometimes there are so many things that it's almost impossible to make your voice heard in every area, but you can sure try. ↗

— Joanne Woodward

#addressed #almost #area #being #effort

People often pulled into Scientology want to address personal problems in their life, and Scientology says we have technology that addresses these kinds of problems. Just focusing on the problems and trying to remedy them can be helpful. ↗

— Lawrence Wright

#focusing #helpful #into #just #kinds

If poets often commit suicide, it is not because their poems are bad but because they are good. Whoever heard of a bad poet committing suicide? The reader is only a little better off. The exhilaration of a good poem lasts twenty minutes, an hour at most. Unlike the scientist, the artist has reentry problems that are frequent and catastrophic. ↗

— Walker Percy

#poetry #reentry-problems #suicide #art

Talking about a problem sometimes makes it worse. ↗

— Dean Koontz

#life #problems #humor

I think recent revelations about who's in what bed speak to the problems with what happened in the Gulf. ↗

— Stephanie Tubbs Jones

#bed #gulf #happened #i #i think

It might seem unfair to reward a person for having so much pleasure over the years, asking the maize plant to solve specific problems and then watching its responses. ↗

— Barbara McClintock

#having #might #much #over #person

I don't think any one person is the cause of all of someone else's problems. ↗

— Helen Reddy

#cause #else #i #person #problems

Of course women can have it all - if they want it all. I won't hear any defeatist talk. If you just dwell on problems, you won't get anywhere fast. ↗

— Louise Mensch

#anywhere #course #dwell #fast #get

No problems are ever resolved by violence. It only aggravates the pain and the hurt on every side. ↗

— Pranab Mukherjee

#every #hurt #only #pain #problems

As obesity creeps into preschools, and hypertension and type II diabetes become pediatric problems for the very first time, the case for starting preventive health care in the cradle has become too compelling to keep ignoring. ↗

— Heidi Murkoff

#care #case #compelling #cradle #creeps