"Before it can be solved, a problem must be clearly defined."

-- William Feather

#Problem Quotes

“Every duty which is bidden to wait returns with seven fresh duties at its back.”

Source : Charles Kingsley (1873). “Selections from Some of the Writings of the Rev. C. Kingsley, M.A.”, p.143
“Wikipedia flourished partly because it was a shrine to altruism.”

Source : Nicholson Baker (2012). “The Way the World Works”, p.191, Simon and Schuster
“At the top of this list has to be "get in that ass". It's the ultimate Leonism to get you through life.”

Source : Interview with Charlie Parrish, uk.askmen.com.
“These are the people who do studies that your carry-out Chinese meals are saturated in fat. I'd just like to meet them! I mean, what do they do for pleasure?”
“Chris [ Nolan] and I have a strange way of working from the non-movie process, where after all these conversations and reading the script and more conversations, Chris went out and shot the films and the first thing he did, he wouldn't show it to me until I had written the music - not out of meanness, or anything, it just sort of seemed an interesting idea to see if there was some synchronicity and letting me use my imagination to the fullest instead of being constricted by cuts and images.”
“A banjo will get you through times of no money, but money won't get you through times of no banjo”
“We like to believe that, in our lifetime, the human condition is improving.”
“I wonder what it means about American literary culture and its transmission when I consider the number of American poets who earn their living teaching creative writing in universities. I've ended up doing that myself.”

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