Externalized Problems Quotes & Sayings

If you find yourselves in cuttings or in tunnels, don't you play no secret games, Keep your whistles going, and let's know where you are. — Charles Dickens

In the pulpit, we're supposed to present the teaching with all of its unvarnished clarity, but when you step out of the pulpit, you have to meet people where they are and try to walk with them. — Donald Wuerl

I'm trying to build something where people will go every day. — Max Levchin

The mind is just like a muscle - the more you exercise it, the stronger it gets and the more it can expand. — Idowu Koyenikan

Didn't I realize that each of us is a sacred, unique snowflake of special unique specialness? — Chuck Palahniuk

If you read Calvin, for example, he says, How do we know that we are godlike, in the image of God? Well, look at how brilliant we are. Look how we can solve problems even dreaming, which I think is true, which I've done myself. So instead of having an externalized model of reality with an objective structure, it has a model of reality that is basically continuously renegotiated in human perception. I think that view of things is pretty pervasively influential in Protestant thought. — Marilynne Robinson

Iran is actively pursuing the development of weapons of mass destruction and ballistic missiles. — Howard Berman

My job as Labour Home Secretary is to ensure people are prepared to listen to us when we take on our opponents across the political spectrum. — David Blunkett

People try so hard to let go of their negative behaviors and thoughts, and it doesn't work, or it works only for a short time. I didn't let go of my negative thoughts; I questioned them, and then they let go of me, and so did my addictions and depression. — Byron Katie

I've got all my old laptops going back to my first, which was so fancy at the time, in '93 or '94, but now it's just like a doorstop. One day I said, 'I'll go in and get all my old documents in there.' The cords and the wires are all gone, the discettes you need are gone. Meanwhile the little electrons are starting to wither away. — Douglas Coupland

The problem for us, as viewers, is that we want famous people who are passionate about the things they're famous for, because that makes them worthy of the attention. But I think many of those famous people just want to be famous. — Bo Burnham