Other People's Problems Quotes

…God, it’s over. Takumi, you gotta stop stealing other people’s problems and get some of your own.

I'm someone who doesn't believe in making my problems other people's problems.

I'd rather have happiness than money. People ask for it. Sometimes when I don't have it. I make other people's problems my problem because they want me to; they ask me to.

It's probably the last thing you think about when you're making a film is other people's problems. You're thinking about your problem, which is making the movie. But you do have a responsibility. You can't mess around with people's emotions.

Don't get bogged down by life and other people's problems or hang ups.

The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other peoples' money.

If anything needs to get fixed in society, it's people's consumption of other people's problems.

A consultant solves other people"s problems. I could never do that. I want to help other people solve their own problems.

I hate to admit this, but some days hearing about other people's problems actually cheers me up.

Socialist governments traditionally do make a financial mess. They always run out of other people's money. It's quite a characteristic of them.

Once you assume your right to interfere in other people's problems they become in some ways more of a worry than your own, for with your own you can at least do what you think best, but other people always show such a persistent tendency to do the wrong thing.

When one's own problems are unsolvable and all best efforts frustrated, it is lifesaving to listen to other people's problems.

When a friend needs consoling, do not give in to the temptation of telling stories similar to theirs of disaster or bereavement. It is something people often do to show empathy but nothing is more tiresome than other people's problems when you want to focus on your own. Listening is by far the best form of consolation.

It's the recognition that other people's problems, their pain and frustrations, are every bit as real as our own - often far worse. In recognizing this fact and trying to offer some assistance, we open our hearts and greatly enhance our sense of gratitude.

Nothing helps us build our perspective more than developing compassion for others. Compassion is a sympathetic feeling. It involves the willingness to put yourself in someone else's shoes, to take the focus off yourself and to imagine what it's like to be in someone else's predicament, and simultaneously, to feel love for that person. It's the recognition that other people's problems, their pain and frustrations, are every bit as real as our own-often far worse. In recognizing this fact and trying to offer some assistance, we open our own hearts and greatly enhance our sense of gratitude.

Most of us are experts at solving other people's problems, but we generally solve them in terms of our own and the advice we give is seldom for other people but for ourselves.

Don't be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people's thinking.

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.