Jimmy Buffett Quotes

The great problem now is that we don’t know what to do.

Life is filled with problems to be solved and tensions to be managed. Sometimes it helps to know which is which.

Leadership is solving problems.

A friend tweeted me with 'The Big Freeze.' I don't know about that one. I've got to go home, play around with the kids and figure something out. I'll have one.

I'm not a professional politician. I'm a professional problem solver.

The only thing you think of is that you are in the middle and that you've got to find a way to stop it.

The way you challenge Superman is by having things happen very, very quickly in different places and then asking, 'Who does he save first? What powers must he use to save each person or stop each disaster?' That's one of the ways you make him interesting beyond the thematic and moral issues that make Superman.

The wound-tight, travel-light Obama has a distaste for the adversarial and the random. But if you stick too rigidly to a 'No Drama' rule in the White House, you risk keeping reality at bay. Presidencies are always about crisis management.

The cardinal responsibility of leadership is to identify the dominant contradiction at each point of the historical process and to work out a central line to resolve it.

I don't have a problem with conflict. I'm not a stranger to high-pressure situations. I've been there, believe me.

Game management is accomplished by staying constantly alert and then reading and reacting to potential problem situations before they materialize. It all boils down to paying attention to details.

The best episodes of 'The West Wing' that dealt with policy and stuff, in my opinion, were the ones where they were in the middle of a crisis, and they were trying to figure out how to solve problems.

There is a time in the life of every predicament where it is ripe for resolution. Emotions provide the cue to act when a problem is big enough to see, yet still small enough to solve. By understanding your emotions, you can move adeptly through your current challenges and prevent future ones.

One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.

Leading is not hypothetical debating; it's about solving real problems.

Jeff knew full well what he was walking away from. Again, he needed to deal with this right away.

I tremendously enjoy getting involved in a troubled situation and straightening it out... My interest would be if there was a situation that came up, and I thought I could do something with and the price was right, I would be interested.

Being a 911 operator means balancing seemingly contradictory skills. On one hand, operators have to be fanatically precise and well-organized. On the other, they must be able to establish rapport with panicky callers.

When you're President you have to make a lot of tough decisions. You have to keep lining them up and making them.

The last question I would ask of someone I was considering appointing to office is how he would act in a specific situation.

It is axiomatic in politics that the earlier one addresses a problem, the more the alternatives and the easier the solutions.

Competing pressures tempt one to believe that an issue deferred is a problem avoided. More often it is a crisis invited.

His Excellency General Washington, never appeared to so much advantage as in the hour of distress.

As a politician, you can run from your problems or run toward your problems.

When you're a leader at any level of any scale, leaders are defined at times of crisis.