confronting issues Quotes

Life is a never-ending stream of problems that must be confronted, surmounted, and/or solved.

When there is an issue, I approach it and hit it head on. I speak the truth. If I do something wrong, then I own it.

Don't duck the most difficult problems. That just ensures that the hardest part will be left when you are most tired. Get the big one done - it's downhill from then on.

Ironically, people who suppress the mini-confrontations for fear of conflict tend to have huge conflicts later, which can lead to separation, precisely because they let minor problems fester. On the other hand, people who address the mini-conflicts head-on in order to straighten things out tend to have the great, long-lasting relationships.

We do not free ourselves from something by avoiding it, but only by living though it.

Not facing a fire doesn't put it out.

There's nothing that America can't handle if we actually look squarely at the problem. ...Change depends on our actions.

If you can stare hard at your problems, they almost always shrink or disappear, because you almost always find a better way of dealing with them than if you don't face them head on. The more difficult the problem, the more important it is that you stare at it and deal with it.

All problems become smaller if you don't dodge them but confront them.

I think there is something very relatable in the idea that you hit a certain age, later in your life, where you realize you have to pick up the rug and see what's underneath it and deal with stuff.

The longer you get in a relationship, the harder it becomes to confront problems.

It was obvious that the matter had to be settled, and evasions were distasteful to me.

In a lot of relationships, when you're an adult, you realize that you've actually just been repeating a pattern. When someone breaks that pattern and it makes you realize what's right or wrong about the person. When you actually have to confront it, that's probably why a lot of adult relationships don't survive.

As life developed, I faced each problem as it came along. As my activities and work broadened and reached out, I never tried to shirk. I tried never to evade an issue. When I found I had something to do--I just did it.

We've got to find ways of confronting the issues that divide - and at the heart of cultural issues, you often find religions.

A novel - it's also a way of attacking subjects that you cannot confront in the eye.

There are times when looking away is simply not enough.

Avoiding problems you need to face is avoiding the life you need to live.

Some adults would rather pretend that bad things don't exist than to talk about them.

It is much easier to bury a problem than to solve it.

We can't fix what we do not address.

I stay healthy by dealing with things! Seriously, emotional and spiritual health is most important. I feel there is a lot of unhealthiness when we stuff our feelings out of fear rather than face them and deal with our issues.

The conversations you are most resisting are the conversations you most need to be having.

I make my films because I'm affected by a situation, by something that makes me want to reflect on it, that lends itself to an artistic reflection. I always aim to look directly at what I'm dealing with. I think it's a task of dramatic art to confront us with things that in the entertainment industry are usually swept under the rug.

Sometimes time actually works against you if you refuse to face the relevant issues and explain to the public what is at stake.