Again and again, the impossible problem is solved when
we see that the problem is only a tough decision waiting to be made.--Robert Schuller
Ah, mastery ... what a profoundly satisfying feeling
when one finally gets on top of a new set of skills ... and then sees the light under the new door those skills can open,
even as another door is closing.--Gail Sheehy
All the greatest and most important problems of life
are fundamentally insolvable. They can never be solved, but only outgrown.--Carl Jung
The best way to escape from a problem is to solve it.--Brendan
Francis
The biggest problem in the world could have been solved
when it was small.--Wittier Bynner
Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what
to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.--Denis Waitley
Don't find fault, find a remedy.--Henry Ford
Don't waste your time trying to control the uncontrollable,
or trying to solve the unsolvable, or think about what could have been. Instead, think about what you can control and solve
the problem you can solve with the wisdom you have gained from both your victories and your defeats in the past.--David Mahoney
Every problem contains within itself the seeds of its
own solution.--Stanley Arnold
Few can really understand the problem, the answer will
come out of it, because the answer is not separate from the problem.--Krishnamurti
For every complex problem, there is a solution that is
simple, neat, and wrong,--H.L. Mencken
I have yet to see any problem, however complicated, which
when you looked at in the right way, did not become still more complicated.--Paul Anderson (in New Scientist, 9/25/69)
If you can't solve it, it's not a problem--it's reality.--Barbara
Colorose
If you can talk brilliantly about a problem, it can create
the consoling illusion that it has been mastered.--Stanley Kubrick
If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem
as a nail.--Abraham Harold Maslow
If you tell people where to go, but not how to get there,
you'll be amazed at the results.--Gen. George Patton
In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things
happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking
how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.--Harold S. Kushner
It is well known that "problem avoidance" is an important
part of problem solving. Instead of solving the problem you go upstream and alter the system so that the problem does not
occur in the first place.--Edward de Bono (Serious Creativity)
It is wise to direct your anger towards problems--not
people; to focus your energies on answers--not excuses.--William Arthur Ward
It isn't that they can't see the solution. It's
that they can't see the problem.--G. K. Chesterton
It may seem to your conceited to suppose that you can
do anything important toward improving the lot of mankind. But this is a fallacy. You must believe that you can help bring
about a better world. A good society is produced only by good individuals, just as truly as a majority in a presidential election
is produced by the votes of single electors. Everybody can do something toward creating in his own environment kindly feelings
rather than anger, reasonableness rather than hysteria, happiness rather than misery.--Bertrand Russell
It's not a problem that we have a problem. It's a problem
if we don't deal with the problem.--Mary Kay Utech
Leaders think and talk about the solutions. Followers
think and talk about the problems.--Brian Tracey (The Treasury of Quotes)
Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic
answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the
future.--John F. Kennedy
Make small commitments and keep them. Be a light, not
a judge. Be a model, not a critic. Be part of the solution, not part of the problem.--Stephen R. Covey (Seven Habits of Highly
Effective People)
The man who has no more problems to solve is out of the
game.--Elbert Hubbard
The mere formulation of a problem is far more essential
than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skills. To raise new questions, new possibilities,
to regard old problems from a new angle requires creative imagination and marks real advances in science.--Albert Einstein
The only difference between a problem and a solution
is that people understand the solution.--Charles Kettering
Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved
by man. And man can be a s big as he wants. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.--John F. Kennedy (Address,
the American University, Washington D.C., June 10, 1963)
Our tendency to create heroes rarely jibes with the reality
that most nontrivial problems require collective solutions.--Warren Bennis
Plurality should not be assumed without necessity.--William
of Ockham (also known as Ockham's Razor)
A problem is a chance for you to do your best.--Duke
Ellington
The problem is not that there are problems. The problem
is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem.--Theodore Rubin
A problem, to be a problem, must contain an unknown.
If all was known, the problem would vanish.--Alan C. Walter
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.--Henry
J. Kaiser
Real difficulties can be overcome, it is only the imaginary
ones that are unconquerable.--Theodore N. Vail
Recognizing a problem is the first step to solving it...
Some problems cannot be solved but you can make peace with them.--Sanya Friedman
Responsibility is the most powerful internal motivator
for problem solving. When you remove it, all that remains is the lesser drive of self-preservation. If necessity is the mother
of invention then responsibility is its father.--Mark A. Crouch (Bouncing Off Paper Walls)
Science is the search for truth--it is not a game in
which one tries to beat his opponents, to do harm to others. We need to have the spirit of science in international affairs,
to make the conduct of international affairs the effort to find the right solution, the just solution of international problems,
nor the effort by each nation to get the better of other nations…--Linus Pauling (No More War)
The solution to a problem changes the nature of the problem.--John
Peers ("Peer's Law" 1,001 Logical Laws)
Some people approach every problem with an open mouth.--Adlai
Stevenson
Sometimes the situation is only a problem because it
is looked at in a certain way. Looked at in another way, the right course of action may be so obvious that the problem no
longer exists.--Edward de Bono
Success is relevant to coping with obstacles... But no
problem is ever solved by those, who, when they fail, look for someone to blame instead of something to do.--Fred Waggoner
There are three ways you can get to the top of a tree:
1) sit on an acorn 2) make friends with a bird 3) climb it.--Anonymous
There are two ways of meeting difficulties: You alter
the difficulties or you alter yourself to meet them.--Phyllis Bottome
There is a great difference between worry and concern.
A worried person sees a problem, and a concerned person solves a problem.--Harold Stephens
There is a time in the life of every problem when it
is big enough to see, yet small enough to solve.--Mike Leavitt
There is no such thing as a problem without a gift for
you in its hands. You seek problems because you need their gifts.--Richard Bach
There's two possible outcomes: if the result confirms
the hypothesis, then you've made a discovery. If the result is contrary to the hypothesis, then you've made a discovery.--Enrico
Fermi
To solve any problem, here are three questions to ask
yourself: First, what could I do? Second, what could I read? And third, who could I ask?--Jim Rohn
Too often we give our children answers to remember rather
than problems to solve.--Roger Lewin
We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we
used when we created them.--Albert Einstein
Whatever reason you have for not being somebody, there's
somebody who had that same problem and overcame it.--Barbara Reynolds
Whatever your problem, no matter how difficult, you can
release spiritual power sufficient to solve your problem. The secret is--pray and believe.--Norman Vincent Peale
When fog prevents a small-boat sailor from seeing the
buoy marking the course he wants, he turns his boat rapidly in small circles, knowing that the waves he makes will rock the
buoy in the vicinity. Then he stops, listens and repeats the procedure until he hears the buoy clang. By making waves, he
finds where his course lies… Often the price of finding these guides is a willingness to take a few risks, to "make
a few waves." A boat that stays in the harbor never encounters dangers--but it also never gets anywhere.--Richard Armstrong
When I'm working on a problem, I never think about beauty.
I think only how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.--R.
Buckminster Fuller
When the solution is simple, God is answering.--Albert
Einstein
You must live with people to know their problems, and
live with God in order to solve them.--P.T. Forsyth
You will only be remembered for two things: the problems
you solve or the ones you create.--Mike Murdock (101 Wisdom Keys)
The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal
with, but whether it is the same problem you had last year. — John Foster Dulles, Former Secretary of State
The majority see the obstacles; the few see the objectives; history
records the successes of the latter, while oblivion is the reward of the former. — Alfred Armand Montapert, Author
One thing is sure. We have to do something. We have to do the best we
know how at the moment . . . ; If it doesn't turn out right, we can modify it as we go along. — Franklin D.Roosevelt,
counseling Frances Perkins
Never try to solve all the problems at once — make them line up for
you one-by-one. — Richard Sloma
Whatever failures I have known, whatever errors I have committed, whatever
follies I have witnessed in public and private life, have been the consequences of action without thought. — Bernard
Baruch
[How to think about a problem:] The first step is to make the problem specific
. . . ; The second step is to form theories freely of how to rid yourself of that burden . . . ; The third step is to develop
in foresight the consequences of your proposals . . . ; The fourth and final step in thinking is to compare the consequences
of your proposals to see which is best in the light of your scheme of life as a whole . . . ; Whether you choose a vacation
or a spouse, a party or a candidate, a cause to contribute to or a creed to live by - think! — Brand Blanchard
The most serious mistakes are not being made as a result of wrong answers.
The truly dangerous thing is asking the wrong questions. — Peter Drucker, Men, Ideas & Politics
A problem well stated is a problem half solved. - John Dewey
When a problem comes along, study it until you are completely knowledgeable.
Then find that weak spot, break the problem apart, and the rest will be easy. - Norman Vincent Peale
Problems are to the mind what exercise is to the muscles, they toughen and
make strong. - Norman Vincent Peale
An average person with average talent, ambition and education, can outstrip
the most brilliant genius in our society, if that person has clear, focused goals.--Brian Tracey (The Treasury of Quotes)
Drowning problems in an ocean of information is not the same as solving
them. - Ray E. Brown
