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 Ruskin
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
