Problem/Solution
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"It's a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it." John Steinbeck
"You can't stop a bird from flying into your hair, but you don't have to help him build a nest." unknown
"There is a great difference between worry and concern. A worried person sees a problem, and a concerned person solves a problem." Harold Stephens
"Poisons and medicine are oftentimes the same substance given with different intents." Peter Mere Latham, physician and educator (1789-1875)
"Problems arise in that one has to find a balance between what people need from you and what you need for yourself." Jessye Norman
"The only way to solve the traffic problems of the country is to pass a law that only paid-for cars are allowed to use the highways. That would make traffic so scarce, we could use our boulevards for children's playgrounds." Will Rogers, 1879 - 1935
"Weather is a great metaphor for life - sometimes it's good, sometimes it's bad, and there's nothing much you can do about it but carry an umbrella." Pepper Giardino



"Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done." Louis D. Brandeis
"One of life's best coping mechanisms is to know the difference between an inconvenience and a problem. If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you've got a problem. Everything else is an inconvenience. Life is inconvenient. Life is lumpy. A lump in the oatmeal, a lump in the throat and a lump in the breast are not the same kind of lump. One needs to learn the difference." Robert Fulghum
"Real difficulties can be overcome, it is only the imaginary ones that are unconquerable." Theodore N. Vail [May 05, 2009
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"But remember, the brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. Because the brick walls are there to stop the people who don't want it badly enough. They're there to stop the other people." Randy Pausch The Last Lecture
"One of the true tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency." Arnold Glasow
“There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the difficulties or you alter the way you meet them.” Phyllis Bottome
“I think the next best thing to solving a problem is finding some humor in it.” Frank A. Clark, writer (1911- )
“Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don't have any problems, you don't get any seeds.” Norman Vincent Peale
“Nothing is predestined: The obstacles of your past can become the gateways that lead to new beginnings.” Ralph Blum
“If we were to wake up some morning and find that everyone was the same race, creed and color, we would find some other cause for prejudice by noon.” George D. Aiken, US senator (1892-1984)
“If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about the answers.” Thomas Pynchon, writer (1937- ) [May 19, 2005
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“All human beings hang by a thread, an abyss may open under their feet at any moment, and yet they have to go and invent all sorts of difficulties for themselves and spoil their lives.” Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev
“He who establishes his argument by noise and command, shows that his reason is weak.” Michel De Montaigne, essayist (1533-1592)
“To solve any problem that has never been solved before, you have to leave the door to the unknown ajar. You have to permit the possibility that you do not have it exactly right. Otherwise, if you have made up your mind already, you might not have solved it.” Richard Feynman [May 04, 2004
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“He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils: for time is the greatest innovator.” Francis Bacon
“Realize that if you have time to whine and complain about something then you have the time to do something about it.” Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book
“Intellectuals solve problems; geniuses prevent them.” Albert Einstein, physicist, Nobel laureate (1879-1955)
“All things can be cured by salt water: sweat, tears, or the ocean.” Isak Dinesen (1885-1962) Danish writer
“It is not always by plugging away at a difficulty and sticking at it that one overcomes it; but, rather, often by working on the one next to it. Certain people and certain things require to be approached on an angle.” André Gide (1869-1951) French writer
“Wise are they who have learned these truths: Trouble is temporary. Time is tonic. Tribulation is a test tube.” William Arthur Ward
“Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by hitting back.” Piet Hein, poet and scientist (1905-1996)
“Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.” Rene Descartes
“If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.” P.J. O'Rourke [May 02, 2003
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“Heaven will solve our problems, but not, I think, by showing us subtle reconciliations between all our apparently contradictory notions. The notions will all be knocked from under our feet. We shall see that there never was any problem.” C.S. Lewis
“Trouble is part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person who loves you a chance to love you enough.” Dinah Shore
“The trick to juggling is determining which balls are made of rubber and which ones are made of glass.” Unknown
“The schools of the country are its future in miniature.” Tehyi Hsieh (Chinese Epigrams Inside Out and Proverbs)
“Life’s challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they’re supposed to help you discover who you are.” Bernice Johnson Reagon
“It never gets any easier. When you conquer one problem, another rises up to take its place.” Marcia Muller
“The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution.” Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970) British philosopher |
