Motivational Quotes

Problems

Death and taxes are unsolved engineering problems

- Machado, Romana

Best Quotes about Problems

Never bring the problem solving stage into the decision making stage. Otherwise, you surrender yourself to the problem rather than the solution.

Schuller, Robert H.

No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking.

Voltaire

Almost everybody in the neighborhood had troubles, frankly localized and specified; but only the chosen had complications. To have them was in itself a distinction, though it was also, in most cases, a death warrant. People struggled on for years wit

Wharton, Edith

If you can talk brilliantly enough about a problem, it can create the consoling illusion that it has been mastered.

Kubrick, Stanley

The bigger the real-life problems, the greater the tendency for the discipline to retreat into a reassuring fantasy-land of abstract theory and technical manipulation.

Naylor, Tom

There are thousands hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.

Thoreau, Henry David

Avoiding a problem doesn't solve it.

Thornley, Bonnie Jean

Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by hitting back.

Hein, Piet

The significant problems we face today cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.

Einstein, Albert

10.

I'm afraid we have become a nation of plodders, who feel that all problems can be found in books and that the answers are on a certain page.

Linder, Clarence

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The purpose of problems is to push you toward obedience to God's laws, which are exact and cannot be changed. We have the free will to obey them or disobey them. Obedience will bring harmony, disobedience will bring you more problems.

Pilgrim, Peace

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You must live with people to know their problems, and live with God in order to solve them.

Forsyth, Peter T.

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When a contradiction is impossible to resolve except by a lie, then we know that it is really a door.

Weil, Simone

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Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.

Ford, Henry

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We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as unsolvable problems.

Gardner, John W.

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Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Anytime you think that the problem is out there, that thought in itself may be the problem. If it is out there then you have no control and you have to wait until it changes.

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Well everybody in Casablanca has problems. Yours may work out.

Bogart, Humphrey

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Problems cannot be solved at the same level of awareness that created them.

Einstein, Albert

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The easiest way to solve a problem is to pick an easy one.

Jones, Franklin P.

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When you can't solve the problem, manage it.

Schuller, Robert H.

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The formulation of a problem is often more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skill.

Einstein, Albert

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A problem clearly stated is a problem half solved.

Brande, Dorothea

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Some problems are just too complicated for rational, logical solutions. They admit of insights, not answers.

Wiesner, Jerome

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The man who has no more problems to solve, is out of the game.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Problems do not go away. They must be worked through or else they remain, forever a barrier to the growth and development of the spirit.

Peck, M. Scott

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Brady's First Law of Problem Solving: When confronted by a difficult problem, you can solve it more easily by reducing it to the question: How would the Lone Ranger have handled this?

Brady

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For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.

Mencken, H. L.

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We have a problem. Congratulations. But it's a tough problem. Then double congratulations.

Stone, W. Clement

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The greatest problem you have is your greatest opportunity.

Wickett, Michael

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Problems are the price of progress. Don't bring me anything but trouble. Good news weakens me.

Kettering, Charles F.

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To every problem there is already a solution whether you know it or not.

Kleiser, Grenville

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A problem is your chance to do your best.

Ellington, Duke

34.

Understand that most problems are a good sign. Problems indicate that progress is being made, wheels are turning, you are moving toward your goals. Beware when you have no problems. Then you've really got a problem... Problems are like landmarks of progress.

Alexander, Scott

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Snow and adolescence are the only problems that disappear if you ignore them long enough.

Wilson, Earl

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The only difference between a problem and a solution is that people understand the solution.

Brande, Dorothea

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If a man can see both sides of a problem, you know that none of his money is tied up in it.

Ross, Verda

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There are no big problems, there are just a lot of little problems.

Ford, Henry

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Don't get involved in partial problems, but always take flight to where there is a free view over the whole single great problem, even if this view is still not a clear one.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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Problems can become opportunities when the right people come together.

Redford, Robert

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The other day I got out my can-opener and was opening a can of worms when I thought, What am I doing?!

Handey, Jack

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There is a time in the life of every problem when it is big enough to see, yet small enough to solve.

Leavitt, Mike

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Let God's promises shine on your problems.

Boom, Corrie Ten

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The Moon is opposing Jupiter. Don't get involved, it's their problem.

Critchfield, Jim

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The day before my inauguration President Eisenhower told me, You'll find that no easy problems ever come to the President of the United States. If they are easy to solve, somebody else has solved them. I found that hard to believe, but now I know it is true.

Kennedy, John F.

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Problems are solved on the spot, as soon as they arise. No front-line employee has to wait for a supervisor's permission.

Carlzon, Jan

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We have no problems, only situations. Not all problems have solutions, but all situations have outcomes.

Gray, John Edward

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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.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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The chief cause of problems is solutions.

Sevareid, Eric

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Don't tell your problems to people: eighty percent don't care; and the other twenty percent are glad you have them.

Holtz, Lou