problems

1.

A problem clearly stated is a problem half solved.

- Brande, Dorothea

2.

Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country.

- Thatcher, Margaret

3.

Some people think only intellect counts: knowing how to solve problems, knowing how to get by, knowing how to identify an advantage and seize it. But the functions of intellect are insufficient without courage, love, friendship, compassion and empathy.

- Dean Koontz

4.

I am grateful for all my problems. After each one was overcome, I became stronger and more able to meet those that were still to come. I grew in all my difficulties.

- J. C. Penny

5.

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

- Holtz, Lou

6.

It seems safe to say that significant discovery, really creative thinking, does not occur with regard to problems about which the thinker is lukewarm.

- Henle, Mary

7.

The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You don't blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the President. You realize that you control your own destiny.

- Albert Ellis

8.

Intellectuals solve problems; geniuses prevent them.

- Einstein, Albert

9.

The proper method of philosophy consists in clearly conceiving the insoluble problems in all their insolubility and then in simply contemplating them, fixedly and tirelessly, year after year, without any hope, patiently waiting.

- Weil, Simone

10.

When faced with a problem, some people say'Let's use AWK.'Now they have two problems.

- Zalman Stern

11.

We are continually faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.

- John W. Gardner

12.

Comedy just pokes at problems, rarely confronts them squarely. Drama is like a plate of meat and potatoes, comedy is rather the dessert, a bit like meringue.

- Allen, Woody

13.

Courage means to keep working a relationship, to continue seeking solutions to difficult problems, and to stay focused during stressful periods.

- Waitley, Denis

14.

If you don't make mistakes, you're not working on hard enough problems. And that's a big mistake.

- Frank Wilczek

15.

If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.

- Isaac Asimov

16.

Addiction, obesity, starvation (anorexia nervosa) are political problems, not psychiatric: each condenses and expresses a contest between the individual and some other person or persons in his environment over the control of the individual's body.

- Szasz, Thomas

17.

The history of the building of the American nation may justly be described as a laboratory experiment in understanding and in solving the problems that will confront the world tomorrow.

- Butler, Nicholas

18.

A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.

- Herm Albright

19.

Rather than denying problems, focus inventively, intentionally on what solutions might look or feel like...Our mind is meant to generate ideas that help us escape circumstantial traps -- if we trust it to do so. Naturally, not all hunches are useful. But then you only need a single good idea to solve a problem.

- Sinetar, Marsha

20.

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

- Schuller, Robert H.