Motivational Quotes

Problems

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

- Mencken, H. L.

Best Quotes about Problems

Any solution to a problem changes the problem.

Johnson, R. W.

Problems can become opportunities when the right people come together.

Redford, Robert

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

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

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

Kleiser, Grenville

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

Brande, Dorothea

Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don't have any problems, you don't get any seeds.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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.

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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Successful people are simply people who learn to solve their problems... they are not people without problems.

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Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by hitting back.

Hein, Piet

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

Ford, Henry

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A problem clearly stated is a problem half solved.

Brande, Dorothea

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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.

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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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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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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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Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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Death and taxes are unsolved engineering problems

Machado, Romana

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A problem is your chance to do your best.

Ellington, Duke

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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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No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking.

Voltaire

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

Holtz, Lou

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

Stone, W. Clement

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

Bogart, Humphrey

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

Wilson, Earl

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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Let God's promises shine on your problems.

Boom, Corrie Ten

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

Kubrick, Stanley

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

Einstein, Albert

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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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The greatest problem you have is your greatest opportunity.

Wickett, Michael

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

Ford, Henry

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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 chief cause of problems is solutions.