Motivational Quotes

Problems

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

- Gray, John Edward

Best Quotes about Problems

Problems can become opportunities when the right people come together.

Redford, Robert

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

Wiesner, Jerome

Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

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

Ross, Verda

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

Forsyth, Peter T.

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

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

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

Kleiser, Grenville

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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A problem is your chance to do your best.

Ellington, Duke

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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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A problem clearly stated is a problem half solved.

Brande, Dorothea

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

Einstein, Albert

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The chief cause of problems is solutions.

Sevareid, Eric

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The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.

Sontag, Susan

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The greatest problem you have is your greatest opportunity.

Wickett, Michael

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

Ford, Henry

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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

Ford, Henry

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Let God's promises shine on your problems.

Boom, Corrie Ten

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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 you can't solve the problem, manage it.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Critchfield, Jim

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Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by hitting back.

Hein, Piet

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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

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

Einstein, Albert

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No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking.

Voltaire

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Any solution to a problem changes the problem.

Johnson, R. W.

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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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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

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

Bogart, Humphrey

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

Brande, Dorothea

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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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