Quotes about problems

"It is one of man's curious idiosyncrasies to create difficulties for the pleasure of resolving them."

Maistre, Joseph De on problems   

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

Mencken, H. L. on problems   

"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 on problems   

"To solve the problems of today, we must focus on tomorrow."

Nupponen, Erik on problems   

"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 on problems
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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 on problems
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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 on problems   

"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."

Penney, J. C. (James Cash) on problems
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"Some problems are so complex that you have to be highly intelligent and well informed just to be undecided about them."

Peter, Laurence J. on problems   

"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 on problems
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"Problems can become opportunities when the right people come together."

Redford, Robert on problems
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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 on problems   

"The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem."

Rubin, Theodore I. on problems
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"The best way to escape from a problem is to solve it."

Saporta, Alan on problems   

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

Schuller, Robert H. on problems
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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. on problems
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"Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines."

Schuller, Robert H. on problems
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"The chief cause of problems is solutions."

Sevareid, Eric on problems   

"All problems are finally scientific problems."

Shaw, George Bernard on problems   

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"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 on problems   

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

Sontag, Susan on problems   

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

Stone, W. Clement on problems   

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

Thoreau, Henry David on problems
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"Avoiding a problem doesn't solve it."

Thornley, Bonnie Jean on problems
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"Every big problem was at one time a wee disturbance."

Unknown, Source on problems   

"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."

Unknown, Source on problems   

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

Unknown, Source on problems
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"No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking."

Voltaire on problems
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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 on problems   

"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 on problems   

"The greatest problem you have is your greatest opportunity."

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

Wiesner, Jerome on problems   

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

Wilson, Earl on problems
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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 on problems   

"don't grow weeds, sow seeds. a solution made is better than a problem found"

Gandhi, Mahatma on problems
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"You can't solve a problem with the same thoughts that created it."

Dyer, Wayne on problems   

"Any movement toward solution gathers energy; any movement away from solution depletes energy. Act accordingly."

Miklosy, Leslie on problems   

"And yet to every bad there's a worse."

Hardy, Thomas on problems