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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. - Marsha Sinetar


  • 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 - Edith Wharton


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


  • No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking. - Voltaire


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


  • Every big problem was at one time a wee disturbance. - unknown


  • 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


  • There are thousands hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root. - Henry David Thoreau


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


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


  • 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. - Ludwig Wittgenstein


  • We have a problem. ''Congratulations.'' But it's a tough problem. ''Then double congratulations.'' - W Clement Stone


  • The greatest problem you have is your greatest opportunity. - Michael Wickett


  • 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. - Norman Vincent Peale


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


  • For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong. - H L Mencken


  • 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. - John F Kennedy



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