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If you have had no tension in your life, never been screwed up by problems, your mortality well within your own grasp, and someone tells you that God so loved you that He gave His Son to die for you, nothing but good manners will keep you from being amused.
-Oswald Chambers, Daily Thoughts, Nov. 10th
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It is in the ordinary events of every day that we develop the proactive capacity to handle the extraordinary pressures of life. It’s how we make and keep commitments, how we handle a traffic jam, how we respond to an irate customer or disobedient child. It’s how we view our problems and where we focus our energies.
-Stephen Covey, The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, 1989
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We only think when we are confronted with problems.
-John Dewey
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"The problems that exist in the world today cannot be solved by the level of thinking that created them."
many versions exist: "The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them."
-Albert Einstein, attributed
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"When I'm working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong."
-Richard Buckminster Fuller
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I had always worked with the temperamental conviction that at bottom there are no insoluble problems, and experience justified me in so far as I have often seen patients simply outgrow a problem that had destroyed others. This 'outgrowing,' as I formerly called it, proved on further investigation to be a new level of consciousness. Some higher or wider interest appeared on the patient's horizon, and through this broadening of his outlook the insoluble problem lost its urgency.
-Carl Gustav Jung, Commentary on The Secret of the Golden Flower
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“If you can talk brilliantly about a problem, it can create the consoling illusion that it has been mastered.”
-Stanley Kubrick
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“If the only tool you have is a hammer, it is tempting to treat everything as if it were a nail. [Some] choose to work as best they can with important problems rather than restricting themselves to doing only that which they can do elegantly with the techniques already available.”
-Abraham Maslow, The Psychology of Science (Harper and Row, New York), 1966
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Unrest of the spirit is a mark of life; one problem after another presents itself and in the solving of them we can find our greatest pleasure.
-Karl Menninger, "This Week Magazine", October 16, 1949
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"The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem."
-Theodore Rubin
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"The best way to escape from a problem is to solve it."
-Alan Saporta
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I have heard there are troubles of more than one kind.
Some come from ahead and some come from behind.
But I've bought a big bat. I'm all ready you see.
Now my troubles are going to have troubles with me!
-Dr. Seuss (Theodor Seuss Geisel)
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"The real problem is what to do with the problem-solvers after the problems are solved."
-Gay Talese
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It is wise to direct your anger towards problems -- not people; to focus your energies on answers -- not excuses.
-William Arthur Ward
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Books about Problems
