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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.
-Scott Alexander
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I have yet to see any problem, however complicated, which, when you looked at it in the right way, did not become still more complicated.
-Poul Anderson
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He that will not apply new remedies, must expect new evils: for Time is the greatest innovator: and if Time, of course, alter things to the worse, and wisdom and counsel shall not alter them to the better, what shall be the end?.
-Francis Bacon
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Well everybody in Casablanca has problems. Yours may work out.
-Humphrey Bogart
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A problem clearly stated is a problem half solved.
-Dorothea Brande
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The only difference between a problem and a solution is that people understand the solution.
-Dorothea Brande
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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.
-Jan Carlzon
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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 isn't that they can't see the solution. It is that they can't see the problem.
-G. K. Chesterton
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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 a disobedient child. It's how we view our problems and where we focus our energies. It's the language we use.
-Stephen Covey
The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, 1989
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The Moon is opposing Jupiter. Don't get involved, it's their problem.
-Jim Critchfield
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Focus 90% of your time on solutions and only 10% of your time on problems.
-Anthony D'Angelo
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We only think when we are confronted with problems.
-John Dewey
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But Jesus, when you don't have any money, the problem is food. When you have money, it's sex. When you have both, it's health, you worry about getting ruptured or something. If everything is simply jake then you're frightened of death.
-J. P. Donleavy
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It is characteristic of all deep human problems that they are not to be approached without some humor and some bewilderment.
-Freeman Dyson
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Problems cannot be solved at the same level of awareness that created them.
-Albert Einstein
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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.
-Albert Einstein
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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.
-Albert Einstein
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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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A problem is your chance to do your best.
-Duke Ellington
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It's so much easier to suggest solutions when you don't know too much about the problem.
-Malcolm Stevenson Forbes
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There are no big problems, there are just a lot of little problems.
-Henry Ford
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Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.
-Henry Ford
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When I can't handle events, I let them handle themselves.
-Henry Ford
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You must live with people to know their problems, and live with God in order to solve them.
-Peter T. Forsyth
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Books about Problems
