Difficult Problems Quotes - Page 3

• Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Success, Mistake, Congratulations

  Speech by Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands, Maxime Verhagen, at Second Conference on Chemical Weapons Treaty Review, www.government.nl. April 07, 2008.

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• Among all the emotions, the rich have the least talent for love. It is possible to love one's dog, dress or duck-shooting hat, but a human being presents a more difficult problem. The rich might wish to experience feelings of affection, but it is almost impossible to chip away the enamel of their narcissism. They take up all the space in all the mirrors in the house. Their children, who represent the most present and therefore the most annoying claim on their attention, usually receive the brunt of their irritation.

  Lewis H. Lapham

  Love, Dog, Children

  Lewis H. Lapham (1989). “Money and Class in America: Notes and Observations on the Civil Religion”

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• I really believe, in my heart and soul, that if we would rebuild and strengthen the family structure in the country, you'd start to really deal with a number of the most difficult problems we're having in the country today, in poverty, education, and in crime, but we've broken the family structure up.

  Sam Brownback

  Country, Believe, Heart

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• How far does one combine resistance to over-control with social justice, i.e. tolerable living for people in general? We are too selfish to be trusted, if left free, to give away enough to make people comfortable enough to give them a chance. Yet if all this is ordered for us, as to some extent it has to be, it so soon leads to tyranny. It is a very difficult problem. If only human beings had more pity, unselfishness, and justice and didn't need coercion to treat each other decently.

  Rose Macaulay

  Selfish, Compassion, Giving

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• When you are solving a difficult problem re-ask the problem so that your solution helps you learn faster. Find a faster way to fail, recover, and try again. If the problem you are trying to solve involves creating a magnum opus, you are solving the wrong problem.

  Aza Raskin

  Creating, Trying, Way

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• To the young I should offer two maxims: Don't accept superficial solutions of difficult problems. It is better to do a little good than much harm. I should not offer anything more specific; every young person should decide on his or her own credo.

  Bertrand Russell

  Two, Littles, Youth

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• Perceived self-efficacy also shapes causal thinking. In seeking solutions to difficult problems, those who perceived themselves as highly efficacious are inclined to attribute their failures to insufficient effort, whereas those of comparable skills but lower perceived self-efficacy ascribe their failures to deficient ability

  Albert Bandura

  Thinking, Self, Skills

  Albert Bandura (1986). “Social foundations of thought and action: a social cognitive theory”, Prentice Hall

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• Most people will solve the problems they know how to solve. Roughly speaking they will solve B+ problems instead of A+ problems. A+ problems are high impact problems for your company but they're difficult problems.

  Keith Rabois

  Impact, People, Problem

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• The system [of thought] doesn't stay with the difficult problem that produces unpleasant feelings. It's conditioned somehow to move as fast as it can toward more pleasant feelings, without actually facing the thing that's making the unpleasant feeling.

  David Bohm

  Fear, Moving, Feelings

  Professor Chris Jenks, David Bohm (2004). “Thought as a System”, p.33, Routledge

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• Great mathematics is achieved by solving difficult problems not by fabricating elaborate theories in search of a problem.

  Harold Davenport

  Problem, Mathematics, Theory

  Harold Davenport, Bryan John Birch, Heini Halberstam, Claude Ambrose Rogers (1977). “The collected works of Harold Davenport”, Academic Pr

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• Do not imagine that these most difficult problems can be thoroughly understood by any one of us.

  Maimonides

  Problem, Imagine, Difficult

  Moses Maimonides (2016). “Guide for the perplexed”, p.148, Moses Maimonides

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