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• A man must have a certain amount of intelligent ignorance to get anywhere.

  Charles Kettering

  Inspirational, Creativity, Ignorance

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• Peace is a never-ending process, the work of many decisions by many people in many countries. It is an attitude, a way of life, a way of solving problems and resolving conflicts. It cannot be forced on the smallest nation or enforced by the largest. It cannot ignore our differences or overlook our common interests. It requires us to work and live together.

  Oscar Arias

  Country, Peace, Attitude

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• I think one difficulty is that the problem is one of such enormous complexity that the very mass of facts presented to the public by press and radio make it exceedingly difficult for the man in the street to reach a clear appraisement of the situation. It is virtually impossible at this distance to grasp at all the real significance of the situation.

  George C. Marshall

  Real, Distance, Men

  The Marshall Plan, delivered 5 June 1947 at Harvard University

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• Unlike top management at Enron, exemplary leaders reward dissent. They encourage it. They understand that, whatever momentary discomfort they experience as a result of being told they might be wrong, it is more than offset by the fact that the information will help them make better decisions.

  Warren G. Bennis

  Top Management, Decision, Leader

  Warren G. Bennis, Patricia Ward Biederman (2009). “The Essential Bennis”, p.182, John Wiley & Sons

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• The greatest poets are those with memories so great that they extend beyond their strongest experiences to their minutest observations of people and things far outside their own self-centeredness.

  Stephen Spender

  Memories, Creativity, Self

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• The poor, you know, have a way of solving problems...they have a tremendous capacity for suffering. And so when you build a vehicle to get something done, as we've done here in the strike and the boycott, then they continue to suffer - and maybe a little bit more - but the suffering becomes less important because they see a chance of progress; sometimes progress itself. They've been suffering all their live.s It's a question of suffering with some kind of hope now. That's better than suffering with no hope at all.

  Cesar Chavez

  Sacrifice, Suffering, Progress

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• It is difficulties that show what men are. For the future, in case of any difficulty, remember that God, like a gymnastic trainer, has pitted you against a rough antagonist. For what end? That you may be an Olympic conqueror; and this cannot be without toil.

  Epictetus

  Inspirational, Men, Religion

  "Epictetus: Discourses and Enchiridion".

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• No pressure, no diamonds.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Uplifting, Good Life, Failure

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• Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.

  Agnes de Mille

  Life, Faith, Creativity

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I have learned the novice can often see things that the expert overlooks.
  All that is necessary is not to be afraid of making mistakes, or of appearing naive.

  Abraham Maslow

  Encouragement, Fear, Mistake

  Abraham Harold Maslow, Deborah Collins Stephens, Gary Heil (1998). “Maslow on management”, Wiley

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• We need practice solving problems.

  Bob Gill

  Practice, Needs, Problem

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• Successful problem solving requires finding the right solution to the right problem. We fail more often because we solve the wrong problem than because we get the wrong solution to the right problem.

  Russell L. Ackoff

  Successful, Risk, Management

  "Redesigning the Future: a Systems Approach to Societal Problems". Book by Russell L. Ackoff, p. 8, 1974.

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• We are at a critical point where rapid change is forcing us to look not just to new ways of solving problems but to new problems to solve.

  Tim Brown

  Looks, Way, Problem

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• The wealth of society is created by the workers, peasants and working intellectuals. If they take their destiny into their own hands, follow a Marxist-Leninist line and take an active attitude in solving problems instead of evading them, there will be no difficulty in the world which they cannot overcome.

  Mao Zedong

  Attitude, Struggle, Destiny

  Zedong Mao (1972). “Quotations from Chairman Mao Tsetung”, p.198, China Books

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• I actually hate programming, but I love solving problems.

  Rasmus Lerdorf

  Hate, Problem, Programming

  "Interview – PHP’s Creator, Rasmus Lerdorf". Interview with Kevin Yank, www.sitepoint.com. May 22, 2002.

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• There is only so much energy available to us in life. Spending it on solving problems is one possible way of living your life, but this may leave you empty - hearted; spending it on what excites you is a lot more fulfilling and fun - and effortless; and usually, the previously experienced problems vanish on their own. We don't have to battle against the darkness when all we need to do is turn on the light.

  Andreas Moritz

  Life, Fun, Light

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• The majority see the obstacles; the few see the objectives; history records the successes of the latter, while oblivion is the reward of the former

  Alfred Armand Montapert

  Inspirational, Majority, Records

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• Things grew and lived in constant adversity, ingenious in solving problems of existence.

  Mary Astor

  Adversity, Problem, Grew

  Mary Astor (1968). “A Place Called Saturday”

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• Listen to the people who are talking about how to fix what's wrong, not the ones who just work people into a snit over the problems. Listen to the people who have ideas about how to fix things, not the ones who just blame others.

  Molly Ivins

  Talking, Ideas, People

  Molly Ivins (2010). “You Got to Dance with Them What Brung You”, p.10, Vintage

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• It is a misuse of our power to take responsibility for solving problems that belong to others.

  Peter Block

  Responsibility, Problem, Misuse

  Peter Block (1996). “Stewardship: Choosing Service Over Self Interest”, p.72, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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• What paralyzes life is lack of faith and lack of audacity. The difficulty lies not in solving problems but identifying them.

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Lying, Audacity, Problem

  "The The Ignatian Tradition". Book by Kevin F. Burke, Eileen Burke-Sullivan and Phyllis Zagano, 2009.

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• Business is about problem-solving, but it does not always have to be about maximizing profit. When I went into business, my interest was to figure out how to solve problems I see in front of me. That's why I looked at the poverty issue. I got involved in lots of things to address it, and one of them was money lending with loans and credits and savings accounts, and in the process I created Grameen Bank. So you can also have social objectives. Ask yourself these questions: Who are you? What kind of world do you want?

  Muhammad Yunus

  Business, Issues, Addresses

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• It is in the whole process of meeting and solving problems that life has meaning. Problems are the cutting edge that distinguishes between success and failure. Problems call forth our courage and our wisdom; indeed, they create our courage and our wisdom. It is only because of problems that we grow mentally and spiritually. It is through the pain of confronting and resolving problems that we learn.

  M. Scott Peck

  Pain, Adversity, Cutting

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