Problem Quotes - Page 7

• Problems are guidelines, not stop signs!

  Robert H. Schuller

  Inspirational, Positive, Moving On

  "Move Ahead with Possibility Thinking" by Robert H. Schuller, (p. 90), 1967.

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• When you confront a problem you begin to solve it.

  Rudy Giuliani

  Inspirational, Success, Business

  "Trying to Build the Business Case for RFID?" by Mark Roberti, www.rfidjournal.com. February 28, 2005.

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• The slogan 'press on' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Inspirational, Perseverance, Determination

  Quoted in Quotable Calvin Coolidge, ed. Peter Hannaford (2001).

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• Sometimes the situation is only a problem because it is looked at in a certain way. Looked at in another way, the right course of action may be so obvious that the problem no longer exists.

  Edward de Bono

  Change, Attitude, Creativity

  Edward De Bono (1971). “The use of lateral thinking”

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• Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.

  Colin Powell

  Motivational, Inspiring, Leadership

  Colin L. Powell, Joseph E. Persico (2010). “My American Journey”, p.52, Ballantine Books

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• It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.

  Douglas Adams

  Mistake, Food, Thinking

  Douglas Adams (2012). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five”, p.422, Pan Macmillan

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• There is no such thing as a problem without a gift for you in its hands. You seek problems because you need their gifts.

  Richard Bach

  Happiness, Spiritual, Wisdom

  1977 Illusions.

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• If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.

  Abraham Maslow

  Education, Wisdom, Humorous

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• Before we can work on the problems, we have to fix our souls. Our souls are broken in this nation.

  Michel'le

  Broken, Soul, Nations

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• Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Love, Life, Truth

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (1956). “Commentaries on Living”, p.105, Penguin Books India

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• The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them.

  Colin Powell

  Leadership, Military, Army

  Colin L. Powell (1995). “My American Journey”, Random House Incorporated

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• To solve big problems you have to be willing to do unpopular things.

  Lee Iacocca

  Motivational, Bigs, Solve

  Lee Iacocca, William Novak (2011). “Iacocca: An Autobiography”, p.354, Bantam

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• It isn't that they can't see the solution. It is that they can't see the problem.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Funny, Math, Statistics

  Scandal of Father Brown (1935) "Point of a Pin"

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• Rule number one is, don't sweat the small stuff. Rule number two is, it's all small stuff.

  Mike Davies

  Life, Positive, Attitude

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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

  Teaching, Intellectual, Intelligence

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• Sometimes the situation is only a problem because it is looked at in a certain subjective, negative, ungrateful way.

  Edward de Bono

  Gratitude, Ungrateful, Negative

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• Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. And man can be as big as he wants. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.

  John F. Kennedy

  Destiny, Men, Innovation

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• If you owe the bank $100 that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the bank's problem.

  J. Paul Getty

  Money, Funny Inspirational, Motivation

  "he Five Rules for Successful Stock Investing". Book by Pat Dorsey & ‎Joe Mansueto, p. 234, 2003.

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• If you don't make mistakes, you're not working on hard enough problems. And that's a big mistake.

  Frank Wilczek

  Inspirational, Work, Mistake

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• Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.

  John Galsworthy

  Inspirational, Distance, Increase

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• I don't like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and it isn't of much value. Life hasn't revealed its beauty to them.

  Boris Pasternak

  Inspirational, Life, Failure

  Doctor Zhivago ch. 13 (1958) (translation by Max Hayward and Manya Harari)

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• Rich and successful people are solution-oriented; they spend their time and energy strategizing and planning the answers to challenges that come up, and creating systems to make certain that problem doesn't occur again.

  T. Harv Eker

  Inspirational, Successful, Creating

  FaceBook post by T. Harv Eker from Apr 03, 2013

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• If a problem has no solution, it may not be a problem, but a fact - not to be solved, but to be coped with over time.

  Shimon Peres

  Mistake, Decision, Facts

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

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• I've got a passion for solving a problem that I think I can solve in a new way. And that maybe it helps that nobody has done it before as well.

  Pierre Omidyar

  Passion, Thinking, Way

  "The World's Online Marketplace". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. October 27, 2000.

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• If there is a problem you can't solve, then there is an easier problem you can't solve: find it.

  George Polya

  Education, Knowledge, Math

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