Solutions Quotes - Page 29

• Moral crusaders with zeal but no ethical understanding are likely to give us solutions that are worse than the problems.

  Charles Colson

  Giving, Understanding, Moral

  Charles Colson, Nancy Pearcey (2011). “How Now Shall We Live?”, p.530, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• No matter how clear things might become in the forest of story, there was never a clear-cut solution, as there was in math. The role of a story was, in the broadest terms, to transpose a problem into another form. Depending on the nature and the direction of the problem, a solution might be suggested in the narrative. Tengo would return to the real world with that solution in hand. It was like a piece of paper bearing the indecipherable text of a magic spell. It served no immediate practical purpose, but it contained a possibility.

  Haruki Murakami

  Real, Cutting, Math

  "Town of Cats" by Haruki Murakami, www.newyorker.com. September 5, 2011.

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• just like everything else in life, let time take its course and it will find a solution.

  Jose Saramago

  Courses

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• ... we did decide to trust Christ, but the reason we made that decision is that God had first made us spiritually alive. ... God comes to us when we're spiritually dead, when we don't even realize our condition, and gives us the spiritual ability to see our plight and to see the solution in Christ. God comes all the way, not partway, to meet us in our need. When we were dead, He made us alive in Christ. And the first act of that new life is to turn in faith to Jesus.

  Jerry Bridges

  Spiritual, Jesus, Giving

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• In real life things don’t go so smoothly. At certain points in our lives, when we really need a clear-cut solution, the person who knocks at our door is, more likely than not, a messenger bearing bad news.

  Haruki Murakami

  Real, Cutting, Doors

  Haruki Murakami (2011). “What I Talk About When I Talk About Running”, p.144, Random House

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• We don't always choose the best solution but we carry on regardless, trying to remain upright and decent in order to do honor not to the walls or the doors or the windows but to the empty space inside, the space where we worship and venerate what is dearest and most important to us.

  Paulo Coelho

  Wall, Doors, Order

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• ...think of the solution, not the problem. If your mind was filled only with thoughts of why you were going to lose, then you couldn't think of how to win.

  Terry Goodkind

  Winning, Thinking, Mind

  Terry Goodkind (2015). “Blood Of The Fold”, p.307, Head of Zeus

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• Pretty stupid,” I called after his retreating form. “To give up before all possible solutions have been tried.

  Maria V. Snyder

  Giving Up, Stupid, Form

  Maria V. Snyder (2008). “The Study Series Bundle: Poison Study\Assassin Study\Magic Study\Fire Study”, MIRA

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• Anyway, maybe there weren't any solutions. Human society, corpses and rubble. It never learned, it made the same cretinous mistakes over and over, trading short-term gain for long-term pain.

  Margaret Atwood

  Pain, Mistake, Long

  Margaret Atwood (2004). “Oryx and Crake”, p.243, Anchor

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• A Problem Is really just a solution in need of a reason to exist.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Needs, Problem, Reason

  Ellen Hopkins (2013). “Perfect”, p.85, Simon and Schuster

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• Once you've seen a solution to the disease that's tearing you apart, relapsing is never fun.

  Anthony Kiedis

  Fun, Disease

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• Everything has happened before - not once, but over and over again. We may not be able to solve our problems through what are pompously called "the lessons of history," but at least we should be able to recognize the issues and perhaps avoid some of the solutions that have failed in the past. And we can take heart in our own dilemma by realizing that other people in other times have survived worse.

  Barbara Mertz

  Heart, Past, Issues

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• His mind’s always on something else. He’d live in a ratty cardigan, and he’s always worrying holes in the pockets of his pants. He can never seem to find his wallet or anything in the refrigerator. And just when you think he’s not paying any attention to what you’re saying or doing, he comes up with exactly the right answer or solution.”", [J.D. Robb, Celebrity In Death"“People""who expect perfection in a mate miss a lot of fun—and sweetness.", [J.D. Robb, Celebrity In Death]

  Nora Roberts

  Fun, Thinking, People

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• A human being is a problem in search of a solution.

  Robert Ardrey

  Problem, Humans, Human Beings

  Robert Ardrey (1968). “Plays of three decades”

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• Tiffany knew what the problem was immediately. She'd seen it before, at birthday parties. Her brother was suffering from tragic sweet deprivation. Yes, he was surrounded by sweets. But the moment he took any sweet at all, said his sugar-addled brain, that meant he was not taking all the rest. And there were so many sweets he'd never be able to eat them all. It was too much to cope with. The only solution was to burst into tears.

  Terry Pratchett

  Sweet, Brother, Party

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• Not all complex problems have easy solutions; so says science (so warns science.)

  Mark Z. Danielewski

  Problem, Easy, Complexes

  Twitter post from Apr 13, 2012

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• Everything was coming together by coming apart . . . It is the most difficult Zen practice to leave people to their destiny, even though it's painful - just loving them, and breathing with them, and distracting them in a sweet way, and laughing with them . . . if something was not my problem, I probably did not have the solution.

  Anne Lamott

  Sweet, Destiny, Practice

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• In short, there are mysteries of science and of soul that will never be understood no matter how hard we measure, no matter how strongly we believe, no matter how deep our think tanks and how high our aspirations. But as anyone will tell you—for we all know this within our hearts—the impossible happens and grand cosmic mysteries are solved on a regular basis, although most of the time the solutions lead to even greater mysteries.

  Neal Shusterman

  Believe, Heart, Thinking

  Neal Shusterman (2011). “Neal Shusterman's Skinjacker Trilogy: Everlost; Everwild; Everfound”, p.970, Simon and Schuster

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• Johannes had once said that violence and cruelty were just a stupid person's way of making himself felt, because it was easer to use your hands to strike a blow than to use your brain to find a logical and just solution to the problem.

  Anne Holm

  Stupid, Blow, Hands

  Anne Holm (1965). “North to freedom”

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• I believe that it may be normal, healthy, and even productive to experience mild to moderate depression from time to time as part of the variable emotional spectrum, either as an appropriate response to situations or as a way of turning inward and mentally chewing over problems to find solutions.

  Andrew Weil

  Believe, Emotional, Healthy

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• The serious problems in life...are never fully solved. If ever they should appear to be so it is a sure sign that something has been lost. The meaning and purpose of a problem seem to lie not in its solution but in our working at it incessantly.

  Carl Jung

  Lying, Purpose, Serious

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• Possible is more a matter of attitude, a matter of decision, to choose among the impossible possibilities, when one sound opportunity becomes a possible solution.

  Dejan Stojanovic

  Attitude, Opportunity, Choices

  "Possibility". Poem by Dejan Stojanovic, www.poemhunter.com.

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• If you ask me, it doesn't matter what life you're living, life never has a solution. No matter how hard the struggles are that you leave behind, new struggles always take their place.

  Chris Colfer

  Struggle, Live Life, Matter

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• You will search the world over and not find a nonsuperstitious community. As long as there is ignorance, there will be adherence to superstition. Dispelling ignorance is the only solution. That is why I teach.

  Irvin D. Yalom

  Ignorance, Long, Community

  Irvin D. Yalom (2012). “The Spinoza Problem: A Novel”, p.84, Basic Books

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• There's no solution to life, there's going to be problems no matter what.

  Chris Colfer

  Matter, Problem, No Matter What

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