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• At Starbucks 0 as in any business, in any life - there are so many hectic moments during the day when we are simply trying to do the job, trying to put out the fires, trying to solve any number of small problems, that we often lose sight of what it is we're really here to do.

  Howard Schultz

  Jobs, Fire, Sight

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• Your mind, in order to defend itself starts to give life to inanimate objects. When that happens it solves the problem of stimulus and response because literally if you're by yourself you lose the element of stimulus and response. Somebody asks a question, you give a response. So, when you lose the stimulus and response, what I connected to is that you actually create all the stimulus and response.

  Willi Smith

  Order, Giving, Mind

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I made a lot of changes in my life between my twenties and thirties, and it all sort of revolves around how I think people with nerdier brains tend to problem-solve and approach things differently then "norms."

  Chris Hardwick

  Thinking, People, Brain

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Tears are perhaps 1% water but 99% emotions. They contain hurt, pain, sorrow, disappointment, sadness… so cry sometimes and let go of the feelings welling in your heart. Crying won't necessarily solve your problems but it will make you feel better.

  Rita Zahara

  Letting Go, Hurt, Pain

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• It ticks me no end when people get ticked off at those of us who comment audibly and in print on events and problems. That's what we're paid for. Why clutter up your mind with a bunch of facts that might inhibit the solve-ability of us who must express an opinion? After all, all the world cries out for a solution to its problems, and we supply them right and left. Come to think of it, it's we who should be giving our deplorers and detractors the blast; because 99% of the time they don't do as we say.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Writing, Thinking, People

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• While I do not think it was so intended I have always been of the opinion that this turned out to be much the best for me. I had no national experience. What I have ever been able to do has been the result of first learning how to do it. I am not gifted with intuition. I need not only hard work but experience to be ready to solve problems. The Presidents who have gone to Washington without first having held some national office have been at great disadvantage.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Hard Work, Thinking, Office

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• There are doubts, sir, which, if man have them, it is not man that can solve them.

  Herman Melville

  Men, Doubt, Ifs

  Herman Melville (1857). “The Confidence-man: His Masquerade”, p.339

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• Girls . . . were allowed to play in the house . . . and boys were sent outdoors. . . . Boys ran around in the yard with toy guns going kksshh-kksshh, fighting wars for made-up reasons and arguing about who was dead, while girls stayed inside and played with dolls, creating complex family groups and learning how to solve problems through negotiation and roleplaying. Which gender is better equipped, on the whole, to live an adult life, would you guess?

  Garrison Keillor

  Girl, War, Fighting

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• We are reaching the stage where the problems we must solve are going to become insoluble without computers. I do not fear computers, I fear the lack of them.

  Isaac Asimov

  Computer, Problem, Reaching

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• To endure oneself may be the hardest task in the universe. You cannot hire a wise man or any other intellect to solve it for you. There's no writ of inquest or calling of witness to provide answers.

  Frank Herbert

  Wise, Men, May

  Frank Herbert (2008). “Dune Messiah”, p.99, Penguin

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• A friend of mine tells me that a Beethoven symphony can solve for him a problem of conduct. I've no doubt that it does so simply by giving him a sense of the tragedy and the greatness of human destiny, which makes his personal anxieties seem small, which throws them into a new proportion.

  Joyce Cary

  Greatness, Destiny, Symphony

  Joyce Cary (1961). “Art and reality: ways of the creative process”

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• And some cease feeling
  Even themselves or for themselves.
  Dullness best solves
  The tease and doubt of shelling

  Wilfred Owen

  War, Feelings, Doubt

  Wilfred Owen (1965). “The Collected poems of Wilfred Owen”, p.37, New Directions Publishing

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• Nowadays we can do computer experiments using Mathematica, and even solve a system of 42 equations. This offers another route to knowledge, rather than mere ideas.

  John Forbes Nash

  Science, Ideas, Computer

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• A spirituality that is only private and self-absorbed, one devoid of an authentic political and social consciousness, does little to halt the suicidal juggernaut of history. On the other hand, an activism that is not purified by profound spiritual and psychological self-awareness ... will only perpetuate the problem it is trying to solve, however righteous its intentions.

  Andrew Harvey

  Spiritual, Suicidal, Self

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• Madness in Civilization is a brilliant, provocative, and hugely entertaining history of the treatment and mistreatment of the mentally ill. Packed with bizarre details and disturbing facts, Andrew Scull's book offers fresh and compelling insights on the way medicine's inability to solve the mystery of madness has both haunted and shaped two thousand years of culture. Required reading for anyone who has ever gone to a shrink!

  Dirk Wittenborn

  Reading, Book, Medicine

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• The leaders of the Taliban said today that killing bin Laden won't solve the problem. But, you know, it couldn't hurt.

  Jay Leno

  Hurt, Leader, Today

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• I'm a proud Republican - there's no issue with that at all, so why can't I be a proud Republican and just try to solve problems?

  Rick Snyder

  Issues, Trying, Proud

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• Some of you young folks been saying to me, "Hey Pops, what you mean 'What a wonderful world'? How about all them wars all over the place? You call them wonderful? And how about hunger and pollution? That aint so wonderful either." Well how about listening to old Pops for a minute. Seems to me, it aint the world that's so bad but what we're doin' to it. And all I'm saying is, see, what a wonderful world it would be if only we'd give it a chance. Love baby, love. That's the secret, yeah. If lots more of us loved each other, we'd solve lots more problems. And then this world would be a gasser.

  Louis Armstrong

  Baby, War, Mean

  Spoken intro to "What a Wonderful World", 1970.

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• God will never give you any problems that he thinks you can't solve.

  Og Mandino

  Thinking, Giving, Problem

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• Everyone, in all walks of life, regardless of his professional occupation should feel concerned and play an active role to solve such problems which affect mankind.

  Haile Selassie

  Play, Roles, Occupation

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• Christ was a sublime actor on the stage of the world. He knew what he was thinking of when he said, "Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away." I draw near to him at such a time. Yet he taught mankind but imperfectly how to live; his thoughts were all directed toward another world. There is another kind of success than his. Even here we have a sort of living to get, and must buffet it somewhat longer. There are various tough problems yet to solve, and we must shift to live, betwixt spirit and matter, such a human life as we can.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Jesus, Thinking

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.491, Simon and Schuster

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• To me, however, the question of the times resolved itself into a practical question of the conduct of life. How shall I live? We are incompetent to solve the times. Our geometry cannot span the huge orbits of the prevailing ideas, behold their return, and reconcile their opposition. We can only obey our own polarity.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Ideas, Orbit

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1860). “The Conduct of Life”, p.1

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• I regard the people as a great being, inspired by a single idea. This is my problem. I strove to solve it in this opera.

  Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky

  Ideas, People, Opera

  "The Essential Canon of Classical Music". Book by David Dubal, 2003.

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• Economy denotes the the proper management of materials and of site, as well as a thrifty balancing of cost and common sense in the construction of works. ...the architect does not demand things which cannot be found or made ready without great expense. For example: it is not everywhere that there is plenty of pitsand, rubble, fir, clear fir, and marble... Where there is no pitsand, we must use the kinds washed up by rivers or by the sea... and other problems we must solve in similar ways.

  Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

  Sea, Rivers, Common Sense

  "De architectura". Book by Vitruvius. Book I, Chapter II, Section 8,

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• Try a hard problem. You may not solve it, but you will prove something else.

  John Edensor Littlewood

  Trying, May, Problem

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