Dealing With Problems Quotes

• Victory is not the absence of problems, it is the presence of power.

  Joyce Meyer

  Happiness, Happy, Forward In Life

  Joyce Meyer (1999). “Life in the Word Journal”, Harrison House

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• We are used to dealing with problems that have a solution and that can be solved in a finite period. But we're at the beginning of a long period of adjustment that does not have a clear-cut terminal point, and in which our wisdom and sophistication and understanding has to be one of the key elements.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Cutting, Keys, Long

  Source: www.nytimes.com

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• When we avoid the legitimate suffering that results from dealing with problems, we also avoid the growth that problems demand from us.

  M. Scott Peck

  Spiritual, Growth, Suffering

  M. Scott Peck (2002). “The Road Less Traveled, 25th Anniversary Edition: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values, and Spiritual Growth”, p.17, Simon and Schuster

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• When people ask where I studied to be an ambassador, I say my neighborhood and my school. I've tried to tell my kids that you don't wait until you're in high school or college to start dealing with problems of people being different. The younger you start, the better.

  Andrew Young

  School, Kids, College

  "Andrew Young: Nothing you can't solve without violence". Interview with Henry Unger, www.ajc.com. January 12, 2013.

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• A disciple...can never imitate his guide's steps. You have your own way of living your life, of dealing with problems, and of winning. Teaching is only demonstrating that it is possible. Learning is making it possible for yourself.

  Paulo Coelho

  Teaching, Winning, Live Your Life

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• Thinking is one of the most important weapons in dealing with problems

  Nelson Mandela

  Thinking, Important, Weapons

  Nelson Mandela (2011). “Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations”, p.300, Pan Macmillan

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• Summits are best at dealing with problems, where the need for action is urgent and the range of possible actions limited. They are less good at dealing with opportunities.

  David Souter

  Opportunity, Needs, Action

  "Interview with David Souter: Learning from the WSIS Experience". Interview with Kat Walraven, www.apc.org. September 12, 2007.

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• Most parents are accustomed to dealing with problems in the heat of the moment.

  Ross W. Greene

  Parent, Heat, Problem

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• When dealing with problems, seek not to "change" some aspect of your life but instead, choose who you want to become as a path to what you want. Transformation and healing then take place as a process of becoming versus avoiding.

  Bill Crawford

  Healing, Want, Path

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• There's so much shame involved in not being like everyone else. But I learned that the things that made me unique were good. Dealing with problems can be awful. But in the end I got positive results. I don't think I would have been a writer if I didn't have anxiety.

  Jenny Lawson

  Thinking, Unique, Anxiety

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The only reason psychology students don't have to do more and harder mathematics than physics students is because the mathematicians haven't yet discovered ways of dealing with problems as hard as those in psychology.

  John G. Kemeny

  Psychology, Way, Students

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• Always prepare secondary ways of dealing with problems.

  Frank Herbert

  Way, Problem, Problem Solving

  Frank Herbert (1987). “Heretics of Dune”, p.251, Penguin

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• Regardless of how often the appetite for entertainment violence becomes addictive, increased exposure does risk further desensitizing viewers. And the element of pleasure that they derive may lead them to regard violence as a more acceptable way of dealing with problems, and victimization as more tolerable so long as it befalls others, not themselves.

  Sissela Bok

  Long, Risk, Doe

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• Wing Chun teaches you what to concentrate on, whether you're here or out in the world dealing with problems. It's second nature for me now. I don't even get to the point where there's a problem.

  Robert Downey, Jr.

  Wings, World, Problem

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