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• The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.

  Albert Ellis

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

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• There are no big problems, there are just a lot of little problems.

  Henry Ford

  Inspirational, Opportunity, Littles

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• None of us makes it through this life without problems and challenges — and sometimes tragedies and misfortunes. After all, in large part we are here to learn and grow from such events in our lives. We know that there are times when we will suffer, when we will grieve, and when we will be saddened. However, we are told, “Adam fell that men might be; and men are, that they might have joy.” How might we have joy in our lives, despite all that we may face? Again from the scriptures: “Wherefore, be of good cheer, and do not fear, for I the Lord am with you, and will stand by you."

  Thomas S. Monson

  Cheer, Men, Grieving

  "Be of Good Cheer". Talk by Thomas S. Monson, www.lds.org. April 2009.

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• Leaders think and talk about the solutions. Followers think and talk about the problems.

  Brian Tracy

  Inspirational, Leadership, Thinking

  FaceBook post by Brian Tracy from Mar 12, 2013

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• There is always a well-known solution to every human problem - neat, plausible, and wrong.

  H. L. Mencken

  Funny Inspirational, Freedom, Business

  "The Divine Afflatus". New York Evening Mail, November 16, 1917; reprinted in H. L. Mencken "Prejudices: Second Series", 1920, and in "A Mencken Chrestomathy: His Own Selection of His Choicest Writing" edited by H. L. Mencken, 1949.

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• Some problems are so complex that you have to be highly intelligent and well informed just to be undecided about them.

  Laurence J. Peter

  Business, Intelligent, Thinking

  "Peter's Almanac". Book by Laurence J. Peter. Entry for September 24, 1982.

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• If you're not stubborn, you'll give up on experiments too soon. And if you're not flexible, you'll pound your head against the wall and you won't see a different solution to a problem you're trying to solve.

  Jeff Bezos

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Wisdom

  "Jeff Bezos: Amazon.com Architect". Book by Tom Robinson, 2009.

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• When life takes the wind out of your sails, it is to test you at the oars.

  Robert Breault

  Inspirational, Life, Moving On

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• If you're going through hell, keep going.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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  If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you got a problem. Everything else is inconvenience.

  Robert Fulghum

  Life, Positive, Encouraging

  Robert Fulghum (2010). “Uh-Oh: Some Observations from Both Sides of the Refrigerator Door”, p.146, Ivy Books

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• You can never solve a problem on the level on which it was created.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.

  Albert Einstein

  Funny, Peace, Military

  Albert Einstein (2013). “Einstein on Politics: His Private Thoughts and Public Stands on Nationalism, Zionism, War, Peace, and the Bomb”, p.373, Princeton University Press

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• Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Success, Mistake, Congratulations

  Speech by Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands, Maxime Verhagen, at Second Conference on Chemical Weapons Treaty Review, www.government.nl. April 07, 2008.

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• Any problem can be solved using the materials in the room.

  Edwin Land

  Science, Rooms, Obstacles

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• People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society.

  Vince Lombardi

  Motivational, Teamwork, Football

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• No problem is so formidable that you can't walk away from it.

  Charles M. Schulz

  Science, Journey, Reality

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• It's not easy taking my problems one at a time when they refuse to get in line.

  Ashleigh Brilliant

  Inspirational, Kindness, Adversity

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• Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man

  John F. Kennedy

  Destiny, Men, May

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• All problems are finally scientific problems.

  George Bernard Shaw

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Plays of George Bernard Shaw (Illustrated): Including Renowned Titles like Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, The Inca Of Perusalem, Macbeth Skit, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion”, p.1557, e-artnow

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• It is well known that "problem avoidance" is an important part of problem solving. Instead of solving the problem you go upstream and alter the system so that the problem does not occur in the first place.

  Edward de Bono

  Important, Doe, Firsts

  Edward De Bono (1992). “Serious Creativity: Using the Power of Lateral Thinking to Create New Ideas”, Harpercollins

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• When a problem comes along, study it until you are completely knowledgeable. Then find that weak spot, break the problem apart, and the rest will be easy.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Motivational, Business, Mistake

  Dr. Norman Vincent Peale (2013). “You Can If You Think You Can”, p.27, Simon and Schuster

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• Problems are to the mind what exercise is to the muscles, they toughen and make strong.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Wise, Perseverance, Strong

  Dr. Norman Vincent Peale (2007). “The Tough-Minded Optimist”, p.174, Simon and Schuster

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• A great discovery solves a great problem, but there is a grain of discovery in the solution of any problem. Your problem may be modest, but if it challenges your curiosity and brings into play your inventive faculties, and if you solve it by your own means, you may experience the tension and enjoy the triumph of discovery.

  George Polya

  Mean, Science, Discovery

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• The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get old ones out. Every mind is a building filled with archaic furniture. Clean out a corner of your mind and creativity will instantly fill it.

  Dee Hock

  Creativity, Meditation, Mind

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• Whatever the problem - be part of the solution

  Tina Fey

  Solutions, Bossypants

  Tina Fey (2011). “Bossypants”, p.53, Hachette UK

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