Problem Solving Quotes - Page 2

• There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them.

  Phyllis Bottome

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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• The best place to succeed is where you are with what you've got.

  Charles R. Schwab

  Positive, Success, Succeed

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• How you think about a problem is more important than the problem itself. So always think positively.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Inspirational, Positive, Uplifting

  Dr. Norman Vincent Peale (2008). “Positive Thinking Every Day: An Inspiration For Each Day of the Year”, Simon and Schuster

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• When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty but when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Beauty, Beautiful, Niece

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• Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Funny, Wise

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• It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.

  James Thurber

  Love, Life, Relationship

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• When the solution is simple, God is answering.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Life, Positive

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• Leaders are problem solvers by talent and temperament, and by choice.

  Harlan Cleveland

  Inspirational, Leadership, Choices

  Harlan Cleveland (1985). “The knowledge executive: leadership in an information society”, E P Dutton

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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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• To solve any problem, here are three questions to ask yourself: First, what could I do? Second, what could I read? And third, who could I ask?

  Jim Rohn

  Inspirational, Mistake, Learning

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Apr 20, 2016

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• Believe it is possible to solve your problem. Tremendous things happen to the believer. So believe the answer will come. It will.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Motivational, Hope, Spiritual

  Dr. Norman Vincent Peale (2013). “You Can If You Think You Can”, p.39, Simon and Schuster

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• It is not stress that kills us. It is effective adaptation to stress that allows us to live.

  George Vaillant

  Stress, Problem, Adaptation

  George E. Vaillant (2012). “Adaptation to Life”, p.374, Harvard University Press

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• Money is merely a reward for solving problems.

  Mike Murdock

  Rewards, Problem

  FaceBook post by Dr. Mike Murdock from Jan 04, 2014

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• Too many problem-solving sessions become battlegrounds where decisions are made based on power rather than intelligence.

  Margaret J. Wheatley

  Power, Decision, Problem

  Margaret J. Wheatley (2010). “Finding Our Way: Leadership for an Uncertain Time (Large Print 16pt)”, p.230, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Nor problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.

  John F. Kennedy

  Peace, Destiny, Oval

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  A problem well stated is a problem half-solved.

  Charles Kettering

  Creativity, Engineering, Innovation

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• Problem-solving is hunting; it is savage pleasure and we are born to it.

  Thomas Harris

  Hunting, Savages, Fierce

  Thomas Harris (2009). “The Silence of the Lambs”, p.320, Macmillan

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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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• I have yet to see any problem, however complicated, which, when you looked at it in the right way, did not become still more complicated.

  Poul Anderson

  Motivational, Witty, Truth

  Quoted in New Scientist, 25 Sept. 1969

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• Some people approach every problem with an open mouth.

  Adlai E. Stevenson

  Inspirational, Sarcastic, Sarcasm

  "The Wordsworth Dictionary of Quotations". Book by Connie Robertson, 1996.

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• Our major obligation is not to mistake slogans for solutions.

  Edward R. Murrow

  Mistake, Obligation, English Language

  Edward R. Murrow (1967). “In Search of Light: The Broadcasts of Edward R. Murrow, 1938-1961”

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

  John F. Kennedy

  Destiny, Men, May

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• The problems that exist in this world can not be solved by the level of thinking that created them.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspiring, Leadership, Education

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• Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don't have any problems, you don't get any seeds.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive Thinking

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