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  Don't be pushed by your problems. Be led by your dreams.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Positive, Dream

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• What the nation's built on is discussion, contradiction and growth, and at the moment you can't discuss anything. If you do start to discuss it, you get criticized. If people hate us, you have to find out why and try to solve that problem.

  Donald Sutherland

  Hate, People, Growth

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• Life can be real tough... you can either learn from your problems, or keep repeating them over and over.

  Marie Osmond

  Real, Tough, Being Real

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• All it takes is one idea to solve an impossible problem.

  Robert H. Schuller

  Creativity, Ideas, Innovation

  Robert H Schuller (2006). “Tough Times Never Last, But Tough People Do!”, p.118, Orient Paperbacks

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• Life is a series of problem-solving opportunities. The problems you face will either defeat you or develop you depending on how you respond to them.

  Rick Warren

  Success, Opportunity, Effectiveness

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  If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.4, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Just because one person's problem is less traumatic than another's doesn't mean they're required to hurt less

  J.A. Redmerski

  Hurt, Mean, Persons

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• The major problems in the world are the result of the difference between how nature works and the way people think.

  Gregory Bateson

  Nature, Thinking, Differences

  "Business needs to learn to see separate challenges as part of the whole" by Giles Hutchins, www.theguardian.com. April 5, 2012.

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• If we will maintain our hope and confidence in the genius of our people, they will work out this problem, and their ability and industry will bring us back to normal conditions.

  Frank B. Kellogg

  People, Work Out, Genius

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• We live in a world in which we need to share responsibility. It's easy to say "It's not my child, not my community, not my world, not my problem." Then there are those who see the need and respond. I consider those people my heroes.

  Fred Rogers

  Children, Hero, Responsibility

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• Avoid problems, and you'll never be the one who overcame them.

  Richard Bach

  Inspirational, Growth

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• Whatever creativity is, it is in part a solution to a problem.

  Brian Aldiss

  Success, Creativity, Ideas

  Brian Aldiss (2013). “The Brightfount Diaries”, p.9, HarperCollins UK

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• To every problem there is already a solution, whether you know it or not. To every sum in there is already a correct answer, whether the mathematician has found it or not.

  Grenville Kleiser

  Answers, Found, Mathematician

  Grenville Kleiser (1917). “Inspiration and Ideals: Thoughts for Every Day”

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• Genuine confidence is a way of thinking about yourself and your abilities. Confidence is your perception of your own potential; it's a kind of long-term thinking that powers you through the obstacles and tough times, helping you solve problems and putting you in the way of success. Your confidence is quite a separate matter from your social skills.

  John Eliot

  Confidence, Thinking About You, Way Of Thinking

  John Eliot, PhD (2015). “Overachievement: The Science of Working Less to Accomplish More”, p.139, Diversion Books

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• There is something magical about putting a problem in writing. It is almost as though by writing about what is wrong, you start to discover new ways of making it right.

  Jim Rohn

  Inspirational, Writing, Expression

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Jan 19, 2013

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• Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not: the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Inspirational, Motivational, Strength

  Quoted in Quotable Calvin Coolidge, ed. Peter Hannaford (2001).

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• Everything changes for the better when you take ownership of your own problems.

  Robert Ringer

  Change, Responsibility, Entrepreneur

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• There are acres of diamonds in the problem you have before you right now.

  Brian Tracy

  Success, Acres, Diamond

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• Instead of fighting your problems, picture your way out of them.

  Vernon Howard

  Success, Fighting, Way

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• Don't let your present problems defeat you. The Chinese have a saying that if you live with a disaster for three years it will turn into a blessing. Look back in your own life at what appeared to be a devastating situation five or ten years ago. Many of those situations were the turning point that caused a number of great things to happen in your future. Regardless of what happens today, realize it is the beginning of something good.

  Bob Proctor

  Blessing, Years, Numbers

  FaceBook post by Bob Proctor from Aug 19, 2015

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• Normal fear protects us; abnormal fear paralyses us. Normal fear motivates us to improve our individual and collective welfare; abnormal fear constantly poisons and distorts our inner lives. Our problem is not to be rid of fear but, rather to harness and master it.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Poison, Abnormal, Welfare

  Martin Luther King Jr. (1963). “Strength to Love”

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• One is always a long way from solving a problem until one actually has the answer.

  Stephen Hawking

  Science, Engineering, Long

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• But without the experience of actually singing or playing these things yourself, you don't have the same kind of involvement or understanding of what these musical moves mean. And that is a very big problem in addressing the future of music.

  Michael Tilson Thomas

  Moving, Mean, Understanding

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• I used to blame my problems on other people. But my moment of clarity, if you want to call it that, came when I was looking in the mirror one day and just burst into tears. It wasn't just that I looked bad, it was that I knew my problem was me.

  Tom Sizemore

  Mirrors, People, Tears

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• The key to handling problems and conflict within an organization is to keep the channels of communication wide open.

  Anita Roddick

  Communication, Keys, Organization

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