Solved Problems Quotes - Page 2

• Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Love, Life, Happiness

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• The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it is the same problem you had last year.

  John Foster Dulles

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Success

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• To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.

  Albert Einstein

  Real, Creativity, Science

  Albert Einstein, Leopold Infeld (1966). “Evolution of Physics”, p.92, Simon and Schuster

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• Each problem that I solved became a rule, which served afterwards to solve other problems.

  Rene Descartes

  Success, Witty, Humorous

  "Discourse on the Method". Book by Rene Descartes (Part 2), 1637.

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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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• The slogan 'press on' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Inspirational, Perseverance, Determination

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

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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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• It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Motivational, Leadership

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.19, St. Martin's Press

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• Every problem has a gift for you in its hands.

  Richard Bach

  Inspirational, Funny, Witty

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  A problem well stated is a problem half-solved.

  Charles Kettering

  Creativity, Engineering, Innovation

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• If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.

  Abraham Maslow

  Education, Wisdom, Humorous

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• When the solution is simple, God is answering.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Life, Positive

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• If I had an hour to solve a problem I'd spend 55 minutes thinking about the problem and 5 minutes thinking about solutions.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Thinking

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• The biggest problem in the world could have been solved when it was small.

  Witter Bynner

  Mistake, Decision, World

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• A GREAT discovery solves a great problem but there is a grain of discovery in any problem.

  George Polya

  Education, Knowledge, Math

  George Pólya (1957). “How to solve it: a new aspect of mathematical method”

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• We only think when we are confronted with problems.

  John Dewey

  Mistake, Failure, Thinking

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• If I had only one hour to save the world, I would spend fifty-five minutes defining the problem, and only five minutes finding the solution.

  Albert Einstein

  World, Fifty, Defining

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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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• 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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• Life is not a problem to be solved, but an experience to be had.

  Alan Watts

  Life, Cheer Up, Reality

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• Nor problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.

  John F. Kennedy

  Peace, Destiny, Oval

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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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• It would be naive to think that the problems plaguing mankind today can be solved with means and methods which were applied or seemed to work in the past.

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  Work, Mean, Past

  Mikhail Sergeevich Gorbachev (1990). “A road to the future: address by Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev, General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union ... at the plenary meeting of the Forty-third session of the United Nations General Assembly, in New York, Wednesday, December 7, 1988”

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• Again and again, the impossible problem is solved when we see that the problem is only a tough decision waiting to be made.

  Robert H. Schuller

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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• Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. And man can be as big as he wants. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.

  John F. Kennedy

  Destiny, Men, Innovation

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