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Duke Ellington
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| "A problem well stated is a problem half solved." | |
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Charles Franklin Kettering
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| "All problems become smaller if you don"t dodge them, but confront
them. Touch a thistle timidly, and it pricks you; grasp it boldly, and its
spines crumble." | |
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William Frederick "Bull" Halsey, Jr.
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| "All the problems of the world could be settled easily if men were
only willing to think." | |
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Thomas J. Watson
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| "An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions." | |
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Robert A. Humphrey
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| "Do the best you can in every task, no matter how unimportant it may
seem at the time. No one learns more about a problem than the person at
the bottom." | |
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| "Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to
solve other problems." | |
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René Descartes
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| "Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult
problem." | |
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Henry Alfred Kissinger
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| "Forget your enemies. It"s your friends you frustrate that cause all
the problems." | |
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Michael J. Tucker
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| "Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the
understanding of a problem." | |
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J. Krishnamurti
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| "I don"t have any solution, but I certainly admire the
problem." | |
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Ashleigh Brilliant
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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." | |
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Poul Anderson
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| "I"d like to see people, instead of spending so much time on the
ethical problem, get after the problems that really affect the people of
this country." | |
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Richard Milhouse Nixon
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| "If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem
as a nail." | |
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Abraham H. Maslow
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| "If we really understand the problem, the answer will come out of it,
because the answer is not separate from the problem." | |
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J. (Jiddu) Krishnamurti
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| "If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a
nail." | |
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Abraham Maslow
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| "If you"re not part of the solution, you"re part of the
precipitate." | |
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Steven Wright
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| "In communities where men build ships for their own sons to fish or
fight from, quality is never a problem." | |
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J. DeVille
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| "It is the first of all problems for a man to find out what kind of
work he is to do in this universe." | |
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Thomas Carlyle
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| "It is wise to direct your anger towards problems ? not people; to
focus your energies on answers ? not excuses." | |
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William Arthur Ward
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| "It isn"t that they can"t see the solution. It is that they can"t see
the problem." | |
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Gilbert Keith Chesterton
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| "It seems safe to say that significant discovery, really creative
thinking, does not occur with regard to problems about which the thinker
is lukewarm." | |
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Mary Henle
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| "It should be encouraging to you to know that if you are now
confronted by any kind of problem, personal or otherwise, there is a way
to solve it, and you will find the way as rapidly and as surely as you
apply to it the principles of divine truth." | |
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Grenville Kleiser
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| "Never let a problem to be solved become more important than a person
to be loved." | |
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Barbara Johnson
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| "No matter what the problem is, it"s a people problem." | |
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Jerry Weinberg
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| "No problem is so formidable that you can"t walk away from it." | |
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Charles M. Schulz
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| "One of the true tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a
problem before it becomes an emergency." | |
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Arnold H. Glasow
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| "Successful Problem Solving: 1. Identify the problem. 2. Gather data.
3. Test possible solutions. 4. Select best possible solution. 5. Put
solution into action. 6. Monitor and improve on it." | |
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Unknown
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| "Teach to the problem, not to the text." | |
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E. Kim Nebeuts
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| "Technology can relieve the symptoms of a problem without affecting
the underlying causes. Faith in technology as the ultimate solution to all
problems can thus divert our attention from the most fundamental
problem?the problem of growth in a finite system?and prevent us from
taking effective action to solve it." | |
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Donella A. Meadows
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| "The great trouble with most men is that those who have been educated
become uneducated just as soon as they stop inquiring and investigating
life and its problems for themselves." | |
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Newton Diehl Baker
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| "The greatest and most impossible problems of life are all in a
certain sense insoluble. They can never be solved but only
outgrown." | |
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Carl Gustav Jung
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| "The man who has no problems is out of the game." | |
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Elbert Hubbard
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| "The only real problem in life is what to do next." | |
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Arthur C. Clarke
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| "The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level
of thinking we were at when we created them." | |
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Albert Einstein
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| "There is no human problem which could not be solved if people would
simply do as I advise." | |
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Gore Vidal
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| "This planet has ? or rather had ? a problem, which was this: most of
the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many
solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely
concerned with the movements of small green pieces of paper, which is odd
because on the whole it was not the small pieces of paper that were
unhappy." | |
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Douglas Noel Adams
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| "Time, for all its smuggling in of new problems, conspicuously
cancels others." | |
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Clara Winston
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| "To solve the problems of today, we must focus on tomorrow." | |
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Erik Nupponen
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| "Within the problem lies the solution." | |
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Milton Katselas
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| "You"re either part of the solution or part of the problem." | |
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(Leroy) Eldridge Cleaver
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