223 quotes found
“There is no man in any rank who is always at liberty to act as he would incline. In some quarter or other he is limited by circumstances.”
“It isn't that they can't see the solution it's that they can't see the problem.”
“If we can really understand the problem the answer will come out of it because the answer is not separate from the problem.”
“A good problem statement often includes: (a) what is known (b) what is unknown and (c) what is sought.”
“What one decides to do in crisis depends on one's philosophy of life and that philosophy cannot be changed by an incident. If one hasn't any philosophy in crises others make the decision.”
“When I feel difficulty coming on I switch to another book I'm writing. When I get back to the problem my unconscious has solved it.”
“When you approach a problem strip yourself of preconceived opinions and prejudice assemble and learn the facts of the situation make the decision which seems to you to be the most honest and then s...”
“No matter how big and tough a problem may be get rid of confusion by taking one little step towards solution. Do something. Then try again. At the worst so long as you don't do it the same way twic...”
“There is no other solution to a man's problems but the day's honest work the day's honest decisions the day's generous utterance and the day's good deed.”
“When you can't solve the problem manage it.”
“Real difficulties can be overcome it is only the imaginary ones that are unconquerable.”
“I wish I were with some of the wild people that run in the woods and know nothing about accomplishments!”
“I used to believe that marriage would diminish me reduce my options. That you had to be someone less to live with someone else when of course you have to be someone more.”
“The human mind prefers to be spoonfed with the thoughts of others but deprived of such nourishment it will reluctantly begin to think for itself- and such thinking remember is original thinking and...”
“I'll have to as you say take a stand do something toward shaking up that system. ... Despair ... is too easy an out.”
“All work of man is as the swimmer's: a vast ocean threatens to devour him if he front it not bravely it will keep its word.”
“We must prepare and study truth under every aspect endeavoring to ignore nothing if we do not wish to fall into the abyss of the unknown when the hour shall strike.”
“The harder the conflict the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap we esteem too lightly 'tis dearness only that gives everything it's value.”
“The greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it.”
“Can it be that man is essentially a being who loves to conquer difficulties a creature whose function is to solve problems?”
