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“All the characters in my films are fighting these problems, needing freedom, trying to find a way to cut themselves loose, but failing to rid themselves of conscience, a sense of sin, the whole bag...”
“What is difficulty? Only a word indicating the degree of strength requisite for accomplishing particular objects a mere notice of the necessity for exertion ... a mere stimulus to men.”
“Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.”
“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 thinkin...”
“I'll have to as you say take a stand do something toward shaking up that system. ... Despair ... is too easy an out.”
“Half the unhappiness in life comes from people being afraid to go straight at things.”
“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.”
“Hiding leads nowhere except to more hiding.”
“There is no movement without our own resistance.”
“None of us can be free of conflict and woe. Even the greatest men have had to accept disappointments as their daily bread.”
“Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.”
“A problem well stated is a problem half solved.”
“If the first woman God ever made was strong enough to turn the world upside down these women together ought to be able to turn it right side up again.”
“It isn't that they can't see the solution it's that they can't see the problem.”
“It is a fact of history that those who seek to withdraw from its great experiments usually end up being overwhelmed by them.”
“If we can really understand the problem the answer will come out of it because the answer is not separate from the problem.”
“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.”
“A good problem statement often includes: (a) what is known (b) what is unknown and (c) what is sought.”
