Inspire-U-2-Solve-Problems

Encourage the Development of the Characteristics of the Hopeful: Problem-Solving Ability

Understand that most problems are a good sign. Problems indicate that progress is being made, wheels are turning, you are moving toward your goals. Beware when you have no problems. Then you've really got a problem. Problems are like landmarks of progress.  

- Scott Alexander  

Let God's promises shine on your problems.  

- Corrie Ten Boom  

Brady's First Law of Problem Solving: When confronted by a difficult problem, you can solve it more easily by reducing it to the question: How would the Lone Ranger have handled this?  

- Brady  

The only difference between a problem and a solution is that people understand the solution.  

- Dorothea Brande  

A problem clearly stated is a problem half solved.  

- Dorothea Brande  

Problems are solved on the spot, as soon as they arise. No front-line employee has to wait for a supervisor's permission.  

- Jan Carlzon  

It isn't that they can't see the solution. It is that they can't see the problem.  

- Gilbert K Chesterton  

Focus 90% of your time on solutions and only 10% of your time on problems.  

- Anthony J D'Angelo  

It is characteristic of all deep human problems that they are not to be approached without some humor and some bewilderment.  

- Freeman Dyson  

Problems cannot be solved at the same level of awareness that created them.  

- Albert Einstein  

The formulation of a problem is often more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skill.  

- Albert Einstein  

The significant problems we face today cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.  

- Albert Einstein  

A problem is your chance to do your best.  

- Duke Ellington  

It's so much easier to suggest solutions when you don't know too much about the problem.  

- Malcolm S Forbes  

Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.  

- Henry Ford  

There are no big problems, there are just a lot of little problems.  

- Henry Ford  

When I can't handle events, I let them handle themselves.  

- Henry Ford  

You must live with people to know their problems, and live with God in order to solve them.  

- Peter T Forsyth  

When I'm working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.  

- R Buckminster Fuller  

We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as unsolvable problems.  

- John W Gardner  

We have no problems, only situations. Not all problems have solutions, but all situations have outcomes.  

- John E Gray  

Don't tell your problems to people: eighty percent don't care, and the other twenty percent are glad you have them.  

- Lou Holtz  

The man who has no more problems to solve, is out of the game.  

- Elbert Hubbard  

Any solution to a problem changes the problem.  

- R W Johnson  

The easiest way to solve a problem is to pick an easy one.  

- Franklin P Jones  

The best way out is always through.  

- Helen Keller  

The day before my inauguration President Eisenhower told me, You'll find that no easy problems ever come to the President of the United States. If they are easy to solve, somebody else has solved them. I found that hard to believe, but now I know it is true.  

- John F Kennedy  

Problems are the price of progress. Don't bring me anything but trouble. Good news weakens me.  

- Charles F Kettering  

To every problem there is already a solution whether you know it or not.  

- Grenville Kleiser  

There is a time in the life of every problem when it is big enough to see, yet small enough to solve.  

- Mike Leavitt  

I'm afraid we have become a nation of plodders, who feel that all problems can be found in books and that the answers are on a certain page.  

- Clarence Linder  

The bigger the real-life problems, the greater the tendency for the discipline to retreat into a reassuring fantasy-land of abstract theory and technical manipulation.  

- Tom Naylor  

To solve the problems of today, we must focus on tomorrow.  

- Erik Nupponen  

Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don't have any problems, you don't get any seeds.  

- Norman Vincent Peale  

When a problem comes along, study it until you are completely knowledgeable. Then find that weak spot, break the problem apart, and the rest will be easy.  

- Norman Vincent Peale  

Problems do not go away. They must be worked through or else they remain, forever a barrier to the growth and development of the spirit.  

- M Scott Peck  

I am grateful for all my problems. After each one was overcome, I became stronger and more able to meet those that were still to come. I grew in all my difficulties.  

- James Cash Penney  

Some problems are so complex that you have to be highly intelligent and well informed just to be undecided about them.  

- Laurence J Peter  

The purpose of problems is to push you toward obedience to God's laws, which are exact and cannot be changed. We have the free will to obey them or disobey them. Obedience will bring harmony, disobedience will bring you more problems.  

- Peace Pilgrim  

Problems can become opportunities when the right people come together.  

- Robert Redford  

If a man can see both sides of a problem, you know that none of his money is tied up in it.  

- Verda Ross  

The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem.  

- Theodore I Rubin  

The best way to escape from a problem is to solve it.  

- Alan Saporta  

Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.  

- Robert H Schuller  

Never bring the problem solving stage into the decision making stage. Otherwise, you surrender yourself to the problem rather than the solution.  

- Robert H Schuller  

When you can't solve the problem, manage it.  

- Robert H Schuller  

The chief cause of problems is solutions.  

- Eric Sevareid  

All problems are finally scientific problems.  

- George Bernard Shaw  

Rather than denying problems, focus inventively, intentionally on what solutions might look or feel like...Our mind is meant to generate ideas that help us escape circumstantial traps -- if we trust it to do so. Naturally, not all hunches are useful. But then you only need a single good idea to solve a problem.  

- Marsha Sinetar  

We have a problem. Congratulations. But it's a tough problem. Then double congratulations.  

- W Clement Stone  

Avoiding a problem doesn't solve it.  

- Bonnie Jean Thornley  

Successful people are simply people who learn to solve their problems... they are not people without problems.  

- Source Unknown  

Anytime you think that the problem is out there, that thought in itself may be the problem. If it is out there then you have no control and you have to wait until it changes.  

- Source Unknown  

No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking.  

- Voltaire  

The greatest problem you have is your greatest opportunity.  

- Michael Wickett  

Some problems are just too complicated for rational, logical solutions. They admit of insights, not answers.  

- Jerome Wiesner  

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