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Have you got problems? Welcome to the club. If you're a living, breathing human being, you'll encounter your fair share of problems, inconveniences, mistakes, troubles and unexpected foul-ups. The question is not whether you'll encounter Old Man Trouble, but what you'll do when he comes knocking at your door. When he does, the following quotations should help.

When It Comes to Solving Problems, Today Beats Tomorrow, and Yesterday Beats Today

"We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems."
Lee Iacocca

"All problems become smaller if you don't dodge them, but confront them."
William F. Halsey

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Nothing is so fatiguing as the hanging on of an uncompleted task."
William James

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If you can’t fix the problem, change the problem."
J. R. Freeman

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During a very busy life I have often been asked, "How do you manage to do it all?" The answer is very simple: I did everything promptly."
Sir Richard Tangye

Success Means Solving Problems Immediately, If Not Sooner


"Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action."
Teddy Roosevelt

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Act decidedly and take the consequences. No good deed was ever done by hesitation."
Thomas Henry Huxley

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It is only because of problems that we grow mentally and spiritually."
M. Scott Peck

"Always remember that problems contain values that have improvement potential."
Norman Vincent Peale

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When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard,' I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what?’"
Sydney Harris

On the Art of Problem-solving

"You have to go after the facts; they won’t come to your office."
General Bruce C. Clarke


"Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems."
René Descartes

"The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary."
Thomas EdisonI

"Conquering any difficulty always gives one a secret joy, for it means pushing back a boundary-line and adding to one's liberty."
Henri Frédéric Amiel

And Finally

"Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them."
Albert Einstein

This page was written and compiled by Criswell Freeman, Psy.D.

 

 

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