If a man can see both sides of a problem, you know that none of his money is tied up in it.
If you can talk brilliantly enough about a problem, it can create the consoling illusion that it has been mastered.
It is characteristic of all deep human problems that they are not to be approached without some humor and some bewilderment.
It is one of man's curious idiosyncrasies to create difficulties for the pleasure of resolving them.
It isn't that they can't see the solution. It is that they can't see the problem.
It's so much easier to suggest solutions when you don't know too much about the problem.
Let God's promises shine on your problems.
Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.
Never bring the problem solving stage into the decision making stage. Otherwise, you surrender yourself to the problem rather than the solution.
No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking.
Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
Problems are solved on the spot, as soon as they arise. No front-line employee has to wait for a supervisor's permission.
Problems are the price of progress. Don't bring me anything but trouble. Good news weakens me.
Problems can become opportunities when the right people come together.
Problems cannot be solved at the same level of awareness that created them.
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.
Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by hitting back.
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.
Snow and adolescence are the only problems that disappear if you ignore them long enough.
Some problems are just too complicated for rational, logical solutions. They admit of insights, not answers.
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